Recent Titles
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JONATHAN AMES: WAKE UP, SIR!
Pub: Scribner, 2004, Paperback reprint, July 2005. Scribner controls British rights only.
Genre: Fiction
Description: By the author of the much loved and steadily selling THE EXTRA MAN, this is a poignant, subversive homage to the Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse---the story of a young alcoholic writer and his personal valet, who happens to be named Jeeves. Together they journey to a writer's colony in Saratoga Springs, New York where our hero encounters a wild group of artists among who he must live and work for the coming weeks. A brilliant send up of a writer's colony that might or might not be Yaddo. A New York Times Notable Book of the year, 2004; in the top ten fiction picks of Amazon.com for 2004. Published by Gallimard in France, Baldini in Italy in 2006, with the author brought over to promote in both countries. Film option to 3 ARTS and Ben Stiller's Red Hour Productions with Mia Farrow and Julianne Moore committed to star.
www.JonathanAmes.com
Pub: Vintage April, 2005.
Genre: Anthology
Description: Ames has edited a collection of brilliant memoirs by transsexuals. The material makes riveting reading about core issues of sexuality and identity. Contributors include Christine Jorgensen, Jan Morris, Renee Richards, MD, and Deirdre McClosky. Ames' introduction is not to be missed.
www.JonathanAmes.com
JONATHAN AMES: I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW
Pub: Grove/Atlantic. World English. Original Black Cat Paperback. January 2006.
Genre: Non fiction/Memoir
Description: Ames judges a contest for the most phallic building in the world in this collection of pieces published in magazines, newspapers and reviews. In the vein of WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? (Vintage) and MY LESS THAN SECRET LIFE (Thunder's Mouth) this third addition of pieces about his life will continue to expand the audience for Ames' unique brand of humor regarding his daily experiment in living such as judging a contest for the world's most phallic building. On the Bestseller list in the L.A.Times 4/06.
www.JonathanAmes.com
KATHARINE BEALS: OUT IN LEFT FIELD IN A RIGHT BRAIN WORLD
Pub: Shambhala/Trumpeter Books. World Rights to Shambhala. Fall 2008.
Genre: Non-fiction/Parenting
Description: A study of analytically oriented children, who fit in the left brain spectrum, often gifted mathematically, but socially shy and loners, some falling in the Asperger's Autistic definition. Beals will pinpoint the problems at home and in school for these children, who are frequently misunderstood by their teachers. She will provide carefully gleaned advice from her own experience and others raising left brain children, and from her professional work in linguistics and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Beals has developed a soft ware instruction program for children in this spectrum. SUSHILA BLACKMAN: GRACEFUL EXITS: How Great Beings Die
Pub: Weatherhill 1997. Translation rights sold in Holland, Italy and Spain.
Genre: New Age/Spiritual/Buddhism
Description: Death stories of the Tibetan, Hindu and Zen masters. This little new age collection has become a classic here and abroad.
MEREDITH BROUSSARD: THE DICTIONARY OF FAILED RELATIONSHIPS
Pub: Crown/Three Rivers Press, June 2003. First printing of 50,000 copies. Reviews in Oprah, Cosmo, Glamour, etc. Sold to Edizione Piemme in Italy.
Genre: Fiction Anthology
Description: This is a sassy, hard-edged collection of fiction by twenty-six of America's hottest young women writers. It takes a fresh, wry and occasionally wacky look at the dating habits of modern American women. A 1995 graduate of Harvard University, Meredith Broussard is a freelance writer and journalist living in Philadelphia. Contributors include Anna Maxted, Jennifer Weiner, Pam Huston, Amy Sohn, Eliza Minot, etc.
MEREDITH BROUSSARD: THE ENCYLOPEDIA OF EXES
Pub: Three Rivers Press. July 2005.
Genre: Anthology
Description: Sequel to the DICTIONARY OF FAILED RELATIONSHIPS, the contributors are all men who have been dumped by the women in their lives. Contributors include Jonathan Ames, Joshua Braff, Adam Langer, Jonathan Lethem among others.
www.FailedRelationships.com
TEENA CAHILL: THE CAHILL FACTOR: Turning Adversity Into Advantage.
Pub: Sterling. June 2008.
