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David Bowker
HOW TO BE BAD, St. Martin's Press. I LOVE MY SMITH & WESSON, sequel to THE DEATH YOU DESERVE, sold to Marc Resnick at St. Martin's Press/North American rights, Pan Macmillan, UK & Commonwealth. |
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Catherine Bourne
ECHO FALLS, published Jan. 2010/Blanvalet Random Germany, Damm/Norway, AST/Russia.
This novel is the story of Grace Cameron, who inherited a beautiful, waterfront house on New York’s Turtle Island from her grandparents. The house has a romance and wonderful history and weaves a spell over Grace and her two housemates and fellow nurses, Joanne and Cherry. The three women met at Manhattan Hospital, where they all work. Throughout the story, the three women each find love with the most unexpected men and face personal challenges and loss. But, they are always strong for each other and become an indomitable trio.
Grace, a young widow, has resigned herself to a single life until she meets and falls for a patient, Matt Conner, a movie star injured in a stunt while filming in NYC. Grace’s first husband tragically died at a young age, only months after they were married, and the young bride nursed him through his illness and on his deathbed. She vowed that she would never play the role of caretaker for another man again. Grace is content to take her early morning runs along the water, fix up her old house and be the best nurse she can be. Love is not in the cards for her future. However difficult at first, she does resist the charms of Matt Conner, a Brad Pitt-look-alike, when she is asked to be his night nurse as he lies in a coma. It’s a safe relationship; she’s the nurse, he’s unconscious. But when Matt wakes up and the full-blooded, vivacious, irresistibly charming man takes a liking to his pretty nurse, Grace is at odds with herself. At Matt’s request, she even travels to his native Texas, under the guise of being his private nurse. At Matt’s secret romantic hideaway in the Texas hill country, a place called Echo Falls, Grace realizes that her love is not a mere crush. But when Matt’s manager, Michael Lavender, proves to Grace that Matt has a girlfriend in Hollywood, she beats a hasty retreat from Texas, refusing to risk being hurt again. But something doesn’t add up about Lavender’s story, and Joanne and Cherry decide to intervene on their friend’s behalf. There is nothing they won’t do for Grace.
Joanne, addicted to her emotionally abusive husband Donny, has moved in with Grace to figure out if her marriage is worth saving. Donny is a drug–addicted downtown hairdresser who has cheated on his wife one too many times. To soothe her pain, Joanne buys herself a gorgeous shiny new motorcycle. Joanne has faith and loves speed. She is still under the spell of Donny but stops short of stealing drugs for him because she is not ready to cross that criminal line, even though he has no compunction about asking her. Joanne is thrown for a love-loop when she meets The Captain, the solitary, mysterious owner of the local bar, Nightingales, where the women often meet after work. The Captain is a man of the world and has seen a lot and he likes Joanne. He epitomizes the words “strong silent type” and Joanne finds that she is having true feelings for him. Can Joanne escape the clutches of her past and her pathological relationship with Donny or can she free herself to accept the love and graciousness of a true gentleman? With the help of her friends, Joanne frees herself to get what she deserves.
Cherry Bordeaux is a fresh–faced Southern belle whose nursing career is only meant to be a vehicle to marrying a rich, Park Avenue doctor. Cherry knows that renting a room in Grace’s house will be a small pit stop on her road to marriage. She will not end up aged 38 and alone like Grace, nor nearly divorced like Joanne. No, Cherry is intent on meeting Mr. Perfect. Her plans seem to speed up when Rick Nash, gorgeous Dr. McDreamy of Manhattan Hospital, takes her out and they become inseparable. When Cherry experiences every nurse’s worst nightmare and accidentally loses a patient, Rick is there for her, even as she quits the hospital in shame and self-disgust. But then Cherry finds evidence that Rick is really to blame for the death and that he betrayed her in the worst way possible, and it is Grace and Joanne who are there for Cherry to show her the real respect, support, and dignity that she needs. Cherry’s girlfriends help her to start working again and find her real calling. It is her destiny to be a great nurse.
The lives of these three women change drastically over the course of the book, but Turtle Island, the little island only miles away from one of the biggest cities in the world and yet unknown to tourists and most New Yorkers, remains as constant as ever. By the end, we are given a vision of hope and humanity, as the women, and particularly Grace, discover what they really want and what is good for them. |
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Mark A Cooper
Sold to Sourcebooks- World English rights.
FLEDGLING JASON STEED
sold to Sourcebooks- US and Canadian rights and book 2 in the Jason Steed series. Young adult - First in a series, self–published internet hit. A well thought-out plot line, with a lot of character and relationship development, especially between the characters of Jason Steed and his father Ray.
What starts of as a very strenuous father-son relation blossoms into a relationship based on mutual trust and respect by the end of the novel, and it is Jason’s relationship with his father in particular which accounts for so much of his early development into an amazingly talented martial arts performer. It remains an entertaining read, with elements of romantic entanglement, the royal family, warfare, martial arts and the ideas of loyalty and honesty.
The book has gained popularity over the internet, Alex Horowitz type-following. Raving readers’ reviews on Amazon.com. Protagonist compared to a young Jason Bourne, or a young James Bond without the gadgets. Author is currently working on sequel. YA action/adventure – first in a series. Compared to Alex Rider/Anthony Horowitz’s book and young James Bond series.
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Leonard Foglia and David Richards
www.elsudario.com
THE SUDARIUM TRILOGY
A HOLY RELIC, A YOUNG GIRL, A DIABOLICAL EXPERIMENT. A THRILLER FOR OUR TIME. What would happen if one could clone a human being, using the blood of a person from the past? And an even more troubling question: What if one were able to clone Christ from the samples of His blood that some believe still exist in certain holy relics? It’s all possible. So how would the world react?
THE CLOTH OF OVIEDO: BOOK ONE
Sold to SUMA/World Spanish, Philip Wilson/Poland, Hemiro/Russia,SUMA/ Brazil, Metaekdotiki/Greece
'The Sudarium' is a story that keeps the reader on the edge of his seat, even when he has turned the final page, because if some questions are answered in the course of the book, others continue to stick in the mind of whoever picks up this disturbing work." - LA REFORMA (MEXICO)
THE BLOOD OF THE CLOTH: BOOK TWO
Sold to SUMA/World Spanish, Philip Wilson/Poland
The BLOOD OF THE CLOTH picks up the story of THE CLOTH OF OVIEDO twenty years later. The agency for surrogate mothers has been exposed as the front of a ruthless cult, bent on engineering the Second Coming. Hannah, having given birth to the child, has chosen to keep him as her own and has fled the country. In Mexico, where she and her husband, a former priest, finally settle, she has succeeded in bringing up the child in anonymity. She can’t protect him from a treacherous mudslide in the Sierra Gorda mountains, however.
BOUND BY THE CLOTH: BOOK THREE
It is three years later and the cult of this new savior has only increased by means of the Internet (where his existence was first revealed). Blogs devoted to sightings of him, as well as descriptions of the miracles that he has presumably performed, have flourished. A new New Testament is being written. Millions of people wait for him to emerge, raise high the standard and lead them into a new age. But the young man is nowhere to be found. Even his family has no knowledge of where he might be. In BOUND BY THE CLOTH, a thriller that raises profound spiritual questions, the fate of a man is linked inextricably to the survival of his soul. It combines the suspenseful elements of the high-tech adventure story with the equally riveting aspects of a spiritual quest. Underlying the trilogy and serving as its inspiration are the words of an elderly priest who, before dying, expresses his belief that “Every child born on earth has within him the power to save the world or destroy it.” |
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Eric M. Garcia
CASSANDRA FRENCH'S FINISHING SCHOOL FOR BOYS, sold to ReganBooks, US pub date May 04, Century/UK and Longanessi/Italy.
HOT & SWEATY REX, sold to Jonathan Karp, Random House, US & Canada Sony Magazine/Japan. Third in the REX series -- this time dino detective Rubio infiltrates two warring mafia families in Miami. Will be published March 04.
MATCHSTICK MEN, sold to Random House & just published. Bought by Longanessi, Sony Magazine, Hed Arzi, Droemer, Hachettes Livres, Shanghai Translation Publishing Company & sold to Warner Bros. Ridley Scott directing, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell & Allison Lohman starring and Robert Zemeckis executive producing. Film opens nationally in the U.S. on September 12th. The film will open the Venice Film Festival on August 31st and premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
CASUAL REX, sold to Random House, HarperCollins, UK, Longanessi, Italy, Hed Arzi, Israel, Goldman, Germany. Option with Sony Magazine, Japan, Plaza y Janes/Spain. Prequel to ANONYMOUS REX which sold to Random House, HarperCollins, UK, Hed Arzi, Goldman Verlag, Plaza y Janes, Sony Magazine. Brilliance Audio. CASUAL REX will be published in March 2001 by Random House, ANONYMOUS REX in paperback in February 2001 by Berkely.
