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Game World by C.J. Farley A video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow–brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes.

Ages: 10 and up

Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper & Alison Glock a high school setting just like any other, except sometimes you wake up to find you’re a slightly different species— ”Changers”—belonging to a secret society with rules and expectations and a calling to keep the whole world safe.

Ages: 13 and up PDFS Available Now

USA NOIR:

Best of the Akashic Noir Series

crime fiction anthology edited by Johnny Temple “During the past few years, some of the best collections of short stories have been the Noir anthologies published by Akashic . . . To me, these collections are total gems, a quality read from some of today’s best authors.” —Oline Cogdill, Sun-Sentinel

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Akashic Launches “Black Sheep” Imprint for Children & Young Adults Akashic enters the YA fray with a Potter-esque, page-turning adventure story for 10+ with tremendous commercial potential and the first installment in a spectacular fantasy & magic romantic comedy series for 13+ in the tradition of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Zombieland. • GAME WORLD by C.J. Farley. Dylan Rudee’s life is an epic fail. He’s bullied at school and plagued by seizures, until his video game skills unlock a real-life fantasy world inside a new game. But now actual monsters are trying to kill him. In order to save his sister and his friends, Dylan must solve the game’s dangerous mystery in three days. • Farley is an editor at the Wall Street Journal and an active promoter of his work. He is the author of two novels for adults, and a best-selling nonfiction title for younger readers, Aaliyah: More Than a Woman. Game World features black-and-white chapter illustrations by artist Yongjin Im. • CHANGERS Book One: Drew by T Cooper & Alison Glock. It’s the first day of secondary school in a new town, and Ethan Miller awakens as a girl. Unbeknownst to him, he is a “Changer.” He will wake up every year of high school as a different person, beginning in ninth grade when he becomes Drew Shue, a petite blonde. • This book follows the first year of Ethan/Drew’s Change cycle, with four books planned, for each year of high school. • Glock is the author of the New York Times notable book Beauty Before Comfort and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, and Marie Claire. She is currently a senior staff writer for ESPN. She has won GLAAD, FOLIO Eddie, and min awards for journalism. Cooper is the award-winning, bestselling author of Real Man Adventures, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, The Beaufort Diaries, and Some of the Parts. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Believer, O, The Oprah Magazine, One Story, and Poets & Writers. . • Akashic is launching these two titles together in early 2014, supported by a major marketing campaign coinciding with the announcement of our new Black Sheep imprint. • All three authors involved in the series are embedded in the review and book publishing industry, and are tireless promoters of their work, willing to engage and take advantage of their key positions in the print news community.

The best collection of crime fiction ever assembled into a single anthology. • We’ll let the contributor list speak for itself: Pete Hamill, Laura Lippman. Dennis Lehane, Jerome Charyn, Lawrence Block, George Pelecanos, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Susan Straight, Jeffery Deaver, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julie Smith, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, S.J. Rozan, and many more. • Culled from 30+ volumes in Akashic’s best-selling, award-winning anthology series, USA Noir is a who’s who in contemporary literary and crime fiction. Akashic publisher Johnny Temple has selected the stories from each US-based volume, from best-selling authors to award-winning stories. • Launched with the 2004 best seller Brooklyn Noir, each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood within the city. Thirteen territories have licensed over forty individual volumes in the series (see page 4) and many publishers have asked us for a “Best of” volume. We plan to follow USA Noir with other collections from around the world. • PDF available now • Previous Sales: Latin America: Oceano *See page 4 for more information on the Akashic Noir Series

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize–winner Robert Antoni’s Joycean portrait of Trinidad & Tobago.

As Flies to Whatless Boys upmarket literary fiction by Robert Antoni “Trinidad, indeed the whole of the Caribbean, has its James Joyce.” —George Plimpton

“Robert Antoni is one of the most original and eloquent writers working today.”—Stephen Dixon, author of I

• Antoni is the author of the landmark novel, Divina Trace, for which he received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His other books include Blessed Is the Fruit, My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, and Carnival, short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the Best Book Category. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for the writing of As Flies to Whatless Boys. • Spanish Publishers: Antoni has a permanent residence in Barcelona. His work has been translated in to Spanish by Anagrama, as well as Finnish, French, Chinese, and licensed to the UK. • PDFs available now • Previous Sales: My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales: UK (Faber and Faber), Spain (Anagrama), Finland (Like), France (Anatolia/Éditions du Rocher; Carnival: UK (Faber and Faber), Spain (Anagrama), Finland (Like), France (Anatolia/Éditions du Rocher), China (New Star Press); Blessed Is the Fruit: UK (Faber and Faber).

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Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May A deeply engaging and often hilarious debut novel about a morality clash in an insular neighborhood.

Unmentionables by Laurie Loewenstein “Unmentionables uses the past as a way to illuminate large, pertinent questions—of race and gender, of love and death, of action and consequence. Meticulously researched and exquisitely written, Unmentionables is a memorable debut.” —Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer

The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé “The Night of the Rambler is exceptional. Riveting, deeply thoughtful, and constantly inventive, Montague Kobbé’s novel is part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative. Altogether, it makes for one profound read.” —Joe Meno, author of Office Girl

Every Boy Should Have a Man literary fiction/fantasy by Preston L. Allen “[A] bizarre but exquisitely composed fable that uses transhumanism as the prism to reflect on the nature of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Family Mansion upmarket literary fiction by Anthony C. Winkler “[A] powerful and deeply moving tour de force.” —Library Journal “Winkler has a fine ear for patois and dialogue, and a love of language that makes bawdy jokes crackle.” —New Yorker

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Three Spectacular Debuts Akashic continues its tradition of discovering great new writers with BEDROCK FAITH, UNMENTIONABLES, and THE NIGHT OF THE RAMBLER. • Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May tells the universal tale of a small, insular community’s inability to adapt to the sudden appearance of an unwanted character in their midst. After fourteen years in prison, Gerald “Stew Pot” Reeves, age thirty-one, moves home to live with his mom in Parkland, a closed community on Chicago’s South Side. A frightening delinquent before being sent away, his return sends Parkland residents into a religiously infused tailspin, which only increases when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison. • Eric Charles May is deeply engaged in the Chicago literary community and a colleague of our bestselling author Joe Meno. He has written for the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and is the author of the essay collection Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck. DENNIS LEHANE has already committed to providing a blurb for the front cover. • Unmentionables by Laurie Loewenstein is the debut novel in our new Kalie Jones Books imprint, curated by acclaimed author Kaylie Jones (daughter of James Jones). Jones’s imprint is supported by a publishing collective that will be extremely active in promoting the work. • The book takes a contemporary look at the women’s undergarment industry, which has historically confined women in constraining articles of clothing. How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? • The Night of the Rambler is a truly international debut by Montague Kobbé, a German-Venezuelan who grew up in Caracas and the Caribbean, and currently lives in Madrid. Kobbé is a specialist in Caribbean literature who has written broadly on the subject in periodicals throughout the US, Spain, and the Caribbean. • The book is a tragic-comic adventure story the takes its launching point from an obscure moment in West Indian history: After three Islands formerly under European protection band together to form an Associated State, a dozen or so islanders from the smallest protectorate haphazardly invade their neighbors to gain further independence. “Rambler” is the name of the boat they use to traverse between islands, but it could just as easily refer to the narrative style of the work (reminiscent of Vargas Llosa, Earl Lovelace, and Junot Díaz) as well as the novel’s lovable if someone misguided characters. • PDFs available for all three books.

A mind-blowing speculative allegory set on a post-human earth by New York Times favorite Preston L. Allen. Many of you asked to read this work in Frankfurt, and now the reviews are starting to come roaring in!

• Allen’s ingenious new literary fantasy novel fully occupies the void left by Octavia E. Butler (Kindred, Fledgling) in humanistic speculative fiction. Or if Orwell and Kafka got together to write a parable in which Humankind had been overtaken at the top of the food chain by a race of “Oafs” who variously use “Mans” as pets and dinner, they might have written Every Boy Should Have a Man. • Allen has been generously reviewed by the New York Times for his prior two Akashic offerings, Jesus Boy and All or Nothing. • Aggressive nationwide marketing campaign. • PDFs available now. • Previous Foreign Sales: Jesus Boy: Italy (Miraviglia), Turkey (Epsilon)

