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FICTION:
BLACK
AND WHITE
by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge
From two exciting voices in paranormal
romance comes a super-heroine tale and the kick-off a new series. They
were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but
now Callie Bradford, code-name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code-name
Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her shadow
power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery
of light, runs the city's underworld. For the past five years, the two
have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse. But,
now playtime's over. Separately, Jet and Iridium uncover clues that
point to a looming evil, one that emanates from within the academy.
As Jet works with Bruce Hunter-a normal man with an extraordinary ability
to make her weak in the knees-she is convinced that Iridium is involved
in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And
Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers
an insidious plot that's been a decade in the making… a plot in which
Jet is key. They're both right. And they're both wrong. Because nothing
is as simple as… BLACK AND WHITE. Jackie Kessler is the author of the
"Hell on Earth" series from Kensington/Zebra Books and Caitlin Kittredge
is the author of Night Life. The authors are at work on the next
book in this series to be published in 2010.
Bantam Trade Paperback July 2009
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BLACK RAIN by Graham Brown
British rights: Bantam Dell
Translation rights: Under the Sign of the Unicorn; 212-675-1381 (F)
An exciting new voice in suspense fiction delivers a fast-paced
debut thriller described as Indiana Jones meets The Ruins.
Set in the Amazon, BLACK RAIN combines ancient Mayan legend with futuristic
technology, and features a brilliant woman researcher. Under the guise
of an archeological expedition to the depths of the Amazon, a region
revered and feared in Mayan legend, Danielle Laidlaw, a brilliant researcher,
is in a race to secure the energy of the future for her organization,
the National Research Institute. Her ragtag team includes an erudite
professor and his asthmatic assistant, an ex-CIA agent blacklisted from
American soil, and two new-to-the-field NRI agents. The previous NRI
team on this assignment didn't make it out of the jungle alive-the first
clue that Danielle's mission may be more dangerous than anticipated-but
she is determined to find the new energy source locked in Mayan myth
and earn her promotion. The odds are stacked against them, as local
guides refuse to show Danielle and her team where the ancient Mayan
temple lies and every night requires a vigilant watch for the violent
Chollokwan tribe and a mysterious creature with a blood-curdling scream
that leaves battered corpses in its wake. The stakes rise even higher
when they run into German militants hired by a private U.S. corporation
to beat them to the secrets of the ancient Mayans. Both groups are in
for more than they thought possible, including a scientific discovery
that could alter world history and the terrifying predators sworn to
protect it for all eternity. Graham Brown has degrees in both aeronautics
and law, along with a private pilot's license, and has traveled extensively
to exotic locales, giving him first-hand knowledge to write realistically
and accurately on the scientific background and setting of BLACK RAIN.
He is already at work on the sequel to BLACK RAIN, which Bantam Dell
will publish.
Bantam Mass-Market Spring 2010
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BLOOD
AND ICE by Robert Masello
"In the prologue to this exceptional supernatural thriller from
Masello (Bestiary), two lovers—Lt. Sinclair Copley of the 17th Lancers
and Eleanor Ames, a nurse from Florence Nightingale’s Harley Street
hospital in London—fall into ice-strewn seas from a British sloop foundering
near Antarctica in 1856. In the present, Seattle writer Michael Wilde,
who’s recovering from a personal tragedy, can’t resist the opportunity
to go to Antarctica to write a magazine article about the Point Adélie
research station. Past and present stories alternate until Michael makes
an amazing discovery in a submerged block of ice off the Antarctic coast—two
frozen bodies, bound in chains. After Sinclair and Eleanor revive, Masello
slowly and subtly reveals how they came to transcend death. The thrills
and, most decidedly, the chills mount to a believable, sad and hopeful
ending. Fans of John Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”—the basis for the
movie The Thing—will find much to like.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Robert Masello is a true master at blending cutting edge science, historical
intrigue, and riveting thrills, and Blood and Ice is a riotous mix of
history, cryogenics, vampirism, and a chilling adventure set in the
Antarctic. Park in front of a warm fire and prepare to read this in
one sitting!” — James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of
The Last Oracle
“A stunning thriller! With a its fascinating characters, harsh, Polar
terrain, and riveting action sequences, Blood and Ice will chill you
to the bone.” — Lisa Gardner, bestselling author of Say Goodbye
“There is nothing better than reading a novel that exceeds all the hype.
Blood and Ice is a spectacular thriller, an epic adventure that crosses
genres, the world, history and time . . . I’ve never finished a book
faster.” — Richard Doetsch, author of Thieves of Heaven
“This fascinating adventure on The Ice really captures the feeling you
sometimes get down there, that anything can happen. The science, romance
and danger of Antarctica are all well conveyed, and merge into the thrill
that is the true Antarctic experience.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, author
of Antarctica
Pre-empted in England by Harvill Secker, in Spain by E. Espase-Calpe,
and in Russia by AST, with an additional license just secured with Brazilian
publisher Sumas de Letras for publication in Portuguese, Masello's eagerly
anticipated Bantam debut is a dazzling tale of suspense, the supernatural,
and romance in a story that spans centuries. Set shortly after the Crimean
War and on an expedition to modern-day Antarctica, this epic novel combines
two worlds in the midst of a frozen landscape. For when a modern-day
journalist discovers two bodies frozen under the Antarctic ice, he opens
up a whole new realm of scientific discovery. Improbably, these two
young outcasts-one of Florence Nightingale's nurses and a member of
the infamous Light Brigade-carry a deadly curse in their blood: one
that enables them to rise from their frozen tomb and live again. The
author's hardcover debut, BLOOD AND ICE is a tour de force, a top-notch
thriller with a whiff of the paranormal in which Masello proves himself
a master of the very magic that makes bestsellers.
Brilliance Audio
Pre-publication licenses to date: England/Harvill
Secker; Spain/Espase-Calpe; Russia/AST Publishers; Brazil/Suma de Letras;
Germany/Fischer Verlag; France/Fleuve Noir
Bantam Hardcover March 2009
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BLOOD
SINS by Kay Hooper
"In this disturbing paranormal thriller...Hooper pulls out
all the stops ... as Noah's elite team tackles one of their nastiest
assignments yet." — Publishers Weekly
Kay Hooper thrills fans with her riveting crime fiction featuring
Noah Bishop's extraordinary agents. Now, in this chilling follow-up
to Blood Dreams, New York Times bestseller Kay Hooper,
brings the elite FBI Special Crimes Unit back to fight a serial killer
with a thirst for more than just blood. BLOOD SINS combines edge-of-your
seat action with paranormally powered crime solving and delivers an
extraordinary, extra-chilling read. Every year with every novel, Kay's
books consistently appear on national bestseller lists, including those
of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA
Today. Most recently, Blood Dreams debuted at #9 on the New
York Times hardcover bestseller list and appeared on The Washington
Post, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly,
and USA Today bestseller lists.
Featured Alternate Selection of Doubleday Book Club, Doubleday
Large Print, Rhapsody Book Club, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild
Brilliance Audio
Random House Large Print
Bantam Hardcover January 2009
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BRIGHT
HAIR ABOUT THE BONE by Barbara Cleverly
"Cleverly brings readers an engrossing new historical mystery...
Cleverly’s complex plot and doom-laden atmosphere will appeal to a diverse
group of readers, from Da Vinci Code devotees to those who relish the
archaeological mysteries of Elizabeth Peters." — Booklist
“Spectacular and dashing. Spellbinding.” —New York Times Book Review
on The Tomb of Zeus
"... crisp writing and depth of characterization should please
traditional mystery fans." — Publishers Weekly on The
Tomb of Zeus
"CWA Historial Dagger Award winner Cleverly, author of the Joe
Sandiland series, demonstrates a knack for creating full-blown historical
puzzlers with complicated plots and engaging characters in unusual settings.
For readers who love Elizabeth Peters and Jacqueline Winspear and still
hanker for Agatha Christie." — Library Journal on The Tomb
of Zeus
"Award-winning author Cleverly debuts a captivating new series
in which an aspiring archaeologist finds herself in the middle of a
murder investigation on the island of Crete. In the tradition of Agatha
Christie, the characters are complex and varied. Amid the picturesque
history of the island, mystery and murder abound in this riveting novel."
— Romantic Times on The Tomb of Zeus
"With a spirited, intelligent heroine, a glorious exotic setting,
a clever plot, loads of archaeological detail and a touch of romance,
there's nothing not to like in this crisply told first book of a new
series by the author of the Joe Sandilands mysteries. " —The Denver
Post on The Tomb of Zeus
Barbara Cleverly's debut Laetitia Talbot mystery, The Tomb of Zeus
(Delta 11/2007), is a critical hit: "With a spirited, intelligent heroine,
a glorious exotic setting, a clever plot, loads of archaeological detail
and a touch of romance, there's nothing not to like" (Denver Post).
In Burgundy, France, 1926, a famed archaeologist dies a terrible death
in a country not his own… Thus begins CWA Historical Dagger Award winner
Barbara Cleverly's BRIGHT HAIR ABOUT THE BONE. And soon aspiring archeologist
Talbot finds herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy centuries in
the making… Letty's joy at snaring a place in the excavation of an ancient
church in Burgundy is dimmed by the tragedy of her godfather Daniel's
violent death. But when Letty receives a posthumous encoded message,
she begins an investigation into Daniel's murder that sends her on a
journey into a country's remote history… into the orbit of a privileged
French family harboring its own damning secret… into ancient Celtic
mysteries and one sacred truth kept through the ages. It is an explosive
revelation that could rock modern Christianity-one that forces a killer
out of the shadows, as one country devastated by war lays the groundwork
for another…
Licenses to date: England/Constable & Robinson
Delta Trade Paperback November 2008
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THE BROKEN TEAGLASS by Emily Arsenault
German rights: Laurie Langlie Literary Agent; 718-858-6161
(F)
THE BROKEN TEAGLASS (the bro-ken te-glas) n. 1. A book, possibly
apocryphal, by Dolores Beekmim, who probably did not exist. 2. A potential
murder weapon. 3. A razor-sharp debut novel about definitions. Someone
has been populating the citation files in the editorial offices of a
dictionary publisher with possible clues to what may be a long-unsolved
murder. Seemingly filed at random, the word definitions appear to form
a narrative of fleeting office flirtation, furtive passion, and a much-embraced,
dog-eared novel that may never have been written much less shared. As
editorial researchers Billy Webb and Mona Minot ransack the definitions
for answers, the mystery begins to take on bigger personal meaning for
both of them and their colleagues, leading to shocking answers that
are very, very difficult to define. At the human heart of THE BROKEN
TEAGLASS is a coming-of-age story about a young man challenged by mortality
before his time, weighed down by diminished expectations and grasping
at an intriguing mystery to define himself. There is nothing quite comparable
to THE BROKEN TEAGLASS and we're confident you will delight in uncovering
its mysteries. Bantam will publish this debut in a small format hardcover.
Emily Arsenault has worked as a lexicographer, an English teacher, a
children's librarian, and a Peace Corps volunteer. She wrote THE BROKEN
TEAGLASS to pass the long, quiet evenings in her mud brick house while
living in rural South Africa. She now lives in New England with her
husband.
