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Diversion Books is a leading independent publisher of nonfiction and fiction based in New York City. Launched in 2010, Diversion combines decades of traditional experience with new, innovative publishing strategies. Diversion believes in establishing creative and collaborative partnerships with authors and is committed to the discovery of new voices as well as the rejuvenation of yesterday’s bestsellers. |
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Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
by Marcus Chown
Pub Date 23 Apr 2019
Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube.
Fact: The electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction.
Fact: You age more...
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Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
Marcus Chown
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand
Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
by Marcus Chown
Pub Date 23 Apr 2019
Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube.
Fact: The electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction.
Fact: You age more...
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Pub Date 14 May 2019
Autumn has everything she could possibly want: Loving friends, a successful business, and a gaggle of gamers in her store every day.
Welcome to Ten Again, a tabletop gaming store that attracts nerds of every kind and fosters a community Autumn’s pretty proud of—a community...
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No Saving Throw
Kristin McFarland
Pub Date 14 May 2019
Autumn has everything she could possibly want: Loving friends, a successful business, and a gaggle of gamers in her store every day.
Welcome to Ten Again, a tabletop gaming store that attracts nerds of every kind and fosters a community Autumn’s pretty proud of—a community...
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The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie
Fast Times at Ridgemont High ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Revenge of the Nerds ~ The Karate Kid ~ The Breakfast Club ~ Footloose ~ Dead Poets Society ~ and Everything in Between
by James King
Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
The Ultimate History of the ’80s Teen Movie...
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The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie
James King
The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie
Fast Times at Ridgemont High ~ Sixteen Candles ~ Revenge of the Nerds ~ The Karate Kid ~ The Breakfast Club ~ Footloose ~ Dead Poets Society ~ and Everything in Between
by James King
Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
The Ultimate History of the ’80s Teen Movie...
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Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
“A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix.” –Matt Nixson, Books Editor, Mail...
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Dead in the Water
Penny Farmer
Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
“A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix.” –Matt Nixson, Books Editor, Mail...
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Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
America loves narcissism, and America loves to hate narcissists. Narcissism is part of the assumed “national character” of Americans, according to a 2015 survey of views from home and abroad. While those meeting the criteria for...
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Fragile Bully
Laurie Helgoe
Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
America loves narcissism, and America loves to hate narcissists. Narcissism is part of the assumed “national character” of Americans, according to a 2015 survey of views from home and abroad. While those meeting the criteria for...
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Hustle and Float
Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work
by Rahaf Harfoush
Pub Date 19 Feb 2019
As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.
There’s just one problem: most of these solutions are making things worse. Creativity...
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Hustle and Float
Rahaf Harfoush
Hustle and Float
Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work
by Rahaf Harfoush
Pub Date 19 Feb 2019
As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.
There’s just one problem: most of these solutions are making things worse. Creativity...
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Ten years after the world’s oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human.
A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are...
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The Post
Kevin A. Muñoz
Ten years after the world’s oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human.
A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are...
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Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize...
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The Skeleton Makes a Friend
Leigh Perry

Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize...
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"As harrowing as it is entertaining—a thrilling race against an ingenious plot to fracture the United States from within!" —Joseph Finder, New York Times...
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Executive Force
Gary Grossman
"As harrowing as it is entertaining—a thrilling race against an ingenious plot to fracture the United States from within!" —Joseph Finder, New York Times...
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
The Führer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
by James Longo
Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the...
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
James Longo

Hitler and the Habsburgs
The Führer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
by James Longo
Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the...
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Blind and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony on Thetis is just as he feared--cloaked in mystery and under an oppressive rule...
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Thetis
Greg Boose
Blind and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony on Thetis is just as he feared--cloaked in mystery and under an oppressive rule...
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Here, from Pitino himself, comes the real story of the ongoing case and the hard...
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Pitino
Rick Pitino
Here, from Pitino himself, comes the real story of the ongoing case and the hard...
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Pub Date 18 Sep 2018
When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.
Within days, Bob Young, a 23-year-old football player who’d found his college sweetheart’s...
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Accused
Amber Hunt; Amanda Rossmann

