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Selected Recent TitlesFICTION CLARA AND MR.TIFFANY by Susan Vreeland
Random House, January 2011, hardcover Translation rights controlled by publisher. Film rights controlled by BBA. The new novel from the bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Luncheon of the Boating Party is set in turn-of-the- century New York, where Louis Comfort Tiffany, scion of the famous house, is looking to make a breakthrough with his gorgeously crafted stained glass. His most talented assistant, Clara is facing the barriers of that time and place against women in the workforce. With this penetrating study of the competing claims of life and art, Vreeland has fashioned a sweeping saga of the mores and conflicts of the Gilded Age. Rights to Italy (Neri Pozza), Russia (AST), Hungary (Geopen). "INDIE NEXT" pick (January 2011) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER HEARTLAND INDIE BESTSELLER CHICAGOLAND INDIE BESTSELLER "The book brims with fascinating information about Tiffany's glassmaking and about New York as its gilded age gives way to a more progressive era . . .Vreeland's ability to make this complex historical novel as luminous as a Tiffany lamp is nothing less than remarkable." -Eugenia Zukerman, The Washington Post "A compelling novel . . .Vreeland masterfully shows an emotional picture of the glamorous world of the privileged class set against the poverty of immigrants struggling to sustain hope and survival in their "new world". A must read!" -Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks “The first thing to be said about a Vreeland novel is that the reader learns a lot from it, but the joy and delight of a Vreeland novel is that the knowledge gleaned from her beautifully articulate pages is not delivered as if from a podium . . . There’s no excuse for any reader of high-quality literary fiction to let this novel pass by.” -Booklist (starred review) "Vreeland creates another affecting story of artistic vision and innovation . . . Her descriptions highlight the craftsmanship behind the timeless beauty of Tiffany's glass, and the true story of Clara Driscoll's life serves as a colorful canvas." -Library Journal Review. LISETTE'S LIST (tentative title) by Susan Vreeland Random House, forthcoming spring 2013, hardcover LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY by Susan Vreeland
Viking/Penguin, May 2007, hardcover; Penguin paperback, February 2008 Translation rights controlled by publisher. Film rights controlled by BBA. Everyone knows this iconic Impressionist picture: a group of dashing young men in jerseys and boaters, and women in frilly dresses lounging in the dappled shade of a riverside restaurant near Paris on a Sunday afternoon. All the people in the picture were real Parisians of Renoir’s time—-artists, journalists, actresses, friends. In the latest of her fictional excursions into the world of great art and its creators, Vreeland examines the mixture of relationships and motives that brought everyone together and in the process offers an unforgettable portrait of a cherished time and place. Rights to Italy (Neri Pozza), Germany (Heyne Verlag), Holland (Bzztoh) Israel (Kineret), Serbia (Laguna), Korea (Kang) and Portugal (Emergencia). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIFE STUDIES by Susan Vreeland Viking/Penguin, December 2004, hardcover; December 2005, paperback Foreign editions: Germany, Italy,Holland, Serbia/Slovakia LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER THE FOREST LOVER by Susan Vreeland Viking/Penguin, January 2004, hardcover; paperback December 2004 Foreign editions: Canada, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Poland THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA by Susan Vreeland Viking/Penguin, 2002, hardcover; 2003, paperback Foreign editions: Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, Korea, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Serbia/Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE by Susan Vreeland MacMurray & Beck, 1999, hardcover; Viking/Penguin, 2000, paperback; Rosetta Books, 2012, e-publication Foreign editions: Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Philippines, Russia, Serbia/Slovakia, Spain (Spanish and Catalan), Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey HighBridge audio NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER A HALF MILLION COPIES SOLD BRUSH WITH FATE, Hallmark Hall of Fame TV Movie based on GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE, February 2003. Screenplay by Richard Russo, starring Glenn Close, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson and Patrick Bergin. WHAT LOVE SEES by Susan Vreeland Rosetta Books, 2012, e-publication An inspirational love story about two blind people whose devotion to each other, and to the family they raise together, holds them together against all odds. WHAT LOVE SEES, CBS Sunday Night TV Movie based on the book of the same title, 1996. Starring Richard Thomas, Annabeth Gish, and Edward Hermann. SOUND OF THE HEART by Patricia Harman William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013, trade paperback original Harman, the author of two acclaimed memoirs, "The Blue Cotton Gown" and "Arms Wide Open," makes her fiction