ANONYMOUS REX & CASUAL REX -- TV series rights to Sci-Fi Channel -- Garcia is creator, writer and Exec. Producer of the show.
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Risa
Green
MAGIC 8 -- SOLD TO Dan Ehrenhaft/ SOURCEBOOKS/ JABBERWOCKY YA, Arena/Germany.Sold to Arena/Germany. Debut YA novel for girl. YA debut novel that is compared to The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with a bit of magic!
NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY. ABC hit comedy sit-com based on the book.
TALES
FROM THE CRIB, hilarious novel: a "Sex
in the City" -type woman who is totally unprepared for
her first pregnancy and birth of her daughter. This book is
the missing link between BRIDGET JONES' DIARY and I DON'T
KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT but true. Sold to NAL, Mondadori, Droemer, Delbelsio- Random House Mondadori-World Spanish Rights, Villagebooks/Japan.
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Paul
Hond
MOTHERS
AND SONS, sold to Jonathan Karp, Random House. Author of the
critically acclaimed THE BAKER, published by Random House,
a bestseller in Australia for Harper Collins, and sold to Hed
Arzi, Israel, and Vassallucci. Film adapted by Hond for Starry Night Entertainment.
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Kate Jacobs
(former client)
NY TIMES bestseller for 57 weeks. Optioned by Universal Pictures for Julia Roberts to star in and produce. The first and original book in the Friday Night Knitting Club Series.
Sold to Putnam,US, Hodder, UK, Deboekerij/ Holland, Piemme/Italy, Gummerus/Finland, Damm/Sweden, N.W. Damm/Norway, Cicero/Denmark, Maeva/Spain,ASA Portugal, Versus Aurus/Lithuania, Stilbrot/Iceland, Modern Times/Greece, Turkey, Heyne/Germany, AST/Russia, Kodansha/Japan ,Dae-San Publishing Company/Korea. Columbus/Slovakia, Dolnoslaskie/Poland, Metafora/Czech Republic |
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Xenia Kasper
38 DEGREES: ONE BABY, A MURDER AND A PERFECT MAN, winter 2008, T&D, Holland. Dutch bestseller. English partial available.
38 ½ : 1 HUSBAND AND 2 LOVERS, published by Truth & Dare, Holland. Sold to Leisure Book Club/Russia.
I laughed out loud reading about the bath foam tsunamis, sticky shower curtains and Glow In The Dark. This book is full of joie-d-vivre and here we finally see women who are not victims – but perpetrators instead! Wonderfully Refreshing! — Wilma Nanninga, De Telegraaf
Instant mega-bestseller in Holland. A big international sexy woman’s novel. Set in Rome, Cologne, Costa Blanca and Kelin-Vernich, Kasper’s writing is cosmopolitan, confident and sexy. Two best friends share vacations and lovers – traveling all over Europe on shopping sprees and luxury spa vacations, the women ponder what their future holds.
Barbara J Zitwer Agency and her co-agents handle world rights
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Kyoichi
Katayama
SOCRATES IN LOVE, sold to VIZ/US and Press de la Cite/France. Best selling Japanese
novel of all time, 3 million copies sold and a feature film
just released based on this book which compares to LOVE STORY
and BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. Sold to Salani/Italy. Kinneret-Zmora/Israel,
House od Books/Holland, Bertlesmann/Germany.
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Sharon
Krum
THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW – due 2010.
THE THING ABOUT JANE SPRING, sold for Hollywood film – to be announced shortly.
THE THING ABOUT JANE SPRING” is that she is mouth wateringly sweet. A delicious and delightful read.” – Cecelia Ahearn
Sold to: Viking, US/ Century/UK, Urano/Spain, Mondadori/Italy, Unieboek/Holland, Amphora/Russia, btb/Germany, Woongjin Novelmine/Korea.
WALK OF FAME, published by HarperCollins, Australia - bestseller, Quartet Books, UK, Econ Verlag,Germany, Shinchosha, Japan, Sonzogno/ Italy,St. Martin’s Press/US, Spain, Shanghai General Translation Publishing Company. Film rights sold to 20th Century Fox. |
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Han Kang
THE VEGETARIAN published by Changbi. Sold to Flower City Publishing House/China English.