Genre: Non-Fiction/Memoir
Description: Dr. Teena Cahill's advanced degrees all come into play as she uses her personal journey to show how she pulled from everything she had ever learned—textbook knowledge and real life living—to go forward with her life, while dedicated to helping her husband, a former Marine Corps fighter pilot and international airline captain, reach his full potential after a cerebral hemorrhage, stroke and spinal cord injury. A great deal of knowledge, much of it based on cognitive behavioral and positive psychological principles, is packed into this easy to read "boomer" love story. This beautifully written gem of a book touches both the mind and heart of the reader, and is filled with wit and wisdom relevant to the boardroom, the conference room, and the living room.
www.TeenaCahill.com
GORDON CHANG: NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN: North Korea Takes On The World
Pub: Random House. January 2006. RH control world rights
Genre: Non-Fiction
Description: Chang will explore our most urgent international problem: North Korea's nuclear weapons program and what the United States and the rest of the world are going to do about it. He will investigate the role of China, South Korea and Japan in the tumultuous and fluid situation caused by the instability in North Korea and its dictator. His previous book for Random House, THE COMING COLLAPSE OF CHINA was a bestseller in Japan, Taiwan and was published also in the U.K. by Century and in North Korea.
DENNIS COVINGTON: REDNECK RIVIERA
Pub: Counterpoint. Paperback, 2005.
Genre: Narrative Non-Fiction
Description: Covington inherited land from his father in Florida that he will seek to claim. It has been illegally fenced off by local hunters and squatters. Who owns the land? A beautifully composed, haunting memoir about the interior of the state of Florida and one's man's quest for his inheritance. Covington is the author of the 1995 NBA nominee SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN, recently published in Paris by Albin Michel. Covington is also author of the award winning young adult novel LIZARD published by Delacorte in 1991.
JAN CULLINANE AND CATHY FITZGERALD: THE NEW RETIREMENT; The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Pub: Rodale Press, Fall 2004. Revised version in the works.
Genre: Non-Fiction
Description: The authors, who hold retirement planning seminars around the country, cover an impressive array of issues in this 486-page guide. Topics they discuss include places to retire, career opportunities, estate planning and tips on how to use your free time. The book also includes checklists, worksheets, references and resources. Now in its fifth printing since publication.
MARLENA DE BLASI: A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE
Pub: Algonquin 2002, Ballantine paperback 2003. Made #29 on NY Times Bestseller List. Book Sense Bestseller. 131,000 copies in print. Algonquin controls world rights. Sold in the UK, Australia, Germany, Holland, Israel, Hungary.
Genre: Memoir
Description: De Blasi, a chef and cookbook author, went to Venice to research an article and met a middle aged bachelor who followed her back to the United States, wooed her with his tender care and convinced her to move to Venice and marry him. An unexpected mid life romance, de Blasi charmingly recounts her adaptation to marriage and a magical new city. Filled with sensuous detail about the markets, restaurants, churches, of Venice, and the redecoration of the most unattractive bachelor pad in recent literature. A Book Sense pick since publication, this joins the growing list of bestselling travel memoirs.
Pub: Algonquin, Fall 2004. Book Sense Pick. Ballantine, Fall 2005. Sold in U.K., Australia, Holland, Germany etc. Algonquin controls translation rights.
Genre: Memoir
Description: A sequel to A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE, this exquisitely written memoir describes the year De Blasi and her husband lived in a tiny Tuscan hill town, participating in the local harvests and the preparation of the local cuisine. They are befriended by a gentleman who grew up in the house they rent and has always loved the same woman, but never declared his love. All this changes when he is forced to confront his past. A deeply moving story of love, before it is too late, set in the Tuscan hills.
MARLENA DE BLASI: THE LADY IN THE PALAZZO
Pub: Algonquin, January 2007. Algonquin controls translation rights.
Genre: Memoir/Third in a Trilogy about the author's adventures in Italy.
Description: De Blasi focuses on life in Orvieto, the Umbrian hill town where she now lives and how the DeBlasi's eventually came to live in an apartment carved out of a ballroom in a former Renaissance palace. The two year wait for renovations to start, relations between Marlena and Fernando and the family of nobles who own the building make this a story of real estate, Italian style. The memoir ends with the dinner party to which Marlena invites her new friends in Orvieto--some from the ancient nobility, some who have farmed the land-ancestral enemies in certain cases, a disparate group of Italians and expats who normally would not dine at the same table. Each is a finely wrought character in this story told with rare wit and an acute eye for life in an Umbrian city.