Delacorte Hardcover October 2009
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THE
BURNING SKIES by David J. Williams
The author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Mirrored
Heavens, returns with the second book in his military Sci-Fi "Autumn
Rain" series. Praised by masters of space opera Peter Watts and Stephen
Baxter and a king of military SF, Jack Campbell, David J. Williams proved
with his genre-busting The Mirrored Heavens, that he is a rising
star to watch. In his electrifying debut, Williams created a futuristic
world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political
wrangling of our own time. Now, in THE BURNING SKIES, life as U.S. counterintelligence
agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tatters-her mission betrayed,
her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. The defeat of
the brilliant and mysterious insurgent group known only as Autumn Rain
was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that
their ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances
of the 22nd Century-but to rule all of humanity. Now it's up to Claire,
with her ability to jack her brain into the nets of the enemy, to pick
up the pieces. Navigating a complex world filled with both steadfast
loyalists and ruthless traitors, Claire must be ready for Rain's next
move… so she can make hers. But her true enemy may be one step ahead
of her. David J. Williams is at work on his next book in this series,
which Bantam will publish in 2010.
Bantam Trade Paperback June 2009
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THE
COLDEST MILE by Tom Piccirilli
** The Midnight Road: Winner of International
Thriller Writers (ITW) Award for Best Paperback Original**
"[Piccirilli] gives you the distinctive shiver...all good writing
provides: the certainty that the writer's own ghosts are in it."
—New York Times Book Review
"His prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers....The Cold
Spot is both funny and ferocious....Piccirilli's stories are worth their
weight in gold."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Piccirilli tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly
noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate."—
Publishers Weekly on The Cold Spot
Four-time Bram Stoker Award recipient and two-time International
Thriller Writers Award nominee Tom Piccirilli returns with this edgy
crime thriller that brings back Chase, the wheelman from The Cold
Spot. Still recovering from the death of his wife and the wounds
he sustained while tracking down her killer, Chase has given up on the
straight and narrow and taken a job as a driver for the Langan mob family.
But his real goal is to pull a heist that will provide the money he
needs to track down his renegade grandfather, Jonah, and the daughter
Jonah nearly died to protect. Then a Godfather-like family coup at the
Langan's posh estate puts Chase inside a dangerous trap that's closing
fast. Piccirilli fans can look forward to a new noir thriller, Shadow
Season, coming from Bantam in June 2009.
Foreign licenses for Tom's novels include: France/Editions Denoel (A
Choir of Ill Children and The Dead Letters); Germany/Heyne
(The Dead Letters and Midnight Road); and Spain/La Factoria
de Ideas (A Choir of Ill Children and November Mourns)
Bantam Mass-Market March 2009
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CRASH
INTO ME by Jill Sorenson
"...culminating in a page-turning climax as the killer is finally
unmasked. Despite the mystery, the real energy comes from the emotional
relationships full of explosive sex and terrible secrets." -- Publishers
Weekly
Jill Sorenson makes her Bantam debut with a breathlessly fast-paced
and super-sexy romance certain to delight fans of Suzanne Brockmann
and Jayne Ann Krentz. A series of violent murders of young women shakes
the California coast, and the main suspect is Ben Fortune, a famous
surfer and former husband of a victim. When Sonny Vasquez gets assigned
to the case, she knows it's the perfect opportunity to prove herself
as a tough-as-nails special agent-even if she has to play the part of
a bimbo surfer groupie to get the job done. But in order elicit evidence,
Sonny must get close to Ben, and soon she starts to do her job too well.
Can she keep her emotions in check long enough to get to the bottom
of the case, or are both Ben and Sunny in way over their heads? Combining
high level danger, extremely sexy relationships, and deeply emotional
characters CRASH INTO ME is romantic suspense at its best.
Bantam Mass-Market February 2009
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FAEFEVER
by Karen Marie Moning
**FAEFEVER is an instant national bestseller
with Karen's strongest first day hardcover sales ever**
Its first week on sale, FAEFEVER debuts in the #3 position on the New
York Times bestseller list and #17 on the USA Today bestseller list
. It is also a Wall Street Journal (#7) and Washington Post (#4) bestseller.
"The third installment in Moning's popular Fever series (Darkfever;
Bloodfever) finds sidhe-seer MacKayla Lane continuing to adjust to her
powers and her new life in Dublin... This series is a good bet for readers
of Nora Roberts's paranormal-tinged titles, who will appreciate Mac's
tough yet tender character."— Library Journal on Faefever
"This series is a good bet for readers of Nora Roberts's paranormal-tinged
titles, who will appreciate Mac's tough yet tender character."
— Library Journal
"Moning's delectable Mac is breathlessly appealing, and the wild
perils she must endure are peppered with endless conundrums. The results
are addictively dark, erotic and even shocking."
— Publishers Weekly on Bloodfever
"Moning brilliantly works the dark sides of man and Fae for all
they are worth. Although she has tamped down the romance and enhanced
the urban fantasy element... the sexual tension heats up between Mac
and Barrons, while V’lane adds more conflict to the mix. " — Booklist
on Bloodfever
Karen Marie Moning's "Fever" series is a coast-to-coast hit! The first
two titles in this national bestselling series, Darkfever and
Bloodfever, appeared on the New York Times, USA Today,
and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Thrilling and seductive,
the hotly anticipated third novel in the "Fever" series draws readers
deeper into the sensual and mysterious realm of the immortal Fae and
the adventures of sidhe-seer Mackayla Lane. In FAEFEVER, Karen Marie
Moning returns to the shadowy Dublin Otherworld in an undeniably sexy
novel her fans are feverish for. Changed by the choices she made in
order to survive, Mac no longer is the naïve, idealistic, and glamourous
girl newly arrived in Dublin. Now, on a quest to find her sister's killer,
she is a major player in a deadly game, but with one great advantage:
she knows how to find the one thing Fae and human alike are willing
to kill for-the Sinsar Dubh, an ancient book of magic so dark it corrupts
anyone who touches it. Surrounded by treachery, her enemies indistinguishable
from her allies, she can be certain of only one thing-as All Hallow's
Eve approaches, her time is running out. FAEFEVER combines mystery,
romance, and urban fantasy to create a dark and addictive page-turner.
Main Selection of Rhapsody Book Club; Featured Alternate Selection of
Doubleday Book Club
Thorndike Press Large Print
Licenses to date: Russia/Family Leisure Club; Germany/Ullstein Verlag;
France/Editions J'ai Lu
Delacorte Hardcover October 2008
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THE
GOODBYE COUSINS by Maggie Leffler
Maggie Leffler's debut novel, The Diagnosis of Love, received
a Publisher's Weekly starred review: "[An] inspiring debut… Leffler...infuses
Holly's spiritual search with liberal doses of humor, exquisite insight
and rich details about the U.K. medical profession." And, Elinor Lipman
wrote, "Maggie Leffler's writing accomplishes that thing I enjoy the
most: lively storytelling that is in equal parts wryly witty and touching."
In THE GOODBYE COUSINS, Di Linzer is the orphaned daughter of a psychic
and a psychiatrist, and a seer of ghosts. After moving from England
to the States to start her life over, she can't shake her premonition
that Armageddon is less than a month away and, coincidentally, on the
same day her cousin Alecia is getting married. Alecia Axtel's future
is falling apart, thanks to the pre-nup she has yet to mention to her
fiancé, her shaky promotion to evening news anchor, and her unexpected
pregnancy. But none of this compares to what happens when Di inadvertently
invites Alecia's estranged mother to the wedding. As these two young
women-one searching for direction, the other desperate to stop her well-ordered
life from unraveling-journey down their life paths, they'll rediscover
laughter and find that it is in the midst of life's biggest challenges
that people learn what makes them happy.
Bantam Discovery Trade Paperback & Mass-Market Paperback
July 2009
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THE
LANGUAGE OF BEES by Laurie R. King
New York Times bestselling author and "one of the finest
mystery writers in the country" (Monterey Herald) Laurie R. King
returns with THE LANGUAGE OF BEES. When the son of Sherlock Holmes appears
unexpectedly on their cottage doorstep, Holmes' wife and partner, Mary
Russell, detects that something is amiss... When the young man disappears,
she knows she is in a race against time. Russell and Holmes' sleuthing
will take them from the seedy underground of bohemian London to the
fields of Scotland, where a horrifying ceremony must be stopped before
it takes a life Sherlock Holmes barely knew existed, and now seeks desperately
to protect. For lovers of brilliant detective fiction, Laurie R. King
takes readers on a dizzying journey from a bucolic glade to the basement
of a menacing and secretive society, spinning an intricate web to ensnare
her two beloved sleuths. King garnered outstanding reviews and a Barry
nomination for Keeping Watch and critics adored her recent hardcover,
Touchstone-The Wall Street Journal called it, "A thriller
with big themes...Like a well-managed Edwardian soirée, TOUCHSTONE is
by turns relaxed, tense, amusing, thought-provoking -- and memorably
satisfying." King's Kate Martinelli series has won both the Edgar and
Creasey Awards. She lives in northern California, where she is at work
on her next Russell and Holmes mystery, which Bantam will publish in
2010.
Licenses to date: England/Allison & Busby
Bantam Hardcover May 2009
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MARK
OF THE DEMON by Diana Rowland
"Mark of the Demon is a nifty combination of police procedural and
urban fantasy. Not too many detectives summon demons in their basement
for the fun of it, but Kara Gillian is not your average law enforcement
officer. In the course of Rowland's first book, Kara learns a lot about
demons, her past, and above all, herself." — Charlaine Harris,
New York Times bestselling author of From Dead to Worse
"Rowland spins a tale that is riveting, suspenseful, and deliciously
sexy. With a unique take on demons, and with one of the most terrifying
serial killers ever, Mark of the Demon will keep you up late at night
turning pages."
— Jenna Black, author of Speak of the Devil
"Mark of the Demon is a fascinating mixture of a hard-boiled police
procedural and gritty yet other-worldly urban fantasy. Diana Rowland's
professional background as a both street cop and forensic assistant
not only shows through but gives the book a realism sadly lacking in
all too many urban fantasy "crime" novels."
— L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the Saga of Recluce
A stunning new talent in paranormal urban fantasy gives us her first
novel, in which a female officer detailed to her first murder case comes
across a serial killer with a demonic goal. Drawing on her own experience
as a former police officer, Diana Rowland has created a character able
to hold her own amongst demons and criminals alike, in a world and demonic
mythos unlike anything on the market today. In the Deep South, the edge
of reality ends where the bayou begins. When police officer Kara Gillian
hears that the Symbol Man is back in town, she is excited to be on her
first murder case… not realizing exactly what she's getting herself
into. For the Symbol Man is no ordinary murderer-he is a serial killer
with a dozen bodies to his name. And, after a three-year hiatus, he
has returned, leaving his special calling card on his mutilated victims:
demonic symbols that no one can decipher. No one, that is, except for
Kara. She is a demon summoner who can raise demons and sense demonic
presences. Able to see and interact with a world that most people can't,
Kara must draw on her skills as a police officer and master of the arcane
to stop the Symbol Man from killing again and possibly summoning something
even she can't control. Diana Rowland lives in south Louisiana with
her husband and daughter and is already at work on her second novel
featuring heroine Kara Gillian, coming out in March 2010.
Bantam Mass-Market July 2009
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MY
HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS by Bridget Asher
"Rendered with humor and heart."—People
"A laugh-and-cry novel….Thoroughly enjoyable…readers will…fall in love
with My Husband's Sweethearts."—Associated Press
"...Flashes of wit and a parade of memorable women keep pages turning
as Lucy grows increasingly and endearingly confused about her feelings
toward Artie, John and the rest." — Publishers Weekly
"In this spirited debut, Asher creates an unconventional family—one
brought together by a flawed but lovable man and kept together by a
wounded but openhearted woman. As each character’s individual story
is revealed, the reader is further enveloped by this humorous yet touching
tale." — Booklist
"Bridget Asher's pitch perfect ear for language, sly wit, and compassionate
understanding of what it is to be human and fallible made this novel
an undiluted joy to read. MY HUSBAND'S SWEETHEARTS is a whip-smart,
tender, and eccentric tale that chronicles all the ways forgiveness
can come to us; don't miss this ride." —Joshilyn Jackson, author of
Gods in Alabama and Between, Georgia
"The narrator of this wry and thoughtful novel observes her world with
snappy, unsentimental eyes, and yet she finds a way to soothe every
broken heart around her--including her own--with genuine tenderness."