debut with this powerful and moving novel about Patience Murphy, a pioneering midwife in Depression Appalachia. Patience must establish her right to practice amid the prevailing poverty and despair of that difficult time, coping also with troubles between the mining companies and their unions, and the racism of the still-active Ku Klux Klan. It's a stirring saga of a courageous woman's fight for love and independence. EXILES by Cary Groner Spiegel & Grau/Random House, June 2011, hardcover After enduring years of troubled marriage and an ugly divorce, an American doctor named Peter Scanlon takes his 17-year-old daughter, Alex, to Kathmandu to live for a year and work in a free clinic. Nepal—rife with poverty, disease, and a Maoist insurrection—challenges not only their previous ideas about the world but their very physical survival. The story traces profound culture shock, their dramatic escape from death high in the Himalayas, and the impact of these events on their relationship and subsequent lives together back home. Rights to Korea (Woongjin) “Groner shines a unique light on a remote, exotic land in his self-confident and culturally rigorous debut novel. His tale of a doctor and his beloved daughter takes a modern-day bent on Seven Years in Tibet and shows the country’s turmoil with a palette that is as affectionate as it is startling. A fast-paced but emotionally resonant story about the bonds that hold fast when we’re far from home.” – Kirkus Reviews "A deeply moving tale of a father and daughter cast adrift in Nepal . . . Exiles shines a steady, compassionate light on the rootlessness of contemporary America." - Stephen Batchelor, author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist THE BILLY BOYLE WWII MYSTERY SERIES by James R. Benn The year is 1941, and Billy Boyle, the youngest member of the Boyle clan in the Boston Police Department, has just been promoted to detective when World War II breaks out. His family’s political connections secure Billy a commission and post with a distant relative of Mrs. Boyle’s, a general serving with the War Plans Department in Washington D.C. where Billy is to safely sit out the war. Unfortunately for the Boyles, that unknown general is Dwight David Eisenhower. The series begins when he appoints Billy to be his unofficial personal investigator in the European Theatre of War. ANGRY SMITH Soho Press, forthcoming 2013, hardcover During top secret preparations for D-Day, Billy is called upon to investigate a case in which an African-American soldier has been accused of killing a white GI after a fight in a pub. The case is not what it seems, and soon he becomes enmeshed in a web of suspicion, racism, conspiracy, and lies. DEATH'S DOOR Soho Press, forthcoming 2012, hardcover In the seventh novel in the Billy Boyle WWII mystery series, Billy is smuggled into the Vatican to investigate the murder of an American Monsignore--and also to find out what has happened to his lover Diana, sent there earlier on a secret assignment. The fast-moving plot involves an Irish priest in the Vatican who helped hide Jews and Allied troops from the Italian Fascists and the Germans, and also takes a look at the controversial role of the wartime Pope in the Church's relations with the Nazis. A MORTAL TERROR Soho Press, September 2011 hardcover; paperback September 2012 In the sixth entry in the Billy Boyle World War II mystery series, Billy investigates a series of murders that appear to be the work of a soldier during the Italian Anzio campaign. Starred review in Library Journal "History unfolds at ground level all around Boyle... in a fast-paced saga set in a period when the fate of civilization hangs in the balance." -Wall Street Journal, 9/3/11 RAG AND BONE Soho Press, September 2010, hardcover; paperback, September 2011 In the fifth entry in the Billy Boyle World War II mystery series, Billy is contacted by the Polish government in exile to investigate the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviets, many buried in the Katyn Forest. Starred review in Publisher's Weekly "…the novel’s scenes of London under siege are stark and poignant."—The New York Times Book Review EVIL FOR EVIL Soho Press, September 2009, hardcover; paperback, September 2010 In the fourth book in his popular series of Billy Boyle mysteries set during WWII, Benn has moved the action to Ireland, a strange place indeed during the war. Ireland was officially neutral, but was in fact a hotbed of espionage and plotting by the Irish Republican Army, often in cahoots with the Nazis, against the British war effort. When Billy is called on to investigate a murder there of a U.S. soldier, his warring loyalties, involving his Irish heritage and his devotion to the Allied cause, tear him apart. "A twisting, turning plot...gripping...Benn offers no easy answers in this rich mix of Irish history and wartime intrigue." --Publisher's Weekly BLOOD ALONE Soho Press, September 2008, hardcover; paperback, September 2009 In the third book of the series, Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese. An "Indie Next" pick (October 2008) "Characterization and atmosphere carry Benn's third WWII mystery, a convincing blend of fact and fiction...The hero's gradual rediscovery of his memories lets him question what kind of person he is, in