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Bird is Dead | Tiny Fisscher and Herma Starreveld | Gottmer
Bird is dead. Yesterday he was alive. Some of the other birds cry a little. And that’s alright. Crying together can be nice. Then it’s time to give Bird a funeral. All of Bird’s friends and even some of the birds who didn’t like him that much are helping. They dig a grave. They speak lovely words. They sing a song. They miss him a lot, and cry some more. And after? Tea and worms. Or cake, if you don’t like worms.
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32p · Hardcover · 25 x 25 cm
Age: 6+ | Fiction
Original language: Dutch. English complete version
Rights sold: English World rights, France, Germany, Japan, Spanish & Catalan (Birabiro)
The Mice Library | Carmen García Iglesias | Lata de Sal
Managed by mice, the library lends books to all the animals in the forest. The daily life is happy and readers celebrate book picnics. But one day, some rats (intrigued by the success of the books) decide to eat and destroy as many books as possible. The mice shocked and surprised, decide to get back all the books and to do so, they will need to learn how to make books and to travel back in time to look for its authors. Will they save the destroyed library?
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64 p. | Hardcover | 17 x 24 cm
Age: 7+| Fiction
Spanish. Full English text available
Rights sold: Portuguese (Palavras & Rimas)
The Rule of Mirror | Yoshinori Noguchi | Comanegra
A magic rule to solve any problem in life. 
The most emotional story to learn how to solve life's problems by looking within yourself. Happiness was never so within reach.
+ 1 million copies in Japan | 200k copies in Spanish
Title of the bestselling EMOTION SERIES:
Small short books with inspirational fables on emotions.
Rights held: World
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104 p. · Softcover · 13x18
#FeelGoodFables #MagicRule #InspirationalSeries
Original language: Japanese. Foreign translations accepted from Spanish edition
Rights sold: Spanish (Comanegra), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Portugal (Presença), Greece (Pedio), Serbia (Vulkan)
Link: Meet the Author in YouTube
The Humanist Killer | David Zaoui| Livre du Poche (Leor Agency)
Babinsky has a gift. A gift from heaven. He aims and shoots like no one else. Taken in by a professional criminal in the orphanage where he grew up, he becomes a contract killer in spite of himself. But beware! He might be a hitman, but he is also a humanist who has made it his job to make his future victims happy before he kills them.
Babinsky is a hitman.
A hitman, yes, but he is also a humanist who has made it his job to make his future victims happy before he kills them.
Rights held: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese (P&B)
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196 p.
Fiction: #CosyCrime #UnusualThriller
Original language: French. English sample available
Rights sold: Mass-market (Le livre de Poche), French audio (SAGA), Russian (MTS Library), Movie rights (optioned)
Link: The Humanist Killer in Leor's site
The Chinese Woman From The Painting | Florence Tholozan| M+ Éditions (Leor Agency)
One day, browsing the stands at a garage sale, two lovers Melisande and Guillaume’s gaze fall upon a strange painting. In the foreground, they see a serene Chinese woman, while in the background they spot a couple who could easily be themselves but much older. How can such a coincidence be possible? Or is there something more to it? To unravel the mysteries, the two lovers set off on a great journey through China. They don't yet imagine all of the secrets that the painting is hiding and how much their life will change.
A contemporary love story, faithfully reproduced in a historical painting, directly leads a couple on a mysterious journey into the heart of China.
- Winner of the 2020 Authors Words Award
- Finalist of the 2019 Romantic Book Award
- Finalist of the 2021 Lions Literature Award
Rights held: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese (P&B)
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276 p.
Fiction: #Romantic #LifeChangingTravel
Original language: French. English Sample available.
Rights sold: English (Harvard Square), German (Drachenhaus), Polish (Slowne), Russian (MTS Library)
Link: Plot & Key Selling Points
The Sleeping Car Porter | Suzette Mayr | Coach House
The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life a long-neglected part of Black and queer histories through the spellbinding, magical story of the singular –and unforgettable– Baxter, the car porter.
- WINNER 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022
- OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRE
- THE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022
- CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022
Rights held: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese (P&B)
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224 p.
Fiction: #BlackHistory #QueerLiterature
Rights sold: UK (Dialogue Books/Hachette UK), German (Wagenbach)
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