— Katherine Center, author of The Bright Side of Disaster
"Each character in this wry and beguiling book has a fresh take on
love: how it tricks and blindsides us, makes us crazy, elated, sad;
how we can't stop giving it; how it ennobles our lives. As Lucy and
her husband's sweethearts reluctantly form a family as unlikely as it
is beautiful, I found myself falling-falling hard-for every single one
of them." —Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of
Love Walked In and Belong to Me
In this sweetheart of a novel--a sophisticated romantic comedy already
optioned for film--a woman calls up all the former sweethearts in her
cheating husband's little black book and invites them to take their
turns by his deathbed-to hilarious and surpising results. When Lucy
discovered that her philandering husband was gravely ill, she came home,
opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn't going through
this alone. A 30-something tax auditor who doesn't overlook a thing,
Lucy had been blind to Artie's cheating. Now, she can't believe there
are so many women in Artie's life-or that any will actually take her
up on her offer… But one by one, Artie's sweethearts show up: The one
who hates him. The one who owes her life to him. The one he turned into
a lesbian. And the one he taught to dance. For Lucy, the jaw-dropping
procession of women of all ages, shapes, and forms is an education in
the man she can't forgive and can't leave. And among them is one visitor
with the strangest story of all: the young man who may or may not be
Artie's long lost son… Now, Lucy and her husband's sweethearts are sharing
secrets, sharing tears, making connections and even reconciliations.
And Lucy is discovering kindred spirits, lost souls, and something that's
a lot like family. For as her husband clings to life-and her own is
changed forever-Lucy knows one thing for certain: the biggest surprises
are yet to come…
Featured Alternate Selection of Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club
Blackstone Audio
Licenses to date: Germany/Droemer Verlag; Holland/ House of Books; Czech/Euromedia
Group; Italy/Cairo Editore; Japan/Bungeishunju;
Hebrew/Matar Publishing House; Poland/Wydawnictwo Otwarte; Spain/Ediciones
B; Russia/AST Publishers; Brazil/Editora Manole; Romania/Curtea Veche
Publishers; Hungary/Kelly Kiado Kft;
Australia-New Zealand/Random House Australia; Porgual/Editora Presenca;
Korea/10 A.M. Publishers; Slovak/Ikar Publishers
Delacorte Hardcover September 2008
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ONE
HOT MESS by Lois Greiman
Romantic Times' Historical Storyteller of the Year for
2005, Lois Greiman's series has won the Toby Bromberg Award for Most
Humorous Mystery (also won by Harley Jane Kozak, Donna Andrews, and
Meg Cabot) and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Best Mainstream Mystery
Romantic Suspense, and has been nominated for a Reviewer's Choice Award
as Best Amateur Sleuth. Now, L.A.'s favorite cocktail waitress-turned-shrink
Christina McMullen is back as Greiman delivers the perfect concoction
of mystery, comedy, and romance in this dazzling new suspense novel.
When Senator Rivera asks LA psychologist Christina McMullen for what
seems like a simple favor, she has no idea she'll soon be pulled into
a hot-button political murder mystery that stretches back all the way
to the beginning of the distinguished senator's career. Needless to
say, her involvement puts Chrissy in hot water with the senator's son,
her on-again, off-again boyfriend, LAPD Detective Jack Rivera. Only
Chrissy's deep and demented insight into the human psyche can solve
this one! See why Publishers Weekly claims of this series, "Simple
sexy sport may well be just what the doctor ordered."
Dell Mass-Market April 2009
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OUT OF THIN AIR by Carla Buckley
With a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy
and complexity of human relationships, debut novelist Carla Buckley
delivers a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
When an avian pandemic sweeps across the ocean and reaches America,
Ann Brooks must face an unthinkable dilemma. How can she protect her
family from a threat she cannot see? And what terrible sacrifices will
she make to protect a life that has not turned out the way she imagined
it would be? Sparking thought-provoking discussion about the nature
of family and the choices we must make in the darkest of times, FLIGHT
RISK deals with timely moral dilemmas with startling candor, plunging
its characters into uncertainty and tragedy and letting their spirits
lift them from despair. It's an enthralling novel about the hardest
questions the human heart must face and of the enduring truth born from
love.
Licenses to date: Germany/Wunderlich (Rowohlt); England/Orion Books
Dell May 2010
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PALIMPSEST
by Catherynne Valente
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden:
Winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award
Short-listed for the World Fantasy Award
Named One of Kirkus Reviews Top 10 SF Books of 2006
Selected for the 2007 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
List
"A fabulous, recursive Arabian Nights-style narrative…lush, hallucinogenic."
—Publishers Weekly
"Valente weaves an intricate, exquisite web….While the obvious comparison
is to One Thousand and One Nights, the spirit and artistry of these
tales may be even closer to those of Angela Carter. These are fairy
tales that bite and bleed." —Washington Post Book World
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and
Spice:
"Extraordinary…no summary can do justice to the bedazzling intricacies
on bountiful display here."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In Catherynne M. Valente's imaginary realms, stories splinter and
reflect, causing the sweetest sensation of vertigo for the reader.…Flashes
of wry humor balance Valente's lush imaginings.…It's the postmodern
version of the never-ending story." —Los Angeles Times
From the author of The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden and
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice comes a unique
stand-alone tale about four lost soul who must trace their way to each
other using maps tattooed on their skins. Catherynne Valente's mythmaking
2-volume masterpiece, the Orphan's Tales, was published to wide acclaim,
receiving starred reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal,
and Booklist. In her latest novel, she pushes the boundaries
of contemporary fiction and fantasy to produce a world entirely her
own. Palimpsest is the erotic and exotic world one visits only in dreams.
A world that shadows our own and lives within our secret fantasies.
In our world, four strangers-a locksmith, a bookbinder, a lost girl,
and a beekeeper-are linked together when they wake from a night of passion
marked by a mysterious tattoo. Visiting the strange land of Palimpsest
through dreams, and through the heated love of other lost souls, they
must trace their fate through a fantastical and hallucinogenic city
and through the maps tattooed on their skins to find their way, and
each other.
Bantam Trade Paperback March 2009
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PERFECT
CIRCLE by Carlos J. Cortes
Carlos J. Cortes' PERFECT CIRCLE is debut science fiction. Geologist
and corporate renegade Paul Reece has happily shed his busy and privileged
life for a simple one of friends, companionship, and moonshine in a
remote village in Honduras. But when his grandfather's multi-billion
dollar mining concern discovers a mysterious object buried four miles
beneath the surface of the Ituri Rainforest of the Congo, Paul can't
pass up the chance to inspect it first-hand. Riding an unpredictable
probe down a chute to the center of the Earth, he will witness first-hand
the magic that is calling to be born. In a story that includes double-dealing
CIA agents, mystical natives and ancient tomes that hold the secrets
of this Earth, Cortes reveals how careless actions may bring about ecological
cataclysm.
Bantam Mass-Market December 2008
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THE
PRETEND WIFE by Bridget Asher
"Rendered with humor and heart."—People
"A laugh-and-cry novel….Thoroughly enjoyable…readers will…fall in love
with My Husband's Sweethearts."—Associated Press
"In this spirited debut, Asher creates an unconventional family….As
each character's individual story is revealed, the reader is further
enveloped by this humorous yet touching tale."—Booklist
"A parade of memorable women keep pages turning."—Publishers Weekly
"Witty [and] oddly sweet."—Kirkus Reviews
The critics agree: Bridget Asher's Bantam debut, My Husband's Sweethearts,
is a roaring success! And, with 16 foreign publishers signed up to publish
it, My Husband's Sweethearts is an international hit to boot!
Now, in THE PRETEND WIFE, her second Bantam novel, Bridget explores
the question, "What would life be like with the one who got away?" in
a big-hearted, funny, fiercely perceptive tale about a happily married
woman and the little white lie that changed everything… For Gwen Merchant,
love has always been doled out in little packets-from her father, a
marine biologist who submerged himself in work after her mother's death,
and from her husband, Peter, who's always been respectable and safe.
But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites
himself back into Gwen's life, she starts to remember a time when love
knew no limits. What does Elliot want? He wants Gwen to become his pretend
wife for a weekend. He wants her to accompany him to his family's lake
house so that he can pretend to fulfill his dying mother's last wish.
Reluctantly, Gwen agrees to play along-with her husband Peter's full
support. It's just one weekend-what harm could come of it? But as Gwen
is drawn into Elliot's quirky, wonderful family-his astonishingly wise
and open mother, his warm and welcoming sister, and his adorable, precocious
niece-she starts questioning everything she's ever expected from love.
And as she begins to uncover a few secrets about her own family, it
suddenly looks like a pretend relationship just might turn out to be
the most real thing she's ever known. My Husband's Sweethearts
has been optioned as a major motion picture by producer Kevin Misher.
Blackstone Audio
Licenses to date: Australia-New Zealand/Random House Australia;
Italy/Cairo Publishing
Bantam Hardcover July 2009
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ROANOKE:
A Novel of Elizabethan Intrigue
by Margaret Lawrence
"Lawrence presents a page-turning historical mystery
filled with the treacherous court politics and intrigue of the time
and offers an original view of the mystery that is the lost Roanoke
colony." —Booklist
This literary lyrical thriller tells the tale of two queens and
two continents, linked by one of history's most fascinating unsolved
mysteries: What really happened to the lost colony of Roanoke?
The answer lies in this spellbinding novel that melds Tudor court intrigue
with the savage beauty of a lost civilization, perfect reading for anyone
who loves the work of Susan Vreeland, Alison Weir, or Louis de Bernieres.
Alternate Selection of Book-of-the-Month Club and Mystery Guild
Delacorte Hardcover February 2009
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SAFER
by Sean Doolittle
The plot is slick and inventive. The author is skilled at ratcheting
up readers’ foreboding, sympathy, and fear, creating the deep need to
see how things turn out." —Booklist on SAFER
"SAFER is a high-octane, rip-roaring page-turner. I read it in one sitting
-- and loved every minute." —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling
author of Hold Tight
"As long as there are writers like Sean Doolittle out there, American
crime fiction has got a sterling future ahead of it." —Dennis Lehane
"[The Cleanup] could well be the best-thrills-for-the-buck reading bargain
of the year." —Chicago Tribune
"A superb, suspenseful tale." —The Wall Street Journal
"Sean Doolittle is a young writer with serious chops." —George Pelecanos
"A cult writer for the masses-hip, smart and so mordantly funny that
the casual reader might be laughing too hard to realize just how thoughtful
Doolittle's work is. Get on the bandwagon now." —Laura Lippman
Hardcover debut! Sean Doolittle delivers a fascinating, dark, and witty
suspense novel about suburbia-and the painful secrets that lie just
below its surface. SAFER introduces us to Paul and Sara Callaway, who
move from Boston to the small university town of Clark Falls, Iowa,
where they settle into a happy, quiet life. But the peaceful, suburban
days on their cozy, wooded cul-de-sac don't last for long. Foreign licenses
for Sean's novels include: Brazil/Rocco; France/Editions des Arenes;
and Poland/ Wydawnictwo C & T,
Featured Alternate Selection of Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club,
Mystery Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club
Brilliance Audio
Licenses to date: Holland/De Boekerij
Delacorte Hardcover March 2009
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THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK by Madeline Hunter
"Bestseller Hunter (Secrets of Surrender) weaves a delightful
1800s romance with plenty of steamy passion and opium intrigue... Hunter
has concocted a satisfying tale of desire, deception and privilege."