particular whether he's more than a brutal killer. Benn also does a fine job of depicting a dusty, poverty-stricken Sicily, where warm loyalty is the reverse side of pitiless vendetta." -- Publisher's Weekly THE FIRST WAVE Soho Press, September 2007, hardcover; September, 2008, paperback For his second outing, Billy Boyle is in on the 1942 invasion of French North Africa. He's part of an American unit sent to test the Vichy will to fight on the side of the Nazis, and soon finds himself involved with some wartime crooks in Algiers. Drug smuggling was always a strong local industry, and with brand-new and enormously valuable American drugs like penicillin being brought in by the military, it's a potential heyday for the gangsters. Soon Billy finds himself looking at several murders, the capture and humiliation of his English girl friend Diana by Vichy forces and the planned hijacking of a load of priceless drugs. In the end he has to go it alone to bring the gangster kingpin to a crude justice. Starred review in Library Journal Selected as a Book Sense Notable Book for September 2007 "Even amid the excitement of the spirited wartime storytelling, Benn allows Boyle’s experiences to change him in ways both subtle and dramatic." -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "High-spirited... gripping... [a] lively story" -- Publisher's Weekly BILLY BOYLE: A WORLD WAR II MYSTERY Soho Press, September 2006, hardcover; paperback, September 2007 This first of a series about the WWII exploits of Billy Boyle introduces Billy as a Boston Irish police detective who, thinking to land a soft desk job in the war, instead finds himself with Eisenhower’s staff in London as the general's unofficial private investigator. This case involves the murder of a Free Norwegian official at a country manor where the possible invasion of Nazi-held Norway is being planned, and finds Billy in a life-and death struggle with a German spy on which the whole future of the war may depend. BILLY BOYLE has been selected for Bookspan's Military History, American Compass and Mystery Book Clubs. It was named by Kirkus one of the top thirty books for fall 2006, and is also a Book Sense Choice, an Ingram Premier Pick and an IMBA bestseller. Audio rights to Audible THICKER THAN WATER by Janet Majerus Five Star, June 2010, hardcover Jessie Schroeder, a children’s author returned to her small Midwestern hometown of Riverport, finds murder on her doorstep. A large bequest in an eccentric family, a fatal case of arson, a strange auto accident and a sinister priest – these are just a few of the threads that she’s forced to unravel as she attempts to crack the case. Add to this her own oddball family and her ongoing affair with the police chief, and Majerus, author of “The Best Laid Plans,” has created another sprightly, engaging mystery. THE BEST LAID PLANS by Janet Majerus Five Star, 2006, hardcover A crackling plot, an assortment of brilliantly observed small-town characters, and a particulary ingratiating heroine, make the author of this cozy mystery a real find. Now in its second printing. "This promising crime debut combines a crisp evocation of small-town life with an engaging mystery. Cozy fans should take note." -- Booklist SEND ME WORK by Katharine Karlin TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, October 2012 In this remarkable story collection, Karlin focuses on women working successfully in jobs normally dominated by men—-at an oil refinery, as a welder, on a railroad, in a shipyard. Observant, realistic, often funny and tender, they reveal new, unrecognized dimensions of the American experience. "Clear-eyed and rough without being raw, this bracing debut story collection is enlivened by by an effective mix of bodily warmth and mechanical grit... These stories are a miracle of pacing, hitting the short story sweet spot time and again and ending exactly when they should. For her unusual focus and light but penetrative approach to this subject matter, Karlin deserves serious attention." -Publishers Weekly, 8/22/11 (starred review) “Karlin's stories are rich and deep, so fully lived you would think that each of her characters walks and breathes among us. A truly remarkable achievement.” - T.C. Boyle “These are such beautifully crafted stories, so satisfyingly nailed to time and place they begin to form like memories to a reader; Karlin's prose has hints of Philip Roth and Grace Paley, but the ringing specificity is all her own.” - Aimee Bender LOOKING FOR SALVATION AT THE DAIRY QUEEN by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Shaye Areheart Books/Crown, February 2008, hardcover; paperback, June 2009 Catherine Grace, teenage daughter of a beloved preacher in a small Southern town, longs to get away to the big city until a series of dramatic events involving her long-dead mother, her father and a pretty schoolteacher, combine to show her that life in the slow lane can be just as exciting. A delightful and heart-warming debut brimful of Southern charm. Now in its seventh printing, with 35,000 copies sold. Audio to Tantor Book Trailer THE IMPROPER LIFE OF BEZELLIA GROVE by Susan Gregg Gilmore Shaye Areheart Books/Crown, July 2010, hardcover; July 2011, paperback The new novel by the author of the much-admired “Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen” is