Pub Date 18 Sep 2018
When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.
Within days, Bob Young, a 23-year-old football player who’d found his college sweetheart’s...
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It’s the summer of 2008 and Chicago’s Hyde Park Senator is running for the White House, the city is vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and fentanyl-laced heroin has killed more than 250 people. Privilege and politics collide when the poisonous heroin starts targeting white teenage girls from Democratic powerhouse families. Natalie Delaney, a...
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Poison Girls
Cheryl L. Reed
It’s the summer of 2008 and Chicago’s Hyde Park Senator is running for the White House, the city is vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and fentanyl-laced heroin has killed more than 250 people. Privilege and politics collide when the poisonous heroin starts targeting white teenage girls from Democratic powerhouse families. Natalie Delaney, a...
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Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a process to radically improve their businesses: first, recognize and stop outmoded ways of thinking that fail to move the business forward (like focusing on...
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Pivot, Disrupt, Transform
Marcia Daszko

Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a process to radically improve their businesses: first, recognize and stop outmoded ways of thinking that fail to move the business forward (like focusing on...
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Ever wonder what it must be like to be the younger sibling of someone so popular, princes and presidents are excited to meet him? Mona knows. Or thinks she does. Mona is married to Jack, younger...
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The Other Brother
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Ever wonder what it must be like to be the younger sibling of someone so popular, princes and presidents are excited to meet him? Mona knows. Or thinks she does. Mona is married to Jack, younger...
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Daphne and Oliver have almost nothing in common…
Seventeen-year-old Daphne Bowman, a bookish drama nerd in public school, might never have crossed paths with Oliver, the popular, outgoing mascot for his private school's football team, but one event has bound...
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So Glad to Meet You
Lisa Super
Daphne and Oliver have almost nothing in common…
Seventeen-year-old Daphne Bowman, a bookish drama nerd in public school, might never have crossed paths with Oliver, the popular, outgoing mascot for his private school's football team, but one event has bound...
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"Gardner has created a modern P.I. in time honored tradition, and the result is both fresh and grounded. Lennox Cooper, her protagonist, is crafty, intelligent, resourceful, bold and...
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All In
Lily Gardner
"Gardner has created a modern P.I. in time honored tradition, and the result is both fresh and grounded. Lennox Cooper, her protagonist, is crafty, intelligent, resourceful, bold and...
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Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
After years of training under the mysterious woman she knew only as My Lady, Sylvi is no closer to finding the man with...
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Highland Wrath
Madeline Martin

Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
After years of training under the mysterious woman she knew only as My Lady, Sylvi is no closer to finding the man with...
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How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking
The Keys to Keep Your Wedlock Out of Deadlock
by Greg Behrendt; Amiira Ruotola
Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
Some marriages start...
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How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking
Greg Behrendt; Amiira Ruotola

How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking
The Keys to Keep Your Wedlock Out of Deadlock
by Greg Behrendt; Amiira Ruotola
Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
Some marriages start...
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Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
From the day the Fates made him the warrior to train and lead a group of time-traveling clansmen, Reilly O'Malley has gone into...
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Falling Through Time
Nancy Scanlon

Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
From the day the Fates made him the warrior to train and lead a group of time-traveling clansmen, Reilly O'Malley has gone into...
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Diversion Books

Diversion Books is a leading independent publisher of nonfiction and fiction based in New York City. Launched in 2010, Diversion combines decades of traditional experience with new, innovative publishing strategies. Diversion believes in establishing creative and collaborative partnerships with authors and is committed to the discovery of new voices as well as the rejuvenation of yesterday’s bestsellers.






























































Approval Preferences
-Are eager to share our books with a larger community
-Actively submit feedback on NetGalley. Readers who give substantive feedback are eligible for our auto-approve list!
-Have a public email address listed
-List the name and address of their company (when applicable)
-Link to an active blog or website
-Post reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, or other social media platforms
-Have a descriptive bio. We want to be sure our titles are in good hands, so help us get to know you!
Diversion reserves the right to accept or decline requests on a case-by-case basis. If you have been declined, please ensure your profile meets our requirements before contacting us. If your request is approved, we expect a review to be posted through NetGalley with a link to the final review.
Thank you for your interest in Diversion Books!