— Publishers Weekly
Nationally bestselling author Madeline Hunter steams up historical romance
once again with the eagerly awaited, final book in the Rothwell brothers
series. In THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK, Christian Rothwell faces a
woman from his past, the one woman he's always wanted more than any
other, and the one woman who can expose the secrets he must keep hidden.
Leona Montgomery never expected to see Christian again, but she will
do whatever she has to in order to save her father's company. But her
quest leads to greater danger than she could imagine, and soon she realizes
Christian is the only one who can help her. But will she lose her heart
in the process? THE SINS OF LORD EASTERBROOK follows Secrets of Surrender,
The Rules of Seduction, and Lessons of Desire.
Featured Alternate Selection of Doubleday Book Club and Rhapsody Book
Club
Dell Mass-Market February 2009
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SHADES
OF DARK by Linnea Sinclair
**Games of Command was just nominated
for a 2008 RITA Award for
Best Paranormal Romance**
"RITA winner Sinclair's sequel to 2005's Gabriel's Ghost mixes
space opera with romance... the smashing climax will please everyone."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Shades of Darkness
"Building on characters first introduced in Gabriel's Ghost
(2005), this riveting interstellar space adventure takes the relationship
of fugitive captain Chasidah "Chaz" Bergren and telepathic Gabriel "Sully"
Ross Sullivan to new heights as they face danger and treachery in the
forms of a wicked ex-husband and a predatory seductress who will stop
at nothing to achieve their goals. Love, loyalty, and life-changing
choices are front and center in this swiftly moving, sexy adventure
that will appeal to romance and sf fans alike." — Library Journal
on Shades of Darkness
"Building on characters first introduced in Gabriel's Ghost
(2005), this riveting interstellar space adventure takes the relationship
of fugitive captain Chasidah "Chaz" Bergren and telepathic Gabriel "Sully"
Ross Sullivan to new heights as they face danger and treachery in the
forms of a wicked ex-husband and a predatory seductress who will stop
at nothing to achieve their goals. Love, loyalty, and life-changing
choices are front and center in this swiftly moving, sexy adventure
that will appeal to romance and sf fans alike." — Library Journal
on Shades of Darkness
"From its tongue-in-cheek title to its melding of romance and
zombie-killing action, there's little in Sinclair's newest sci-fi romance
(following Games of Command) that doesn't surprise, grip or entertain...
Sinclair's strong characterizations and methodical plotting, makes the
book an unexpected treat. Though it may prove too light for sci-fi enthusiasts,
fans of romance and fantasy hunting for edgier fare can stop singing
the blues."
— Publishers Weekly on The Down Home Zombie Blues
"...Sinclair’s quirky slant on the genre highlights her solid
world building and allows even passing fans of science fiction to enjoy
the ride. " — Booklist on The Down Home Zombie Blues
"Quirky, offbeat and packed with gritty action, this blistering
novel explodes out of the gate and never looks back. Counting on Sinclair
to provide top-notch science fiction elaborately spiced with romance
and adventure is a given, but she really aces this one! A must-read,
by an author who never disappoints."
—Romantic Times on The Down Home Zombie Blues
SHADES OF DARK is Linnea Sinclair's long-awaited sequel to the 2006
RITA Award winner, Gabriel's Ghost (Spectra, 11/2005). Court-martialed
Imperial Fleet captain Chasidah Bergren is on the run with her fugitive
lover, mercenary Gabriel Sullivan. Rim-worlds and illegal deep-space
outposts offer little safety. Corruption in the empire-expertly orchestrated
by Sully's powerful cousin, Hayden Burke-is everywhere: among her crew,
her friends. Even her family. Everyone has a price. Everyone can make
a choice. But when Sully makes his, Chaz must choose between what Sully
has become-and what her heart demands she must do.
Bantam Mass-Market August 2008
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SHADOW
OF BETRAYAL by Brett Battles
"A page-turner… Quinn [is] a compelling protagonist… Admirers
of quality espionage fiction can look forward to a new series worth
following." — Publishers Weekly on The Cleaner
"Battles hits for extra bases in his first novel. The Cleaner is a tightly
written page-turner, filled with tradecraft and offering as much action
as a James Bond film… a wild ride."— Booklist on The Cleaner
"Breakneck pacing, colorful locales and dizzying plot twists make
the Quinn series a welcome addition to the political thriller genre."
— Publishers Weekly on The Deceived
Brett Battles debut novel, The Cleaner, has been nominated
for the Barry and Shamus awards and hailed as a "welcome addition to
the world of crime fiction" (Jeffery Deaver). Now, the author of The
Cleaner and The Deceived returns with his latest geopolitical
thriller, as "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn-"one part James Bond, one part
Jason Bourne" (Nashville Book Worm)-pursues an international
smuggling ring. The meeting place was carefully chosen: an abandoned
church in rural Ireland, just after dark. For Jonathan Quinn the job
was only to observe. If his clean-up skills were needed, it meant things
had gone horribly wrong. But an assassin hidden in a tree assured just
that. Suddenly, Quinn has four dead bodies to dispose of and one astounding
clue to a mystery that is about to spin wildly out of control. Three
jobs, no questions. That was the deal Quinn had struck with his client
at The Office. Unfortunately for him, Ireland was just the beginning.
Now Quinn, along with his colleague and girlfriend, the lethal Orlando,
has a new assignment, touched off by the killings in Ireland. Their
quarry is a U.N. aide worker named Marion Dupuis, who has suddenly disappeared
from her assignment in war-torn Africa. When Quinn finally catches a
glimpse of her, she flees, frantic and scared. And not alone. For Quinn
the assignment has now changed: Find Marion Dupuis, and the child she
is protecting, and keep them from harm. But if only it were that easy.
Soon Quinn and Orlando find themselves in a bunker in the California
hills, where Quinn will unearth a horrifying plot against a gathering
of world leaders-and an act of terror more cunning, and more insidious,
than anyone can guess. Fast, smart, sleek and stunning, SHADOW OF BETRAYAL
is gritty, gripping suspense, a pulse-pounding thriller that stirs the
heart, as well. Foreign licenses for Brett's novels include: Bulgaria/Bard
Publishers; England/Preface; Estonia/Eram Books; France/City Editions;
Germany/Goldmann; Holland/Mynx Publishers; Japan/RH Kodansha; Poland/Bertelsmann
Media; and Russia/Eksmo Publishers.
Licenses to date for SHADW OF BETRAYAL:
EnglandPreface; Slovene/Anu Elara Publishers
Delacorte Hardcover July 2009
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SUPER
IN THE CITY: A Mystery by Daphne Uviller
"Uviller's debut is as gleefully unpretentious as the rhinestones
on narrator Zephyr Zuckerman's thrift-shop dress... The novel gallops
at full speed from the very first line... this is undoubtedly smarter
and funnier than most other girls-in-the-city novels." — Publishers
Weekly
"Former Time Out New York books editor Uviller finds a wealth
of material in the local environs explored in her feisty debut about
a Greenwich Village native... Funny, enjoyable caper about a dirty job
and the unlikely young woman who takes it on." — Kirkus
"Debut novelist Uviller borrows from her own life—with some
admittedly bizarre twists—for this lively, smart chick-lit mystery.
The characters are likable—especially Zephyr’s overachieving, yet unassuming
coterie of prep-school friends. Readers will also appreciate the many
literary references and Uviller’s insider’s view of New York City."
— Booklist
This debut comic novel of New York City proportions has Eat, Pray,
and Love's bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert cheering: "One should
not simply read SUPER IN THE CITY; one should gobble it up like candy."
Twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman, a tenant in her parents' Greenwich
Village apartment building, boasts a BA worth a hundred grand, a fantasy
life that rivals Walter Mitty's, and a bad ex-boyfriend obsession-plus,
she can't commit to a career. So, when the superintendent of 187 West
12th is led down the brownstone steps in handcuffs, her parents strongly
suggest their "darling daught" become the new super… Zephyr contends
with this latest blow to her terminally wormhole-ridden ego by teaming
up with cute but surly exterminator Gregory Samson to investigate some
titillating secrets about the building's occupants. For example, what
was the previous super, who built a hidden staircase lined in pink satin,
doing with the smoky-voiced Frenchwoman upstairs? Why does the whiny
widow dress only in Tom Wolfe whites? And how exactly does the first-floor
jazz musician really pay his rent? Clever, romantic, and utterly hilarious,
SUPER IN THE CITY is a native New Yorker's love letter to a city where
being gainfully employed can often trump stilettos as the spiciest element
of sex appeal, and where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door.
She is at currently at work on her next Zephyr Zuckerman novel.
Licenses to date: Germany/Heyne Verlag; Spain/Esencia
Bantam Trade Paperback February 2009
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TOUCH
THE HORIZON by Iris Johansen (September 2008)
IF
THERE BE DRAGONS by Kay Hooper (October 2008)
MAN
OF HER DREAMS by Tami Hoag (November 2008)
KISS
& TELL by Suzanne Brockmann (December 2008)
AND
THE DESERT BLOOMS by Iris Johansen
(January 2009)
RUMOR
HAS IT by Tami Hoag (February 2009)
THE
KISSING GAME by Suzanne Brockmann (March 2009)
REBEL
WALTZ by Kay Hooper (April 2009)
EVERLASTING
by Iris Johansen (May 2009)
THE
TROUBLE WITH J.J. by Tami Hoag (June 2009)
OTHERWISE ENGAGED by Suzanne Brockmann
(July 2009)
LARGER THAN LIFE by Kay Hooper (August 2009)
Continuing in September 2008, Bantam will bring back into print
-- after being unavailable for many years -- classic contemporary romances
from today's New York Times bestselling authors: Iris Johansen,
Tami Hoag, Kay Hooper, and Suzanne Brockman. Originally published as
Loveswepts, these romantic tales will be released on a monthly basis
through the Summer 2009season.
IF THERE BE DRAGONS: BBC Audiobooks
MAN OF HER DREAMS: BBC Audiobooks
KISS & TELL: BBC Audiobooks
AND THE DESERT BLOOMS: BBC Audiobooks
TOUCH THE HORIZON: BBC Audiobooks
RUMOR HAS IT: BBC Audiobooks
THE KISSING GAME: BBC Audiobooks
REBEL WALTZ: BBC Audiobooks
EVERLASTING: BBC Audiobooks
THE TROUBLE WITH J.J: BBC Audiobooks
OTHERWISE ENGAGED: BBC Audiobooks
LARGER THAN LIFE: BBC Audiobooks
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TEXAS!
LUCKY by Sandra Brown
From New York Times #1 bestseller Sandra Brown, who's amassed
over fifty-five New York Times bestsellers in her career, and is published
in over 35 countries, comes a classic Sandra Brown romance at its best.
TEXAS! LUCKY, the first book in the Bantam's hardcover reissue of the
Texas! Trilogy, features a hot-tempered heroine, a crime-solving cowboy
and a blistering romance. Sandra Brown has over seventy million copies
of her books in print. She is the recipient of numerous awards including
a 1998 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts
Award for Literature, and the American Business Women's Association's
Distinguished Circle of Success.