the story of a girl born very much on the right side of the tracks, and how she overcame her would-be genteel upbringing. With a father who can’t cope, a mother who drinks to forget imagined social slights, and a little sister living in a private world, Bezellia as she grows up manages to break a lot of Southern taboos as she creates her own idiosyncratic life. Audio to Tantor A SIBA 2010 SUMMER OKRA PICK "A pure enchantment." --Lee Smith "Brimming with charm." --Bookpage THE MEMORY DRESS by Susan Gregg Gilmore Shaye Areheart Books/Crown, July 2012, hardcover Marvel Lane must bury her mother, and in doing so has to come to terms with a life that was blighted by poverty and prostitution, in this third novel by the acclaimed author of “Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen” and “The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove.” THE BLACK ISLE by Sandi Tan
Grand Central/Hachette, hardcover, August 2012 A “ghost history” of a South Asian metropolis in which an elderly psychic recalls her amazing role in the city state's growth from a backward island haunted by countless spirits to a center of world finance. Rights to the Netherlands (Artemis) “On The Black Isle, a young woman grows old with the Twentieth Century, haunting her own life as history conspires to render her a secret. Sweeping in scope, impressively imagined, ruthlessly readable.” --Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville and These Dreams of You “Rich in vivid characters, and written with great imagination and intelligence, The Black Isle is a remarkable novel. A haunting book, mesmerizing in its beauty, which stayed with me long after I finished the last page.” --Judith Freeman, author of The Long Embrace and Red Water “The narrator of The Black Isle recounts her tales of fantastic events -- erotic, supernatural, horrific -- so convincingly that Tarot cards might as well be baseball cards in her book. An irresistible feat of storytelling, The Black Isle blends what Midnight's Children did for the former Bombay with what Dorothy did for Oz.” --Tom Carson, author of Gilligan's Wake and Daisy Buchanan's Daughter SUNFLOWERS by Sheramy Bundrick Avon/HarperCollins, trade paperback original, October 2009 Everyone knows Van Gogh cut off his ear, some know he gave it to an Arles prostitute. But who was she? In this tender, beautifully researched debut novel, art historian Bundrick creates a moving and believable love affair between the tormented painter and Rachel Courteau, in which she desperately tries, and fails, to save him from his demons. Foreign and dramatic rights controlled by BBA. Rights to Brazil (Editora Pruma),Israel(Miskal), Poland (Swiat Ksziazki),Serbia (Stylos), Spain (Viceversa), Russia (EXMO) . "In a knockout debut novel, art historian Bundrick (Music and Image in Classical Athens) brings Vincent Van Gogh's paintings and personal story to vibrant life. ...an impressive volume of suspense, delight, and heartbreak. -Publishers Weekly, 8/17/09 (starred review) Already in its fifth printing THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES by Johanna Moran Ballantine Books, February 2010, trade paperback Based on a real case, this moving novel recounts the story of a man who in 1890s California lived happily with two wives and successfully fought a long prosecution for bigamy. Oades was an Englishman who emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and children only to have them kidnapped and held for years by the Maori. Convinced that they were dead, he started a new life and marriage in California; years later his family reappeared and found him. Moran’s powerful account is a tribute to the courage and good-heartedness of two remarkable women, as well as a page-turning drama. UK rights to Harper Press, German to Bertelsmann Book Club. BRITISH INDIEBOUND PICK (March) "A delicious and painful tale of marriage, suffering, tolerance and sacrifice––a historical saga seen through the lens of two wives, one husband, and the disapproving, cantankerous rabble at the end of Victorian America––a stellar debut novel." --Jamie Ford, bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet "Intriguing and evocative debut novel based on a real-life California bigamy case...it's the two women bonding that gives the book its heart and should make this book a book group winner." --Publishers Weekly "Moran is a careful writer, a spare stylist who never wastes a word. She also has a well-tuned ear for the jargon of the period, colorful language that adds warmth, humor, and humanity to her story." --Boston Globe CALL ME WHEN YOU LAND by Michael Schiavone The Permanent Press, September 1, 2011, hardcover Katie, the protagonist of this observant, beautifully written family drama, has a number of problems: her rebellious teenage son C.J., his father, who has just died and left him a highly dubious bequest, her own rampant alcoholism, a lover and a sister both of whom she hardly knows. Out of her unpromising life debut novelist Schiavone extracts humor, compassion, courage and a deeply human determination to survive. "Schiavione's first novel pulls no punches in its depiction of a family self-destructing in front of the reader... The powerful examination of addiction and the toll it takes on a family is