Anthony C. Winkler’s unflinching and surprisingly humorous novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica. “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit and heart-stopping compassion.” —Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women

• Only Anthony C. Winkler could take a topic as brutal as colonization and make it laugh-out-loud funny. The Family Mansion is a serious novel exploring the British colonization of Jamaica at the turn of the nineteenth century, but it does so with Winkler’s trademark humor. • The story is told from a contemporary perspective, in a contemporary voice, and brilliantly takes on the British era of primogeniture by reproducing it (along with all of its attendant moors, morals, and traditions) in a colonial setting. • Winkler is one of Jamaica’s best-known authors. The film version of his best-selling novel The Lunatic is a classic of Caribbean cinema. • PDFs /finished copies available now.

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Drawing Autism gift book/art book edited by Jill Mullin introduction by Temple Grandin an empowering collection for people affected by autism, and a stunningly beautiful art book. • PDFs available now.

Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group humor/pop culture by Ian F. Svenonius “Svenonius, is drawing a line in the sand and doing so with what he hopes will finally define the undefinable.” —Los Angeles Times

Hard Art photography/music by Lucian Perkins

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An essential coffee-table book for parents of autistic children featuring the artistic work of over 50 artists diagnosed with autism, including Temple Grandin, Gregory Blackstock, Ping Lian Yeak, and David Barth. “What is the actual experience of living with autism in a deep-felt sense, beyond the social stereotypes and headline-worthy superskills? Drawing Autism, a celebration of the artistry and self-expression found in artwork by people diagnosed with autism, explores just that. The stunning volume features works by over fifty international contributors, from children to established artists, that illustrate the rich multiplicity of the condition.” —The Atlantic

• Autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed in 1 out of 88 children worldwide: It is a truly international phenomenon, knowing no racial, ethnic, or social barriers. • There is no shortage of media interest in ASD. Drawing Autism has garnered international acclaim in numerous media outlets, including Fox News, the New Scientist, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and 50 Watts. Washington, DC-based rock ’n’ roll antihero Ian F. Svenonius provides an unparalleled and exquisitely provocative how-to guide for rock bands. • Svenonius’s 25-city tour has yielded major national coverage from long-lead magazines and broadcast media alike, including rave reviews in Pitchfork, American Songwriter, the Onion, Library Journal, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR’s The Signal, the Washingtonian, the Boston Phoenix, and regional weeklies everywhere. • Supernatural Strategies is a smart, hilarious, and utterly accessible take on the universal aspiration to be a famous musician. It masterfully manipulates our expectations of the rock ’n’ lifestyle, taking them from the realm of cliché to a studied critique of pop culture. • Ian F. Svenonius was the host of VBS.tv’s Soft Focus, a different breed of chat show, where he interviewed Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, Cat Power, Ian MacKaye, and others. As a musician he has created eighteen albums and countless singles in various rock ‘n’ roll combos (Chain & the Gang, Weird War, The Make-Up, The Nation of Ulysses, etc.). The best way to get a sense of this book is to watch his book trailer: http://www.akashicbooks.com/ian-svenonius-hits-the-road-records-book-trailer/ • PDFs available now. • Previous Sales: Spain, Blackie; Czech Republic, Mata

Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lucian Perkins photographed the most legendary punk rock shows in DC history. • In 1979, a soon-to-erupt punk scene took hold in Washington, DC, with bands like the Bad Brains, Trenchmouth, Teen Idles, the Untouchables, and the Slickee Boys, among others, at the forefront. Lucian Perkins, later a Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist for the Washington Post, was then an intern who photographed several pivotal shows over a short period of time. His now iconic photos of these shows are complemented by essays from punk rock musicians Henry Rollins and Alec MacKaye.• PDFs/finished copies now available.