Bantam Hardcover January 2009
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THANK
YOU FOR ALL THINGS by Sandra Kring
"...An intelligent, involving story about a family haunted by violence,
physical and emotional." — The Boston Globe
"Kring explores the far-ranging effects of family trauma with a
deft hand as her child narrator uncovers the past, bringing light and
hope. A touching novel." — Booklist
"In her new novel, Kring (The Book of Bright Ideas) crafts a
beautiful, witty story that rings with heartbreak, hope and laughter...
Kring's brilliance lies in her powerful reversals and revelations, taking
readers and characters on a dramatic, emotional roller coaster."
— Publishers Weekly
Sandra Kring, beloved author of the critically acclaimed Carry Me
Home-"Touching...surprisingly poignant...builds to an emotional
crescendo... The book becomes so engrossing that it's tough to see it
end" (Washington Post) ... "Heartfelt...Strong characters, a
clear community portrait and a memorable protagonist whose poignant
fumblings cloak an innocent wisdom demonstrate Kring's promise" (Publishers
Weekly)-and her bestselling 2006 novel, The Book of Bright Ideas,
returns with the story of a remarkable protagonist, Lucy McGowan, age
eleven, and her family's thorny history and an unexpectedly illuminating
journey back home... We're extremely pleased and excited to publish
Sandy's magical new novel, THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS, in the Bantam Discovery™
program, with a sizeable six-figure first printing backed by the program's
7-figure marketing campaign. Simultaneous mass market and trade editions
will work to build on her already stunning nine-fold sales jump from
Carry Me Home-a Book Sense Notable pick and a 2005 Midwest Booksellers'
Choice Award nominee-to 2006's The Book of Bright Ideas-a 2006
Target "Bookmarked" selection and selection of the New York Public Library's
Books for the Teen Age list in 2007. In THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS, Lucy,
her "profound gifted" twin brother Milo, her "commitment phobic" mother,
and her New Age grandmother are leaving Chicago for Timber Falls to
care for her dying grandfather-a complex and difficult man whose failure
as a husband and father still painfully echoes down the years. For Lucy,
about whose own missing father no one will speak, the return to the
rural Wisconsin town where the McGowan story began promises to provide
a key piece to the puzzle of her family's broken past. But what the
precocious Lucy discovers is a lesson about the paradoxes of love and
the grace of forgiveness that the adults around her will need some help
in remembering if they are ever to come to something like peace. By
turns heart-wrenching and heart-mending, THANK YOU FOR ALL THINGS is
a powerful and poignant novel by a brilliant storyteller whose gift
for mixing wisdom and wry humor will fill you with gratitude for the
gift of life itself.
Bantam Discovery Trade Paperback & Mass-Market October 2008
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TOMATO
RHAPSODY: A Novel of Love, Lust and Forbidden Fruit by Adam Schell
In this extravagant, inventive and joyous debut, love's heart beats
tomato red under a sultry Tuscan sun. TOMATO RHAPSODY is a passionate,
ribald, and virtuosic romance for those who savor the comedies of Shakespeare
or the captivating mixture of history and romance in Corelli's Mandolin.
It is August in Tuscany in the heart of the 17th century. The rising
sun throws orange and purple colors across the land. And on this day,
God (or Fate-whichever you believe in) sets in motion a series of great
and tiny events-in a tale of love in all its guises, of braying beasts
and rhyming peasants, of a duke who wants to be a farmer, a boy who
wants to be a girl and a man who wants revenge… Magical, wondrous, rich
in literary delights, TOMATO RHAPSODY is also the almost-true story
of how the tomato came to Italy-told with all lusty richness of a sun-ripened
"love apple" crushed open in an unsuspecting mouth. Adam Schell holds
a master's degree in creative writing from Antioch University. He has
worked as a screenwriter, directed commercials, cooked professionally
in New York City and then later for a celebrity clientele in Hollywood,
picked coffee beans in Guatemala, grapes and olives in Tuscany. He got
fired as a food critic for writing an April Fools review about a Tibetan-Mexican
fusion restaurant famous for their fermented yak urine tea, then moved
to Los Angeles, where he is a yoga teacher. He is working on his next
book, which Delacorte will publish.
Delacorte Hardcover July 2009
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TRAITOR'S
KISS/LOVER'S KISS
by Mary Blayney
In the tradition of Amanda Quick, a thrilling voice in historical
romance makes her Bantam Dell debut with this tantalizing 2-in-1 edition.
In TRAITOR'S KISS, a Napoleonic tale of love, trust, intrigue, and adventure,
Rhys Braedon has been condemned a traitor to England… and Charlotte
Parnell is as secretive as she is beautiful. When she shows up in Rhys'
prison cell disguised as a nun, what looked like a bleak future is suddenly
filled with newfound hope and purpose. Rhys doesn't know why Charlotte
orchestrates his grand escape, but he aims to find out. Yet, he knows
even less than he realizes. Charlotte is not who she says she is, but
just how many masks does she wear? And Charlotte soon finds herself
involved in a mystery of her own when she realizes that Rhys isn't a
traitor at all, but a man of science devoted to his craft. Will these
two be able to let go of their secrets long enough to realize that the
truth is in front of them and their individual quests to find true happiness
at an end? HER WILDEST FANTASY, Blayney's deliciously irresisible novel,
her first set after the Battle of Waterloo, is the story of Olivia Pennistan,
first seen in TRAITOR'S KISS. She has escaped from a band of mysterious
kidnappers only to find herself nearly naked and freezing to death in
the middle of a forest. Her salvation comes in the form of the unemployed
soldier, Michael Garret, who returns Olivia to her brother's home and
afterwards accepts a job as the estate's night porter. In close quarters,
the attraction between the two quickly intensifies, and they begin a
steamy affair behind the castle walls. Can lust turn to love in spite
of a brother driven to keep them apart and a hoard of kidnappers still
on the loose? Mary writes critically acclaimed, fast paced, and suspenseful
Regency romances that are sure to delight the fans of Julia Quinn and
Victoria Alexander. Fans can look forward to Mary's next book, A
Stranger's Kiss coming in July 2009.
Licenses to date: Russia/AST Publishers
Bantam Mass-Market (2-1) November 2008
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THE
TREASURE by Iris Johansen
"Set largely in 12th-century Europe, this intricately plotted
historical romance from bestseller Johansen, the sequel to Lion's Bride
(1996), is replete with majestic castles, ruthless assassins and gentlemen
rogues... will keep romance fans turning the pages." — Publishers
Weekly
"This sensual, exotic medieval adventure...continues the colorful
story begun in Lion's Bride (1996; rereleased in September). Though
each novel stands on its own, they are best read in chronological order.
Johansen...is most recently noted for her gripping, suspenseful thrillers.
Her return to historicals will please her patient fans." — Library
Journal
Critics have called Iris Johansen's novels "a thrill ride," and praise
her "flesh-and-blood characters [and] crackling dialogue" (Publishers
Weekly). After ten years of keeping her fans on the edge of their
seats with suspense, she does it anew-but this time, with sizzle and
sensuality. The #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen
brings her millions of readers her first newly published historical
romance novel in a decade-a sweeping and scintillating tale of love,
war, and immortality set in the twelfth century. A great romantic epic,
THE TREASURE, is the follow up novel to Iris's bestselling Lion's
Bride-which Bantam will repackage and reissue in September. As young
girls, Selene and her sister Thea escaped from slavery with the help
of a mysterious assassin named Kadar. He is dangerous, yet remains loyal
to Thea, her husband, and Selene. For years, they've all lived happily
at Ware's estate in Scotland, while Selene and Kadar hide a smoldering
passion for each other. When a summons from out of Kadar's past forces
him to leave the safety of Scotland-with Selene and a young soldier
at his side-he will wrestle with demons from his previous life and fend
off deadly attacks. And when their mission becomes clear, the lovers
face a choice beyond imagining, nearly beyond enduring.
Main Selection of Rhapsody Book Club; Featured Alternate Selection of
Doubleday Book Club and Doubleday Large Print
Center Point Large Print
Licenses to date: Japan/Futami Shobo; Spain/Editorial Via Magna; France/Editions
J'ai Lu
Bantam Hardcover December 2008
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TWO
YEARS, NO RAIN by Shawn Klomparens
From the author of Jessica Z., TWO YEARS, NO RAIN is a piercing
and surprisingly hilarious novel about family, love, and the complications
of self-reinvention. In San Diego County, it hasn't rained in over a
year. But for weatherman Andy Dunne, everything else is changing fast…
Only a few weeks ago, he was a newly divorced, slightly overweight meteorologist
for an obscure satellite radio station, hiding his secret love for a
colleague, the beautiful-and very much married-Hillary Hsing. Seemingly
overnight, Andy lands a new job, flying a magic carpet in a bizarre
live-action children's TV show. Don't laugh. He has money, a personal
trainer named Derek, and a parade of hot moms just dying to convince
him how much their kids love "Andy's Magic Carpet," a surprise hit on
cable. So what is affable, basically decent Andy Dunne going to do now
that he can do almost anything he wants? With a promiscuous ex-wife
who deserves a little payback and a family that needs his help more
than ever, Andy has a lot of choices. But first, there's this thing
with Hillary, a long-awaited forecast for rain-and a few other surprises
he never saw coming… Shawn Klomparens lives and writes in Jackson, Wyoming.
His debut novel, Jessica Z., was published in trade paperback
by Delta in July 2008.
Delta Trade Paperback July 2009
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WINDLESS SUMMER by Heather Sharfeddin
Heather Sharfeddin's WINDLESS SUMMER is a gripping novel of a troubled
family, a dying town, and the summer that changed them both forever.
From the acclaimed author of Blackbelly and Mineral Spirits
(originally published by Bridge Works) comes this astonishing new novel.
In the town of Rocket, Washington-a haven for windsurfers and tourists-a
windless summer has ignited fear, as businesses struggle to stay afloat.
Rocket's motel, run by a lonely widower named Tom Jemmet, is hardest
hit. But swirling around Tom are lives much like his own, townspeople
yearning for wind, but also for hope, connection, even love… That's
when a miracle-or something like it-strikes Tom's run-down motel: guests
who stay in Room 6 experience sudden acts of fate, terrible and great.
And now, the whole world is descending on Tom and the struggling town…
But while Rocket comes back to life, the truth about Tom's motel, about
his wife's death-and the secret hopes and fears of everyone around him-are
exposed… in ways that will leave no life unchanged, no heart untouched,
and no miracle too wondrous to believe… At once a mystery, a rumination
on love, family and devotion, Heather Sharfeddin's unforgettable novel
is a feat of sheer storytelling genius. She is at currently at work
on her next novel for Bantam Dell.
Delta Trade Paperback April 2009
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Fast
becoming one of the genre's hottest new trends, "Romantica"
is Bantam Dell's exciting new Romance Category Buster:
Erotic...
Tantalizing... Scintillating...
