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LE MANUSCRIT DE STALIN’S DAUGHTER ENFIN DISPONIBLE

Après le succès de VILLA AIR-BEL, Rosemary Sullivan revient avec la biographie passionnante de la fille de l’un des dictateurs les plus connus de l’Histoire.

Rosemary Sullivan a eu accès à un grand nombre de sources inédites et a pu interviewer plusieurs témoins qui, jusqu’à aujourd’hui, avaient refusé de parler. Elle a travaillé avec la fille de Svetlana et les agents de la CIA qui avaient aidé Svetlana à s’enfuir aux Etats-Unis, et elle s’est également rendue à Moscou pour dévoiler les vérités cachées dans les archives KGB.

UPDATE: Une version abrégée est désormais disponible!

The incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators

STALIN’S DAUGHTER
by Rosemary Sullivan
Harper, June 2015

Svetlana Stalina, who died on November 22, 2011 at the age of 85, was the only daughter and last surviving child of Josef Stalin. Beyond her controversial defection to the United States in a cloak and dagger escape via India in 1967, Svetlana Stalina’s journey from the beloved daughter of a fierce autocrat to her death in small-town Wisconsin is an astonishing saga. Publicly she was the young darling of her people; privately she was controlled by a tyrannical father who dictated her every move, even sentencing a man she loved to ten years hard labor in Siberia. She burned her passport soon after her arrival in New York City and renounced both her father and the Soviet Union. She married four times and had three children. In 1984, she returned to the Soviet Union, this time renouncing the US, and then reappeared in America two years later, claiming she had been manipulated by her homeland. She spoke four languages and was politically shrewd, even warning in the late 1990s of the consequences of the rise to power of former KGB officer Vladimir Putin. Svetlana Stalina spent her later years as a nomad, shuttling between England, France, and the US, a woman shaped and torn apart by her father’s legacy.

Foreign rights:

*Czech rights sold at auction to Albatros

*Danish rights sold at auction to Informations Forlag

*Dutch rights sold at auction to De Geus

*Estonian rights sold to Tanapaev

*Finnish rights sold to at auction to Otava

*Polish rights sold at auction to Znak

*Portuguese rights in Brazil sold at auction to Globo

Portuguese rights in Portugal sold to Temas e Debates, an imprint of Bertrand

*Slovak rights sold to Ikar

*Swedish rights sold at auction to Norstedts

*Russian rights sold to Astrel

*UK rights sold to Fourth Estate

FORTY AUTUMNS, mémoires d’une famille divisée par un mur

Cinq femmes, une famille, de part et d’autre du rideau de fer, FORTY AUTUMNS de Nina Willner, dont l’éditeur William Morrow vient d’acquérir les droits mondiaux, retrace l’histoire aussi émouvante qu’incroyable d’une famille séparée par le mur de Berlin pendant quarante années.

Quarante années où vont se succéder, plus particulièrement à l’automne, donnant ainsi tout son sens au titre de l’ouvrage, des évènements clefs caractérisant cette période : la montée et la chute d’un état totalitaire, la fuite d’une jeune femme, Anna, la mère de l’auteure, quittant à 23 ans ses parents et ses sept frères et sœurs sans espoir de retour, la dénonciation du père, son expulsion du parti communiste, l’exil de la famille, les missions dangereuses d’une jeune américaine, Nina, la fille d’Anna, devenue agent des services secrets américains, l’ascension d’une jeune athlète, cousine de Nina, la mort de la grand-mère ayant faire vœu quoiqu’il arrive de maintenir le lien familial, ou encore l’envoi du grand-père dans un asile psychiatrique.

FORTY AUTUMNS est l’histoire d’une famille qui va affronter avec force et détermination un régime brutal et autocratique maintenant ses citoyens isolés du reste du monde. Le récit d’une séparation tragique, de l’expérience du désespoir, de la perte de toute dignité, mais aussi de l’espoir de la réunion et de la paix.

An incredible memoir about a family divided by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War

FORTY AUTUMNS:
Five Women, One Family; Two Sides of the Iron Curtain
by Nina Willner
William Morrow, 2016 (Manuscript due end of 2015)

FORTY AUTUMNS traces the dramatic lives of the women in a family on both sides of the Iron Curtain through the Cold War up until the miraculous day when the family is reunited. Nina has an amazing story to tell, and she captures the time and feeling perfectly of what it was like to have a mystical curtain dividing the East from the West. There is a whole generation of readers who don’t remember what that time was like. Nina and her family’s story is going to bring it to life for them.

Nina Willner has spent over two decades working in Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia. She was the only female U.S. Army intelligence officer to lead a series of sensitive and risky intelligence operations in East Germany during the Cold War. Following a career in intelligence, in Eastern Europe she worked to promote human rights, education, the rule of law, and to provide humanitarian assistance to underprivileged groups throughout the region, serving in a variety of roles, including as Political Officer for the State Department, and working with international pioneering NGOs and charities. In Russia, she studied at Moscow State University. A former Army Captain and an Army wife, Nina is married to Colonel Jeff Holachek, Director, Russia, Eurasia, Caucasus Policy for the Secretary of Defense. She speaks conversational German, French and Russian.