Pub: Ballantine, June, 2008.
Genre: Memoir
Description: In the center of Sicily lies a villa inherited by a woman from a prince in a noble family who educated her as a girl, who loved her as an adult, and who went against tradition to break up his feudal holdings after the Second World War. She in turn created a home and community for the impoverished widows and women banished from their families because of unwed pregnancies, continuing the prince's legacy of sharing his fortune and defying century old traditions on an island still sway to the cult of Demeter and the Gods. A powerful love story and an examination of a culture with roots in a long distant past.
JOHN A. ELEFTERIADES, MD & LAWRENCE S. COHEN, MD: YOUR HEART: An Owner's Guide
Pub: Prometheus. February, 2007. Prometheus controls world rights, exclusive of Germany, which have been sold to Pendo Verlag.
Genre: Non-Fiction/Health
Description: Yale heart surgeon Dr. John Elefteriades and master cardiologist, Dr Lawrence Cohen, have combined their expertise in writing a book for the lay public that covers all aspects of heart disease, both medical and surgical treatments. The co-authorship by a cardiologist and a surgeon provides a balanced perspective on state of the art therapies. The book will be richly illustrated with diagrams, schematics and operating room photos. Foreword by artificial heart pioneer, Dr. Robert Jarvik.
JOHN A. ELEFTERIADES, MD & TERESA CAULIN-GLASER, MD: THE WOMAN'S HEART
Pub: Prometheus, 2008. Prometheus controls world rights, exclusive of Germany.
Genre: Non-Fiction/Health
Description: Sequel to the above, focusing specifically on women's heart health.
GRACE GRANT & P.J. MACALLISTER: FLYOVER STATES
Pub: Red Dress Ink. Summer 2005. All rights with Red Dress. Film and Television with Rosalie Siegel. Co-agented with Neeti Madan of Sterling Lord. A sequel, entitled COASTING has been sold to Red Dress and will be published in 2008.
Genre: Contemporary Fiction for the Women's Market
Description: Two graduate students in English Lit, one a hip black woman from L.A., named Ronnie, the other, Doris, a New York intellectual, become best friends and allies in their search for something resembling a life in this bland Midwest university where they stand out as unique creatures from the two coasts in style, dress, and their search for male companionship as they struggle with their teaching and their writing. A romantic comedy for fans of unusually well written and conceived chick lit fiction. The authors are using pseudonyms; one of them is a past President of the Harvard Lampoon, the other an award winning short story writer who has been published by a major NY house. Their sequel follows the adventures of the heroines after they get their degrees and first teaching assignments, Ronnie back to L.A., her hometown and Doris to Atlanta.
Pub: Lignes de Faille, Actes Sud, France, September 2006. Winner of the Prix Femina, France 2006. Sold to McArthur & Co., Toronto, Canada. U.S. Publisher, Grove/Atlantic, Fall 2008
Genre: Major European Fiction
Description: Family saga of four generations in one family, set against the turbulence and violence of the 20th Century. The novel travels backwards in time from contemporary America to Israel, Canada and Germany, originating in the tragic story of a child stolen by the Nazis from the Ukraine. Sold in fifteen territories; hailed as a chef d'oeuvre worldwide.
Rosalie Siegel controls American and English language Canadian rights for Nancy Huston. La Nouvelle Agence in Paris controls French and all translation rights.
POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR: SONS AND OTHER FLAMABLE OBJECTS
Pub: Grove/Atlantic. Fall 2007. Grove has world rights.
Genre: Debut Fiction
Description: A brilliant literary debut by a 28 year old Iranian/American journalist, focusing on a family of Iranian exiles who fled the Mullahs in the early eighties to land up living in the Eden Gardens apartment complex in Pasadena, California. The four year old son is expected to forever identify as an Iranian ex-pat longing to return to his homeland just like his parents. Instead, as he matures he wants to have nothing to do with his Iran obsessed family. He flees to NYC after college only to have 9/11 intervene, forcing him all over again to confront his identity as an Iranian. Stylistically astonishing, interweaving Persian history and myth with the plight of the exile in America, this is a highly original, mature work of fiction, which we expect to attract major attention from reviewers and the media.