Lara
Adrian
VEIL
OF MIDNIGHT
New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian brings her fans
the fifth installment in her bestselling "Midnight Breed" series inviting
readers back into her darkly sensual vampire world. With the success
of her most recent publication, Midnight Rising, reaching both
the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists,
Lara Adrian has created a darkly sensual vampire world and a wildy addictive
series that has made her a top name in paranormal romance today. A warrior
trained in bullets and blades, Renata cannot be bested by any man-vampire
or mortal. But her most powerful weapon is her extraordinary psychic
ability-a gift both rare and deadly. Now a stranger threatens her hard-won
independence-a golden-haired vampire who lures her into a realm of darkness...
and pleasure beyond imagining. A combat-loving adrenaline junkie, Nikolai
dispenses his own justice to enemies of the Breed-and his latest quarry
is a ruthless assassin. One woman stands in his way: the seductive,
cool-as-ice bodyguard, Renata. But Renata's powers are put to the test
when a loved one, a child, is threatened and she's forced to turn to
Niko for help. As the two join forces, as desire fans the flames of
a deeper hunger, Renata's life is under siege by a man who offers the
exquisite pleasure of a blood bond-and a passion that could save or
doom them both forever... Look for Ashes to Midnight coming from
Dell in June 2009.
Featured Alternate Selection of Rhapsody Book Club and Doubleday
Book Club
Licenses to date: Germany/VGS Verlag
Dell Mass-Market Paperback January 2009
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Bella Andre
WILD
HEAT
In her sizzling first novel for Bantam Dell, Bella Andre, the author
of "sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publishers
Weekly), kicks off her "Men of Fire" series, proving the only thing
sexier than a fireman is a certified HOT SHOT. Fueled by intense grief
over losing her firefighting brother to an apartment fire, arson investigator
Maya Jackson impulsively sleeps with a stranger in a bar. Five years
later, while investigating a Lake Tahoe wildfire, she comes face to
face with her biggest mistake. Not only is Logan Cain the most explosive
lover she has ever had, he is also the head of the Tahoe Pines Hotshot
crew-and her leading suspect. Dangerously attracted to a woman who doesn't
trust him, Logan must find the real killer before the wildfire turns
deadly. Bella Andre is the author of several steamy romances published
by Elora's Cave. She also recently published five books with Putnam,
including the "Bad Boys of Football" series comprised of Game for
Anything (July 2008) and Game for Seduction (September 2008).
Bella has already received a good deal of attention for Game for
Anything which was excerpted in Cosmopolitan as a Cosmo Hot
Read. Our commitment to Bella extends to at least two more novels in
her blazing "Men of Fire" series.
Dell Mass-Market Paperback May 2009
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Jenna Black
DEVIL'S
DUE
"...a winning heroine, a well-crafted contemporary world where
demonic possession is just a part of life and a nice balance of mystery,
action and sex, making this light but engaging novel an urban fantasy
series kickoff full of promise." — Publishers Weekly on
The Devil Inside
"Talk about your odd couples! The delicious irony of trapping
a sexy demon and a cranky exorcist in the same body gives rising star
Black lots of room for conflict and action. It's inventive in the extreme!
" —Romantic Times on
The Devil Inside
The exorcist-with-an-attitude, the hot and sexy Morgan
Kingsley is back in this third novel in Jenna Black's paranormal fantasy
series for Dell, following The Devil Inside (12/2007) and The
Devil You Know (8/2008). "[Black's] got a winning heroine, a well-crated
contemporary world where demonic possession is just a part of life,
and a nice balance of mystery, action, and sex, making this light but
engaging novel an urban fantasy series kickoff full of promise."-Publishers
Weekly. In DEVIL'S DUE, Morgan Kingsley is betrayed by the boyfriend
of her dreams, her brother is repossessed, and she's unable to escape
from the hunky demon who shares her body. All Morgan wants is to curl
up and avoid reality for a while. But she can't. A woman named Claudia
Brewster seeks her services. During the brief time that Claudia had
been on a cruise, her son, Tommy, changed from an invective-spewing
member of the anti-demon society God's Wrath to a happy little demon
host. Claudia smells a rat-as does Morgan-but all the paperwork looks
legal. That is, until Morgan begins digging up the secrets of Tommy's
past and finds herself deep in another deadly conspiracy… Readers can
look forward to the fourth book in this series, Speak of the Devil,
coming from Bantam in August 2009.
Licenses to date: England/Piatkus Books
Dell Mass-Market December 2008
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Eden Bradley
FORBIDDEN
FRUIT
Exploring the compelling and sometimes dark side of sensual pleasure,
Eden Bradley has established herself as one of the hottest erotica novelists
today. With her fourth novel, FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Eden invites us to experience
the alluring and the taboo in a way that can only be described as delicious.
As a university instructor in Alternative Sexuality, Mia Rose Curry
has spent her adult life studying the science behind sexual fantasies
and fetishes. Though she sees eroticism everywhere-in her studies, and
most notably in the sensuality of food and cooking-Mia has yet to feel
this sort of passion in herself. Until a young man with crystal gray
eyes steps into her classroom and offers to translate her textbook fantasies
into flesh and blood desire. Twenty-six-year old chef Jagger enrolls
in Mia's course, assuming that the intriguing subject will make the
class a breeze, but soon finds himself far too distracted by the beautiful
professor to concentrate on his studies. Jagger pursues her recklessly-making
her gourmet meals that soon turn into provocative encounters unlike
anything either has experienced before. As the heat turns up, leaving
both of their professional lives at risk, the two must indulge their
mutual passion… or get out of the kitchen. Look for Bradley's next erotic
offering, A 21st CENTURY COURTESAN, coming from Delta in
April 2009.
Cosmopolitan 1st serial
Delta Trade Paperback November 2008
******
Louisa Burton
WHISPERS
OF THE FLESH
From up-and-coming erotica star Louisa Burton comes the most provocative
book yet in her Hidden Grotto series. Darkly sensuous and exquisitely
titillating, WHISPERS OF THE FLESH follows Bound in Moonlight
and The House of Dark Delights. In this steamy collection, readers
will be seduced by the stories bound together by a common theme of secrets
and deception. Hidden deep in the heart of the French countryside, the
Castle of the Hidden Grotto has for centuries beckoned guests with the
allure of tantalizingly erotic immortals who promise to bring fantasy
to life. Filled with mystery and magic, the chateau has a way of bringing
to light otherwise clandestine desires. A chaste, young, British Jesuit
poses as a landscaper to investigate centuries of rumored wickedness
at the château, forcing him to confront the long-sublimated desires
and urges beneath his own pious exterior... The American daughter of
the château's dying administrator can't bear the thought of succeeding
him, since it would mean playing matchmaker to the love of her life.
The roots of her dilemma, and its possible solution, hark back to a
weekend in 1972 when a group of free-loving hippies descended on the
château for a weekend of orgiastic revelry where every convention was
broken, and nothing was taboo. Step into the Castle of the Hidden Grotto
and lose yourself in a realm of mystery, temptation, and intoxicating
sensuality. Louisa Burton deftly combines elements of the paranormal
with suspense, historical romance, and erotica, making WHISPERS OF THE
FLESH a thoroughly scintillating read. Louisa's fan can look forward
to her next erotic offering, In the Garden of Sin, coming from
Bantam in August 2008.
Bantam Trade Paperback October 2008
******
Sydney
Croft
TAMING
THE FIRE by Sydney Croft
A fresh new voice in erotic romance, Sydney Croft serves up more steamy
suspense with the fourth novel in her scintillating paranormal ACRO
series. He came to the underground London club for a night of extreme
sex play with the enigmatic "Mistress Rik." But the special agent known
as Trance is really on a search-and-rescue mission to keep her alive.
Part predator, Ulrika "Rik" Jaegar possesses feral powers that make
her a danger to others-and to herself. That's why the Agency for Covert
Rare Operatives (ACRO) wants to recruit her to their side….To do so,
Trance will have to pull off the impossible: capture and control Rik.
On the run from the deadly agency that changed her into a pleasure-seeking
shape-shifter, Rik uses sex to rein in her own raging desires. Operating
on pure instinct, she trusts no one…especially the magnificent alpha
male with the power to seduce her into submission. An undercover agent
with unique hypnotic gifts, Trance is surprised by his instinct to hold
Rik and keep her safe-but he has a job to do. And as he hunts her down,
as Rik and Trance are thrust into the ultimate game of domination and
submission, they'll enter a place where surrender is their sole hope
of survival-and the only thing that can tame the wild beast in both
of them.…Following Seduced by the Storm, Unleashing the Storm,
and Riding the Storm, TAMING THE FIRE takes the phrase "primal
desire" to enticing new levels. Sydney Croft is the alter-ego of two
published authors who came together to blend their very different writing
interests into adventurous tales of erotic paranormal fiction. The authors
behind Sydney Croft live in different states and communicate almost
entirely through e-mail, though they often get together for conferences
and book signings. They are at work on their next erotic romance coming
from Delta in 2011.
Delta Trade Paperback May 2009
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Sharon
Page
THE
CLUB
Steamy, scintillating, and seductive, THE CLUB marks Sharon Page's Regency
romance debut for Bantam Dell. The first of a two-book commitment to
this talented, up-and-coming author, THE CLUB introduces us to Lady
Sherringham, Jane Beaumont, a woman who, after the death of her husband,
is free from her nightmarish marriage. Yet, when her good friend Del
goes missing, Jane is compelled to return to her husband's dark and
perverse world. Her journey takes her to the evil and notorious brothel
called "The Club," where Jane meets "Lord Wicked," the Earl of Wickham
and her friend's brother. The two form an alliance to find Del-one in
which they will explore the erotic secrets of "The Club." Sharon Page
has garnered a great deal of attention for her erotic novels published
with Ellora's Cave and Kensington Aphrodisia. In 2007 her novel Sin
won the National Reader's Choice Award for erotic romance and took second
place in the Passionate Plume contest.
Dell Mass-Market March 2009
******
Nonfiction:
7
DEADLY SCENARIOS: A Military Futurist Explores A New Century of War
by Andrew Krepinevich
Throughout history, great powers have fallen because they failed
to anticipate new threats to their security. Now, strategy and policy
expert Andrew Krepinevich reveals the most horrifying dangers facing
America-and what the country can do to prevent them. Based on extensive
research, interviews, and the latest intelligence coming out of Washington's
top agencies, 7 DEADLY SCENARIOS provides readers with what they must
know to anticipate threats in a rapidly changing world. Andrew Krepinevich
is executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments,
an independent policy research institute. He has served as a consultant
on military affairs for many senior government officials, including
several secretaries of defense, the CIA's National Intelligence Council,
as well as all four military services.
Featured Alternate Selection of Military Book Club
Bantam Hardcover February 2009
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BEHIND
THE BEDROOM DOOR:
Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It
by Paula Derrow
"Journalist Derrow has selected essays that explore the wealth
and variety of female sexual experience, making for a gender-transcending
tale of sex lives that manages to be philosophical, poignant—and a great
bit of naughty fun. From Hope Edelman’s essay on her first love, who
helped her cope with her mother’s struggle with breast cancer, in “The
Sweetest Sex I Never Had,” to Lauren Slater’s joyful paean to married
celibacy, Julie Powell’s frank recollection of cheating on her husband
with a man who fulfills her masochistic fantasies, these stories are
private and fraught, frank and self-aware. The women represented are
old and young; lesbian, bisexual and straight. They draw attention to
the special way sex evolves for women (as in Pari Chang’s essay on sex
during pregnancy); their experience is so varied that it is likely readers
will recognize their own untold stories and sexual selves in this collection."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
With pre-publication serial rights sold to Self, More,
Elle, and Tangomag.com, this frank, unflinching, often hilarious,
original collection in which twenty-seven acclaimed writers, including
Susan Cheever, Hope Edelman, Julie Powell, Lauren Slater, and others,
go BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR to explore the unspoken sexual territory
of women in every stage of life is already attracting praise. Whether
you're twenty, sixty, or eighty, the frank conversations in BEHIND THE
BEDROOM DOOR provide a deeply illuminating, no-holds-barred look at
our sexual selves.
