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BenBella Books is a marketing-focused, author-centric publishing house, founded in 2001, whose success is based on a few simple principles. We select our titles with care. We provide authors with first-class service and genuine partnership. And we provide aggressive, creative marketing for each title we publish.
BenBella Books was selected as one of Publisher Weekly's "Fastest-Growing Independent Publishers" list in 2014. We primarily publish non-fiction, with a special emphasis on health & nutrition, business, popular science, self-help and popular culture.
BenBella is distributed by Perseus Distribution, now part of Ingram. Foreign rights are handled by Folio.
http://www.benbellabooks.com
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Reference
Biography
Computers/technology
Business/investing/finance
History
Religious
Mind/body/spirit
Health
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Cookbooks
Children's books
Sports
Science
Popular Culture
Entertainment
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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The bestselling The China Study, with over 2 million copies sold
The Smart Pop pop culture imprint, approaching 1 million copies sold
The BenBella Vegan imprint, with over 3 million copies sold
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MOST RECENT PURCHASES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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TV journalist Geraldo Rivera's MAJOR SACK, a frank account of his triumphs and failures, his war reporting, and covering his relationship with Donald Trump and Roger Ailes, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Marty Berman (World English).
Investigative journalist Brian Livingston's MUSCULAR PORTFOLIOS, a finance book in which the author shows investors how they can employ the latest financial technologies to improve their returns and lower their risk, in less than 15 minutes per month, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books (World).
Edgar Award-nominated AMERICAN PAIN author John Temple's new book chronicling the real-life Western epic of the Cliven Bundy clan and their thousands of zealous followers, from the 2014 standoff with federal officers at Bundy Ranch in Nevada to the 2016 takeover of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, in a saga that sheds light on America's current state of civil discontent, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, for publication in 2018, by Jacqueline Flynn at Joelle Delbourgo Associates.
Journalist Matthew LaPlante's SUPERLATIVE, an exploration of how a renewed interest in superlative phenomena is driving amazing new insights into our world, including how the world's largest land animal can help us cure cancer and how the world's loudest animal is helping us understand some of our most complex social idiosyncrasies, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Trena Keating at Union Literary (World).
Sportscaster Lesley Visser's CROSSING AGAINST THE LIGHT, detailing her long, trailblazing career as a female sportscaster and its many highlights, including being the first and only woman enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, first woman assigned to Monday Night Football, first woman assigned to a Super Bowl sideline, first and only woman to handle the Lombardi Super Bowl trophy presentation, and the first woman honored as a Lombardi Fellow, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, for publication in 2017, by Bill Gladstone at Waterside Productions and Andrew Blauner at Blauner Books Literary Agency (World English).
Entrepreneur and biggest winner of ABC's Shark Tank Melissa Carbone's READY, FIRE, AIM, a business book in which the author shares how she turned a hobby into a Halloween-centric empire, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books (World).
Former SNL star Chris Kattan's BABY, DON'T HURT ME, a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at his celebrity-laden life; opening up about his unusual childhood, his rise to fame, and his intimate friendships with some of Hollywood's biggest names, with Travis Thrasher, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Steve Ross at Abrams Artists Agency (World English).
Author of How To Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, Chad Orzel's BREAKFAST WITH EINSTEIN, exploring the exotic physics of everyday objects, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, for publication in September, 2018, by Erin Hosier at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
UK rights to Sam Carter at Oneworld, in a pre-empt, by Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein.
Translation: Melissa@foliolit.com
Author of Main Street Vegan and founder of Main Street Vegan Academy Victoria Moran teams with cookbook author and vegan culinary instructor JL Fields's THE MAIN STREET VEGAN ACADEMY COOKBOOK, aimed at new vegans and the veg-curious that includes over 100 recipes and full-color photos plus tips for the transition to a vegan lifestyle, FAQs, troubleshooting, and menu plans, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Steve Troha at Folio Literary Management (World).
Author of Why We Snap and NIH neuroscientist R. Douglas Fields's ELECTRIC BRAIN: THE REVOLUTIONARY NEW SCIENCE OF BRAINWAVES THAT WILL TRANSFORM OUR MINDS AND SHAPE THE FUTURE, revealing the new understanding of how mental function emerges through brainwave activity, taking readers into neuroscience laboratories around the world to show how this new brain science will change the world, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Andrew Stuart at The Stuart Agency (World English).
President of the Stem for Life Foundation Dr. Robin Smith and TV medical journalist Dr. Max Gomez's CELLS ARE THE NEW CURE, exploring the potential in modern medicine to harness the human body's own curative abilities to battle cancer, autoimmune diseases, and many rare diseases, set against the backdrop of real-life stories of patients who have benefited from these therapies, with a foreword by Sanjay Gupta, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Sheree Bykofsky at Sheree Bykofsky Associates (World)
Founder and CEO of Fit Body Boot Camp International Bedros Keuilian's MAN UP!, a guide to cutting the excuses and dominating in business and in life, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books (World).
Founder of EOS Worldwide and author of Traction Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer's WHAT THE HECK IS EOS?, aimed at employees of companies using the Entrepreneurial Operating System, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Matthew Carnicelli at Carnicelli Literary Management (World).
Certified professional executive coach and organizational scientist Dr. Sunnie Giles's THE NEW SCIENCE OF RADICAL INNOVATION, an expansion of the author's Harvard Business Review article that details the six core leadership competencies needed to succeed in a complex world, corroborated by neuroscience, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Giles Anderson at Anderson Literary Agency (World ex. Korean).
Tom Gartland with Patrick Sweeney's LEAD WITH HEART, in which the author shares what he has learned about leadership throughout his career, including as the president, North America for Avis Budget Group: that leaders can connect deeply with their own feelings and care passionately about the people they work with to create an organization full of engagement, respect, and purpose, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Lorin Rees at Rees Literary Agency (World).