Tavi Gevinson, la troisième ado la plus influente du monde

La bloggueuse de mode et actrice Tavi Gevinson se place en troisième place du classement que le magazine Time a dédié au 25 teen-agers les plus influents du monde, nouvelle relayée en France par le site internet Konbini.

Tavi Gevinson avait seulement 15 ans lorsqu’elle a fondé Rookie, blog de mode destiné à sa génération. Ses ROOKIE YEARBOOK sont des recueils d’articles et d’images tirés de son site, chacun des volumes correspondant à une année du blog.

Tavi s’est révélée comme une auteure visionnaire, proche de ses lectrices : le site compte désormais 400 000 visiteurs et 3,5 millions de pages visitées par mois ! La moitié des visiteurs sont étrangers et la France est le deuxième pays non-anglophone, derrière l’Allemagne.

Même le magazine Elle en parle…

Le secret pour mincir? Manger plus gras !

Un nouveau régime venu tout droit des USA s’apprête à bouleverser les habitudes alimentaires actuelles ainsi que les a-priori contre les matières grasses. De plus en plus de spécialistes du monde entier semblent confirmer cette théorie : manger moins de gras n’est pas forcement une bonne idée.

En France, le magazine ELLE vient de consacrer un reportage à cette nouvelle tendance, qui plaira aux plus gourmands.

Et au printemps 2016, HarperOne publiera l’ouvrage des pionniers du « Mangez plus gras », le très médiatisé Jonny Bowden et le Dr. Steven Masley :

EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT
The Fat Solution to Shed Pounds, Reverse Chronic Illness, and Finally Feel Fantastic!
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., and Steven Masley, M.D
HarperOne | Spring 2016

Low-fat diets have made us fatter and sicker than ever, and eating fat has gotten a bad rap. But recently there has been a lot of buzz and research in the health world about the benefits of a higher fat diet. In fact, doctors and health practitioners, Paleo fanatics and trainers, plant-based researchers and vegans, and high-protein, low-sugar, and gluten-free experts all actually agree that the average dieter is eating way too little fat. When dieters stop swapping out butter, stop replacing red meat, and ditch the low-fat and no-fat diet foods, they lose more weight and reduce their risk of disease.
Healthy fats are the new low-carb. And eating more fat is the key to losing weight faster, reversing many everyday symptoms and chronic illnesses, and looking and feeling amazing. But how much fat is too much? What sources of fat are the healthiest? And how do you eat fat to burn fat? This is not your mother’s Atkins. In EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT, a bestselling nutritionist and a bestselling physician will change how readers think about fat and offer readers three healthy weight loss solutions tailored to their specific needs—The Mediterranean Fat Solution, The Paleo Fat Solution, and The Ketosis Fat Solution—that will have them feeling, thinking, and looking better than they have in years. The right fats will address cravings. They will nourish brain and heart health. And they will reverse metabolic syndrome and increase weight loss.

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D, C.N.S. is a board certified nutritionist and nationally acclaimed author of The Great Cholesterol Myth, which has sold over 100000 copies, and 13 other books, which have sold more than an additional 800000 copies.
Steven Masley, M.D. is a renowned physician and the former medical director of the Pritikin Longevity Center. His recent book, The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up, has sold nearly 50,000 hardcovers in its first four months of publication.

A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE fait la couverture de The Spectator

Dans A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: GENES, RACE AND HUMAN HISTORY, Nicholas Wade énonce sa courageuse théorie sur les races et les différences génétiques.

Un ouvrage destiné à relancer un ancien débat, tout en évitant la dérive raciste : publié il y a une semaine, l’essai de ce journaliste du New York Times a déjà fait la couverture de The Spectator, le plus ancien magazine en langue anglais e, a reçu une longue et favorable critique du Wall Street Journal et a fait son début dans le Top 25 des livres scientifiques de la dernière New York Times Bestseller List.

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story

A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: GENES, RACE AND HUMAN HISTORY
by Nicholas Wade
Penguin Press (USA & Canada), May 2014

“It is hard to convey how rich this book is….The book is a delight to read—conversational and lucid. And it will trigger an intellectual explosion the likes of which we haven’t seen for a few decades….At the heart of the book, stated quietly but with command of the technical literature, is a bombshell….So one way or another, A Troublesome Inheritance will be historic. Its proper reception would mean enduring fame. » —The Wall Street Journal

Few ideas have been more toxic or harmful, or have been used for worse ends, than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from each other. But Nicholas Wade, inconvenient as it may be, believes that there is truth in this view. Race is inherently not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart from each other and for longer periods of time, the more they will evolve their own distinct, separate traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. Wade’s most controversial claims involve the genetic basis of human social habits, such as the genetic basis for the tendency to be more or less violent. Inevitably such assertions get caught up in questions of “better” and “worse,” which are pernicious; Wade argues the more subtle point that some traits are more adaptive for some specific environments than others and that science needs to set its course for the truth, come what may, taboos or no. With brave, scrupulous care and lucidity, Wade forays into this scientific minefield and endeavors to arrive at a coherent summary of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history. This will not be the final word on the subject, but it will begin a mighty and in some respects overdue conversation.