Delacorte Hardcover January 2009
******
CATCHING THE WOLF OF WALL STREET:
More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
by Jordan Belfort
"After serving time in federal minimum-security prison for
stock fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, Belfort offers
another coarse, lively text as a companion to The Wolf of Wall Street
(2007)...Still a hustler, still a salesman—and also a hell of a writer."
—Kirkus
"There is a manic headlong aspect to his prose that echoes that of [Belfort's]
heroes, [Tom] Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson.… Belfort manages to tell
the stories in a way that highlights both his depravity and his vulnerability."
—New York Times on The Wolf of Wall Street
"It reads like a cross between Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities
and Scorsese's Goodfellas." —Sunday Times (London) on The Wolf of
Wall Street
"A rollicking tale." —Forbes.com on The Wolf of Wall Street
With more of the eye-popping tales of excess and malfeasance and
staccato narrative that made The Wolf of Wall Street a Wall
Street Journal bestseller and an international sensation with 16
foreign licenses to date, and saw the film rights optioned by Warner
Brothers for Martin Scorsese to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to star
as Belfort, Jordan Belfort, former jet-setting kingpin of the investment
firm Stratton Oakmont, returns with the story of his five years as a
government informant and witness. In CATCHING THE WOLF OF WALL STREET,
Jordan continues his wild story of his rise and fall, detailing the
time from his spectacular flameout as head of the notorious brokerage
Stratton Oakmont to his eventual imprisonment for stock fraud. In his
distinct piercing and hilarious style, he reveals how he came to cooperate
with the government, the pressure the Feds placed on him to "flip" and
the extraordinary cat-and-mouse game mounted by the FBI to bring down
the other players in one of the most outrageous scandals in financial
history. Along the way, the hedonistic excesses of Belfort's former
life test his newfound sobriety, as well as his attempts to build a
legitimate business and mend personal relationships. After five years,
he is forced to report to prison, where he meets Tommy Chong, in for
selling bongs, who encourages him to write his story as the first step
towards redemption. Here is the conclusion of Jordan's tale, one Kirkus
Reviews says is "A hell of a read… Entertaining as pulp fiction,
real as federal indictment."
Blackstone Audio
Licenses to date: Australia-New Zealand/Hachette Livre
Bantam Hardcover March 2009
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DO
GENTLEMEN REALLY PREFER BLONDES?
Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
by Jena Pincott
"This book puts together a tremendous amount
of potentially useful information in a well-written, entertaining, and
easy-to-understand format." —Library Journal
"In these playfully written scientific anecdotes, Pincott
(Success) argues that desire is strongly rooted in evolutionary biases
and consults a variety of studies—some familiar, others cutting-edge—to
reveal the extent to which hormones dictate human behavior. Even idle
ogling is a serious endeavor: humans constantly rate each other for
levels of attractiveness, a signifier of male and female hormones. When
women are ovulating, estrogen rebuilds the female face, making lips
fuller and skin smoother; Pincott cites studies showing that strippers
earned twice as much during the fertile phase of their cycles as when
they had their periods, while those taking birth control earned significantly
less money throughout. The book also has the scoop about whether penis
size matters (it does), how the post-orgasm rush of oxytocin promotes
bonding and why women are tempted to cheat during certain times of the
month. It ends with a look at the neuroscience of love, which despite
all the jostling and jousting of dating and mating, appears to be very
much alive when measured by MRI studies of passionate couples."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Why is blushing so becoming?
Is it true that if you're good on the dance floor, you're good in bed?
Why do women prefer men with dark hair?
Can your genes make you adulterous?
Why do blue-eyed men subconsciously prefer blue-eyed women?
Why are more women than men bisexual?
Based on the latest research in biology, evolution and cutting-edge
science, DO GENTLEMEN REALLY PREFER BLONDES? provides real answers to
these and countless other questions about love, sex, and relationships.
If you've ever wondered how scientists measure love-or whether men really
prefer blondes over brunettes-this smart, sexy book provides real answers
to these and many other questions about our most baffling dating and
mating behaviors. Based on the latest research in evolutionary biology,
cognitive science and neurology, DO GENTLEMEN REALLY PREFER BLONDES?
dares to explain the science behind sex-and opens a fascinating window
on the intriguing phenomenon of love and attraction. Covering the areas
of Bodies, Brains and Behavior, this eye-opening guide reveals the genetic
and hormonal secrets behind what makes us tick sexually. For example,
do you know why a man's body chemistry and behavior changes when he's
in a committed relationship? And why, when he becomes a daddy, his testosterone
level seems to plummet? And did you know: when a couple first falls
in love, their brains are indistinguishable from those of the clinically
insane; you can tell a lot about a person's sexual chemistry just by
looking at his or her hands; people with migraines have higher sex drives;
exercise makes you hornier. DO GENTLEMEN REALLY PREFER BLONDES? provides
both an in-depth exploration into our sexual psyches-and fresh advice
for the millions of men and women who want to discover the secrets of
successful relationships.
Penthouse 1st Serial
Tantor Media
Licenses to date: Brazil/Planeta; England/Transworld;
Germany/Goldmann; Holland/Forum; Italy/Sonzogno; Russia/AST Publishers.;
Vietnam/Nhan Tri Viet Co., Ltd. ; Portugal/Caleidoscopio;
Japan/Asuka Shinsha; Spain/RBA Libros
Delacorte Hardcover October 2008
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EAGLES
AND EMPIRE:
The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent
by David A. Clary
To Mexico, the American illegals pouring into her territories of Texas
and California were a threat to sovereignty and security. To America,
they were a manifestation of her destiny to rule the continent. As both
nations, each claiming the eagle as their standard, blustered and blundered,
they marched towards a war that was all too unnecessary. In EAGLES AND
EMPIRE, the first volume to present the Mexican-American war of 1846-1848
from both sides of the border, David A. Clary draws vivid portraits
of a virtual role-call of the period's most fascinating characters:
from America's cold-eyed and crusading president, James K. Polk, to
Mexico's flamboyant and utterly corrupt general-president-dictator Antonio
Lopez de Santa Ana; from the legendary and ruthlessly mercenary explorer
Charles Fremont and his resourceful guide Kit Carson, Generals Grant,
Lee, Sherman, and Stonewall Jackson. Here is a riveting narrative history
of the Mexican-American war that weaves together events on the front
lines-where Indian raids, guerrilla attacks, and atrocities existed
side-by-side with stunning acts of heroism and sacrifice-with events
on the home front-where political backstabbing, anti-war demonstrations,
and the battle lines between the Union and Confederacy were already
being drawn. The definitive account of a defining war, EAGLES AND EMPIRE
is page-turning history-a book not to be missed. David A. Clary, former
chief historian of the U.S. Forest Service, is the author of Adopted
Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Republic
(Bantam 2/2007), among other publications on military and scientific
history. He has been a consultant to several government agencies and
has taught history at the university level.
Bantam Hardcover August 2009
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THE
GOOGLE STORY: Updated Edition
For Google's 10th Birthday
by David Vise and Mark Malseed
Originally published in November 2005, Delacorte's hardcover edition
of THE GOOGLE STORY continues to sell and sell almost three years after
publication. In October 2008, the authors and Delacorte are repromoting
THE GOOGLE STORY with a revised and updated edition - available simultaneously
in both hardcover and trade paperback. Updated to reflect some of the
most recent bold moves by Google and timed to coincide with the tenth
anniversary of the company's founding, this revised edition of the national
bestseller is the definitive inside account of an enterprise that changed
the way we work, talk, and live. The book Newsweek claims "may be the
most detailed account of the spectacular rise of the seven-year-old
search engine...When CEO Eric Schmidt reiterates the cofounders' ultimate
goal--getting all the world's information online--at the end of the
326-page book, you might start to believe it." Widely and well-reviewed,
this book taps into the media frenzy surrounding this continually expanding
company. THE GOOGLE STORY will include the latest news about Google
of the last 24 months, since the trade paperback reprint of our book
was brought out in 2006. International reception for THE GOOGLE STORY
has been spectacular with twenty-four (24) sales for the original edition
to: England/Pan Macmillan; Taiwan/China Times; China/Citic Publishers;
Japan/East Press Publishers; Indonesia/PT Gramedia; Korea/GoldenOwl
Publishers; Italy/EGEA Publishers; Holland/De Boekerij; Brazil/Editora
Rocco; Portugal/Editora Presenca; Czech/Pragma - Robert Nemec; Turkey/Koridor
Yayincilik; France/Editions Dunod; Germany/Murmann Verlag; Russia/Eksmo
Publishers; Israel/Matar Publishing; Spain/Esfera de Los Libros; Thailand/Praphansarn
Publishing Co.; Greece/Kedros Publishers; Lithuania/Alma Littera; Vietnam/Alpha
Books; Bulgaria/Sluntse Publishing House; Poland/Dolnoslaskie Wydawnictwo;
Arabic/Arabic Scientific Publishers
Licenses for Updated Edition for Google's 10th Birthday:
Serbia/Politika d.o.o.; Denmark/Nyt Teknisk Forlag; England/Pan
Macmillan;
Hungary/K.u.K Konyv-es Lapkiado Kft;
Delacorte Hardcover/Trade Paperback October 2008
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HANDS
OF MY FATHER:
A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
by Myron Uhlberg
"[T]he author has warm memories of growing up in Brooklyn and describes
significant episodes of his early life with artful economy and sincere
emotion. His strongest feelings are reserved for his remarkable father,
whom he loved deeply, a man who-despite his silence-was eloquent in
his expressions of love for his family and curiosity about the world.
"My language is in my hands," he once told his son. "My memories are
in my hands." Those memories have been beautifully served by Uhlberg
in this heartfelt book. " —Booklist
“ Uhlberg…effortlessly weaves his way through [his] childhood…to give
readers a well-crafted, heartwarming tale of family love and understanding”
—Publisher’s Weekly
"In telling the story of his very unique childhood, Myron Uhlberg has
created a book that is universal. His feelings of love and responsibility,
of shame and enormous pride, can teach us all something about being
a member of a family. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't love this
book." —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Run
“In vivid scenes – sometimes wrenching, sometimes hilarious – Myron
Uhlberg takes us inside the singular world of his childhood. And there
the reader discovers the profound, everyday courage exemplified by each
member of the Uhlberg family. This is a book full of surprises, written
with a generous, loving spirit.” —Lou Ann Walker, author of A Loss
for Words
In this beautifully written book, Myron Uhlberg tells the fascinating
story of growing up as the hearing son of two deaf people, and his life
in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed
to escape it. Louis and Sarah married and had their first child, Myron,
at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression-an expression of extraordinary
optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience these two were able
to summon at even the darkest of times. Their son's first language was
American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: "I love you." But
his second language was spoken English, and no sooner did he learn it
than he was called upon to act as his father's designated ears and mouth
in the stores and streets beyond their silent apartment. This meant
not only straddling the worlds of the hearing and the deaf, but reversing
the roles of parent and child in order to translate adult words and
concepts to his father-and then having to flip back again to being just
what he was: his father's little boy. Listening to the radio he signed
for his father every blow in the historic Joe Louis-Max Schmeling boxing
match that upended Hitler's claims of racial superiority, and he in
turn learned about the war through his father's signed translations
of newspaper headlines trumpeting every battle on the European and Pacific
fronts. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field where he and
his father watched Jackie Robinson playing with the Dodgers, from the
hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend to the branch
library above the local Chinese restaurant, this is a memoir filled
with stories about growing up not just as the hearing son of two deaf
people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid in Brooklyn
during the period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early
'50s.