The international best seller Go the F*** to Sleep and the children’s book it inspired.

parenting/humor words by Adam Mansbach illustrations by Ricardo Cortés

children’s book/humor

• Sales for Go the F*** to Sleep: The #1 best seller at: New York Times, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and many more. We’ve just entered our seventh printing, with over 750,000 in print. Over 600,000 copies have sold through to consumers. Seriously, Just Go to Sleep is a fully realized children’s book intended for the kid’s book market, allowing children and parents to joke with one another about one of the most stressful elements of a parent’s life: getting his or her child to sleep. • Media Coverage: The fortuitous viral marketing campaign that caught the publishing industry by storm elicited feature stories in nearly every major daily newspaper across the U.S. Adam Mansbach, appeared on the Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, Reuters TV, and Associated Press TV. Samuel L. Jackson’s audio book version caused a sensation mirrored only by the original viral campaign on the book. • Previous Foreign Sales: Go the F*** to Sleep, over 30 Territories: Afrikaans (Penguin), Australia (Text), Brazil (Sextante), Catalan (RH Mondadori), China (ThinKingdom), Czech Republic (Bionaut), Denmark (Carlsen), Dutch (Leopold), Estonia (Media Incognito), Finland (Into Publishing), France (Grasset), Germany (DuMont), Greece (Papadopoulos), India (Roli), Israel (Modan), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Tatsumi), Korea (Book21), Latin America & U.S. (Spanish-language) (Penguin), Latvia (Media Incognito), Lithuania (Media Incognito), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Nynorsk (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Albatros), Portugal (Arteplural/Grupo Bertrand Circulo), Russia (Livebook), Serbia (Booka), Slovenia (Filargo), Spain (RH Mondadori (Spain only)), Sweden (Lind & Co.), Taiwan (Sun Color), Turkey (Arkadas Yayinlari), UK (Canongate); Seriously, Just Go to Sleep: Australia (Text), Slovenia (Filargo)

• PDFs/finished copies available now

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The Marijuana Chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer

Akashic Drug Chronicles Series Following the international success of the Akashic Noir Series, our new drug-based sister series continues with The Marijuana Chronicles, featuring brand-new stories by Santlofer, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Linda Yablonsky, Thad Ziolkowski, Raymond Mungo, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, & more.

The Heroin Chronicles

“All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity of its voices, and plain, old, good storytelling.” —New York Journal of Books

edited by Jerry Stahl

• The Akashic Drug Chronicles Series is modeled after the success of our locale-centric Noir Series, which has cracked the code for turning fiction anthologies into best sellers. The first two titles in the series, The Speed Chronicles and The Cocaine Chronicles, were released to great acclaim; The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry Stahl, is hot off the presses to be followed with The Marijuana Chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer. • Award Winners and A-List Authors: Forthcoming and current volumes feature original stories by Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, Eric Bogosian, Susan Straight, & Laura Lippman, to name a few. The Noir Series has earned multiple Edgar, Pushcart, Shamus, & Macavity awards, and we expect the same from our new series. • Foreign Sales Track Record: The Noir Series is gaining the kind of international momentum we’ve experienced domestically, with 45 licensing deals in place and more in the works. (See below for a complete list of Noir Sales). We have every reason to believe the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series will strike a similar chord. UK’s No Exit is leading the charge by licensing the first three books. • Previous Foreign Sales: UK (No Exit), Speed, Cocaine, Heroin; Turkey (Aytasi), Cocaine; Serbia (Cenzura), Cocaine

The Speed Chronicles edited by Joseph Mattson

The Cocaine Chronicles edited by Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon PDFS available for all 4

Key International & Domestic Titles There are currently 60 available and forthcoming titles in the series. Ask us for a full list. Baltimore Noir, edited by Laura Lippman, Barcelona Noir (Spain) edited by Adriana V. López & Carmen Ospina ♦ Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane ♦ Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin ♦ Copenhagen Noir (Denmark), edited by Bo Tao Michaëlis ♦ D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos ♦ Delhi Noir (India), edited by Hirsh Sawhney ♦ Dublin Noir (Ireland), edited by Ken Bruen ♦ Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat ♦ ♦ Istanbul Noir (Turkey), edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler ♦ London Noir (England), edited by Cathi Unsworth ♦ Los Angeles Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton ♦ Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block ♦ Mexico City Noir (Mexico), edited by Paco I. Taibo II ♦ Moscow Noir (Russia), edited by Natalia Smirnova & Julia Goumen ♦ Mumbai Noir (India), edited by Altaf Tyrewala ♦ New Jersey Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates ♦ Paris Noir (France), edited by Aurélien Masson ♦ Rome Noir (Italy), edited by Chiara Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski ♦ San Francisco Noir, edited by Peter Maravelis ♦ St. Petersburg Noir (Russia), edited by Smirnova & Goumen ♦ Zagreb Noir (Croatia), edited by Ivan Srsen