The story of a young mentally disturbed woman who thinks she is becoming a tree, and thus the purest form of life on the planet. The world is a mess. She stops eating meat. The cruelty of meat-eating is a metaphor for the cruelty of the world today, thus her vegetarian habits are symbolic, spiritual ones in the literary work that was a sensation in Korea. Kang is among the new wave of Korean lit stars who are gaining an international following. Nominated for the Dongin Literary Award 08. Her works have been published by Korean major literary works publishers; Munhakdongne, Changbi, and Munji. |
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Kyung-Ran Jo
TONGUE, winner of the 2008 Donghin Prize. Published by Muhankodogne/Korea and sold to BloomsburyUSA for world English rights, Muelenhoff/Holland, Modan/Israel, Random House/Germany, Piemme/Italy, Wydawnictwo LYNSKI KAMIEN/Poland, Kelly/Hungary, Philippe-rey Editions/France
An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Jo Kyung-ran, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami. Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman’s culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste. Returning to the kitchen of the Italian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction. Tongue is a voluptuous, intimate story of a gourmet relying on her food-centric worldview to emerge from heartbreak; a mesmerizing, delicately plotted novel at once shocking and profoundly familiar.
BLOWFISH, new novel due in Winter 09.
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Drew Lerman
MAGIC CITY. 16 year old Printz Award winner, Lerman’s debut coming of age novel will be published by David Levithan at Schoalstic’s PUSH Imprint in Spring 07. This edgy, story of three troubled teens can be published as adult fiction in many territories as well. Sold to: Philip Wilson Warsaw Ltd./Poland, Kinneret-Zmorra/Israel.
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Zhang Ling
Gold Mountain Blues
October Art Publishing Company/China
Sold to Signatur/Holland, China Times/Taiwan, Piemme/Italy
With illustrations
In the tradition of Wild Swans and The Concubine’s Children, Gold Mountain Blues is the story of five generations of a Chinese family, from the 1860s to the present. The novel relates the struggles and sacrifices of the labourers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the evolution of the modern Chinese-Canadian identity. It is a dramatic Canadian story, says commissioning editor Adrienne Kerr, “that brings us closer to our shared past.” Kerr acquired the novel from New York agent Barbara Zitwer for publication in Canada in 2011.
In China, the novel is nominated for the inaugural Overseas Chinese Literary Award, and is a strong contender for the 2010 Maodun Literary Award. (The Maodun Prize, awarded every five years, is China’s biggest literary prize, equivalent to the Man Booker Prize.)
Author Zhang Ling has an MA in English from University of Calgary and currently lives in Toronto. She was born in 1957 in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province in China and later moved to Wenzhou wit her parents .She graduated from Fudan University with a Major in English and moved to Canada in 1986.
Zhang Ling, who stared writing in the mid 1990s, has published four novels and three collections of short stories. She’s won numerous literary prizes, including the October Literary Award in 2000 and 2007, the International Chinese Literary Award for Best Essay in 2003, the first Yuan Huesong Literary Award in Canada in 2005 and the People’s Literary Prize in 2006. |
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Kam Majd
Edgar nominated author of HIGH IMPACT and HIGHWIRE, sold to Bantam, Bertlesmann and Sony Magazine, Mir Knigi/Russia and in Bulgaria.
Visit his web site at www.kammajd.com |
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Ava McCarthy
THE INSIDER US rights only. Laura Longrigg/MBA primary agent.
Debut thriller introducing Harrietta “Harry” Martinez – a young, hip brilliant computer hacker, risking her life and not realizing that the greatest threat to her comes from someone right under her nose.
Rights sold to: Italy, Piemme,Poland Albatros, Spain Circulo de Lectores, France Press de la Cite, Holland de ontein, Germany Droemer, Czech Euromedia, Norway Damm,Russia Bertelsmann, China Phoenix,Taiwan Spring International, Bulgaria Uniscorp. |
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Jeff Povey
THE SERIAL KILLERS CLUB, Warner Books/US, Mondadori/Italy, Amphora/Russia, Hakurosha Publishing Co.Ltd/Japan, Prestij/1001 Kitap/Turkey, Heyne Verlag/Germany, Dolnosklaskie Wydawnictwo/Poland, PERIPLOUS Publications/Greece, Truth & Dare/Holland.
