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THE MORTIFICATIONS by Derek Palacio

Derek Palacio was featured in Publishers Weekly’s Writers to Watch feature. His debut novel, THE MORTIFICATIONS, will be published by Tim Duggan Books on October 14, 2016...

Allison Hunter joins Janklow & Nesbit

Janklow & Nesbit Associates is pleased to announce that Allison Hunter will be joining the firm starting July 11th as an agent.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY by Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel’s SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY has featured in two more Best Summer Books of 2016 lists, Travel & Leisure and PureWow, bringing her to twelve inclusions total. The book also garnered a favorable review from KQED, whose Leilani Clark was moved to write: Like all great fiction, Ausubel’s story of a once-wealthy couple’s plunge into poverty has gifted me with empathy toward characters I would likely disdain in real life…The whole story is written in beautiful, sometimes poetic prose.” Riverhead publishes the book on June 14, 2016....

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY by Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel’s latest novel has been named one of the Best Summer Books of 2016 by The BBC, Fodor’s, The Chicago Tribune, Hello Giggles, and Newsday. The book was also named an Amazon Best Book for June 2016. In the Amazon Book Review, Sara Nelson writes: “Thanks to Ausubel’s dreamlike prose and her careful parsing of the magical realism...the novel opens into a magical force field that even doubters somehow can’t manage to escape.”

THE REGIONAL OFFICE IS UNDER ATTACK! by Manuel Gonzalez

David Gutowski featured Manuel Gonzalez’s THE REGIONAL OFFICE IS UNDER ATTACK! on Largehearted Boy, where he declared it “one of the year's most entertaining books, a fascinating literary romp that defies genre labels....”

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough

The paperback edition of David McCullough’s THE WRIGHT BROTHERS has returned to the bestseller list. For the second week in a row, it is at number on the Trade Paperback New York Times Bestseller list. Simon & Schuster published the paperback edition on May 3, 2016.

THE INSEPERABLES by Stuart Nadler

Stuart Nadler’s THE INSEPERABLES was declared one of the “12 Summer Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About” by Harper’s Bazaar. Also, Daniel Johnson of The Paris Review highlighted the book in the weekly Staff Picks, writing: “Nadler writes with tenderness and empathy; in an age when women, especially teenage girls, are caught in an endless cycle of body re-representation, THE INSEPERABLES feels urgent, but without losing its warmth and humor.” Little, Brown and Company publishes the book on January 5, 2016.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY by Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel’s SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY featured on the Summer Reading lists of Refinery29, Harper’s Bazaar, and the Huffington Post and Good Housekeeping. Riverhead publishes the book on July 19, 2016...

RUST: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman

Jonathan Waldman’s critically acclaimed book, RUST, won the Colorado Book Award (for general nonfiction). Simon and Schuster published the hardcover Mar 10, 2015....

Danielle Steel, THE APARTMENT

The latest novel by Danielle Steel will debut on the New York Times Bestseller List for the week of May 22nd at number 3 on the Hardcover Fiction & number 4 on the Combined Print & E-book bestseller lists. Delacorte Press published the book on May 3, 2016.