beautifully written, with characters who are as real as the next-door neighbors.. Schiavone makes the reader care about Katie and C.J. without making excuses for them. Like Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer, Amy Koppelman's I Smile Back, and so many other novels that limn alcoholism, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Peter Benchley, this novel depicts people who have lost control. Readers unafraid of reading about families falling to the bottom and don't mind a stream of four-letter words will enjoy this novel of descent and tentative redemption." -- Library Journal, 9/1/11 (starred review) "All the characters are deeply flawed and human, but the people readers will likely care about are those who act on their problems... Well written and thoughtful." -- Kirkus Reviews, August 2011 "[A] mother and son’s struggles make for [a] captivating first novel... Schiavone is at his best in the tense scenes between mother and son; his use of halting staccato dialogue precisely captures the wall of pain that divides them. Schiavone is adept, too, in depicting the violent action of the hockey match... The novel’s grace notes - a scene midway through in which C.J. apologizes to the little girl who was hit by his hockey stick, and the final scene, in which Katie and her son welcome two changes that bode well for their future - provide welcome relief from the narrative’s core of darkness." --Boston Globe, 9/3/11 "Schiavone spins a heartbreaking tale... There is no time to come up for air, and you don't want to. It's gripping and real." -- RebeccaReads (blog, July 2011) "... a superlative debut about my favorite topics: identity, motherhood, troubled families struggling toward repair, possible redemption from unlikely sources. Schiavone is a talent to watch." -- Jenna Blum. Author of The New York Times & international bestsellers THOSE WHO SAVE US and THE STORMCHASERS One of Oprah readers' 30 Favorite Women Writers THE SOUND OF BUILDING COFFINS by Louis Maistros The Toby Press, February 2009, hardcover A dark, beautifully written tale, shot through with flashes of magic realism, about New Orleans at the birth of the jazz age. Whores, gamblers, voodoo queens, gravediggers and Buddy Bolden, whose cornet launched the new music, are among the large and lovingly created cast. "INDIE NEXT" pick (April 2009) "Louis Maistros has written a lyrical, complex, and brave novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. He is a writer to watch and keep reading, a writer to cherish." -- Peter Straub "The plot is complex and magical, grounded in the history of the city, without being overly sentimental....Highly recommended for all fiction collections, especially where there is an interest in jazz." -- Library Journal HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT by Michael Atkinson Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010, hardcover It is Madrid in 1936 in this sequel to Atkinson’s “Hemingway Deadlights,” and the celebrated author is there covering the Spanish Civil War, drinking and whoring-—not necessarily in that order. When word comes that an old friend from the States has been found executed, Hemingway’s buddy John Dos Passos insists that they look into it. Anyone who enjoyed “Deadlights” will revel in this new look at Ernest’s prowess as P.I. HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS by Michael Atkinson Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, August 2009, hardcover Can you imagine Ernest Hemingway investigating a murder? The time is 1955 and Hemingway is living in Key West in a blur of liquor, hangers-on and regrets. Then one of his drinking buddies is found slain, a whaling harpoon through him on the docks. Hemingway hadn’t been close to the man, but the police’s lack of interest in the case, and the weird quality of the interest shown in it by some unsavory others, piques him, and soon the old lion is roused to try and find out for himself what happened. It becomes a saga of drug-smuggling and mayhem that eventually leads back to Cuba and Fidel and Che Guevara as they prepare for their revolution. Brazilian rights to Globo. “Hemingway's terse yet moody style paved the way for legions of hard-boiled detective writers. Now Michael Atkinson lets America's most famous author finally horn in on the mystery game. Atkinson packs HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS with hilarious dialogue, irreverent literary shoptalk, and so much excellent sun-soaked atmosphere that you'd best consume it along with a few pitchers of something cool.” --Ed Park, author of Personal Days "Marvelous!! Couldn’t ask for more." --Tess Gerritsen, author of Body Double "Atkinson deftly mixes fact and fiction with graphic sex and violence in a mystery sure to please Hemingway aficionados." --Publishers Weekly Book Trailer THE FOUR SEASONS by Laurel Corona Voice/Hyperion, Fall 2008, trade paperback Most of the myriad works for which the 17th century Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi became famous (including the ubiquitous Four Seasons) were written for the female performers of the Pieta, a local home for foundling girls. Corona’s vivid, deeply touching and beautifully researched novel imagines a pair of foundling sisters who become Vivaldi’s protoges. It tells of their struggles and ambitions in the lusty, vividly colored Venice at a momentous time in the history of music. Book of the Year, San Diego Book and Writing Awards, 2009 Portuguese rights (Portugal) to Esfera dos Livros, Portuguese (Brazil) to Ed. Luciana, German to Weltbilt, Turkish to Alfa/Artemis, Spanish to El Ateneo, French to Pygmalion/Flamarion, Bulgarian to Uniscorp, Hungarian to Geopen, Croatian to Lievak Naklada. HEARTBREAK TOWN by Marsha Moyer