PorochistaKhakpour.blogspot.com
Pub: Verso, World English Language Rights.
Translation Rights: La Nouvelle Agence, Paris. French Rights Sold to Fayard.
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
Description: On the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel, Princeton historian, Arno Mayer, puts Israeli history in context, providing a balanced look at the country since its inception.
CHANDRA PRASAD: MIXED: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
Pub: Norton. World English. Summer 2006.
Genre: Fiction/Anthology
Description: Contributors include Christina Garcia, Danzy Senna and Ruth Ozeki and Prasad herself. Prasad is a graduate of Yale who hails from a mixed background. She has assembled a stunning collection of stories by some of the most today's most talented writers exploring this issue. Widely reviewed and suggested for university courses in literature and multi-cultural studies.
www.ChandraPrasad.com
CHANDRA PRASAD: ON BORROWED WINGS
Pub: Atria, World Rights. June 2007.
Genre: Debut Fiction
Description: Set in the Depression, when Yale was still all male, the heroine Adele, decides to dress like a boy and take her brother's place in the freshman class after he is killed in accident just before school starts in September. Adele encounters many incidents of almost being found out as she forms friendships with her suitemates, one of whom she has feelings for, but must repress. Drawing upon major issues of class and race this riveting novel is rich in its depiction of a pre Feminist era. Blurbs from Sara Gruen, Julia Glass, Christina Garcia, among others. An Ingrahm pick for special promotion in June.
www.ChandraPrasad.com
PANTHEA REID: TILLIE: Tillie Olsen and Her Times.
Pub: Rutgers University Press. 2009.
Genre: Major Biography
Description: Tillie Olsen died on January 1st of this year. While her literary output was small, all her major work remains in print. She is one of America's most revered women writers, especially for TELL ME A RIDDLE and her short story, I STAND HERE IRONING. Olsen was prominent as an activist in California and member of the Communist Party prior to WW II. Reid's biography will focus on both the author and her times, and will explode the many myths that Olsen created about her life, setting the record straight. Panthea Reid taught English literature at LSU and is the author of ART AND AFFECTION: A Live of Virginia Woolf. Oxford, 1996, among other publications. ANN RINALDI: AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
Pub: Harcourt, 2007. World English.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: After Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's theatre, his widow Mary Todd Lincoln, pleads to have her best. friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley brought to her. Told in parallel stories, contrasting Mary Todd's childhood, whose mother died when she was very young, and that of Elizabeth Keckley, born a house slave who eventually bought her own freedom and became the dressmaker to many wealthy and influential women in Washington, Keckley became the only person who could understand and calm Mary Todd Lincoln. They meet in adulthood; their relationship is the heart of this remarkable historical young adult novel.
www.AnnRinaldi.com
ANN RINALDI: COME JUNETEENTH
Pub: Harcourt, World English. May 2007.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: Set against the background of June Teenth, the name given to June 19th, the day in Texas, in 1865 that the slaves finally received their freedom. Lincoln had freed the slaves two years earlier, but the news was withheld from slaves in Texas where ranchers and farmers kept their slaves in bondage while those in the rest of the country were free. Dragging on slavery hurt a lot of people. Rinaldi's novel focuses on one of them, a beautiful mulatto girl raised in a prosperous family. This is Sis Goose. The story revolves around these two girls, one white and one near white, taken in by the Holcomb family as a baby. Under Texas law she is still a slave, since her mother, who died when she was born, was a slave. Luli and Gabe are her white brother and sister who love and who set out to find her when she runs away to escape being taken away to serve as a slave, and because she has learned of the deception of June Teenth, that she has been lied to and is really free.
www.AnnRinaldi.com
Pub: Harcourt, World English. 2008.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Desription: An ornithologist and physician in Ohio takes his niece and a young black woman, a former slave, who has been educated at Oberlin college, on a trip to visit plantations in Georgia in the 1830s, ostensibly in search of the rare Scarlet Ibis for his collection. His real purpose is as an early Abolitionist to advise the slaves to escape. An adventure story that is a page turner, based on meticulous research of conditions of the slaves in Georgia and the secret work of abolitionists.