Debut novel by super hot UK screenwriter of THE EASTENDERS, WIRE IN THE BLOOD, and numerous crime, thriller and comedy series and films. It’s about who’s killing all the serial killers who are members of a secret society who meet once a month in an Irish bar in Chicago. Povey is Nick Laird meets Elmore Leonard. This novel is GET SHORTY meets UTTERLY MONKEY. Film rights handled by Val Hoskins, Associates in London.
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Shin Kyung-sook
Changbi Publishers/Korea
Sold to Robin Desser/Knopf for US and Canada, Arzu Tahsin for Weidenfeld & Nicolson for UK & Commonwealth rights -- will be published simultaneously on Mother’s Day, 2011. Sold to Oh Editions!/France, Muelenhoff/Holland, Grijalbo RHM/ World Spanish rights, Shueisha/Japan, People’s Literature Publishing/China, Phan Nam Publishing/Vietnam, Edtiora Intrinseca/Brazil, Piper/Pendo/Germany, Eurasia/Tawian in auction.
TAKE CARE OF MY MOTHER. Best-selling novel by award winning Korean novelist. Shin Kyung-sook has been honored with numerous awards including 1996 Manhae Literature Prize, 1997 Dong-in Literature Prize and 2001 Isang Literary Prize.
Take Care of My Mother is attributed as a catalyst for a surge in book sales in Korea. Since it was first published in November 2008, about 700,000 copies have been sold, a mega hit given that it is hard for a novel to sell 100,000 copies in the sagging publishing industry. Take Care of Mother by Shin Kyong-suk is the story of “my mother,” who cannot be replaced by any other mother. Korean readers are wildly excited about this story of an ordinary mother. What sustains this novel is the power of imagination that becomes possible only when our mothers who have been with us all our lives are eliminated from our lives. Take Care of Mother is the story of a family in search of their mother who has disappeared. |
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Scarlett Stoker
DRACULA IN DIOR
“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
- Angelina Jolie
Vampires have no-one giving them fashion advice- until now.
Written by style expert Scarlett Stoker, ‘Dracula in Dior’ is a classic style advice guide, only this time the beneficiaries are not humans, but vampires.
It’s the ultimate A-Z for the undead – freshly turned and those approaching their 900th birthday- to help them dress for blood soaked success in the 21st century. “
Despite striving for centuries to stay under the radar, vampires today are hotter than an eternity in hell. You might call them our newest rock stars. But pray tell, why have we fallen so hopelessly in love with these beasts who walk the night consumed with bloodlust?
Five words. Sexy. Seductive. Insatiable. Mysterious. Passionate.
Admit it, who among us doesn’t dream of finding a man or woman who fits that description?
Yes, it is quite true vampires are also are undead. Yes, they sleep in coffins and harbor an unquenchable thirst for blood. Your blood.
Well, raise your hand if you don’t have any character quirks others might find a little surprising at first. Thank you.
Though fashionably thin (there isn’t a woman alive who doesn’t envy a vampire’s 22 inch waist and ability to say no to food) and fashionably late (midnight is their favorite hour to arrive anywhere) vampires do suffer from one fashion related deficit.
They are not fashionable. Here they are, roaming the earth among us in their black capes, velvet gowns, pasty faces and bloodshot eyes, a look that hasn’t been updated in forever. Then you have those younger vampires who favor ripped jeans, T shirts, and beaten up leather jackets, another fashion cliché.
So popular, so lusted after, and yet so clueless when it comes to dressing. The names Dior, Balenciaga, Prada and Calvin Klein mean nothing to them, and yet they should! Mark Twain once wrote that clothes make the man. And should they not also make the man who lives for all eternity?
Yet for vampires a style upgrade is about more than glamour and raising self esteem, both things fashion has the power to do. It’s about staying alive and yet, undead. Many vampires were born centuries before this one, and are not only unaware of the latest fashion trends but of the latest research into the meaning and importance of dressing in a person’s life. Simply put, the better you look, the more friends you make, the more people one knows in every strata of society, the more opportunity to …feed.
God knows if the devil can wear Prada, it is time for Dracula to don Dior. |
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A MOVIE AND A BOOK, sold to and published by Marty Asher/Knopf in the US & Canada. Publication date June 04. A mind-bending meditation on storytelling, A Movie and a Book intertwines the life of a writer,
with the sweet story of a thoughtful young man, and a beautiful
young woman. Quietly moving and elegantly understated, this
small novel casts a poignant spell.
