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DETECTIVE DUCK: THE CASE OF THE STRANGE SPLASH de Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver, and Dan Santat

The first book in a smart and funny new chapter book series from bestselling creators Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver, and Dan Santat.

DETECTIVE DUCK: THE CASE OF THE STRANGE SPLASH
(Detective Duck #1)
by Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver, and Dan Santat
Amulet/Abrams, October 2023

Willow Feathers McBeaver, aka Detective Duck, is a crime-solving (and very precocious) little duck. She and her animal pals live on Dogwood Pond, a beautiful pond in New England adjacent to Lazy Days, a human campground. Dogwood Pond has always been a pristine spot with clear water, abundant wildlife, and shady willow trees, but now it is encountering puzzling problems—mysteries that arise from human-caused disruptions in nature, such as water pollution, refuse, warming climate, and human encroachment.

Fortunately, Detective Duck is on the job, solving these puzzling mysteries before they get out of hand and destroy their habitat! Armed with her ever-present satchel for collecting clues, her logical mind, and endless curiosity, she boldly goes where no pond creature has before, determined to unravel the mysteries and solve any environmental problem that besets her beloved Dogwood Pond!

BOOK 2 coming FALL 2024

Henry Winkler is an Emmy Award–winning actor, writer, director, and producer who has created some of the most iconic TV roles, including Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli on Happy Days and Gene Cousineau on Barry.

Lin Oliver is a children’s book writer and a writer and producer for both TV and film. She is currently the executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). They both live in Los Angeles.

Dan Santat is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 100 books for children, including Are We There Yet, After the Fall, and The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, for which he won the Caldecott Medal. He lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and many, many pets.

SUDDENLY A MURDER de Lauren Muñoz

Seven friends throw a 1920s–themed party, where it’s all pretend—until one of them is murdered. One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out in this glamorous locked-room mystery.

SUDDENLY A MURDER
by Lauren Muñoz
Putnam, September 2023
(via Writers House)

Izzy Morales has spent four long years at Marian Academy ignoring whispers about her scholarship status and over-washed uniform while suffering the humiliation of waving to her math teacher-mum in the hallways. So when her best-friend Kassidy surprises her by inviting five of their friends to celebrate graduation by living like 1920s socialites at Ashwood Manor on Bartleby Island, Izzy is ecstatic about the escape and delighted about a week of fancy cocktails and even fancier dresses. But when Kassidy’s boyfriend turns up dead, the sparkling young socialites quickly become the prime suspects in his murder. Before they can flee back to the mainland, a raging storm traps them on the island with the criminal investigators including Pilar de León, a famous consulting detective whose quirky demeanour belies her killer instinct for sniffing out murderers. Everyone has a secret. Everyone has a motive. But only Izzy brought a knife to the party.

Lauren Muñoz is a writer, lawyer, and former teacher living in Southern California. She received her J.D. from Northwestern University in Chicago, where she frequently skipped class to commune with her sun lamp. When she’s not reading, she can be found knitting, crocheting, and collecting recipes for things she’ll never bake.

TERAFIK de Nilufar Karkhiran Khozani

The moving story of a daughter’s relationship with her father, of life lived between alien worlds, and of a family and a country in pain.

TERAFIK
by Nilufar Karkhiran Khozani
Blessing/PRH Germany, August 2023

© Erik Weiss

When Nilufar was a young girl, her father moved back to Iran, leaving her behind. Now, for the first time, she travels to his home country to meet the family she never knew. In Tehran, she finds a world of contradictions, and encounters new faces – all of them wounded, and each with their hopes and dreams. Nilufar slowly gets to know the life that might have been her own, yet her father keeps eluding her whenever she tries to get close to him. In the midst of this chaotic and restless city, among the well-meaning relatives who have welcomed her into their home, Nilufar little by little discovers and understands a fragmented country, a fragmented family and her own fragmented identity.

Nilufar Karkhiran Khozani, born in 1983, studied literature, comparative literature and psychology before qualifying as a behavioural therapist. She has contributed to several literary journals, and in 2020 published Romance Would Be a Very Fine Bonus Indeed, a volume of selected verse. She was artist-in-residence at the 2020 Prosanova Festival, and translated the script for Town Bloody Hall: A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation for the German feature Als Susan Sontag im Publikum saß (‘The Time Susan Sontag Was in the Audience’, 2021). TERAFIK is her first novel. She lives in Berlin.

MARE OF NIGHT d’Emma Noyes

First of a YA fantasy romance trilogy by bestselling author of Guy’s Girl Emma Noyes, for fans of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ and Norse mythology.

MARE OF NIGHT
(Ragnarok Rising #1)
by Emma Noyes
Wednesday Books, late 2023 TBD
(via The Whalen Agency)

© Magdalena Iskra

Book 1: MARE OF NIGHT

Charlie Hudson just wants to get through junior year. Since the death of her twin sister two years before, she has drifted through life, robbed of the spark that once burned so brightly within her—until the day her first classmate goes missing. Drawn to the disappearances by forces she can’t explain, Charlie soon finds herself investigating the mysterious, alluring newcomer in town, Elias Everhart. She knows Elias is hiding something, but what she doesn’t know is that those secrets will lead her to a place she never imagined: a world hiding in plain sight, made of magic, gods, and monsters—and a first love fated to fall apart.