Investigative journalist Lauren McKeon's F-BOMB, a witty narrative that explores why women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers, why the feminist movement is losing ground, and what we as a society can do about it, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists (World ex Canada).
Thought leader and author of Your Unique Self Marc Gafni and director of Integral of Evolutionary Tantra Institute in NYC Kristina Kincaid's SEXUALLY INCORRECT, an exploration of the seven levels of sex, each of which expresses a different quality of the erotic, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books (World English).
Great-great-grandson of Seventh-day Adventist founder and prophet Ellen G. White, John Howard Weeks's EAT LIKE AN ADVENTIST, detailing the secrets to longevity and happiness known by the nearly 20 million Adventists throughout the world, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by William S. Thomas (World).
GoDairyFree.org founder Alisa Fleming's EAT DAIRY FREE, a cookbook that includes 100 dairy-free recipes, plus a new edition of GO DAIRY FREE, a guide and cookbook for milk allergies, lactose intolerance, and casein-free living, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBellaBooks, by Sharon Bowers at Miller Bowers Griffin (World).
Oncologist known for his clinical research in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) Charles Ryan, MD with Hudson Perigo's THE VIRILITY PARADOX, a look at virility, from its positive implications—the way it shapes our drive for exploration, building, survival against predators, and procreation—to its perils, including its association with violence, hubris, incarceration, poverty, and unstable families, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Al Zuckerman at Writers House (World English).
Matthew Schrier's THE DAWN PRAYER, the true story of an American journalist's abduction, imprisonment and unprecedented escape from Al Qaeda in Syria; fortunately, his captors never knew he was Jewish, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, in a nice deal, for publication in 2017, by Jeff Herman at The Jeff Herman Agency (World).
The Baby Book and Prime-Time Health author Dr. William Sears and Erin Sears Basile's THE DR. SEARS T5 WELLNESS PLAN, a health book geared towards combining science-based nutrition and lifestyle information distilled into one clear plan: a five-step, five-week program based on improving the body's functions of making its own medicine, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Denise Marcil of Denise Marcil Literary Agency(World English).
Entrepreneur and founder of startup investment firm Village Capital Ross Baird's THE INNOVATION BLIND SPOT, about how the way we innovate is overlooking and under-rating the most valuable ideas; changing how we find ideas, how we select what we're going to put time and money in, and the way we invest will deliver better companies, and better results for society, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Michael Harriot at Folio Literary Management (World).
Journalist Bob Halloran's COSMO, THE KING OF POT, based on the life of Jimmy "Cosmo" Cournoyer, the biggest marijuana dealer in New York City history, told from Jimmy's perspective, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Matthew Valentinas at Mom's Basement Management (World).
Keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and author of the Think and Grow Rich Series Greg Reid's WEALTH HACK, an exploration that includes interviews with more than two dozen billionaires of how to achieve and sustain genuine wealth in today's business climate, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Bill Gladstone at Waterside Productions (World English).
National Space Society's Space 2.0 member and author of Destination Mars and Curiosity, Rod Pyle's SPACE 2.0, a book on the new era and space economy of opportunity, exploration and innovation from earth's orbit to the moon, Mars and worlds beyond, highlighting the initiatives and partnerships of companies such as SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, Virgin Galactic, CubeSats, Deep Space Industries and others with NASA and the European Space Agency for space exploration, utilization and settlement, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBellaBooks, by John Willig at Literary Services (World).
Social media @XplodingUnicorn leader James Breakwell's ONLY DEAD ON THE INSIDE: A PARENT'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, pitched as styled in the tradition of Max Brooks's The Zombie Survival Guide and The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, providing practical advice on how to raise happy, healthy children in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, by joining the genres of parenting advice books and undead survival manuals in an unholy union that is both ill-advised and long overdue—the narrator, an inept father of four young daughters, uses twisted logic, graphs with dubious data, and web comics that look like they were drawn by a toddler to teach families how to survive undead hordes, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group (NA).
Journalist and expert on the "Lean Urbanism" phenomenon J.P. Faber's THE NEW PIONEERS, about how overregulation is suffocating America's small businesses and how by lifting, ignoring, bypassing, or hacking these regulations, small business owners—and America—can thrive, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books by Adam Chromy at Movable Type Management (World).
Clinical psychologist and fan culture expert Lynn Zubernis's FAMILY DON'T END WITH BLOOD, a collection of essays about the hit TV show Supernatural, written by cast members of the show including lead star Jared Padalecki, and edited by Zubernis, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Amy Tipton at Signature Literary Agency (World).
Teacher and speaker in the plant-based community Lani Muelrath's THE MINDFUL VEGAN, a guide to living a mindful, plant-based lifestyle, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Marilyn Allen at Allen O'Shea Literary Agency (World).
Former National Spokesperson for Weight Watchers and celebrity weight loss expert Liz Josefsberg's TARGET 100, in which the author shares her insider secrets to real and lasting weight loss and maintaining motivation through her 5 basic tenets for success, to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Books, by Matthew Elblonk at DeFiore and Company (World).
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MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
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Complex Chinese language rights to Amy Blankson's THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS, to Commonwealth, by Chang-Chih Tsai at Bardon Chinese Media on behalf of BenBella Books.
Simplified Chinese language rights to Craig Roach's SIMPLY ELECTRIFYING, to Citic, by Chang-Chih Tsai at Bardon Chinese Media on behalf of BenBella Books.
Complex Chinese language rights to Joshua Rappaport's THE CELL, to Business Weekly, by Chang-Chih Tsai at Bardon Chinese Media on behalf of BenBella Books.
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KEY RIGHTS AND / OR ACQUISITION PERSONNEL
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Glenn Yeffeth, Publisher
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