Opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick sold a memoir to Atria Books. McQuilkin said Stroh combines the tale of her family’s downfall with the decline of their hometown of Detroit. (At one point, the family’s brewery produced such popular beers as Stroh’s, Old Milwaukee, and Schlitz.) Today the brewery is closed, and the family’s fortune is almost gone. Rob McQuilkin at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin represented the author, a member of the Stroh family, which once oversaw one of the largest brewing empires in the U.S.

and Canadian rights, at auction, to Frances Stroh’s Beer Money: A Story of Privilege and Loss in a Great American Brewing Dynasty.

In a six-figure deal, Harper’s Jennifer Barth bought U.S. Christy Fletcher at Fletcher & Company represented the author, whom the publisher called “one of the world’s foremost experts on emotions.” The book, Gotham added, offers strategies for “using negative thoughts and emotions to find lasting change and flourish.” Harvard psychology professor Susan David sold world rights to a book titled Emotional Agillity to Brooke Cary at Gotham. Philomel’s Jill Santopolo will edit both titles.

A Clatter of Jars is a companion novel to A Tangle of Knots, and Winnie on Wednesdays is about a girl whose parents’ messy divorce forces her to take up residence in a tree house. Graff, longlisted for the National Book Award for 2013’s A Tangle of Knots, will be writing two new middle-grade novels under the deal the first, A Clatter of Jars, is slated for summer 2016, and the second, Winnie on Wednesdays, is set for summer 2017. Michael Green took North American rights in the transaction from Stephen Barbara at Foundry Literary + Media. Lisa Graff closed a six-figure, two-book deal with her current publisher, Philomel. HMH has the novel set for a spring 2016 release, and, so far, foreign rights have sold in Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Norway. (In the U.K., the novel was acquired by Weidenfeld & Nicholson after a six-publisher auction.) The book focuses on a couple-Eva and Jim-who meet in the late 1950s as undergrads at Cambridge, and charts their future through three different variations. Wofford-Girand handled the sale on behalf of British agent Judith Murray at Greene and Heaton. co-agent Sally Wofford-Girand, at Union Literary, called a “substantial” sum. The book is picking up early buzz in the buildup to the Frankfurt Book Fair and has been dubbed by some scouts as “ Sliding Doors meets One Day.” It was preempted by Andrea Schultz for what U.S. journalist Laura Barnett’s debut novel, Versions of Us, has sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. HMH Takes Barnett’s Buzzed-About ‘Versions’

The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins