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THE CALIPH'S HOUSE by Tahir Shah British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Fletcher and Parry LLC, 212-614-0778	February Nonfiction
A brilliant-and often hilarious-tale of the tumultuous year Tahir Shah spent fixing up a ramshackle old Moroccan summer palace, contending with the trio of possessive guardians inherited with the house, exorcising the resident jinns ("genies"), and coming to grips with Moroccan life. At 36 years of age, acclaimed travel writer Tahir Shah decided to abandon the gray skies of London and follow his dream of buying and restoring a home in Morocco, where he had often traveled with his family as a child. With his wife and two small children in tow, Tahir took possession of a vast crumbling ruin of a palace in Casablanca called "Dar Khalifa," the Caliph's House. Here is his month-by-month account of the charms, hijinks, and all around high adventure the Shah family experienced. THE CALIPH'S HOUSE relates the story of the first year of Shah family's life in Casablanca, of their tumultuous time coming to grips with Moroccan life and their vast house-and exorcising its jinns. Shah, searching for the crafts, artisans, and array of other people and things needed to put the house in order, brings readers along as he ventures into the different corners of the Moroccan Kingdom. The author's hilarious and entertaining descriptions of Tangier, Fez, Marrakech, the High Atlas Mountains, and the Sahara contribute to his highly entertaining book that at its heart, explores what it is like to break away from conventional life for one with no safety net. Tahir Shah was born in London into an Anglo-Afghan family with roots in the mountain stronghold of the Hindu Kush. He has lived throughout the world in Europe, Japan, India, East Africa, Latin America, and the United States, and is the author of ten highly praised books on travel and adventure. Since 2003, Tahir, his wife, and two children have lived in the Caliph's House, in Casablanca.
FULL MOON RISING by Keri Arthur Translation and Performance: Irene Goodman Literary Agency, 212-604-0330	February Fiction
Poised to join the ranks of Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris and Kim Harrison, Keri Arthur makes her Bantam debut with a thrillingly sexy, suspenseful novel of vampires, werewolves, and some very shifty cross-species cloning. FULL MOON RISING, the first in our new 3-book series, is a dark urban fantasy set in Sydney. In the paranormal underworld, Riley Jenson is an anomaly. The daughter of a vampire and a werewolf, she has few of either "species" restrictions and all of their abilities. But hers are gifts she refuses to exploit in her job working for State security-until her twin brother, Rhoan, disappears, and the creatures of the night start coming after her... Rhoan and Riley both work for the Directorate of Other Races: a State organization that polices the city's supernatural races and protects the human inhabitants from their depredations. Rhoan is one of their exulted Guardians (a clandestine squad of assassin vampires), but Riley hides her supernatural gifts from her superiors and is merely an office worker by day and a single girl looking for romance by night. That is, until her brother goes missing during a secret mission to investigate a cloning research center. Then, an extremely sexy, deliciously naked, and very disoriented and dangerous vampire named Quinn shows up on her doorstep claiming to be Rhoan's friend. Guardian vampires try to kill her, as her attempts to find her brother lead her to a supernatural genome project at work to create the ultimate warrior, and her only ally is that untrustworthy but yummy, naked vampire, Quinn. Making matters worse, it is the week before the full moon, when all werewolves-Riley included-go into sexual overdrive. Sexually charged romantic suspense and all around entertaining, FULL MOON RISING is poised to launch a bestselling career. Arthur is at work on her next "Riley Jensen" novel, Kissing Sin, which Bantam will publish in Fall 2006.
GONE by Lisa Gardner First Serial, British, Translation, Audio and Performance: Jane Rotrosen Agency, 212-593-4330	February Fiction
With the twisted thrills and psychological shocks that have catapulted her to New York Times bestseller-dom, Lisa Gardner probes the depths of our most intimate fears in GONE by posing her most provocative question yet: what would you do if the person you loved the most was suddenly... gone? Reader favorites Rainie Connor, Pierce Quincy, and Kimberly Quincy-characters featured in The Third Victim, The Next Accident, and The Killing Hour-return in Lisa Gardner's new electrifying thriller. For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat, and his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone without a trace. Did one of the ghosts from Rainie's troubled, hard-drinking past finally catch up to her? The local cops are talking suicide, but Pierce knows his wife wouldn't go down without a fight. And when a ransom note arrives demanding $10,000 for her safe return, Pierce is convinced it's not about the money. Between them, Pierce and Rainie have tracked down the nation's most dangerous serial killers. Now a killer is tracking them, playing the deadliest of games. The note is signed "The Fox," the moniker of a brutal kidnap-killer from eighty years ago. All Pierce has to go on are the cases they'd been working on before Rainie vanished: a particularly vicious double homicide and the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed foster kid that Rainie had taken dangerously to heart. Teamed with a no-nonsense local sheriff and his daughter, a rookie FBI agent, Pierce is rushing against time and a killer who's already decided that Rainie is gone for good-and she won't be the last. With Gardner's razor-sharp psychological insights and her own unique brand of suspense, GONE is certain to please her legion of loyal fans. Gardner's acclaimed thrillers have nearly seven million copies in print. Her previous hardcover, Alone, was her biggest bestseller to date, her first hardcover bestseller, debuting at #9 on the New York Times list, and her fifth consecutive New York Times bestseller. It enjoyed six weeks on the regular and extended hardcover fiction lists. Alone was also a USA Today and Ingram bestseller. GONE is the first novel in Bantam's new 3-book commitment to Lisa Gardner.
KILLING HITLER by Roger Moorehouse British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Anderson/Grinberg Literary Management, 212-620-5883	April Nonfiction
For the first time, the incredible true stories of the many tragically unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history are told in a single, riveting narrative, to be published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Hitler's suicide. KILLING HITLER is a unique contribution to the history of Hitler and the Third Reich, bringing together a wealth of new research to reveal just how many and varied the attempts on the Führer's life were: starting from his early years as a rabble-rousing demagogue, through the horrors of the Holocaust, to the dark days at the end of World War II. Disraeli once declared that "assassination never changed anything," and yet the possibility that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for over half a century. What historian Roger Moorehouse reveals in KILLING HITLER is just how close and how often history came to taking a radically different path in the years between Adolf Hitler's rise to power and his final ignominious suicide. Few leaders, in any century, can have been the target of so many assassination attempts, with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitler's would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet, up to now, their exploits have remained virtually unknown, buried in official archives in Russia, Poland, Germany and Great Britain, and in inaccessible academic publications and obscure memoirs. This, then, for the first time in a single volume, is their story: a story of courage and ingenuity and, ultimately, tragic failure. It also is the remarkable, terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds. Moorehouse's KILLING HITLER combines brilliant scholarship with the in-the-moment, urgent narrative voice of a contemporary thriller to create an accessible and popular read for a broad audience. Roger Moorehouse studied history at the University of London and is currently reading for a Ph.D. in modern German history at the University of Strathclyde. He is a regular contributor to the BBC History Magazine. He is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire, England.
LONG TIME COMING by Sandra Brown All rights inquiries: The Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 212-782-9800 (F)	January Fiction
In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated readers with "larger than life heroines [that] make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life" (Rendezvous). She is one of the country's most popular novelists, with seventy-seven million copies of her books in print worldwide and one of the few authors to have three books simultaneously on the New York Times bestseller list. With the publication of LONG TIME COMING, Bantam continues its bestselling program of hardcover reissues of this beloved author's novels. In this classic tale, a woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years-and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last. Marnie Hibbs has sacrificed much over the last sixteen years to raise her late sister's illegitimate child and her sacrifices have paid off: David is funny, thoughtful, and a natural leader. Unbeknownst to him, he's actually much like his father, Law Kincaid, an astronaut and American hero, who has no idea he's even fathered a child. But when Law begins to receive mysterious letters advising him to acknowledge his son or face serious threats, he soon discovers that he and Marnie share a past and, possibly, a future. A 1998 RWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Sandra Brown is the author of the recently published Bantam mass-market reprint, Demon Rumm. She and her husband, parents of two children, divide their time between homes in Texas and South Carolina.
NAIL BITER: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery by Sarah Graves First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Writers House, Inc., 212-685-2400	January Fiction
"Anyone who can mix slaughter and screwdrivers is a genius" (Boston Globe), as Sarah Graves proves once again with a new, delightfully devious mix of death and do-it-yourself home repair in the nationally acclaimed one-of-a-kind series that "does not disappoint!" (Washington Times). In NAIL BITER, the ninth in Graves' Home Repair series, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has a problem. A coven of self-styled "witches" has taken over her Eastport, Maine, waterfront rental property for Halloween-and their repair requests are annoyingly frequent. But while Jake is normally game to take on any fixer-upper challenge, she'd rather be tackling the excavation of an unusual piece of the foundation of her own 1823 Federal home. Until, that is, fire-and-brimstone preacher Gene Dibble turns up dead-and the whole town is convinced that Jake and her tenants are up to sorcery and skullduggery. While the witches are complaining about ghostly moaning and her neighbors are chewing their nails, it's up to Jake to pry out the identity of the real culprit-before the killer nails her. With nearly half a million copies in print, this series is growing at a remarkable rate-the first eight titles combined move more than 7,600 copies per month-and readers will soon be eager to dive into NAIL BITER. We have committed to two additional mysteries in this dynamite series, sure to satisfy everyone's home-repair and crime-solving needs through at least 2008.
ON THE RUN by Iris Johansen First Serial, British, Translation, and Performance: Jane Rotrosen Agency, 212-593-4330	January Fiction
#1 New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen takes readers on a hair-raising juggernaut of duplicity and obsession in her latest high-stakes novel of suspense, introducing an unforgettable new heroine, Grace Archer. Grace is a single mother with a secret past linked to our nation's most elite security organizations. For eight years, Grace has been living a picture-perfect life, raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away-which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over her. Then violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home. The ghosts of the past have returned and they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever and match wits with an opponent as deadly as he is cunning. She risks losing the one thing more precious to her than life itself as she chases an extraordinary secret only she can unfold. With over 25,000,000 copies of her books in print and with three of her most recent novels holding top positions on the New York Times bestsellers list, (Blind Alley #2, Fatal Tide #3 and Dead Aim #3), Johansen's latest is poised to skyrocket to new heights of sales and reader appeal.
PRIOR BAD ACTS by Tami Hoag First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Jane Rotrosen Agency, 212-593-4330	April Fiction
Hailed by The New York Post as the "queen of the crime thriller," New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a new pulse-pounding thriller set in her native Minnesota. Veteran Minneapolis homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking partner Nikki Liska-first seen in the bestselling Dust to Dust-return in this terrifying tale of murder, kidnapping, and justice betrayed. In PRIOR BAD ACTS, Kovac and Liska must protect a judge whose recent unpopular ruling regarding a potential serial killer has made her the target of violence. Neither detective wants to be on this case, but when the judge is kidnapped and the suspect list is larger than anyone expected, the case takes them down a strange, dark trail of smoke and mirrors, where no one is whom they seem to be, an entire community is at risk, and everyone is guilty of prior bad acts. With an astounding 19.4 million copies of her novels in print, Tami's gripping prose and gritty action have won her thrillers a devoted audience. Kill The Messenger was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover (for four weeks-the mass-market reprint will come out in March 2006), and her previous book, Dark Horse, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Bestselling author Tami Hoag has been called "one of the most intense suspense writers around" by the Chicago Tribune. Her novels have appeared regularly on national bestseller lists since the publication of her first book in 1988. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her next book for Bantam.
THE SKIN TYPE SOLUTION: Dr. Leslie Baumann's Guide to the 16 Skin Types by Leslie Baumann, M.D. British, Translation, and Performance: Arthur Pine Associates, 212 265-7330	March Fiction
In this book Dr. Baumann introduces a revolutionary, science-based, consumer-tested skin care program-the first original skin classification program since Helena Rubinstein divided skin into four categories (oily, dry, combination, and sensitive)-almost 100 years ago. Leslie Baumann has developed a scientifically formulated, breakthrough program that will end your bad skin days forever by helping you identify your individual skin type and needs, and choose products and procedures with greater accuracy than ever before for improved health and appearance-and at prices for every pocketbook. An internationally recognized authority on cosmetic dermatology, Dr. Leslie Baumann based her 16-Type Skin System on her years of clinical testing with thousands of patients at the University of Miami Cosmetic Center. For the first time, this book makes her findings available to all. THE SKIN TYPE SOLUTION takes you through a series of questions which enable you to identify your skin type among the sixteen unique categories. Armed with your skin type, you learn how to select and apply the care products that are right for that type, with careful and detailed information on which ingredients are best for your skin. Dr. Baumann points you toward an unusually wide range of brand names and prices, recommending your cleanser, moisturizer, toner, sun-block, and make-up. Advice on prescription products and procedures, accounts of real life success stories, and "celebrity profiles" help round out the program. THE SKIN TYPE SOLUTION offers women and men of all ages the essential information and guidance necessary to achieve a beautiful and healthy complexion. Leslie Baumann, M.D., is Associate Professor and Director of University of Miami Cosmetic Center, in Miami, Florida. She designed and created the Center in 1997, and it remains the only university-run clinic in the U.S. that is devoted to research on cosmetic dermatology. Dr. Baumann is the author of the leading dermatology textbook, Cosmetic Dermatology: Principles and Practices. She sits on the advisory boards of twenty-three major cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies, including Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Elizabeth Arden.
SOUR PUSS: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery by Rita Mae Brown First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Wendy Weil Agency, Inc., 212-685-0030	March Fiction
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her trio of intrepid, sleuthing pets are back in SOUR PUSS, their 14th "Mrs. Murphy Mystery" in this New York Times bestselling series. Spring comes to small-town Crozet, Virginia, and with it comes a rekindling of the romance between Harry and Veterinarian Fair. Soon, though, the excitement of their remarriage is overwhelmed by the murder of Dr. Vincent Forland, a world-famous grape and fungal expert who had come to visit local vineyards. Harry's trio of curious pets-Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker-discover the first critical clue. When a Crozet resident is found dead, close-knit neighbors and friends become worried that one of their own could actually be a murderer… With nearly 2.2 million copies in print and a vast and loyal readership, our commitment to Rita Mae's "Mrs. Murphy" mystery series remains strong with the promise of at least two more books to come. Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown, a tiger cat rescued from the local ASPCA, live in Afton, Virginia, with many other rescued animals. Their website is www.ritamaebrown.org.




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ALLERGIC TO PETS? by Shirlee Kalstone Translation and Performance: Raines & Raines, 518-239-8311 (P), 518-239-6029 (F)	February Nonfiction
Here is the break-through guide for the thousands of animal-lovers out there who are also allergy sufferers, from internationally renowned pet expert Shirlee Kalstone. Dozens of books have been written about allergies in general (and several on your pet's allergies), but before now there has never been a book that allergic pet owners could turn to for advice on how best to cohabitate with the cats, dogs, other small furry pets, birds, and horses they love. Sensitivity to animals is one of the most frequently diagnosed allergies, and yet until now sufferers (estimated by the National Institutes of Health to be one in ten pet owners in the U.S.) have been faced with only two choices: give up their beloved pets or live with the suffering. In ALLERGIC TO PETS?, Shirlee Kalstone-using an up-to-date understanding of animal allergens-explains what causes allergic reactions and how to ward off the worst of them; the importance of a pet-free "safe haven" in your bedroom; when to get professional assistance; and much, much more! Offering advice, explanations, helpful hints, and ways to avoid outbreaks-without avoiding animals entirely-this is a much-needed resource for animal-loving allergy sufferers everywhere. Shirlee Kalstone has been an internationally recognized expert on pets for more than twenty years and has published numerous books on pet health care, first aid, grooming, behavior problems and housebreaking, including How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days (which has nearly 400,000 copies in print).


ANNIE FREEMAN'S FABULOUS TRAVELING FUNERAL by Kris Radish Performance: The Francis Goldin Agency, Inc., 212-777-0047	February Fiction
"Radish sings the praises of sisterhood by creating an enticing world of women helping women to become the empowered individuals they were meant to be." -Booklist. The nationally bestselling author of the BookSense picks and reading group favorites The Elegant Gathering of White Snows and Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn introduces five singular women about to embark upon the most remarkable-and inspiring-journey of their lives. Katherine Givens, corporate lawyer and divorced mother of one, leads an ordinary life until the day an unexpected package arrives on her doorstep. In it are a pair of red tennis shoes, the ashes of her dearest friend, Annie G. Freeman, and instructions that will change Katherine's life-and the lives of all of Annie's friends--forever. With the exuberant passion and poetry they have come to expect, Kris Radish takes readers on a wild, uplifting, often hilarious road trip from the deserts of New Mexico to the shores of Lake Superior, as five diverse women pay tribute to someone who touched them all, and in the process learn to appreciate the value of grief, the transcendent bonds of female friendship, and the remarkable legacy left to them by one woman: the gift to embrace life as it is meant to be lived-one moment at a time. Kris Radish is a nationally syndicated columnist. She lives in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where she has plunged into her next novel, which Bantam will publish in 2006.
APARTMENT THERAPY: The Eight Week Home Cure by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan British, Translation, and Performance: Harvey Klinger, Inc., 212-581-7068	April Nonfiction
Inspired by Karen Kingston's Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui and Andrew Weil's Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Apartment Therapy guru Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan shares the Do-it-Yourself strategies that have motivated his clients, devotees of his home décor website, and viewers of House & Garden Television to make over their apartments easily, with individual style. Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, the designer behind "the quietly addicting weblog apartmenttherapy.com" (The New York Times), has been called "influential" (WSJ), a "cool hunter and arbiter" (NYT), and "ingenious" (Ready Made Magazine). Now, he offers a self-help interior design book for all tastes and budgets to help readers achieve a happy, healthy, well-organized, and beautiful living space, guiding readers from diagnosis to treatment to apartment rejuvenation in just eight weeks. Beginning with a "consultation," readers complete a self-evaluation questionnaire that reveals to them what they want out of their home. From here, they are guided to a prescription, floor plan, shopping list-for all budgets-and a project calendar. Depending on budget and inclination, readers can undertake a major cure or stick with weekly body work. Whatever the choice, they get a revitalization plan for their dwelling and their lives at minimal expense. Each chapter is illustrated with floor plans, decorative examples, and handyman tips. Detailed, practical, and fun for owners and renters alike, this is the guidebook that helps build strong, new dwelling habits-and restores good health to every apartment in two short months. It's with good reason Gillingham-Ryan is described as "one part interior designer, one part life coach." He is the founder of Apartment Therapy and the website apartmenttherapy.com, now one of the most popular and influential design weblogs in the country. Maxwell is a regular guest on HGTV's "Mission: Organization" and has been interviewed in various publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Observer, and The Wall Street Journal. A former elementary school teacher, he has years of experience in the fashion and design worlds. He lives in New York City with his wife.
CARTOMANCY: Book Two of The Age of Discovery by Michael A. Stackpole First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433	March Fiction
The author of the bestselling Star Wars books continues his groundbreaking fantasy trilogy set in an utterly believable and wildly imaginative world in which skilled mapmakers can mold and alter reality. Michael A. Stackpole's original fantasy novels have won fans and acclaim from coast to coast. In CARTOMANCY, he builds on that success, continuing the epic story begun in The Secret Atlas (Bantam Spectra, March 2005). As The Secret Atlas forewarned, escalating conflicts have led to vast armies being amassed as ancient enemies go head to head. The only way to restore peace may be to unearth the old heroes, who are purportedly trapped in a twisted, ravaged magical wasteland. But things are seldom what they seem in this land where dream can become reality-and vice-versa. As tensions rise and ancient forces stir to life in newly-created realms, one young man discovers his ability to alter reality, another finds his reality altered, and a young woman learns that her true talent is to form a bridge between those realities. Michael A. Stackpole began his career as a role-playing and computer game designer before turning to writing. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he is at work on the final book in the "Age of Discovery" trilogy, The New World, scheduled to be published by Bantam Spectra in October 2006.
CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN by Jeff VanderMeer First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433	March Fiction
"City of Saints packs so much literary and emotional matter into the confines of one city, it defies both the standard category of 'collection' and the newer label 'story suite'. Other fantasy authors may strip-mine their invented worlds...for the last scrap of ore; VanderMeer keeps going deeper, and finding new forms of gold." -Faren Miller, Locus. Bantam is proud to release a trade paperback edition of Jeff VanderMeer's hallucinatory collection of interrelated short stories set in the fantastical town of Ambergris. First published by Prime Books, CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN has received a number of accolades, including a World Fantasy Award for best novella for "Transformation of Martin Lake," and has appeared on the bestseller lists of Amazon.com and Publishers Weekly, among others. It was #1 on the Best of the Year list from SFSite. An unusual selection of interrelated pieces, some deliberate fictions, some "faux histories" of the city in which the book is set, this is a book that draws comparisons to Mark Danielewski's complex post-modern experimental fiction, House of Leaves. Jeff VanderMeer is the author of another short story collection, A Secret Life, and one novel, Veniss Underground. He has also edited anthologies Leviathan 1, Leviathan 2, and Leviathan 3, and is the co-editor of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. He is a World Fantasy Award winner and Philip K. Dick award finalist.
THE DOCTOR'S COMPLETE COLLEGE GIRLS' HEALTH GUIDE From Sex to Drugs to the Freshman Fifteen by Jennifer Wider First Serial and Performance: Susan Rabiner Literary Agent, 212-279-0316	April Nonfiction
THE DOCTOR'S COMPLETE COLLEGE GIRLS' HEALTH GUIDE is the go-to guide to mental and physical health for every young woman on every college campus throughout the country. Dr. Wider, who specializes in women's health issues, has networked with college girls around the country to find out what they want to know, but are often too scared or embarrassed to ask. She also knows what parents want their daughters to know, but often are too uncomfortable to tell them. From a candid description of the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse on campus to a frank discussion of sexuality and birth control, from a list of basic supplies that should be in every girl's campus health kit to advice on coping with social pressures, eating disorders, skin problems, menstrual problems, insomnia, depression, and even tattooing and piercing, this book provides all the medical information a young woman could want, and all the common sense a parent could wish she had. An authoritative, head-to-toe medical reference, THE DOCTOR'S COMPLETE COLLEGE GIRLS' HEALTH GUIDE explains when a problem is something that will take care of itself (perhaps with the help of a little rest and a lot of fluids), and when a trip to the college health center is necessary; when to intervene in a friend's crisis; when to get outside help. In one situation after another, on campus and off, it shows young women how to make the best health choices in the face of the worst pressures and temptations they may ever face, and insures that their college years are safe, healthy, and joyful. Peppered throughout with personal vignettes and Q & A's that speak in a voice that is instantly appealing to its audience, this book is an invaluable, welcome resource. Jennifer Wider is a doctor and medical journalist who was formerly managing editor of the ivillage Health Channel website, and currently is a news service reporter for the Society for Women's Health Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health of women. Her column for SWHR covers a variety of women's health/medical topics and is syndicated to newspapers, magazines, and websites across the country. She lives with her physician husband, daughter, and son in Westport, Connecticut.
DUSK by Tim Lebbon British, Translation, and Performance: Anubis Literary Agency, +44-1926-642-588	February Fiction
From multiple award-winning author Tim Lebbon, here is the debut of a stunning new dark fantasy duology unlike anything else out there today. Redemption can come in the strangest places-and in the strangest forms. With a quantum leap of imagination and signature bravura writing, Lebbon transports readers to a darkly original world in which magic once existed in peaceful harmony with nature, until a barbarous, tragic war ravaged the land and drove magic away. Three hundred years later, both the land and the people have fallen into ruin. Amid the twisted and broken remnants of that long-past Golden Age, humans have become cruelly apathetic. But one old witch knows of an ancient prophecy, which claims that magic will be kindled anew in the land in the form of a very special child-a child she has been waiting her whole life to find. When the witch and this legendary boy at last are brought together, she discovers she was not alone in the search… and the battle has just begun. Tim Lebbon lives in South Wales with his wife and two children. His books include Face, The Nature of Balance, Changing of Faces, Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark), Dead Man's Hand, Pieces of Hate, Fears Unnamed, White and Other Tales of Ruin, Desolation, and Berserk. He has won two British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award and a Tombstone Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. He is at work on his next book for Bantam.
FELAHEEN by Jon Courtenay Grimwood British, Translation, and Performance: Mic Cheetham Agency, +44 207 495 2002 (P), +44 207 495-5777 (F)	March Fiction
Part mystery, part speculative fiction, part alternate history, wholly unforgettable, the third book in Grimwood's dark, hard-boiled "Arabesk" intrigue series-called "perhaps the most important SF trilogy of the past decade to remain unpublished in the United States" (Locus Magazine)-now is available for the first time in the U.S. Detective; Diplomat; Uncle; Killer: Ashraf Bey has been many things since arriving in El Iskandryia from Seattle. One thing he hasn't been, as yet, is a son to Moncef, Emir of Tunis-the father Ashraf has never met and disavows. He prefers to believe what his mother insisted: that his father was a Swedish hitchhiker. And now it may be too late for them to meet, since rumors created in an unfolding political drama have Emir Moncef escaping assassination and hovering at the edge of death. Despite his refusal of a plea for help from the Emir's chief of security, Raf finds himself drawn to Tunis where he is to play a part in an unfolding political crisis begun decades earlier with US anti-globalization riots and the Emir's refusal to ratify the 2005 UN Accord on Biotechnology. Grimwood's Pashazade was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His second "Arabesk" novel, Effendi, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. And the third "Arabesk" novel, Felaheen, won the 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award, appearing on Locus Magazine's 2003 Recommended Reading List and SFSite's Best of 2003 list. We will publish the author's next book, Stamping Butterflies, in 2006.
KRIPALU YOGA: A Guide to Practice On and Off the Mat by Richard Faulds Audio and Performance: The Kripalu Yoga Fellowship The Kripalu Yoga Fellowship, 413-448-3400 (P), 413-448-3384 (F)	January Nonfiction
For more than thirty years, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health has been at the forefront of the growth of contemporary yoga in America. The center is North America's largest yoga and retreat center, introducing more than 30,000 guests a year to its gentle yet in-depth approach, which emphasizes individual growth over outward perfection of form and makes yoga accessible to people of all ages, fitness levels, and body types. Even if you have never tried yoga, KRIPALU YOGA shows you how to get started at home with two complete, safe, and fully-illustrated routines, including Kripalu's easy-to-follow "press point" instructions for each pose. And our "off the mat" subtitle refers to the extensive information on health, lifestyle, and inner development in KRIPALU YOGA-topics most yoga books mention only in passing or in esoteric terms. Far more than an exercise program, KRIPALU YOGA teaches the awareness and energy techniques that make yoga a catalyst for physical healing, self-discovery, and spiritual awakening. In short, brilliantly clear chapters, the book progresses from simple breathing practices to deep concentration and relaxation, culminating in the remarkable experience of "meditation-in-motion" that is a hallmark of Kripalu Yoga. Throughout, first-person accounts from many of Kripalu's teachers and long-time practitioners show how yoga can transform our daily lives. The book also provides more than 50 additional warm-ups and poses, allowing students to keep their practice perennially fresh and satisfying. The book is divided into five parts: Part I: Body and Breath Awareness; Part II: The Practice Sessions: Sun Flow, Moon Flow; Part III: Yoga and Health; Part IV: Psychological and Spiritual Growth, and Part V: Evolving Your Practice. Richard Faulds, M.A., J.D., has practiced and taught yoga and meditation for more than 20 years. A former president of Kripalu (1998-2001), he currently chairs the Kripalu Board of Trustees. For more information about Kripalu, visit www.kripalu.org.
LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE by Justina Robson First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Writer's House, Inc., 212-685-2400	April Fiction
"For Robson, world-building is a literary device like any other, useful for exposing buried fears and desires to the light of day, no matter how strange the sun." -The New York Times Book Review on Natural History "A New Space Opera ripping yarn... complex tale of self-making and self-transcending in spaces outer and inner. Quite nice." -Locus Magazine on Natural History A daring and original novel from one of sci-fi's most provocative voices, here is the sequel to Natural History, which was shortlisted for the 2004 British Science Fiction Association prize, named one of the "Top 10 Science Fiction novels by Women" by the Guardian, and included in Locus Magazine's 2003 Recommended Reading List. What happens after First Contact is made… Justina Robson takes us into the astonishing worlds that were created from the spark of Natural History's first contact-worlds where the impossible is possible, and the gods are made flesh. Anna, a fifteen-year-old runaway, is out to find a definition of love she can believe in. In the transformed world of Sankhara, she finds a palace where the rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist looking for the lost light of the universe. She finds a boyfriend. And she finds herself at the center of an unstoppable conflict that began long before she was born… Justina Robson lives in Yorkshire, England. Two of her previous novels were both shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
THE MYTH HUNTERS: Book 1 of The Veil by Christopher Golden First Serial, Audio, and Performance: Christopher Golden, CRDG@comcast.net	April Fiction
With reviewer praise and raves from industry notables Peter Straub and Stephen King, accolades from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, and over 8 million copies of his books in print, it's no wonder that Christopher Golden is a bestselling and award-winning novelist. Now, he strikes out into Neil Gaiman territory with the first book in a stunning new trilogy, set between our world and an alternate reality, where myths and legends take on a life of their own. What if a land existed, just across the veil from our own, in which all our myths and legends lived and breathed? And in which those who have vanished from our world-Amelia Earhardt, the Anasazi people-have reappeared? And what if that land is slowly being destroyed? As cities expand and wilderness is consumed on our side of the veil, this other land is slowly losing ground, losing credibility, losing reality. For the two worlds can't coexist on the same plane, and where there is life in one, there must be death in the other. Oliver Bascombe's life is about to change irreparably. It is the night before his wedding, and while he loves his fiancée, this marriage will mean that he must abandon his dreams, toe the line, and follow in his father's footsteps like the dutiful son he has never quite been. But-in a swirl of snow and ice-Jack Frost stumbles across his threshold and into his life. The ice man is dying, and he begs for Oliver's help to save both his life and his beleaguered world. Christopher Golden is the award-winning, L.A. Times bestselling author of such novels as The Ferryman, Strangewood, Prowlers, and the "Body of Evidence" series of teen thrillers, as well as Bantam's The Boys are Back in Town and Wildwood Road. He co-created and co-wrote "Ghosts of Albion," an animated supernatural drama for BBC online. Golden has also written or co-written a great many books and comic books related to the TV series, "Buffy and the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." He lives in Massachusetts with his family, where he is at work on his next novel for Bantam Books. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com for the full body of his accomplishments.
THE PATRON SAINT OF PLAGUES by Barth Anderson All rights inquiries: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 212-782-9800 (F)	April Fiction
A biological thriller that's the debut novel of an award-winning fantasy and horror short story writer transports readers into a near future world where an outbreak of plague threatens not only a precious peace negotiation but all of South and North America. Imagine the true horror of The Hot Zone combined with the fantastical adventure of The Stand, and the result might be Anderson's breakthrough speculative thriller. In the not-too-distant future, post-revolutionary Mexico is tightly controlled by a theocratic "renaissance Catholic" government. When a dengue fever outbreak in the country's capital threatens the peace, Henry Stark, the head of the American Center for Disease Control, is smuggled in over the now violently contested U.S./Mexico border to spearhead the crack viral research team dedicated to preventing the explosion of a deadly worldwide epidemic. But the situation is much worse than he was told, and people are dying by the thousands, as Stark races against time to uncover clues to the disease's rapid spread. This disease is not a simple unfortunate outbreak: it's a targeted biological weapon, designed and deliberately released to bring down the oppressive government… and the killer is someone Stark knows. Barth Anderson lives in Minnesota with his wife and child. He has published fiction in the magazines On Spec, Asimov's, Rapid Transit, and others. His short fiction has also appeared in the anthologies Mojo Conjure Stories, Talebones, and Polyphony 3. Six of his stories have received honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and he was the winner of the Spectrum Award for best short fiction in 2004. He is at work on his next novel for Bantam.