Three Rivers Press/Crown/Random House, June 2007, trade paperback original "Moyer's third book about Lucy Hatch takes her back to her hometown of Moony, Texas, where she picks up her life with her young son Jude after leaving Nashville and her husband, Ash, a moderately successful country singer. They both dreamed of Ash's success until he succumbed to alcohol. Lucy is happy in her old life, then Ash shows up without warning after leaving rehab and losing his record contract. Does Lucy want him back? Can they fix what went wrong in their marriage? Everyone in town seems to be offering advice or taking bets on their relationship. Moyer paints a vivid picture of small-town life with a Texas spin and colorful characters, making the reader feel invested in the story as she roots for a happy outcome for the very likable main characters." -- Booklist Now in its third printing. RETURN OF THE STARDUST COWGIRL Three Rivers Press/Crown/Random House, February 2008, trade paperback original "Moyer reveals the poetry in every inch of MOoney, the enchanted and enchanting kingdom she has created in East Texas." THE SECOND COMING OF LUCY HATCH Morrow/HarperCollins, 2002, hardcover; Avon, 2003, paperback THE LAST OF THE HONKY TONK ANGELS Morrow/HarperCollins, 2003, hardcover; Avon, 2004, paperback. Foreign Editions: Australia and Japan STEALING FROM THE DEAD by A.J. Zerries
Tor/Forge, August 2012 hardcover; Tor/Forge, August 2013 paperback A female NYPD detective, nearing retirement, looks into the death of a solitary, elderly Holocaust survivor in her New York apartment. Soon she finds herself very unofficially unraveling a scheme that involves a $12 billion Swiss bank settlement, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and an assortment of shadowy and dangerous characters. The talented husband-and-wife team of Al and Jean Zerries had a big hit for Tor with their debut, THE LOST VAN GOGH, and this tensely plotted thriller promises to pack a comparable punch. THE LOST VAN GOGH by A.J. Zerries
Tor/Forge, Summer 2006, hardcover; Tor/Forge, April 2007, paperback, 100,000 printing. Now in its 4th printing. Translation and film rights controlled by BBA. A headlong thriller that pits a New York cop who is also an art expert (and a former Navy Seal) against ruthless art dealers and auction houses—as well as a sinister villain whose grasp on the $50 million painting goes all the way back to his life as a sadistic SS officer in World War II. Greek rights to Levani, Japanese rights to Random House/Kodansha, Romanian rights to RAO International, Brazilian rights to Editora Landscape. NON-FICTIONTHE BLUE COTTON GOWN by Patricia Harman
Beacon Press, Fall 2008, hardcover; September 2009, paperback World English and translation rights controlled by BBA. Nurse-midwife Patricia Harman runs a West Virginia women’s health care center with her OB/GYN husband. In a page-turning narrative nonfiction account of a year in the life of their practice, we see dozens of patients, including a student whose life leads her into an array of sexually transmitted diseases, a woman who can’t have an orgasm, another who wants to become a man, and a wife who flees a dangerous husband with her seven children. To all of them, Harman brings deep empathy and knowing care, empowered by her conviction that a midwife is a woman’s health companion for life. A Publisher's Weekly "Indie Sleeper" pick. "A flower child who found her calling after coaching a friend through a home birth, nurse-midwife Harman works with her ob-gyn husband at a West Virginia clinic. In her sweetly perceptive memoir, she reveals how her exam room becomes a confessional. Coaxing women in thin gowns to share secrets -- about abusive boyfriends, OxyContin habits, unplanned pregnancies -- she reminds them that they're not alone." - People Magazine "The whole book is touchingly revelatory of how valuable a medical practitioner who commits more than the current average of four minutes to each patient can be....deeply moving." — Booklist, starred review “As the mother of seven children and veteran of eight pregnancy losses, I knew when I ran my bath that I would be unable to resist Patricia Harman’s memoir of midwifery. What I didn’t realize was that it would cause me, a sensible person, to get into the bath with one sock still on and rise from it when the candle was gone and the water cold. Utterly true and lyrical as any novel, Harman’s book should be a little classic.” — Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Cage of Stars “The many moving stories of the women that Patricia Harman cares for as a nurse-midwife add up to a remarkable account of a life spent listening, helping, and taking care. Inviting us into her clinic in rural West Virginia, she shows us the joys and sorrows of listening to women's stories and attending to their bodies, and