Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.
Foreign Rights
| Haylen Beck | HERE AND GONE (Crown) The children of a young mother driving across America in flight from an abusive husband are taken from her and seem to vanish. Film rights for HERE AND GONE sold to Random House Studio in conjunction with Meridian Entertainment |
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| Verus Domino HarperCollins DTV Metaixmio Volt Alexandra Yediot La Nave di Teseo Czarza Owca Presenca Herg Benet Salamandra Harvill Secker |
Brazil Czech Republic France Germany Greece Holland Hungary Israel Italy Poland Portugal Romania Spain U.K. |
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| LOST YOU (Crown) When a young boy goes missing, his desperate mother turns to the police. They manage to track down the kidnapper, but she refuses to release the boy, claiming that she is his mother. |
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| Verus Domino HarperCollins DTV Volt Yediot La Nave di Teseo Harvill Secker |
Brazil Czech Republic France Germany Holland Israel Italy U.K. |
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| William Boyle | CITY OF MARGINS [March 2020] (Pegasus) The lives of lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990's - with death the only possible result. |
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| Gallmeister Polar Verlag No Exit Press |
France Germany U.K. |
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| A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF (Pegasus) In a disparate pairing, two women in their 60's - the widow of a Mafia captain and an ex-porn star - join forces in some of the funniest and deadliest scenes in fiction. |
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| Beta Gallmeister Polar Verlag Bungeishunju Wizard Media Limited No Exit Press |
Czech Republic France Germany Japan Poland U.K. |
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| Tim Dorsey | Lovable psychopath Serge Storms and his sidekick Coleman cut a murderous path through the Sunshine State in twenty-three adventures (and counting) from the king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey | |
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| Rivages - France AST - Russia Prelude Books - U.K. |
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| NAKED CAME THE FLORIDA MAN (William Morrow) Serge and Coleman embark on a new - and somewhat macabre - tour of Florida in search of the best cemeteries and tombstones of the famous and infamous in the state. Along the way, they run into conmen and hustlers who end up on the receiving end of Serge's deadly but creative style of justice. More and more, day after day, Serge and Coleman are becoming the Florida Man. |
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| Jake Hinkson | DRY COUNTY (Pegasus) A Southern minister is driven to kill his blackmailer. |
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| Gallmeister | France | |
| Robert Jordan | WARRIOR OF THE ALTAII (Tor) Before his monumental WHEEL OF TIME series, Robert Jordan wrote a fantasy novel that has never been published - until now. |
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| Hangar 7 Bragelonne Piper Verlag Fantastikos Kosmos Luitingh-Sijthoff Fanucci Editore Zysk i s-ka Leguna Planeta Tor |
Croatia France Germany Greece Holland Italy Poland Serbia Spain U.K. |
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| Eugenia Kim | THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) From the award-winning author of THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER, the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the U.S., the other in South Korea, and the family that kept them bound together even as the Korean War kept them apart. |
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| Bloomsbury |
U.K. |
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| Viet Thanh Nguyen |
THE REFUGEES (Grove) A short story collection. |
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| Arab Scientific Publishers Shanghai Translation Publishing Belfond Karl Blessing Verlag Uitgeverij Marmer Babel Neri Pozza SolumBokvennen Elsinore - 20/20 Editura Art Planeta Tranan Marco Polo Press Epsilon Yayinlari Corsair Phuong Nam |
Arabic China France Germany Holland Israel Italy Norway Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Taiwan Turkey U.K. Vietnam |
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| THE COMMITTED [forthcoming] (Grove) The sequel to the author's award-winning debut novel, THE SYMPATHIZER, which opens in Paris. |
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| Alfaguara/Companhia das Letras Belfond Karl Blessing Verlag Neri Pozza Hayakawa Elsinore: 20/20 Corsair |
Brazil France Germany Italy Japan Portugal U.K. |
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| Brian Panowich | BULL MOUNTAIN (Putnam) A multi-generational story of a violent criminal family in rural Georgia in this novel and its sequel. Film rights optioned by ITV. |
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| Shanghai Translation Publishing Actes Sud Suhrkamp NN Editore Siruela Head of Zeus |
China France Germany Italy Spain U.K. |
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| LIKE LIONS [sequel] (St. Martin's) | ||
| Shanghai Translation Publishing Actes Sud Suhrkamp NN Editore Siruela Head of Zeus |
China France Germany Italy Spain U.K. |
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| HARD CASH VALLEY [May 2020] (St. Martin's) (Formerly titled YEAR OF THE ROOSTER) The stakes are huge in the violent world of cockfights, and when a child stumbles upon a way to beat the system, he becomes the target of men who will stop at nothing to win. |
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| Actes Sud NN Editore |
France Italy |
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| Richard Russo | CHANCES ARE... (Knopf) A new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings together three old friends to delve into the disappearance of the woman they all loved. |
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| Host La Table Ronde Dumont Verlag Signatuur/Bruna Neri Pozza Phantom Press Alfaguara Allen + Unwin |
Czech Republic France Germany Holland Italy Russia Spain U.K. |
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| Peter Swanson | BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM (William Morrow) What starts with a neighborly dinner invitation spirals into madness and obsession that can only end in murder. |
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| Aser-Elkotob Bookmedia Rahva Raamat, Ltd. Gallmeister Blanvalet Dani Books Einaudi Tokyo Sogensha Prunsoop Cappelen Damm Yabanci Yayinlari Faber & Faber |
Arabic Czech Republic Estonia France Germany Israel Italy Japan Korea Norway Turkey U.K. |
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| EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS [March 2020] (William Morrow) A bookseller finds himself in danger when a killer starts using the shopkeeper's list of fiction's most unsolvable murders as a blueprint for violence. |
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| Soft Press Guomai Culture & Media Co. Ltd. Prunsoop Cappelen Damm Faber & Faber |
Bulgaria China Korea Norway U.K. |
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| John Woods | LADY CHEVY [Summer 2020] (Pegasus) In this gripping debut novel, a young woman desperate to escape the toxic results of fracking in her hometown gets caught up in a web of violence. A novel reminiscent of Blood Meridian. |
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| Albin Michel NN Editore |
France Italy |
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| SOMETHING TENDER [forthcoming] Set in the dark hills of Appalachian Ohio, these powerful stories tell of the effects of the intergenerational trauma, how the past haunts the present, and how individuals are transformed by their environment. |
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| Albin Michel | France | |