Forthcoming Spotlight: Middle East ♦ Baghdad Noir (Iraq), edited by Samuel Shimon ♦ Beirut Noir (Lebanon), edited by Iman Humaydan ♦ Jerusalem Noir, edited by Dror Mishani ♦ Tehran Noir (Iran), edited by Salar Abdoh ♦ Tel Aviv Noir (Israel), edited by Etgar Keret & Assaf Gavron PDFS available for all active titles

Akashic Noir Series • USA NOIR: Akashic Books celebrates over 60 domestic and international titles with the release of USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series, featuring the best stories from the US volumes. USA Noir promises to be the greatest collection of noir fiction ever anthologized, featuring a who’s who in contemporary literary and crime fiction. • International Titles Available Now: Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking, city-specific noir series with three titles spanning the globe: Manila Noir, edited by Jessica Hagedorn, Venice Noir, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, and Mumbai Noir, edited by Altaf Tyrewala. • Spanish-Language Originals: All the stories in these volumes are written in Spanish, and then translated by Akashic into English—acquisition into Spanish has never been easier! Mexico City Noir, edited by National History Award–winner Paco I. Taibo II, Havana Noir, edited by awardwinning author Achy Obejas, Bogotá Noir (Columbia; forthcoming), edited by Andrea Montejo. • Sales history: Brooklyn Noir, the debut title in the series, was originally published in 2004 and is now in its 7th printing and won several awards. Los Angeles Noir spent five weeks on the Los Angeles Times best-seller list, and Susan Straight’s contribution won an Edgar Award. Boston Noir landed on the Boston Globe best-seller chart. • Acquire the rights to the series: See below for the amazing list of international publishers joining in the momentum of the series with multiple titles and simultaneous releases: ♦ China, Ching Win Publishing: Boston, Manhattan ♦ Denmark, People’s Press: Brooklyn, Copenhagen ♦ France, Asphalte Editions: Barcelona, Brooklyn, D.C., Delhi, Haiti, Havana, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Paris, Rome ♦ France, Payot et Rivages: Boston ♦ India, HarperCollins Delhi, Mumbai ♦ Italy, Alet: Brooklyn, D.C., Havana, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Wall Street ♦ Italy, Einaudi: Rome ♦ Italy, Metropoli d’Asia: Delhi ♦ Japan, Futami: Manhattan ♦ Korea, Eyes & Heart, Brooklyn ♦ Korea, BS Publishing, Manhattan, Paris, Seoul ♦ Mexico, Oceano, USA ♦ Mexico, Random House: Mexico City, Los Angeles ♦ Poland, Chirascuro: Barcelona, Mexico City, Moscow ♦ Russia, Arabesque: London, Los Angeles ♦ Russia Eksom: Moscow ♦ Spain, EDHASA, Barcelona ♦ Turkey, Everest: Brooklyn, Istanbul, London, & Manhattan ♦ UK, Serpent’s Tail: London ♦ Brandon/Mt. Eagle: Dublin.

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Rights List Supplement Akashic launches new imprint curated by multiplatinum hip-hop artist PRODIGY.

HNIC crime fiction by Prodigy with Steven Savile The debut title from INFAMOUS BOOKS, the new urban crime imprint curated by Mobb Deep cocreator PRODIGY

• Prodigy is an internationally renowned writer and performer, best known for the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, a signature group in the hard-core gansta rap movement. He is the producer and president of Infamous Records, an independent music label housed in the Sony family. Infamous Books is an off-shoot of the record company, committed to publishing urban fiction inspired by the gansta rap movement for which Prodigy is best known. • 2013 is the 20-year anniversary of Mobb Deep’s best known record, The Infamous. Prodigy and his collaborator Havoc are reuniting for a world-wide tour this fall, including stops in Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany (multiple cities), France (multiple cities), Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Finland, Austria, England (multiple cities), Iceland, Chile, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Russia, and Japan. • HNIC is a lightning-paced crime fiction featuring a young black protagonist, Pappy, lured into committing a jewel heist by his sinister mentor, who betrays and nearly murders him. The pages turn with Pappy’s effort to both seek revenge, and escape the cruel environs of his youth. HNIC—which is the first in a five-book series planned with Prodigy and Steven Savile—ends with a note of hope as Pappy escapes to Florida with the love of his life. • Steven Savile is the internationally best-selling fantasy, horror, and thriller author whose novel, Shadow of the Jaguar, was translated into nine languages and was a #1 best seller in the UK. He’s written over twenty books, edited and coedited multiple anthologies, and currently lives in Stockholm. • Digital PDFs available now