she leads us through the complicated life of a healer who is profoundly shaped by her patients and their journeys.” —Perri Klass, author of The Mercy Rule and Treatment Kind and Fair ARMS OPEN WIDE: A MIDWIFE'S JOURNEY--FLOWER CHILD TO EARTH MOTHER by Patricia Harman Beacon Press, Spring 2011, Hardcover The author of “The Blue Cotton Gown” recounts how, in her hippie years, she began to help women in birthing and went on to develop her skills and credentials as a midwife in accord with her vision of an enviornmentally sound and sustainable lifestyle. In an action-packed memoir based on extensive journals she kept at three periods in her life, Harman recalls braving Minnesota winters in a small log cabin with her first husband and their child, subsequent attempts to live a communal life on the land, and examines her life today in a very different national mindset. "Patricia Harman's unflinching honesty and soaring poetry unfold the dream and the reality of the rural communes, political activism, and urban counter-culture in the 1970's... and what we, the veterans of that era, have become today." - Alicia Bay Laurel, author and illustrator of Living on the Earth LIFE, ACCELERATED by Ingrid Steffensen Seal Press, Fall 2012, trade paperback What turns a seemingly conventional New Jersey mother and college professor on, according to her hugely lively, funny and often thoughtful memoir, is driving really fast cars on a racetrack. Hardly any women do it, and the book is a racy woman's view of an almost exclusively male world--one in which she learns all sorts of strange things about life, danger, and herself. HOW TO RAP 2 by Paul Edwards Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press,2012 A sequel to HOW TO RAP that will detail the various styles of “flow” in rapping touched on in the original. Useful to people learning to rap as it will list all the techniques of rhythm, rhyme, and delivery in one book, as well as describing how the techniques were formulated and evolved. Of interest to the general hip-hop and music fan. HOW TO RAP: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF THE HIP-HOP MC by Paul Edwards Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press, December 2009 An ingenious and thorough guide to writing successful and winning rap and hip-hop lyrics, by a young London musician who has made a thorough study of the form for the past five years. The first book of its kind, sure to become a standard text on this popular subject. Includes interviews with dozens of rappers, including Q-Tip and Phife of A Tribe Called Quest and Speech of Arrested Development. Japanese Rights to Blues Interactions, Inc., Korean rights to Hansmedia "...marks a cultural coming-of-age for Hip-Hop...the first comprehensive poetics of this new literary form. Clear, concise, and immensely useful, it alternates a practical introduction to the subject with the comments of leading rap artists. Combining literary criticism and street smarts, Edwards has made his bid to become the Aristotle of Hip-Hop poetics." --Dana Gioia, Poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts "A clever breakdown of the art form of hip-hop rhymes for anyone who is into the art of incredible raps." --Speech, Arrested Development CONCRETE PLANET by Robert Courland Prometheus Books, November 2011, hardcover It’s the most common building material in the world today, but the way we make and use it now is environmentally harmful and needlessly subject to quick decay. Courland’s fascinating account of the history of concrete and its pioneers suggests ways it can once again be the reliable, long-lasting substance it was for the Romans who developed it. “Courland’s book takes a seemingly mundane topic and transforms it into a very readable and entertaining history lesson.” -Booklist "This is a fascinating work by a great historian. I could not put it down." -James Dalessandro, author of 1906: A Novel “Robert Courland's Concrete Planet engages the reader like a 'who done it' novel. Courland easily and seamlessly covers the science, technology, craft, and architectural expression in the invention and use of concrete with precision in a lively prose.” -Randolph Langenbach, University of California, Berkeley, emeritus, former Senior Analyst in Response and Recovery at FEMA “Concrete Planet is filled with incredible stories, fascinating characters, and an array of noteworthy facts and intriguing insights.” -Dennis Smith, author of Report from Ground Zero "A delightful excursion through time and across continents!" -Dr. Robert Nason, author and former USGS seismologist HAVANA DECO by Martino Fagiuoli, Alejandra Alonso and Petry Contreras W. W. Norton, November 2007, hardcover A noted photographer, a critic and an art historian combine to celebrate the lavish creations of the prewar Art Deco period that illuminate the Cuban capital. This beautiful volume, hitherto available only in Cuba and Italy, makes its U.S. debut in a completely revised edition. BATH MASSACRE: AMERICA'S FIRST SCHOOL BOMBING by Arnie Bernstein University of Michigan Press, April 2009, simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback One of the great but comparatively little remembered disasters of the early American 20th century was the bombing of the Bath Consolidated School in