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YA novelist Laurie Devore sells her adult debut to Avon, Del Rey buys a new novel and two backlist titles from Karen Lord, and more.

Super Bowl winner Malcolm Jenkins sells a book about his life on and off the field to S&S, and Viking buys a memoir by Barbra Streisand.

Alisa Lynn Valdés sells two thrillers to Thomas & Mercer, Roc Lit buys a book on Black motherhood from Jamilah Lemieux, and more.

Little, Brown buys Nathan Harris’s follow-up to The Sweetness of Water, two Washington Post reporters sell a bio of George Floyd to Viking, and more.

The founder of the Brown Girl Therapy Instagram account, Sahaj Kaur Kohli, But What Will People Say?, to Penguin Life’s Emily Wunderlich at auction. Brown Girl Therapy bills itself as “the first/largest mental health community for children of immigrants,” and the book, subtitled On Navigating Mental Health as a Child of Immigrants, will expand upon the account. The publisher said it will combine “personal narrative, anecdotal analysis, comprehensive research, and advice on what it me...