Featured Alternate Selection of Literary Guild, Book-of-the-Month Club,
Doubleday Large Print, and Quality Paperback Book Club
Bantam Hardcover April 2009
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THE
HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE BLOCK: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise
a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One-to-Four-Year-Old
by Harvey Karp, M.D. (Revised Edition)
*"An informing and engaging romp about toddlers. Roll over, Dr. Spock."
—New York Times on the first edition of the work.
From renowned child development specialist Dr. Harvey Karp, the author
who taught hundreds of thousands of readers how to calm and quiet their
colicky infants in The Happiest Baby on the Block, comes a new edition
of this equally remarkable and successful program for preventing-and
when they can't be prevented, soothing-toddlers' stormy outbursts. A
shorter, more reader-friendly revision of THE HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE
BLOCK, this new edition will do even more to help parents survive the
"terrible twos" and beyond. Although the original book is already a
parenting classic, this revised edition will attract a whole new generation
of Harvey Karp readers with its many more real-life examples of the
trials parents face and its emphasis on fast problem-solving for time-challenged
parents.
Licenses to date: China/Citic Publishers; Czech/Euromedia Group; Croatia/Planetopija
Publishers; France/Editions AdA; Korea/Haneon; Russia/Popuri Publishers;
Spain/Ediciones Medici;
Vietnam/Lac Hong Book Publishers; Brazil/Novo Seculo
Bantam Hardcover September 2008
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IN
LINCOLN'S HAND:
His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans
by Harold Holzer and Joshua Shenk
Perhaps the most beautiful, surprising, and insightful volume to
mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth in 2009, and the companion
volume to a historic three-city Library of Congress exhibition, IN LINCOLN'S
HAND lays bare the president's character through stunning images of
the texts he composed-with their crossed-out words, inserts, revisions,
and even misspellings-illuminated by essays from American masters of
scholarship, politics, and the arts. Made available exclusively for
this book by the Library of Congress and gorgeously reproduced are faithful
images of his actual handwritten letters (including a fiery denunciation
of slavery in 1855), speeches (including the Gettysburg Address and
First and Second Inaugurals), sketches (including his "Mediation on
the Divine Will"), and even childhood notebooks. Edited by two eminent
Lincoln scholars, IN LINCOLN'S HAND will also feature commentaries on
each document by more than forty luminaries, including E. E. Doctorow,
William Safire, President H. W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President
William J. Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, Liam Neeson, Toni Morrison,
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, and Lincoln biographer Doris Kearns
Goodwin. This more than a companion volume is a brilliant reference
or a keepsake: IN LINCOLN'S HAND provides an intimate, human perspective
on a visionary leader; it is inspiration that should reside in the collection
of every home, school, and institution. Harold Holzer is one of the
country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture
of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, he is frequent
quest on television shows such as "The Today Show," "Charlie Rose,"
Fox News, and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer." Holzer has authored,
co-authored, and edited 30 books, including The Lincoln Image
(1984) and Lincoln on Democracy (1990) with Mario M. Cuomo and
has won a 2005 Lincoln Prize for Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech
That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Joshua Wolf Shenk is
the author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President
and Fueled His Greatness and the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary
House at Washington College. His work has been published in Harper's
Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Economist, and other publications,
and in the national bestseller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression.
His website is www.shenk.net.
Main Selection of Book-of-the-Month Club; Featured Alternate Selection
of History Book Club, Military Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book
Club
Bantam Hardcover February 2009
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LETTING
EVERYTHING BECOME YOUR TEACHER:
100 Lessons in Mindfulness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.; Compiled with Hor Tuck Loon
Discover the groundbreaking path to mindful meditation…with
100 short, inspiring verses selected from Jon Kabat-Zinn's classic bestseller,
Full Catastrophe Living. In this international bestselling work,
Jon shared his innovative approach to reducing stress and achieving
mindfulness, helping millions live healthier, richer lives. Now, in
this new companion volume, 100 short verses-carefully selected from
Kabat-Zinn's landmark stress reduction program-take us further down
the path to awareness, healing and joy. Whether you're trying to learn
patience, cope with pain, manage stress, improve your relationships,
or simply let go of destructive thoughts and behaviors, these deceptively
simple meditations will help you achieve the balance and clear-eyed,
practical vision that is true mindfulness. LETTING EVERYTHING BECOME
YOUR TEACHER will be a beautifully designed, small trim package with
french flaps, two-color text against a graphic background on every page,
and two dozen pages of photographs. Bantam Dell will repromote Full
Catastrophe Living in a color-coordinated package alongside this
gift book. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is a scientist, writer, and meditation
teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine
and society.
Delta Trade Paperback May 2009
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LIFE
OVER CANCER:
The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
by Keith Block, M.D.; Foreword by Andrew Weil, M.D.
This authoritative guide combines the best of conventional medicine
with the best scientifically-supported complementary therapies, enabling
patients and their doctors to create individualized, lifesaving treatment
plans. Widely regarded as one of the most prominent integrative cancer
specialists in the country, Dr. Keith Block has distilled nearly thirty
years of experience into the first book that gives patients a systematic,
research-based plan for developing the physical and emotional vitality
they need to meet the demands of treatment and recover-wherever they
choose to be treated. Filled with inspiring case histories of patients
whose prognoses have been turned from death to life under Dr. Block's
care, this long awaited book will revolutionize cancer treatment in
the very same way that Dr. Ornish's books offered a new paradigm to
living with heart disease. A leader in the field of mind/body medicine
and nutritional oncology, Keith I. Block, M.D., is the founder and medical
and scientific director of the non-profit Block Center for Integrative
Cancer Treatment in Evanston, IL. Among other appointments, he is Clinical
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at
Chicago and Editor-in-Chief, Integrative Cancer Therapies.
Bantam Hardcover April 2009
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RECLAIMING
VIRTUE:
How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at
the Right Time for the Right Reason
by John Bradshaw
A landmark book on the life of virtue from one of the bestselling authors
of our generation. Through his groundbreaking New York Times
bestsellers and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw has changed millions
of lives and inspired the work of an entire generation of therapists.
Now, in his first major book in a decade, he has taken on a new challenge:
redefining what it means to live a moral life in today's world. In society
today, there is no lack of wrongdoing, from corporate greed to domestic
violence to drug abuse. What can we do to counteract these forces? Bradshaw
looks to history's great thinkers for answers, examines the psychological
foundations of character building, and offers a plan of action for bringing
more virtue into our lives-including how to nurture our instincts for
goodness from childhood through adulthood. From the ethical thinking
of Aristotle to the selflessness of everyday heroes to recent discoveries
in neuroscience, Bradshaw explores the nature of moral intelligence-that
unique knowing which guides us to the right action-and delves into a
range of social issues and thought-provoking questions. What motivates
one person to use their intelligence as a source for goodness, yet another
for evil? What does it take to move people to virtuous action? And what
enables us to live side-by-side with wickedness? Bradshaw also provides
a fascinating discussion of morality and ethics as evolutionary processes.
Enlightening and insightful, Bradshaw once again inspires readers with
his approach to our uncertainty as an unprecedented opportunity for
growth and healing.
Licenses to date: England/Piatkus Books
Bantam Hardcover May 2009
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SUPER
CRUNCHERS: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by Ian Ayres
An international sensation - and still the talk of the
relevant blogsphere - this Wall Street Journal and New York
Times business bestseller - included in the 2007 "Year's Best Books"
list from The Economist -- was heralded by reviewers across the
U.S. and Freakonomics coauthor Stephen D. Levitt as "groundbreaking…
Not only is it fun to read, it just might change the way you think.
The September 2008 trade paperback reprint of this business classic
will include a new chapter focusing on the democratization of super
crunching, highlighting how companies like Google are making it easy
for individuals to crunch their own data and introducing some new prediction
tools that anyone can use.
Foreign licenses for SUPER CRUNCHERS include: Arabic/Arabic
Scientific Publishers; British/John Murray Publishers; Chinese (Mainland
China)/China Youth Press; Chinese (Taiwan)/China Times Publishing; Greek/Editions
Enalios; Italian/Sperling & Kupfer; Japanese/Bungeishunju Publishers;
Korean/Munhakdongne Publishers; Portuguese (Brazil)/Ediouro; Portuguese
(Portugal)/Sebenta Editora; Turkish/Pegasus Yayincilik; Thai/WeLearn
Co., Ltd; Russia/Dodeca-XXI Publishers
Bantam Trade Paperback September 2008
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THE
WISE HEART: A Guide to the Essential Teachings
of Buddhist Psychology
by Jack Kornfield
"Author, psychologist and pioneering Buddhist teacher
Kornfield writes his best book yet (and his previous ones were pretty
good). His newest uses the same sweet narrative voice, provides convincing
and illustrative anecdotes and stories, and reaches into world traditions
and literature as well as contemporary scientific research. This book
offers a systematic and well-organized view of Buddhist psychology,
complete with occasional diagrams. Concepts and practices are placed
in a framework that explains and connects them. It’s all done with an
eye toward application; most chapters end with exercises. Kornfield
has been practicing Buddhism for close to 40 years, a lasting discipline
that has produced this masterful book and a seasoned view of life that
acknowledges a lot of oopses. As a mediator and psychologist, he has
also witnessed some serious angst, including his own, and draws on it
for illustrative power. Not everything here is new, least of all the
title, but then the Buddha isn’t either. The best is left for last:
joy you can seek for yourself and others. Just keep your meditative
seat, and this book by your bed. Kornfield comes across as the therapist
you wish you’d had. "— Publishers
Weekly
"I love this gentle, brilliant and incisive book. I read
it slowly, with amazement at its richness and wisdom, relief at feeling
so understood, pleasure in Kornfield's beautiful writing and sweet humor,
and gratitude that such understanding has been expressed in the written
word. This Wise Heart changed me." —Anne Lamott
"The Wise Heart is Jack Kornfield at his most wonderful and illuminating.
He brings to life a way to understand and cultivate mindfulness, compassion,
lovingkindness and true wisdom that shatters idealizations of practice
and penetrates to the core of what liberation is all about." —Jon
Kabat-Zinn, author of Coming to Our Senses and Arriving at
Your Own Door
"This masterpiece of a dedicated life's work unveils the principles
of an ancient 'science of mind' that are woven seamlessly into a wondrous
map of the human heart-one that is astonishingly consistent with the
discoveries of modern neuroscience."—Daniel Siegel, M.D., author
of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain
Through such classics as A Path With Heart and After
the Ecstasy, the Laundry, Jack Kornfield has become one of the leading
spiritual teachers of our time. Now, in this major new work, he explores
the entire scope of Buddhist psychology and shows its profound applications
to the dilemmas we face today. Filled with vivid personal stories --
including Kornfield's own recovery from a violence-filled childhood
-- and with precise practical guidance for personal change, THE WISE
HEART is an extraordinary journey from the roots of consciousness to
the highest expression of human possibility.
Main Selection of One Spirit Book Club; Featured Alternate Selection
of
Quality Paperback Club
O Magazine 2nd Serial; Shambhala Sun 2nd Serial
Licenses to date: England/Rider Books;
Germany/Verlagsgruppe Random House (Riemann Verlag);
France/Editions Belfond; Brazil/Editora Cultrix; Israel/Modan Publishing;
Italy/Corbaccio; Bulgaria/Colibri Publishers; Spain/Liebre de Marzo;
Korea/Vega Books Co.; Dutch/Ankh-Hermes; Taiwan/King-In Publishers
Bantam Hardcover May 2008
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