the lower Michigan peninsula, which in 1927 killed 38 schoolchildren and six adults. It was the first mass murder in U.S. history, and an uncanny harbinger of other school slayings to come. Chicago-based historian Bernstein recounts the story in chilling detail, including interviews with the few remaining survivors. "In Bath Massacre, Arnie Bernstein meticulously chronicles the worst school bombing in American history. With a powerful sense of place and a sharp eye for human drama, Bernstein takes readers back to rural Michigan of the 1920s, revealing one man's decent into madness and the heartbreak of an entire town." -- Sean Chercover, best-selling author of Trigger City "With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting." --Gregg Olsen New York Times bestselling author of Starvation Heights FLICKIPEDIA: Perfect Films for Every Occasion, Holiday, Mood, Ordeal, and Whim by Michael Atkinson and Laurel Shiffman Chicago Review Press, October 2007, trade paberback original Goes through all the occasions of our life—birth, marriage, retirement, holidays, love affairs, even the choosing of a President—and suggests a list of appropriate movies for each, explaining why the movie works for that part of your life. The result is a wonderfully wide-ranging list of movies, from the most popular to the often obscure and little known but utterly deserving, with pithy commentary on each. An invaluable guide to viewing. ACCORDION DREAMS: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music by Blair Kilpatrick University Press of Mississippi, Spring 2009, hardcover Kilpatrick, a practicing psychologist, was a middle-aged mother of two who became infatuated with the sound of Cajun music while on vacation in New Orleans. Though she had no musical experience, she had recurring dreams of herself playing the accordion. She taught herself to play, found a mentor, began to connect with the Creole culture and eventually formed a Cajun Creole band, Sauce Piquante. Her book is a strongly written account of self-discovery and transformation, and a fascinating insight into a little-known culture. PICTURES AND TEARS
by James Elkins Routledge, 2001, hardcover, 2004, paperback A beautiful book about art for people who don’t understand why they find certain pictures particularly affecting. Part art history, part psychology, part delighted discovery, it is an original and provocative approach. Rights sold to Jiangsu Fine Arts (Simplified Chinese), Artbooks Publishing Co. (South Korean), La Gauche Publishing Ltd. (Complex Chinese), Paravia-Bruno Mondadori (Italian) Translation and film rights controlled by BBA DOGS ON THE COUCH by Larry Lachman Overlook Press, 1999, hardcover; 2002, paperback First in the series, including CATS ON THE COUNTER(with Frank Mickadeit), St. Martin's Press, 2000, hardcover; 2002, paperback and BIRDS OFF THE PERCH (with Diane Grindol and Frank Kocher), Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 2003, paperback original. HUMBLE PIE: MUSINGS ON WHAT LIES BENEATH THE CRUST by Anne Dimock Andrews McMeel, Fall 2005, 2nd printing The pie, once one of the iconic American symbols as the essence of home cooking, has fallen on hard days as a largely factory-made, store-bought product. Dimock, a deeply committed pie-baker, aims for a pie renaissance, and in this book, a glowing combination of memoir, celebration, cookbook and cultural history, she shows why it is essential and inevitable. Finalist for the 2006 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD THE WORLD OF ANDREI SAKHAROV: A RUSSIAN PHYSICIST'S PATH TO FREEDOM by Gennady Gorelik and Antonina Bouis Oxford University Press, December 2005, hardcover The story of the famed father of the Soviet nuclear weapons program, exploring his life in a scientific context for the first time as well as in his role as a humanitarian dissident. SURFACES: VISUAL RESEARCH FOR ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS, AND DESIGNERS by Judy Juracek
W.W. Norton, 1997, hardcover, CD-ROM included. Now in its 9th printing. First in the series, including SOFT SURFACES (2000) and NATURAL SURFACES (2002), and ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES: DETAILS FOR ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, AND DESIGNERS (2005) UK rights sold to Thames & Hudson, Chinese rights to Dalian University of Technology Press. Entire SURFACES series is the winner of GOLDEN PEN AWARD from the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH by Michael D. Bart and Laurel Corona St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, May 2008 This unique Holocaust story offers not only an eyewitness account of the partisans from the Vilna ghetto who fought back against the Nazis, but also a love story born among them that ended only 50 years later with the deaths of two survivors in California. Working with family documents, amazing photos and many original sources, including interviews with survivors, Michael Bart and novelist Laurel Corona have put together with remarkable specificity the story of Bart’s heroic and self-effacing parents and their life among the brave Jews who came to be known as The Avengers. Best Biography, San Diego Book and Writing Awards, 2009 Winner of 2009 Christopher Award |
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