THE PILLOW FRIEND by Lisa Tuttle First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433	January Fiction
Following the critical success of The Mysteries ("a thriller, detective story, and fantasy all in one-engaging, delightful, and wonderfully written. Unique, a winner!" -Dean Koontz), and as part of our multi-book commitment to Lisa Tuttle, Bantam will re-release Tuttle's critically praised lyrical and disturbing novel from 1996, an arresting portrait of a young girl's coming of age, and a relentless look at the power of wishes and dreams. In 1996, Time Out wrote, "Lisa Tuttle's contributions to SF and horror fiction have always been characterised by subtlety and adroitness. The Pillow Friend, which broadly falls into the fantasy category, is a gem of character-driven extrapolation... Seriously good." "Be careful what you wish for," warns Agnes Grey's Aunt Marjorie when Agnes is only seven-years-old. "It might come true." And it does. Agnes is a lonely and outcast child in Texas in the 1960s, and what she dreams of most in the world is a doll who is real-who will talk to her, tell her stories, be her friend. Her Aunt Marjorie had a doll like that when she was a child. She called it the Pillow Friend, because it lay on her pillow each night and told her stories in her dreams. When Agnes finds herself the recipient of a small, stiff, old-fashioned porcelain doll painted like an old-world gentleman, she knows that this is the beginning of something wonderful. She names the doll "Myles" and lays it on her pillow at night. And when it whispers in her dreams, it becomes everything she desires-and, in turn, fulfills all her desires. As the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur, Agnes realizes that her Aunt Marjorie may have been right all along: that sometimes having your wishes come true is more deadly than you ever imagined. An unforgettable novel-both literary and incredibly arresting-THE PILLOW FRIEND is vintage Lisa Tuttle. Lisa Tuttle is at work on her next novel, to be published by Bantam in 2006.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR HALF-PRICE-OR LESS by Stephen Hyde British, Translation, and Performance: The Creative Culture, Inc., 212-680-3510	January Nonfiction
From a trusted and authoritative voice in health care, this breakthrough, first-of-its-kind book gives the millions of Americans taking prescription drugs the information they need to safely cut their medication costs by 50-90%-without sacrificing their health. Americans pay almost two times as much for prescription drugs as virtually anyone else in the world, and the rising cost of these medications has become one of the most immediate concerns of our nation. Consumers are unsure where to turn or which solutions they can trust. Now health care advocate Steve Hyde reveals simple, safe, and effective measures everyone can take to dramatically cut the cost of medications. For those who are uninsured, underinsured, or navigating their way through the complex rules of Medicare and employer drug coverage, here is step-by-step advice on how to cut the cost of prescription drugs. The book includes appendices and resources and chapters include: Consult Your Biggest Ally: 7 Questions to Ask Your Doctor; Try Over-the-Counter Alternatives; Go Generic or Switch to Lower-priced Brands; Split Your Pills-and Costs-in Half; The Ins and Outs of Retail, Mail-Order, and Internet Pharmacies; Oh, Canada!, and Getting the Most for the Least from the New Medicare Drug Coverage. Stephen Hyde is the founder and CEO of Hyde Rx Services Corp., which provides low-cost prescription drug benefits to companies all over the United States.
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BOUDICA: DREAMING THE HOUND by Manda Scott First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Transworld Publishers, Ltd. +44-208-579- 2652 (P), +44-208-579-5479 (F)	February Fiction
Already winning rave reviews in the UK, this internationally bestselling epic of a magnificent Celtic warrior queen-praised by Jean M. Auel as "alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity"-enthralls with its rich and wondrous adventure in the author's most powerful novel yet. Manda Scott's Boudica epic is hailed by U.S. critics, too: "Beautifully written and lovingly told, filled with drama and passion." (Library Journal, starred review). "Readers will be swept away by Dreaming the Bull. Suggest this thrilling historical novel, with its sympathetic characters and suspenseful plot, to fans of Arthurian fantasy and romantic historical fiction." (Booklist, starred review). Now, in this newest novel in the series, it is A.D. 57, and Boudica's husband is lost forever, betrayed and exiled. Her people, the Eceni, languish under the relentless occupation by a Roman army determined to forever crush this once-vibrant culture. Across the sea, her half-brother, Ban, is imprisoned for treason. Brother and sister each seek peace in the land of dreamers and the traditions of their ancestors. Only when Boudica and Ban join together will they be able to raise the tribes of the east and drive their enemies from their homeland. A tale guaranteed to stir the heart and challenge the mind, BOUDICA: DREAMING THE HOUND will linger in memory long after the final page is turned. Manda Scott's Boudica saga will enthrall fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley and George R.R. Martin. Manda Scott lives in Suffolk, England, where she is completing the fourth novel in the series, Boudica: Dreaming the Hare, coming from Delacorte in 2007.
EMPEROR: THE GODS OF WAR by Conn Iggulden First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Anderson/Grinberg Literary Management, 212-620-5883	April Fiction
"A swashbuckling adventure story...dramatic historical fiction to keep adults turning pages like enthralled kids."-so hails USA Today in praise of master storyteller Conn Iggulden's "Emperor" quartet of novels about the life, loves, and conquests of Julius Caesar. EMPEROR: THE GODS OF WAR is the triumphant concluding novel in the series-a novel of epic rivalries, world-shattering battles and doomed love. When Julius Caesar leads four battle hardened legions across the Rubicon to confront his last rival for supreme power, he knows there can be no going back. Ahead lie danger, bloodshed and death-and perhaps the most tempting prize imaginable: dominion over the greatest empire the world has ever seen. But to attain it, he will have to split Rome asunder in a brutally destructive civil war-a conflict that will test to the limit the bonds of friendship forged on the killing fields of Gaul. What Caesar doesn't know is how much else will be his, if he is victorious. For supreme power will bring not only glory, wealth and eternal fame. It also will bring darker gifts: the love of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen whose beauty hides a mind schooled in deadly palace intrigue, and the betrayal of his closest ally, in whose blood-stained hands Caesar's destiny ultimately rests. Echoing with the chilling cries of battle, the groans of unbridled passion and the whispers of treacherous schemers, EMPEROR: THE GODS OF WAR tells Caesar's incredible story as it has never been told before. Conn Iggulden is the acclaimed author of three previous "Emperor" novels: The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings, and The Field of Swords
ISOLATION WARD by Joshua Spanogle First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: The Martell Agency, 212-317-2672	March Fiction
In the groundbreaking tradition of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, debut novelist Joshua Spanogle draws on his experience as a medical student in this startling, scalpel-sharp medical thriller drawn straight from the darkest secrets of today's medical research-and tomorrow's headlines. ISOLATION WARD asks one of the most harrowing "what-ifs" in recent medical thrillerdom: In Baltimore, within days of each other, three mentally-handicapped women check into the same hospital with the same mysterious symptoms. Is this bioterrorism? A new and very deadly virus? An epidemic? When Dr. Nathaniel McCormick of the Centers for Disease Control is called in to investigate, the young doctor finds himself plunged instantly into a baffling spiral of conspiracies and deceit. As Nate flouts the orders of his superiors to follow the trail of a murderous virus to California, he discovers alarming links to an old love and a former mentor that threaten to unravel the secrets and lies in his own past. At the same time an intense medical thriller and a gorgeously narrated psychological and emotional portrait of a young man whose personal and professional lives are on a dangerous collision course, ISOLATION WARD heralds the stunning debut of a blazing new voice in suspense fiction. Joshua Spanogle is a student at Stanford Medical School. A graduate of Yale University, he has also served as a Senior Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bio Ethics. Our commitment to Spanogle extends to at least one more medical thriller, Growth Factor, which Delacorte will publish.