Book 2: LIES OF LOKI and Book 3: SINS OF ODIN to follow.

Emma Noyes told her mother she wanted to be an author when she was six. She grew up in a suburb outside Chicago and attended Harvard University, where she studied history & literature. She started her career at a beer company, but left because she wanted to write about mermaids and witches—eventually publishing her first YA fantasy series, The Sunken City. She now lives in Chicago with her Swedish boyfriend and miniature Pomeranian. Guy’s Girl, her adult debut, will publish in October 2023.

Prix Pulitzer 2023

Cette année, trois ouvrages représentés par notre agence ont été récompensés lors de l’annonce des lauréats des prestigieux prix littéraires Pulitzer.

L’autobiographie de Hua Hsu, STAY TRUE, publiée par Doubleday en septembre 2022, a remporté le prix Pulitzer de l’autobiographie. Ce livre avait déjà récompensé par le National Book Critics Circle Award et récolté d’excellentes critiques. Il faisait également partie de la sélection des meilleurs titres parus en 2022 selon de nombreux médias comme le New York Times, le Washington Post, le New Yorker, TIME, The Atlantic, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Rolling Stone

STAY TRUE est une autobiographie captivante sur l’amitié, le deuil, la recherche de soi et le réconfort que l’on peut trouver dans l’art ; « un récit élégant et poignant sur le passage à l’âge adulte, qui explore les amitiés intenses de la jeunesse, mais aussi la violence aléatoire qui peut altérer de façon soudaine et permanente la logique présumée de nos récits personnels » (selon les organisateurs du Prix Pulitzer).

“Quietly wrenching. . . To say that this book is about grief or coming-of-age doesn’t quite do it justice; nor is it mainly about being Asian American, even though there are glimmers of that too. . . This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion — all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life. . . Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of Stay True sneaks up on you, and the wry jokes are threaded seamlessly throughout.” —The New York Times

“[Hsu writes] with devastating emotional precision, questioning the possibility of meaning in tragedy and the value of the stories we tell while attempting to find it. [Stay True] is a thoughtful, affecting book. . . For all the soul-searching, therapeutic work and years of rumination imprinted on Stay True, it’s the ache of a friendship lost but honored that will linger for readers. Though Hsu claims, self-deprecatingly, that the term ‘good friend … only occasionally applies to me,’ the lasting effect of Stay True is that of an extraordinary, devotional act of friendship.”—The Washington Post

“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.” —Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room

Biographie de l’auteur : Hua Hsu est journaliste au New Yorker et professeur de littérature à Bard College. Il siège au conseil d’administration de l’Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Il a été chercheur à la New America Foundation ainsi qu’au Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center de la New York Public Library. Il vit à Brooklyn avec sa famille.

Les droits de langue française pour STAY TRUE sont toujours disponibles.

 

DEMON COPPERHEAD de Barbara Kingsolver, à paraître en juin 2023 aux édition Albin Michel, a remporté le prix Pulitzer de la fiction (ex æquo avec Trust de Hernan Diaz). Un roman éblouissant qui passionne et captive à travers le parcours inoubliable d’un jeune héros vers la maturité. Situé dans les montagnes du sud des Appalaches, DEMON COPPERHEAD raconte l’histoire d’un garçon né dans une caravane d’une mère seule adolescente, sans aucun autres atouts que sa beauté, ses cheveux cuivrés hérités de son père décédé, une bonne dose d’esprit et un talent féroce pour la survie. Demon brave les périls modernes du placement en famille d’accueil, du travail des enfants, des écoles délabrées, des succès sportifs, de la toxicomanie, des amours désastreuses et des pertes écrasantes. À travers les événements de sa vie, il s’interroge sur sa propre invisibilité dans une culture populaire où même les super-héros ont abandonné les populations rurales au profit des villes.

L’avis du jury : “A masterful recasting of David Copperfield, narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.”

 

THE IMMORTAL KING RAO de Vauhini Vara, publié en mai 2022 chez W.W. Norton, finaliste de la catégorie Fiction, est un premier roman épique et imaginatif sur la famille, la modernité, la technologie et la nature humaine, qui efface les frontières entre la fiction littéraire et spéculative, l’historique et le dystopique, en s’interrogeant sur la manière dont nous sommes arrivés à l’ère du capitalisme technologique et sur les conséquences futures de nos actions. Dans un village indien des années 1950, un enfant précoce naît dans une famille d’ « intouchables » cultivateurs de noix de coco. King Rao deviendra le PDG le plus accompli du monde dans le domaine de la technologie et, à terme, le chef d’un gouvernement mondial dirigé par des entreprises.

Vauhini Vara a été journaliste et rédactrice pour le Wall Street Journal, le New Yorker et le New York Times Magazine. Issue d’un milieu dalit, elle est diplômée de l’Iowa Writers’ Workshop et lauréate du prix O. Henry. Elle vit à Fort Collins, dans le Colorado.

Les droits de langue française pour THE IMMORTAL KING RAO sont toujours disponibles.