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Pat Conroy Backlist

Translation rights to Pat Conroy backlist as below are available from Marly Rusoff Literary Agency THE PRINCE OF TIDES Publisher Houghton Mifflin, 1986 In this best-selling novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which …

The Perfect Liar

Publisher St. Martin’s Press, January 15, 2019 In the vein of domestic psychological thrillers like The Woman in the Window and The Girl on the Train, Thomas Christopher Greene’s THE PERFECT LIAR is a riveting and suspenseful story about a newly married young couple who finds their perfect lives upended …

The Perfect Love Song

Publisher Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins, October 2019 Can one song change the course of a life? Brothers Jimmy and Jack Sullivan live a nomadic life doing what they love: touring with their band, The Unknown Souls. But Jack’s recent engagement to Kara has everyone looking forward to a Christmas destination wedding …

The Postmistress of Paris

Harper Collins Publisher, November 30, 2021 The New York Times bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel—a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage—about a young American heiress who helps …

Prague

Publisher Random House, July 2002 PRAGUE depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune — financial, romantic, and spiritual — in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion …

The Promised World

Publisher Atria Books, September 2009 Lisa Tucker captures the hidden heart of the modern family. In her widely acclaimed novels, she has established her unique gift for depicting the bewildering nature of love, the poignant quest to belong, and the deep desire for a place to call home. Now from …

Proof of Heaven

Publisher Wm. Morrow/Harper Collins, August 23, 2011 A mother’s faith, a child’s bravery, and a doctor’s search for healing come together in this moving and thought-provoking fiction debut that explores the meaning of family, faith, and love. This compelling and heartfelt novel will appeal to readers of all beliefs and …

Proof of Angels

Publisher Wm. Morrow/Harper Collins, November 4, 2014 From the critically acclaimed author of Proof of Heaven comes an unforgettable novel about hope, renewal, and the gift of angels among us—friends, family, lovers . . . and even mystical others—sure to touch your heart. Sean Magee is a firefighter—a hero who …

Queen of Broken Hearts

Publisher Hyperion, March 2007 It’s not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she’s preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on …

The Race for Paris

Publisher Harper Collins, August 11, 2015 This most ambitious novel yet by bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton was inspired by the actual “Race for Paris” and the extraordinary women who were some of the first journalists to report from the liberated city in August 1944. For the readers of historical …

The Rail Splitter

Publisher Republic Books, January 24, 2023 From John Cribb, author of the acclaimed novel OldAbe, comes a new work of historical fiction that brings Abraham Lincoln to life as never before. The Rail Splitter tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s remarkable journey from a log cabin to the threshold of …

Rasputin’s Daughter

Publisher Viking/Penguin, January 2006 In this enthralling new novel, Russia’s most famous poet, Aleksander Blok, summons Maria Rasputin to appear before a revolutionary tribunal to tell the story of her infamous father. Taking us back to the week before her father’s murder in December 1916, Maria recounts in intimate detail …

The Rebel Princess

Publisher Wm. Morrow, July 2009 Paris, October 1207. There is nothing that Alais, princess of France, wants more than to settle down with her lover, William of Caen, and to reveal to his ward Francis that she is his mother. But intrigue is afoot in the palace: two monks have …

Reconstructing Amelia

Publisher Harper Collins, April 2, 2013 When Kate, single mother and law firm partner, gets an urgent phone call from her daughter’s exclusive private school summoning her to, she’s shocked. Amelia has been suspended for cheating. It’s completely out of character for her over-achieving, well-behaved daughter to do something like …

Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Publisher Random House Books AU – March 28, 2016, Little Brown UK – March 24, 2016 From the streets of Kabul to the shores of the Pacific, we all need to find our place in the world Long-awaited sequel to THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL Six women, on opposite …

A Right Worthy Woman

A Novel, Atria Books, June 13, 2023 In the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and …

The Risen

Publisher Ecco/Harper Collins, September 6, 2016 New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives. …

Roland Merullo Backlist

Rights to Roland Merullo backlist are available from Marly Rusoff Literary Agency (some restrictions might apply) A LITTLE LOVE STORY Publisher Shaye Areheart Books, August 2005 In A Little Love Story, Roland Merullo—winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the Maria Thomas Fiction Award—has created a sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious …

The Romanov Bride

Publisher Viking/Penguin, May 2008 As the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra rushes toward catastrophe, the Grand Duchess Elisavyeta is ensconced in the lavish and magnificent Romanov court. In the same city, but world apart, Pavel is a simple village man in search of a better life. When his young wife, …

Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict

Publisher Dutton, June 2009 The eagerly anticipated sequel/parallel story to Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Laurie Viera Rigler’s debut novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, was a hit with fans and critics, and a BookSense and Los Angeles Times bestseller. Its open-to-interpretation ending left readers begging for more—and …

Saints At The River

Publisher Henry Holt, August 2004 In SAINTS AT THE RIVER, the drowning of a thirteen-year-old girl, swept away in a whitewater river while on vacation, divides a small Appalachian town. This tragedy brings a young woman journalist to the community of her childhood, and on a trip back home that …

The Salinger Contract

Publisher Open Road, September 17, 2013 An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago Adam Langer, the narrator of this deft and wide-ranging novel by the author of …

The Same Sweet Girls

Publisher Hyperion, January 2005 None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have actually ever been sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There’s Julia …

Same Time Next Summer

A Novel, Publisher ‎ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, June 6, 2023 The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke …

The Scattering – #2 in The Outliers trilogy

Publisher Harper Collins, May 2, 2017 Book number 2 of The Outliers trilogy New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight raises the stakes in the second book of the heart-pounding Outliers trilogy, a uniquely speculative story about secrets, betrayal, and a world where one small group of people are blessed—or …

The Scribe of Siena

Publisher Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, publication May 16, 2017 Equal parts transporting love story and gripping historical conspiracy—think The Girl with a Pearl Earring meets Outlander—debut author Melodie Winawer takes readers deep into medieval Italy, where the past and present blur and a twenty-first century woman will discover a plot to destroy Siena. Accomplished …

The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu

Publisher Harper Collins, June 2009 In this second detective Kubu mystery, Michael Stanley’s memorable, large detective faces another challenging case that mixes murder and smuggling in politically-charged northern Botswana. When a guest is founded murdered at a tourist camp on the lovely Linyanti River, Detective Kubu is sent in to …

Serena

Publisher Ecco/Harper Collins, October 2008 The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she …

Shout Down The Moon

Publisher Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, April 2004 Her acclaimed debut, THE SONG READER, won her praise as a “brilliant new literary talent” (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle anything. So what if the …

The Sisters We Were

Publisher Source Books Landmark, January 7, 2023 Pearl and Ruby’s choices drove them apart. Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. The weight of their family secrets could not have shaped Pearl and Ruby Crenshaw any differently. Ruby’s a runner, living in Dallas and …

Sleep Well My Lady

Publisher – Soho Press, January 12, 2021 In the follow-up to the acclaimed series debut The Missing American, PI Emma Djan investigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba. Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though notorious …

Something Rich and Strange

Publisher Ecco/Harper, November 1, 2014 From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty-four of his finest short stories, collected in one volume No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of …

The Song Reader

Publisher Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, May 2003 Can the lyrics to a song reveal the secrets of the heart… ? In this sparkling debut, Lisa Tucker takes a fascinating premise–the possibility of reading the future through songs–and uses it to tell the absorbing story of two sisters, struggling to grow …

The Song Is You

Publisher Random House, April 2009 Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions” triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another …

South of Broad

Publisher Doubleday, August 2009 Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, SOUTH OF BROAD gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the …

The Space Between Us

Publisher Wm. Morrow, January 2006 Devastating in its power, remarkable in its achievement, here is a searing, addictively readable novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India—witnessed through the lives of two compelling women Set in Bombay, The Space Between Us is a wondrously …

The Story Hour

Publisher Harper Collins, August 19, 2014 From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book review calls a “perceptive and…piercing writer,” comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances An experienced …

Summer Romance

Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan

Publisher: Putnam | June 4, 2024 “A BINGEABLE FIVE-STAR READ.” —ABBY JIMENEZ, New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly The romantic and hilarious story of a professional organizer whose life is a mess, and the summer she gets unstuck with the help of someone unexpected from her past, by the bestselling …

The Sunday Wife

Publisher Hyperion, September 2002 In the tradition of Patricia Gaffney’s Saving Graces — a captivating novel about one woman’s journey toward independence and the life-changing friendship that guides her there. Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch …

Surprise Me

Publisher Knopf/Nan A. Talese, June 1, 2016 An unconventional love story about two writers who see more in each other than they see in themselves, and how that faith transforms them. The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold during Isabelle Rothman’s senior year of college. Against all advice, …

The Surrogate

Publisher Harper Collins, November 2, 2021 A probing novel about a newly married couple, the surrogate they hire to carry their baby, and the unexpected consequences of their decisions. Ruth is a no-nonsense fortysomething journalist from the Midwest desperate for a child with her new husband, Hal. A divorced attorney …

Surviving Savannah

Publisher Penguin Random House/Berkley, March 9, 2021 It was called “The Titanic of the South.” The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah’s elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten–until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling …

The Talk Funny Girl

Publisher Crown/Random, July 5, 2011 Marjorie Richards–now a wife and mother–tells the story of her rescue from a bizarre, abusive childhood. By turns dark with a peculiar breed of insanity and bright with love and resilience, The Talk-Funny Girl is a testament to one young woman’s courage and the healing …

Tell Me One Thing

Publisher Nan A. Talese/Knopf/Doubleday, April 22, 2014 A collection of unforgettable short stories that explore the wondrous transformation between grief and hope, a journey often marked by moments of unexpected grace. Set in California, Tell Me One Thing and Other Stories is an uplifting and poignant book about people finding …

The Thieves of Manhattan

Publisher Spiegel & Grau, July 2010 Adam Langer, the wickedly funny author of the novels Crossing California, The Washington Story, and Ellington Boulevard, has written a book that is at once a comical literary caper, an exploration of authenticity and fakery, and a tribute to books. THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN …

The Tragedy of Arthur

Publisher Random House, April 19, 2011 The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Arthur Phillips, “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young man struggling with a larger-than-life …

Trouble the Water

Publisher Koehler Books, May 14 2019 Before this decisive night, I’d not fully appreciated the subtle line between inspiration and insanity. But now, with all our lives at risk, I found myself navigating that most perilous edge. Only the slave can fathom the price and the cost of freedom: life …

The Turtle Warrior

Publisher Penguin/Putnam, February 2004 THE TURTLE WARRIOR is a work of fiction created from the layers of life in a surprisingly isolated region, a landscape of multiple ethnicities forgotten by most of America. In her gorgeous writing of the natural world, Ellis illuminates through fiction her deeply held belief that …

The Two Family House

Publisher St. Martin, March 8, 2016 In the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born, minutes apart. The mothers are sisters by marriage: dutiful, quiet Rose, who wants nothing more than to please her demanding husband; and warm, generous Helen, the exhausted mother of four …