THE SACRED CUT by David Hewson British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Macmillan Publishers, Ltd., +44 20 7014 6000 (P), +44 20 7014 6001 (F)	January Fiction
"Twisting and turning through Italian history and art… [Hewson] gives the serial murder mystery a new look." -Dallas Morning News "Intelligent entertainment." -Washington Post Snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back... In THE SACRED CUT, David Hewson's ingenious new thriller, this horrific murder hurtles Detective Nic Costa and Rome's police force into a collision with U.S. agents-and a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now unraveling in the world's most enigmatic city. The dead woman was American. Within hours, American agents descend with a shocking story to tell: the killer has struck before, in monuments all over the world, leaving the same cryptic message carved onto the bodies of the victims. But one agent, beautiful, blond Emily Deacon, has yet another story to tell Nic-about a stunning act of deception that may lead back to the U.S. government, and her own chilling, personal connection to the killer. Now, as the first murder leads to more grisly slayings and a motley crew of veteran Roman cops jousts with the Americans, Nic is pulled into a woman's harrowing search for the truth... a search that will take them both into the mind of a madman, into a shocking conspiracy-and into a dark episode in a nation's long-forgotten past. David Hewson is the critically acclaimed author of A Season for the Dead, Lucifer's Shadow, and The Villa of Mysteries. A weekly columnist for the Sunday Times, he lives in Kent, England. Look for his next mystery, Lizard's Bite, from Delacorte in 2007.
SAILING FROM BYZANTIUM: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World by Colin Wells Audio and Performance: New England Publishing Associates, 860-345-7323	April Nonfiction
Once upon a time, every schoolboy knew that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. The emperor was deposed and the barbarian Odoacer ruled. Only every schoolboy was wrong. Rome didn't fall. It moved-to a small, dusty Greek trading town called Byzantium, where Greek culture and learning flourished for a thousand years. Thus begins SAILING FROM BYZANTIUM, an intellectual adventure story that will take you from the deserts of Arabia to the forests of northern Russia, from the rich and colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the dark magnificence of a millennial city in the final moments of its last siege. Here you will meet the brilliant, and often cross, Byzantine expatriate philosophers and scholars who founded Greek studies in Italy during the Renaissance, allowing the promise of humanism to be fulfilled, and grasp this simple but staggering fact: without Byzantium, we would know next to nothing about Classical Greece and would have no Greek literature. Follow the sages who brought Greek ideas to the Arabs, sparking the Golden Age of Islamic learning. Encounter the missionaries, mystics, and artists who achieved Byzantium's greatest triumph, the cultural and spiritual apprenticeship of the Slavs, which encompasses their conversion to Byzantine Orthodox Christianity, a newly invented alphabet, a formidable body of religious and historical literature, and one of the world's greatest artistic traditions. Colin Wells's book will be the first trade narrative on the vital importance of the Byzantine cultural legacy that only now is becoming more widely recognized among academics. By weaving together primary and secondary sources in a highly readable and credible narrative, he has crafted a book certain to garner enormous reviewer and scholarly attention. Colin Wells studied with the eminent Byzantinist Speros Vryonis, Jr., at UCLA and received a Masters from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he took an upper second in Greats (Greek and Latin language and literature). He is an educational writer.
SINISTER SHORTS: Stories of Suspense by Perri O'Shaughnessy British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Lowenstein-Yost Associates, Inc., 212-206-1630	February Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Nina Reilly thrillers brings her prodigious storytelling gifts to this first-ever collection of short crime fiction. From desperate housewives to hardboiled PIs to an appearance by Nina Reilly herself, these chilling short mysteries-many appearing in print for the very first time-set the mood and ratchet up the suspense as only Perri O'Shaughnessy can. Here are tales of love and betrayal, rage and revenge-nineteen sizzling stories that run the gamut from classic whodunits to winding thrillers to an unusual cozy that casts Gertrude Stein as an unlikely Ms. Marple. From a blood-soaked scheme that's born at a slot machine in Vegas to the violence that ensues when the fat lady stops singing, SINISTER SHORTS shows us life at its most menacing, murderous, and unbearably suspenseful. And it proves once again the unique and captivating genius of Perri O'Shaughnessy. The author of eleven nationally bestselling Nina Reilly mysteries with more than 8.8 million copies in print, Perri O'Shaughnessy is currently at work on her next novel-a stand-alone-to be published next year by Delacorte Press.