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ADIOS MUCHACHOS by Daniel Chavarría: Croatia, Zagrebacka; Czech Republic/ Czech, Alpress; Czech Republic/Slovak, Mlada Fronta Slovensko; Finland, Book Studio; France, Rivages/Noir; Germany, Heyne Verlag; Greece, Opera; Italy, Tropea; Israel, Arieh Nir; Japan, Hayakawa; Portugal, Agencia Latinoamericana de Literatura; Russia, Limbus; Spain, Random House; Taiwan, Clio Culture Press; Turkey, Aytasi; UK, Serpent’s Tail THE AGE OF DREAMING by Nina Revoyr: France, Phébus; Italy, Casini; Japan, PHP Institute; Spain, Paidós/Planeta ALICE FANTASTIC by Maggie Estep: Italy, Casini AMERICAN VISA by Juan de Recacoechea: France, Editions du Panama; Greece, Alexandria Publications; Israel, Ivrit; Russia, Limbus; Slovenia, Modrijan ANNA IN-BETWEEN Viceversa

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Spain,

THE ANTI-CAPITALISM READER, ed. by Joel Schalit: Turkey, Plan B. Ltd. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT by James Greer: Turkey, Versus

Spain, Editorial Grijalbo; Turkey, Aytasi; UK, Serpent’s Tail THE FAILURE by James Greer: France, Editions Joelle Losfeld/Gallimard; Italy, Quarup FALUN GONG’S CHALLENGE TO CHINA by Danny Schechter: China, Epoch Times; Korea, Younglim Cardinal THE FIVE BIGGEST LIES BUSH TOLD US ABOUT IRAQ by Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer, & Lakshmi Chaudhry: Australia, Allen and Unwin; Greece, Aiora Publishing; Pakistan, Vanguard Books THE FUCK-UP by Arthur Nersesian: Germany, Europa (rights reverted to author in 2006); Greece, Akti Oxy, Japan, Sogensha; Korea, Daekyo Bertelsmann; Spanish, TF Editores; Turkey, SAY Yayninlari; Korea (?)(Chinese Takeout by Arthur Nersesian: Greece, Electra; Spain, Modernos y Classicos de Aleph; England, Marion Boyers; dogrun by Arthur Nersesian: Germany, MTV/ Hundeweise; Japan, Sogen Sha) GATHERING OF WATERS by Bernice L. McFadden: France, Editions Joelle Losfeld/Gallimard; Taiwan; Amygdala/Walkers Culture

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OFFICE GIRL by Joe Meno: UK, Telegram OF GRUNGE & GOVERNMENT, Krist Novoselic: Croatia, Sareni Ducan ONCE THERE WAS A VILLAGE by Yuri Kapralov: Spain, Lettera PARADOXIA by Lydia Lunch: France, Au Diable Vauvert; Germany, Miranda Verlag; Spain, Editorial Melusina; Turkey, Altkirbes PARIS NOIR, ed. by Aurelien Masson: France, Asphalte Editions, Korea, BS Publishing ROME NOIR, ed. by Chiara Stangalino & Maxim Jakubowski: France, Asphalte Editions; Italy, Einaudi THE SACRIFICIAL CIRCUMCISION OF THE BRONX by Arthur Nersesian: Spain, Alpha Decay SAN FRANCISCO NOIR, ed. by Peter Maravelis: Italy, Alet A SECRET HISTORY OF COFFEE, COCA & COLA by Ricardo Cortés: Russia, Sinbad SEOUL NOIR, ed. by BS Publishing: Korea, BS Publishing

THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN SHOES by Colin Channer: UK, Macmillan Caribbean

SEPTEMBER 11th FAMILIES FOR PEACEFUL TOMORROWS by David Potorti with Peaceful Tomorrows: Japan, Iwanami; Italy, Terre di Mezzo; Spain, Icaria Editorials