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Kim Young-ha
EMPIRE OF LIGHT, new novel due Summer 06.
Sort of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, Kim Young ha style..
I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DESTROY MYSELF, published by MunhakdongnePublishing Co/Korea, Editions Philipe Picquier, France. Harcourt (World English) translated by Chi Young Kim, VESPER/Poland, Heyne Verlag/Germany, Ambo/Anthos/Holland.
BLACK FLOWER, sold to Philipe Picquier/France
Acclaimed and controversial bestselling novel from Korea. Young-ha’s contemporary ideas and style are like LOST IN TRANSLATION meets THE UNDBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING….. his existential stories and exquisite literary style have garened him with awards and praise in Korea. This is his first novel to be published outside of Korea. The protagonist is a man with no name who travels to various places, meeting people who are plagues with illness and thoughts of suicide. His job is to assist them in their desire to end their own lives. The book caused tremendous controversy when published in Korea and it was an instant bestseller. |
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C. Alicea with Carmine DeSena
THE AIR DOWN HERE: TRUE TALES FROM A SOUTH BRONX BOYHOOD,
published by Chronicle Books/US, Arena/Germany, excerpted
in Scholastic Read EXEL . Awarded Library Association Book
Award for Best Young Adult Memoir, nominated and was first
runner-up in Germany to the German Best Young Adult Non-fiction
Book of the Year Award. Profiled on 20/20, excerpted in LIFE
Magazine, among others. |
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Oliver August
IN THE RED MANSION: THE HUNT FOR CHINA’S BANDIT KING. Sold to Anton Mueller/Houghton Miflin/North American rights, John Murray/UK, Aspect/Japan, Eichborn, Germany. This is a vivid, exhilarating, sexy, glamourous and dangerous story about modern China. Will be published in 07. August is the young, handsome Beijing Bureau Chief for the Times of London. Author of ALONG THE WALL AND WATCHTOWERS: A JOURNEY DOWN GERMANY’S DIVIDE, HarperCollins UK.
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Berloni
DOGA: YOGA FOR DOGS, Chronicle Books, US.
Visit
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Dr. Eileen Borris
FINDING FORGIVENESS, foreward by the Dalai Lama. World English sold to McGraw Hill. Sold to Pendo Verlag/Germany, Campus/Brazil., East Press/Japan, Purana/Poland.
A book which informs the reader about all aspects of forgiveness and the emotional journey one must take to achieve it and that all illusive “peace of mind” we quest for.
So, the book is prescriptive. In this world today, there is no more timely book and no more important one. The author is a clinical psychologist for over 20 years and director of a peace initiative international think tank. She has traveled all over the world to places of greatest conflicts teaching forgiveness techniques and peace initiatives. She has contacts to obtain blurbs from Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Robinson, Deepock Chopra and others. |
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Eliza Brandt
THE GIRLS GUIDE TO REVENGE, Feature film optioned by Kopelson Entertainment/Hollywood.
Humor guide/parody of a self help book written by a fictitious revenge guru. Eliza Brandt offers her lessons on how to exact revenge from everyone that can make your life miserable including family, friends, co-workers, tele-marketers, doctors, strangers,etc. with graphics, charts and tests. The essential guide for woman all over the world. Eliza Brandt is the alter ego of Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex series, Matchstick Men, Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys, and upcoming Universal film, Reposession Mambo.
Sold to fUllstein/Germany, AST/Russia, Salani/Italy, Editora Nova Fronteira/Brazil, S.C. Hamitas/Romania. |
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Jane
Cavalino and Mathew Bunson
ALL SHALL BE WELL: A Book of Strength and Inspiration From Great
Catholic Thinkers - sold to Denise Silvestro/Berkely Books -
will be published Jan. 04. Quotes from people ranging from St.
Teresa of Avila to Alfred Hitchcock and Graham Greene. The collection
of people quoted is unique and unusual. The quotes are grouped
into subjects such as prayers, happiness, bereavement, etc.
At the end of the book, there will be short bios of all the
people quoted along with additional works they have written.
Jane Cavalino is the best-selling author of GROWING UP CATHOLIC
series (million copies sold). Mathew Bunson is the author of
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John Geddes
HIGHWAY TO HELL – British Bestseller.