A WORLD UNDONE: The Story of the Great War by G.J. Meyer Performance: Judith Riven, Literary Agent, 212-255-1009	March Nonfiction
This is an absorbing, comprehensive, fresh, and fast-moving single-volume history of the Great War. A WORLD UNDONE undertakes to show readers how events on each of the war's wide-spread fronts-Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Gallipoli-affected the results on the others, and brings the war's human stories to life, making this work more than a mere description of battle after battle. The First World War is unique in the number of questions about it that remain unsettled. Who caused it, if anyone did? Should Germany have won in 1914-and need Germany have lost in 1918? Were Sir Douglas Haig, Erich Ludendorff, or Conrad von Hotzendorf great commanders? Could slightly different results at Gallipoli, on the Marne, or at Ypres have ended it earlier? And could the conflict have been brought to a negotiated and earlier conclusion? Even ninety years on, scholars remain divided. A WORLD UNDONE does not claim to have all the answers. But Meyer provides his readers with enough information to understand why the questions persist, and perhaps, in some cases, to allow them to arrive at their own conclusions. A WORLD UNDONE is, in all, a grand, tragic story brilliantly told. G.J. Meyer was awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University. He has a master's degree in English literature from the University of Minnesota, which he attended on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He has taught literature and writing at two colleges, and his byline has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and Harper's. Meyer is the author of two previous nonfiction books: The Memphis Murders (Seabury Press), winner of an Edgar Award; and Executive Blues (Franklin Square Press; Delta for trade paperback edition), which was serialized in Harper's and described in a Fortune Magazine review as "Brilliant, original... one of the best business stories in years." Return to top
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INTUITION by Allegra Goodman First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Irene Skolnick Agency, Inc. 212-727-3648	March Fiction
Allegra Goodman's dazzling novels, Kaaterskill Falls and Paradise Park, have achieved universal acclaim. As a National Book Award finalist and a writer of astonishing gifts, her prose has been compared to Fielding and Austen, Roth and Bellow. Now, with INTUITION, Goodman has produced her most compelling novel yet: a mesmerizing human drama about a whistle-blower in the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a prestigious cancer research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A brash, publicity-seeking oncologist, an exacting scientist driven by the pure love of her field, an obsessive post-doctoral researcher, and an ambitious young lab-rat head the rich tapestry of characters at the Philpott, a prestigious lab desperately in need of a grant. Suddenly, the mice in a dead-end cancer trial go into remission. The ebullient staff feels their luck has finally turned-until one young scientist's doubts about the data ignite a full-blown investigation that will profoundly affect her life and the lives of everyone around her. Suspenseful, penetrating, and rich with the emotional nuance that caused The New Yorker to hail her as "a writer of uncommon clarity," INTUITION will further ratify Allegra Goodman's place as one of the most accomplished young writers of her generation, and greatly expand her already devoted audience. Allegra Goodman is the author of two previous story collections and two novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, Slate, and The American Scholar. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine award for fiction. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
SEND ME by Patrick Ryan First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: International Creative Management, Inc., 212-556-5600	February Fiction
Ryan's wonderful voice and genuine fondness for his richly imagined protagonists have won him praise from Anne Patchett and Edmund White. SEND ME is a stunning debut--a work of fiction which distills forty years in the life of one American family into a kaleidoscopic portrait of heartbreaking intimacy. In the Florida of NASA launches, ranch-style houses, and sudden hurricanes, Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to keep herself together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background, while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker to the ailing father who abandoned him as a child, while his wild teenage sister Karen hides herself in marriage to a born-again salesman. Joe, a perpetual outsider, struggles with a private sibling rivalry that nearly derails him. And then there's the youngest, Frankie, an endearing, eccentric sci-fi freak who’s been searching since childhood for intelligent life in the universe—and finds it. Written with wry affection, and with compassion for every character in its pages, SEND ME is a wholly original, haunting evocation of family love, loss and, ultimately, forgiveness. Patrick Ryan has published in The Yale Review, One Story, The Ontario Review, and other journals. He grew up in Florida and lives in New York City.
DELL TRADE PAPERBACK
BORROWED TIME and INTO THE BLUE by Robert Goddard First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: InkWell Management, 212-922-3500	February Fiction
Delta's six-book re-launch of a unique and much-loved master of psychological suspense, who "combines the expert manipulation of a Daphne du Maurier romance with suspense of a John le Carré thriller" (New York Times), begins with the simultaneous release of two rich, intricate novels of secrets, deceit, and murder that are truly "impossible to put down" (Yorkshire Post). BORROWED TIME has never before been published in the U.S., and our edition of INTO THE BLUE marks that novel's return to our market. Drawing comparisons to such luminaries as P.D. James, Daphne Du Maurier, and John Le Carré, Robert Goddard will now be published in the U.S. after an absence of many years. Look for the hardcover release of Goddard's brand-new thriller, Sight Unseen, in Summer 2006, followed by the trade paperback original releases of Hand in Glove, Play to the End, which has never before been published in the States, and In Pale Battalions.
MOTHER MASSAGE: A Handbook for Relieving the Discomforts of Pregnancy by Elaine Stillerman First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: 2M Communications, 212-741-1509	February Nonfiction
"Elaine Stillerman's book on mother (and father) massage is a very interesting and contributive set of ideas. Bravo!" (Dr. T. Berry Brazelton). This classic book, now updated for a new generation of parents, demonstrates the power of a therapeutic and loving touch by teaching you how to truly share the joy and excitement-and the many ways of relieving the discomforts of pregnancy-to be had through massage with one's partner. Though massage techniques don't change, advice for expectant mothers does. In this new and completely redesigned edition, techniques and illustrations have been updated to reflect the very latest recommendations for mothers-to-be. Designed to be used either alone or with a partner, MOTHER MASSAGE is a beautifully illustrated guide to the perfect way to reduce stress and pain, and promote general well-being during and after pregnancy. It provides techniques for a variety of massages, including full body massage, preparation for labor and birthing massage, and infant massage. Also included are sections on reflexology, herbal remedies, and nutritional requirements for pregnant and lactating women. Every technique is explained in step-by-step detail and accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of painter Diana Kurz. Elaine Stillerman, a licensed massage therapist, has specialized in prenatal and postpartum massage since 1980. She teaches the nationally certified course "Mother Massage: Massage during Pregnancy" at massage schools throughout the United States. She is also the author of The Encyclopedia of Bodywork.
THE PEACEFUL NURSERY: Preparing A Home For Your Baby With Feng Shui by Laura Forbes Carlin and Alison Forbes Performance: Kuhn Projects, LLC, 212-929-2227	March Nonfiction
The nursery is the most important room in an expectant parents' home, and every parent wants to ensure that it will be as warm, inviting, and healthy as possible for their new baby. Designing this special space also is an opportunity for expectant parents to prepare, mentally and physically, for the changes to come. THE PEACEFUL NURSERY offers a new, unique approach to preparing your home for the arrival of a baby by employing parenting, Feng Shui, and home design principles to create a beautiful, comfortable, and peaceful nursery that nurtures both parent and child. Through stylish photographs and practical, easy-to-understand holistic design tips, home and lifestyle experts Laura Forbes Carlin and Alison Forbes show expectant parents how they can: set up a nursery that encourages good sleep for the baby; make health-conscious choices when selecting paint, fabric, toys, clothes and furniture; enjoy the practical and emotional benefits of a streamlined and clutter-free home; create a balanced and peaceful nursery using basic Feng Shui principles that are easy to understand and apply; and design a nursery that will nurture their baby's mind, body and spirit-as well as their own during their transition into parenthood. With its beautiful photographs, practical advice, and easy-to-understand Feng Shui tips, there is simply nothing quite like this book on the market. It will become the go-to book for all health-conscious, emotionally aware parents. Laura Forbes Carlin and Alison Forbes are sisters, Feng Shui experts, and co-founders of a home and lifestyle consulting business, The Art of Everyday Living (www.artofeverdayliving.com). They live in Los Angeles.




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