GODLIKE by Richard Hell: Italy, Coniglio, Spain, Libertos Editorial; Turkey, Altkirbes

SERIOUSLY, JUST GO TO SLEEP by Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortés: See P. 2

GO FISH by Mr. Fish: Finland, Into Publishing

SHE’S GONE by Kwame Dawes: UK, Macmillan Caribbean

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CANE by Courttia Newland: UK, Saqi

THE SHOW THAT SMELLS by Derek McCormack: Turkey, Altkirkbes

GO THE F*** TO SLEEP by Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortés: See Page 2

SOME OF THE PARTS by T Cooper: Italy, Scritturapura; Turkey, Citlembik SOUTH BY SOUTH BRONX by Abraham Rodriguez: France, Serpent à plumes

BICYCLE by Paul Fattaruso: Turkey, Altikirbes Yayinlari

HAIRSTYLES OF THE DAMNED by Joe Meno: Germany, Heyne Verlag; Russia, Limbus Press; Italy, Edicione E/O; Turkey, Ayrinti

THE BIG MANGO by Norman Kelley: Turkey, Istiklal

HAITI NOIR by Edwidge Danticat: France, Asphalte

SOUTHLAND by Nina Revoyr: France, Phébus; Greece, Electra; Japan, Fusosha;

BLACK MARKS by Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte: Turkey, Istiklal

HAVANA NOIR, ed. by Achy Obejas: France, Asphalte; Italy, Alet

SPEAK NOW by Kaylie Jones: France, Belfond; Turkey, Istiklal Kultur ve Turizm

HEADLESS by Benjamin Weissman: Russia, U-Factory; Spain, Alpha Decay

THE SPEED CHRONICLES ed. by Joseph Mattson: UK, No Exit

HEART OF THE OLD COUNTRY by Tim McLoughlin: Italy, Marsilio; UK, Canongate

SPY’S FATE by Arnaldo Correa: Japan, Bungei Shunju; Turkey, Istyklal

THE HEROIN CHRONICLES ed. by Jerry Stahl: UK, No Exit

ST PETERSBURG NOIR ed. by Smirnova & Goumen: Russia, Atticus-Azbooka

A SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES by Kaylie Jones: Japan, Kadokawa (pre-Akashic); Germany, Th. KNAUR Nachf.; Munich (pre-Akashic); Italy, Garzanti Libri s.p.a. (pre-Akashic); Spain, Mondadori (preAkashic); Poland, MUZA BARCELONA NOIR, ed. by López & Ospina: France, Asphalte; Poland, Claroscuro; Spain, Edhasa BECOMING ABIGAIL by Chris Abani: France, Albin Michel; Israel, Schocken; Nigeria, Kachifo; Italy, Fanucci; Southern Africa, Picador Africa; Bosnia, Ajfelov Most; Sweden, Celanders Forlag BETTER by John O’Brien: France, Rivages

BLACK MUSIC by LeRoie Jones/Amiri Baraka: World Spanish, Caja Negra (Argentina) BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY by Ron Kovic: Italy, Sperling; France, 13 Note BOSTON NOIR, ed. by Dennis Lehane: China, Ching Vin Publishing; France, Rivages THE BOY DETECTIVE FAILS by Joe Meno: Korea, Nulbom; Russia, AST; Spain, Mondadori BROOKLYN NOIR, ed. by Tim McLoughlin: Denmark, People’s Press; France, Asphalte Editions; Italy, Alet; Korea, Eyes & Heart; Turkey, Everest THE BROTHERS’ LOT by Kevin Holohan: UK, No Exit CERVANTES STREET by Jaime Manrique: Germany, DuMont; Russia, Sindbad, World Spanish, Santilla; Taiwan, Commercial Press; Turkey, Ithaki THE COCAINE CHRONICLES, ed. by Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon: Turkey, Aytasi; Serbia, Cenzura D.O.O.; UK, No Exit COPENHAGEN NOIR, ed. by Bo Tao Michaelis: Denmark, People’s Press DANCE OF DAYS by Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins: Brazil, Underground Shop Produções Artisticas; Germany, Ventil; D.C. NOIR, ed. by George Pelecanos: France, Asphalte; Italy, Alet THE DEAD DETECTIVE by William Heffernan: China, Modern Press; Italy, Giallo Mondadori; Korea, BS Publishing DELHI NOIR, ed. by Hirsh Sawhney: France, Asphalte Editions; India, HarperCollins India; Italy, Metropoli d’Asia DEMONS IN THE SPRING by Joe Meno: Korea, Nulbom; Russia, Gayatri/Livebook THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM by Nathan Larson: Italy, Fanucci; Sweden: Bokfabriken. DUBLIN NOIR, ed. by Ken Bruen: Ireland/UK, Mount Eagle/Brandon THE EYE OF CYBELE by Daniel Chavarría: Greece, Opera Ekdoseis; Italy, Tropea; Slovenia, Modrijan;