Century Random London Times Bestseller
Written by an ex SAS Private Military Contractor (PMC) in Iraq. It's about his war experiences. It's critical of Blackwater. It received great reviews and has sold over 50,000 copies and made an appearance in the Times Best Seller list. We sold an edition to French publishers and John wrote an extra chapter detailing the actions of the French Foreign Legion in Iraq. He would write an extra chapter or two extending the Blackwater material for a US edition. This is the only book available about what life as a PMC in Iraq is like. John is highly promotable and a highly decorated soldier having served in The Falkland Islands, Iraq War 1, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has worked closely with Delta Force in particular on cracking the Cocaine cartels in Columbia. He's a genuine heroic figure and the real deal and an unimpeachable witness.
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Jonnie Hughes
GENE-I- US: How Ideas Made Us Human
Sold to Free Press,US (we handle l US rights and German rights only)
If a quarter of a million year-old human being sat next to you on the bus, you wouldn’t bat an eyelid. Humans have not changed physically for over 250,000 years. The gene pool of our species may have blended and mixed, but it hasn’t altered significantly in all that time. That’s because, unlike every other species on the planet, we’ve managed quite unwittingly to disengage ourselves from Nature’s big project – Natural Selection. The environment, the great outdoors, nolonger decides which of our genes make it through to the next generation. These days, we live indoors, apart from biological evolution, free to do all the things that satisfy our selves, not our genes, (such as watching football, using a condom, growing stubbornly beyond reproductive age, or ending it all). Humankind has grown beyond its genes. |
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Hape Kerkeling
I’M OFF THEN, MY TRAVELS ALONG THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO — Free Press- US & Canada. UK & Commonwealth rights available.
#1 bestselling non fiction book in Germany, Author of the Year, Book of the Year, nearly 4 million books in print published by Piper Verlag and sold all over the world.
Kerkeling, a TV comedian and actor, burnt out and ill, took six weeks away from his life and went on a solitary walk along the famous Camino de Santiago, looking for spiritual peace and comfort. |
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Stan Lauryssens
DALI AND I.
Sold to Peter Joseph/Thomas Dunne Books.
Film sold to Entertainment 9 with Andrew McNicol writing and directing; Al Pacino signed to play Salvador Dali. Foreign rights sold to: AST/Russia, Polirom Editura/Romania, Manteau/Standard Uitgeverij/Holland, Bertlesmann Media/Poland, OVVO Publishing/Turkey, Fragment/Czechoslovakia, Fragment/Slovakia, Psichogios/Greece.
World English rights handled by Barbara J Zitwer Agency. Translation rights handled by Philip Sane/Lennart Sane Agency. |
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Mary K. Moore
THE UNEXPECTED WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING : THE PREGNANCY GUIDE THAT WILL MAKE YOU RUE THE DAY YOU EVER LET HIM GET ON TOP OF YOU. Sold to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks for world rights.
A spoof on the international best selling pregnancy bible, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Design layout mimics the original. |
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Z. Peurifoy
WHY GOD GAVE US EMOTIONS. A prescriptive and descriptive pop psychological guide about healing our emotional wounds using the Old and New testament as references and examples by the best-selling author of ANXIETY,PHOBIAS AND PANIC (Warner Books/US Hans Huber/Germany, Robinsbooks/Spain, Piatkus Books/UK).
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Maria Rasputin
RASPUTIN WHY? MEMOIR OF MY FATHER, Zakharov Publishers, 2005. If one sentence can cover it – it would be an explanation for those who consider Grigory Rasputin the cause of almost all the disasters that befell Russia. Rasputin’s daughter wants to set the record straight. She wrote it between 1946 and 1960, living in exile. The book is the story of her father’s life, from his birth in Pokrovsky village to his death in the waters of the Neva River in Petrograd. The unexpected interpretation of his actions adds to the charm of the book. In answering the question “Why ?” Maria gives masses of details that were misses by other tellers of the tale.
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Frank Sieren
THE CHINA CODE: What’s left for us? A #1 bestseller in Germany, just published by Econ. Author is the Beijing Bureau Chief for Germany’s most important business magazine, WirtschaftsWoche and co-author of THE CHINA MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK (Palgrave Macmillan). World English rights sold to Palgrave Macmillan and to Meetoh Publishing/Korea.
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