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HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES de Brandon Stanton

Filled with longer, more in-depth stories, along with the gorgeous photos and insights that made HUMANS OF NEW YORK such a massive success

HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES
by Brandon Stanton
St. Martin’s Press, October 2015
Agent: Brian DeFiore

OVER 650,000 COPIES SOLD OF HUMANS OF NEW YORK

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

35 WEEKS ON NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

OVER FIFTEEN MILLION FOLLOWERS ON FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM/TUMBLR AROUND THE WORLD

Brandon came to New York four years ago, at age 26, an amateur street photographer with the idea of creating what he calls “a visual census” of the five boroughs. What he has created has now become, in the words of The New York Times: « …an instant publishing phenomenon. » HONY has been featured in The Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, he has appeared on Nightline, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, has been a « person of the week » on the ABC Nightly News and a Time Magazine « 30 under 30 » who have changed the world.
The highly anticipated new book HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES expands on the richness and beauty of the first book, and delves deeper, as the website now does, turning the book more into a storytelling experience than a purely photographic one. With an almost 20% larger page count, more photos, more stories, much bigger reach and following and prestige for the project, this is destined to be one of the biggest bestsellers of the year.

Brandon Stanton studied at the University of Georgia and worked as a bond trader in Chicago before starting “Humans of New York”—a photography and storytelling blog—in the Summer of 2010. He has appeared on Ellen, Good Morning America, Nightline, MSNBC, CNN, has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Mashable, and dozens of other media venues. He has also been named a ‘person of the week’ on the ABC Evening News with Diane Sawyer, and a Time Magazine “30 Under 30 Who are Changing the World” and has photographed President Obama in the Oval Office. He is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller HUMANS OF NEW YORK and the New York Times bestselling children’s book LITTLE HUMANS.

Kadokawa publiera le dernier thriller de Gregg Hurwitz au Japon

La maison d’édition japonaise a donc remporté les enchères et acquis les droits pour ORPHAN X, le dernier ouvrage de l’auteur de THE CRIME WRITER (« Je Te Vois », éd. Presses de la Cité).

Les droits pour ORPHAN X, premier volet d’une nouvelle série, ont été déjà cédés au Royaume-Uni (Penguin), République Tchèque (Talpress), Italie (De Agostini), Brésil (Planeta) et Israël (Dani).

Last but not least, Warner Bros a acquis les droits cinématographiques et a contacté Bradley Cooper, la star de AMERICAN SNIPER, pour le produire et y jouer le rôle principal !

The first book in a big new thriller series by Gregg Hurwitz

ORPHAN X
by Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur Books, early 2016

“ORPHAN X is the most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher. And Reacher would love this guy. A page-turning masterpiece of suspense enriched by compassion and insight.” – Jonathan Kellerman

Evan Smoak is Orphan X: a hero unlike any seen before. Trained in secrecy from childhood to be a superior assassin, he now uses those skills to aid desperate people in dire situations, removing the abusers from their lives and asking nothing in return, other than the forwarding of his phone number to someone else in need. Though officially he doesn’t exist, he has powerful enemies from his past who want to eliminate him, and he hides from them in plain sight through a seemingly ordinary life in Los Angeles. In this inaugural book in the Orphan X series, one of Evan’s rescue missions goes horribly wrong, and Evan realizes the person he is trying to save just may be the person who destroys him.

Warner Bros has pre-empted the movie rights in a seven-figure deal! Hot off his success in American Sniper, Bradley Cooper is attached to star and produce with his producing partner, Todd Phillips (the Hangover movies).

Le nouveau roman de Jennifer Donnelly convoité par les éditeurs étrangers

A moins d’une semaine de l’inauguration de la Bologna Children’s Books Fair, les droits pour THESE SHALLOW GRAVES ont été déjà vendus au Royaume-Uni (Hot Key Books, droits préemptés), en Allemagne (Piper, droits préemptés) et en Italie (Mondadori, après enchères). En Grèce, les négociations sont en cours et ça ne saurait tarder dans d’autres pays.