www.AnnRinaldi.com
ANN RINALDI: JULIET'S MOON
Pub:Harcourt Spring 2008
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: Kansas and Missouri were divided between North and South during the Civil War. The Yankees appear and round up a group of young girls who they suspect of aiding their Rebel outlaw brothers who are allied with the Confederacy. They imprison them in a house in Lawrence, Kansas which collapses, killing some of them. Drawn entirely from the historical record, this is a gripping tale of young women caught up in a bloody, brutal war.
www.AnnRinaldi.com
ANN RINALDI: THE LETTER WRITER
Pub: Harcourt, 2008
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: Nat Turner's rebellion is the background to this fast-paced tale of a young girl who grows to admire Turner when she first meets him, but then comes to realize that his rebellion has turned into a living hell. She takes it upon herself to warn the surrounding white landowners of the coming massacre.
www.AnnRinaldi.com ANN RINALDI: THE REDHEADED PRINCESS.
Pub: HarperCollins, 2008. World English
Genre: Young Adult Novel.
Description: The perilous journey of the young Princess Elizabeth before she became Queen. She has feared death since she was three and her mother, Ann Boleyn, was beheaded for treason. Sometimes welcomed at the Royal Court, sometime cast out into the countryside, she must navigate among shifting loyalties, Catholics and Protestants, and the danger that lurks as her beloved brother Edward takes the throne upon the death of their father, Henry VIII, and then her older half-sister succeeds Edward upon his early death. Brilliantly navigating the dangerous waters of court intrigue, cleverly refusing offers of marriage from all over Europe, Princess Elizabeth endures her uncertain girlhood to finally succeed to the Crown when she is only twenty-five years old.
www.AnnRinaldi.com
Pub: Algonquin. World Rights. April 2007.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Description: A classy, beautifully written novel based on the lives of identical twins, born to a New York society family, who graduated Brearley and volunteered as nurses in World War I and were assigned to a tent hospital on the Front because they were fluent in French. The mutilated, dying solders called them "les anges" as they gave of themselves to the point of exhaustion as they ministered to the wounded. Seebohm (The Last Romantics, Macmillan/Weidenfeld) has crafted an intense and passionate novel from the experience of real life sisters whose bond never failed them, even as they jumped overboard, hand in hand, on the ship taking them home to New York at the end of the war. Caroline Seebohm is a distinguished author of biographies (Conde Nast, Marietta Tree and Addison Mizner) as well as illustrated books on decoration, country homes and gardens. Blurbs from John Behrendt and Alison Lurie.
BRENDA SEROTTE: THE FORTUNE TELLER'S KISS
Pub: American Lives Series/Nebraska. R.S. controls translation rights. Sold in Turkey.
Genre: Literary Memoir
Description: Born into an émigrés family in the Bronx in the 1950s, Serotte describes growing up in this wild clan of Ladino speaking Sephardic Jews, with a grandmother who is renowned fortune teller living in Brooklyn, and who predicts great misfortune for the outgoing, belly dancing little girl. She is indeed struck with polio just before the advent of the Salk vaccine and will endure hospitalization on the childrens' ward of a Manhattan hospital where the treatment is truly Dickensian. Her story telling, gambler of a father, proves his devotion by visiting every night; her mother who cannot cope never shows up. How she learns to navigate again, and her rehabilitation in the Rusk clinic are the bare bones of this hilarious family story. Humor prevails, the men in the family behave like pashas but it is the women who rule the households. There are strong similarities to MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING.
Pub: Ten Speed Press, 2008. World Rights.
Genre: Human Awareness/Psychology
Description: Unger is the founder of the International Institute of Hand Analysis in Marin County, California. He has directed the Institute for over twenty years, together with its affiliate in Zurich. According to Unger, each one of us can find our Life Purpose Map in our fingertips. Long associated with identity, fingerprints contain a level of personal information that is infinitely revealing of who we are and who we are meant to be. Unger's book will be designed to help the reader map out his Life Purpose, understand its implication and use what he has learned to find meaning and personal fulfillment.
www.HandAnalysis.net