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Mar 09, 2021
Never Forget Who You Are by
Achut Deng (l.) and
Keely Hutton. The narrative follows Deng s harrowing escape from her home village in South Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the U.S., where she arrived as part of a group of “Lost Boys. Told through the testimony of Deng s losses including her name, her family, and her home the YA memoir is the story of how Deng struggled to overcome exploitation and abuse and reclaim the things she lost by holding on to who she is. Publication is set for winter 2022; Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts at HG Literary did the deal for world rights.
James Archer and
Alan Mitchell at Mitchell Rights Management. As part of the deal, Archer will pen a new title in his William Warwick series,
Over My Dead Body, which is set for later this year. Archer, per HC, has sold more than 275 million print copies of his books around the world.
SMP Preempts Nance’s ‘Insurgency’
For St. Martin’s Press,
Elisabeth Dyssegaard preempted
They Want to Kill Americans:
The Radical Militias, Fanatical Terrorists, and the Deranged Ideology of the Coming Trump Insurgency. The publisher said it’s a “chilling and deeply researched” work about the hold Donald Trump may have on a large portion of the electorate after he leaves office. Nance a bestselling author, MSNBC analyst, and executive director of TAPSTRI, a research institute focused on extremism predicts that support for Trump will increasingly be expressed by white supremacist groups that are “armed and primed for violence.”
By PW Staff |
In a year like no other,
PW s reviews editors kept up their usual industriousness and published thousands of book reviews. These are the most popular of those, for books published in 2020.
Ruth Ware. Scout, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8881-7 Set in a remote chalet at an exclusive French Alps resort, this tempestuous locked-room mystery from Ware (
The Turn of the Key) centers on the 10-person corporate retreat of social media company Snoop. Snoopâs shareholdersâcofounders and ex-lovers Topher St. Clair-Bridges and Eva van den Berg, coder Elliot Cross, comptroller Rik Adeyemi, and former secretary Liz Owens (all millennials)âbitterly disagree on whether to sell the business to investors or to seek additional funding and work toward an IPO. The group goes skiing to dispel tension, but then Eva fails to report for lunch. Before chalet employees Erin and Danny can arrange for a search, an avalanche eradicates the exit routes and knocks