Life is dirtier than Jo Montfort could have ever imagined. And the truth may be the dirtiest part of all

THESE SHALLOW GRAVES
by Jennifer Donnelly
Delacorte, September 2015

Jo Montfort is beautiful, rich, and soon to be married off to a rich bachelor—but that’s the last thing she wants. Instead, Jo dreams of becoming a newspaper reporter like Nellie Bly, the boundary-breaking female reporter made famous by her book Ten Days in a Madhouse. Jo’s biggest problem is not having her writing aspirations taken seriously. That is, until she learns that her father is dead—reported to have shot himself while cleaning his pistol. Charles Montfort was a newspaper tycoon, and, Jo knows, far too meticulous to accidentally set off a loaded gun. The more Jo hears about his death, the more something feels wrong about the story. Suicide is the obvious explanation, but Jo feels sure that is not the case. Then she meets Eddie—the young, smart, infuriatingly handsome reporter at her father’s newspaper, and it becomes all too clear howmuch she stands to lose if she keeps searching for the truth. Only now it might be too late to stop.

Jennifer Donnelly is the author of Carnegie winning A NORTHERNLIGHT, REVOLUTION, and, most recently, THE WATER FIRE SAGA.

THE LIGHT OF THE SAME SUN de Kailash Satyarthi, Prix Nobel de la paix 2014

An extraordinary man

THE LIGHT OF THE SAME SUN
by Kailash Satyarthi
Proposal available

The Light of the Same Sun will trace Kailash’s path from his awakening to the injustices plaguing his own city of birth in central India to his emergence as one of the most steadfast and essential seekers of justice in our time. Kailash will also focus on the stories of individual children who he’s rescued during frequently harrowing operations, allowing us to glimpse their progress beyond the restraints of their captivity. This book will look back on the tragedies and triumphs of his efforts, as it points the way forward, with the unyielding optimism and call to action that the matter so desperately requires. This is a book born of and dedicated to a mission that we would all do well to join – national governments, inter-governmental organizations and NGO’s, private industry and the individual citizens who populate all of these entities. We are all implicated, just as we are all capable, in Kailash’s words, of “doing our bit.”

Kailash Satyarthi is a human rights activist from India who has been at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labor since 1980 when he gave up a lucrative career as an Electrical Engineer for initiating crusade against Child Servitude. As a grassroots activist, he has led the rescue of over 80000 child slaves and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation. As a worldwide campaigner, he has been the architect of the single largest civil society network for the most exploited children, the Global March Against Child Labor, which is a worldwide coalition of NGOs, Teachers’ Union and Trade Unions. He is a member of a High Level Group formed by UNESCO on Education for All comprising of select Presidents, Prime Ministers and UN Agency Heads. He has survived numerous attacks on his life during his crusade to end child labour, but despite of these attacks his commitment to stand tall for the cause of child slaves has been unwavering.

Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

BLAIR INC., les masques tombent

BLAIR INC. est un livre à charge contre l’ancien premier ministre britannique, soulignant entre autres son obsession pour l’argent. Destiné à faire polémique, il sera publié le 19 mars prochain par l’éditeur anglais John Blake (le texte est actuellement sous embargo). Mais la presse française en parle déjà…

A heavyweight, hard-hitting book by three critically-acclaimed, hugely respected political journalists that places the financial empire of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair under the microscope, revealing the extremely morally suspect ways in which he has amassed a fortune to be counted in tens of millions since leaving office in 2007

BLAIR INC.:
The Man Behind the Mask
by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan
John Blake Publishing Ltd, March 2015

Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in just a few short years. But how has he managed to achieve this? Being an ex-Prime Minister comes with certain advantages, and besides his excellent state pension and twenty-four-hour security team, Blair enjoys the best contacts that money can buy – as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts. Consequently, Tony Blair Associates’ clients can be found around the world, and include the controversial presidents of Kazakhstan and Burma.

There is also Blair’s role as special envoy in the Middle East. While his record as a peacemaker is in doubt, the position has brought him into contact with a variety of oil-rich potentates in the region who now number among his most profitable clients. BLAIR INC.: The Man behind the Mask takes a close look at the complex financial structures in Blair’s world. From the many layers of tax liability to the multiple conflicts of interest produced by his increasing web of relationships, this book exposes the private dealings of this very public figure.