HOW THE HULA GIRL SINGS by Joe Meno: Russia, AST ISTANBUL NOIR, ed. by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler: Turkey, Everest JESUS BOY by Preston L. Allen: Italy, Miraviglia; Turkey, Epsilon JOHN CROW’S DEVIL by Marlon James: Germany, Verlag F. Stuelten; Italy, Baldini; UK & Caribbean, Macmillan \Caribbean KAMIKAZE LUST by Lauren Sanders: Russia, Limbus LESSONS IN TAXIDERMY by Bee Lavender: Sweden, Bra Böcker; UK, Weidenfeld and Nicolson LETTERS TO KURT by Eric Erlandson: Italy, Castelvecchi LONDON NOIR, ed. by Cathi Unsworth: France, Asphalte Editions; Italy, Alet; Russia, Arabesque; Turkey, Everest; UK, Serpent’s Tail LOS ANGELES NOIR, ed. by Denise Hamilton: France, Asphalte Editions; Italy, Alet; Mexico. Random House; Russia, Arabesque MANHATTAN LOVERBOY by Arthur Germany, Europa Verlag; Greece, Electra

Nersesian:

MANHATTAN NOIR, ed. by Lawrence Block: China, Ching Win Publishing; Japan, Futami; Korea, BS Publishing; Turkey, Everest MANILA NOIR ed. by Jessica Hagedorn: Philipines, Anvil MEXICO CITY NOIR, ed. by Paco I. Taibo: France, Asphalte Editions, Mexico, Random House; Poland, Chirascuro MOSCOW NOIR, ed. by Natalia Smirnova & Julia Goumen: Poland, Chirascuro; Russia, Eksmo MUMBAI NOIR, ed. HarperCollins India

by

Altaf

Tyrewala:

India,

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM by Nathan Larson: Italy, Fanucci (option)

SUPERNATURAL STRATEGIES FOR MAKING A ROCK ’N’ ROLL GROUP by Ian F. Svenonius: Czech Republic, Mata; Spain, Blackie THE SWING VOTER OF STATEN ISLAND by Arthur Nersesian: Italy, Casini; Spain, Alpha Decay; Turkey, Ayrinti Yayinlari TALES OF THE OUT & THE GONE by Amiri Baraka: Turkey, Versus TANGO FOR A TORTURER by Daniel Chavarría: UK, Serpent’s Tail; Italy, Marco Tropea; Germany, Edition Koln; France, Payot et Rivages; Portugal, Mundo Novo; Spanish, Various countries/publishers; Greece, Opera (deal done directly w/Chavarría) TWO TIMES INTRO by Michael Stipe: France, Naïve; Mexico (World Spanish), Sexto Piso THE UNCOMFORTABLE DEAD by Sub. Marcos & Paco Taibo: UK, Serpent’s Tail USA NOIR edited by Johnny Temple: Latin America/ USA (Spanish language) Oceano VICTIMS by Travis Jeppesen: Russia, Eksmo WALL STREET NOIR, ed. by Peter Spiegelman: Italy, Alet WATER IN DARKNESS by Daniel Buckman: Italy, E/O WE OWE YOU NOTHING: PUNK PLANET, THE COLLECTED INTERVIEWS, edited by Daniel Sinker: Brazil, Underground Shop Produções Artisticas WILL WORK FOR DRUGS by Lydia Lunch: France: Au Diable; Czech Republic, Mata; Germany, Miranda Verlag, Spain, Libertos Editorial