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BAD GUYS by Linwood Barclay British, Translation, and Performance: Helen Heller Agency, Inc., 416-631-6875	June Fiction
Fans rejoice! Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his Bantam debut, Bad Move. In BAD GUYS, Barclay gives us another "riotously funny and irreverent" (Publishers Weekly starred review) suburban crime caper. Zany, paranoid family man and science fiction novelist Zack Walker has moved his family back to their old neighborhood only to find they are living in the precarious cross-hairs of urban sprawl and, once again, Zack can’t help but be worried—really worried—that just around the corner lurks another suspicious crew of BAD GUYS. Much to his family’s relief, this work-at-home science fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a writer for the city paper. While researching a feature article with a real private eye, Zack stumbles upon a homicide that may be linked to a gang that's been burglarizing the city's high-end shops. Suddenly Zack finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock, an unsettling figure infamous in the crime syndicate for his ruthless business tactics and peculiar proclivity for collecting dolls. And all is not quiet on the home front either. Zack's protective instincts launch into over-drive when he discovers his daughter's rejected suitor has been tracing her every step and may harbor much more ominous motivations that winning a Saturday evening date. Nor does his son's strange behavior and recent friendship with a creepy computer recluse inspire joy in a father's heart. As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foes blur, Zack goes on the attack, and heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad. Settle in for a great read! Bad Move, published this past June, was named one of the best first novels of 2004 by Deadly Pleasures.
BLOWN by Francine Mathews Translation, Audio, and Performance: Raphael Sagalyn, 301-718-6440	May Fiction
In her thriller debut, The Cutout, Francine Mathews created "one of the toughest female secret agents we've seen in a long time" (USA Today). Now the heroine of that acclaimed thriller returns in BLOWN, a white-hot tale of international espionage. BLOWN begins with a phone call from a dead man: Eric Carmichael, once a leading CIA operative and now believed dead in the bloodbath of Sarajevo which killed the U.S. Vice President. Surfacing from deep undercover with the 30 April terrorist organization, Eric is calling to signal that 30 April is going to strike again; and this time their target is here, in the United States. Grappling with her complicated feelings for her husband and racing to stop another terrorist strike on our shores, CIA analyst Carolyn Carmichael discovers that she must choose: either betray everyone she cares about-or everything she believes in. In an original thriller of power and lies, loves and secrets, Francine Mathews once again proves herself a master of international espionage. Francine Mathews has worked as a foreign-policy analyst for the CIA. She is the author of The Secret Agent and The Cutout (optioned for a major motion picture by Warner Brothers). Under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron, she is the author of six bestselling Jane Austen mysteries for Bantam.
CHILL OF FEAR by Kay Hooper First Serial and Performance: The Fallon Literary Agency, 732-281-3594	August Fiction
"A master storyteller" (Tami Hoag). "Hooper keeps the reader guessing until the chilling end" (Publishers Weekly). With just over 5 million copies of her thrillers in print, New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper follows the sensational reception to Sense Of Evil and Hunting Fear with CHILL OF FEAR, the second novel in her Fear trilogy. FBI Agent Noah Bishop and his extrasensory Special Crimes Unit are at the deadly axis of imagination and chilling, unknown evil. Twenty-five years ago, at a secluded Victorian resort known as The Lodge, Quentin Hayes stumbled upon the body of a young girl-a tragedy no one should ever experience, let alone a 12-year-old boy. Now, on the eve of another disappearance, Quentin teams up with FBI Agent Bishop and artist Diana Brisco, whose "seeing" gifts have been misdiagnosed as mental illness. When it is discovered that many have fallen victim to an evil force that seems to possess the resort, Noah counts on Quentin and Diana to overcome their past trauma to bring a terrifying killer to justice. Kay Hooper's Sense of Evil marked her return to hardcover after many years. The book was a national bestseller rising to #7 on the New York Times list, #6 on Publishers Weekly's list, #4 on the Wall Street Journal list, and appearing in the top 50 in the USA Today bestseller list. The mass-market super release reprint of Sense of Evil made the national bestseller lists of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, among others. Kay Hooper is at work on her next novel of bone-chilling suspense for Bantam. She lives in North Carolina.
DIALOGUES: A Novel of Suspense by Stephen Spignesi Performance: John White, 203-272-2151	May Fiction
With the daring immediacy that only a novel-in-conversations can deliver, DIALOGUES will confound, conflict, and possibly convert readers to the heroine's eerily disturbing, darkly profound point of view. Here is one of the freshest first novels of the year. In a mental hospital in Connecticut sits Tory Troy, a young woman facing a particularly grotesque charge of capital murder. Tory-bright, blunt, and empathetic-has spent the past year as a Certified Animal Euthanasia Technician; it was in the Waterbridge Animal Shelter that the police arrested her. We come to know her through her conversations with the doctor the court has appointed to assess her competence to stand trial-and through further conversations with the nursing staff, her mother, her one-time English professor, her lawyer, and others. Her singular perspective on the world-intricate, contrarian, deeply felt-makes Tory a fascinating but perhaps not trustworthy guide to the darkest regions of the human soul. In a novel that is distinctive not only for its subject matter but for its unorthodox and riveting structure, author Stephen Spignesi leads us into Tory's world, and leaves us there to find our way out. Each dialogue reveals something new, or confounds our assumptions about Tory. Each time we believe we understand what has happened, difficult new questions and insights arise. Gathering pace as the case reaches the courtroom-and then far beyond it-DIALOGUES will leave you breathless and deeply moved. Before writing this, his first novel, Stephen Spignesi specialized in writing on popular culture. He lives in Connecticut.
DR. BLOCK'S CANCER BATTLE PLAN by Keith I. Block, M.D. Audio & Performance: Literary & Creative Artists Agency, 202-362-4688	May Nonfiction
The breakthrough guide to cancer treatment that combines the best of conventional medicine with a scientifically rigorous, time-tested approach to complementary methods that will do for cancer what Dean Ornish's books did for heart disease. Over 50% of cancer patients already use alternative methods. This book--truly the first comprehensive, "holistic" guide for the twelve most prevelant cancers--is what they've been waiting for: one that integrates the most beneficial aspects of traditional cancer care, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, with an individualized program of mind/body approaches, diet, and nutritional supplements that reduce treatment side effects and support the body's own powerful ability to heal. Dr. Block's remarkable research findings (independently verified) show survival rates of patients enrolled in his programs are significantly higher than patients getting the best standard treatments alone. Filled with inspiring case histories, DR. BLOCK'S CANCER BATTLE PLAN will give patients the guidance of a leading oncologist whose patients have demonstrated survival rates far beyond the average, and whose research has been published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals. A leader in the field of mind/body medicine and nutritional oncology, Keith I. Block, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the Block Medical Center and Block Institute for Integrative Cancer Care 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. He also serves as medical consultant on nutritional-oncology research for the U.S. Office of Technology. Dr. Keith Block has been a featured speaker at Columbia Medical School and the Aspen Center; on "NBC Nightly News" and PBS, in Prevention, and Natural Health. Block and his staff at the Block Medical Center are conducting long term research projects comparing patient outcomes in his program, Life Over Cancer, with national survival statistics, as well as on ways to diminish side effects and increase effectiveness of traditional cancer therapies. The Center is a pioneer in integrative and complementary (alternative) cancer care that combines innovative approaches with standard treatments.
THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR by Elizabeth McGregor British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: The Blumer Literary Agency, 212-749-8853	August Fiction
From Elizabeth McGregor, whose previous book A Road Through the Mountains was hailed as "remarkably accomplished and poignant" (The Washington Post), comes this haunting, beautiful love story about a woman coming to terms with her husband's sudden abandonment. Catherine Sergeant believed she had the perfect marriage… right up until the day her husband left her, without warning or explanation. Devastated, she takes up refuge in her work evaluating fine art-and in a new friendship with John Brigham, an architect with his own tragic mysteries. The two of them share a fascination with Richard Dadd, an early Victorian painter who lived most of his life-and painted most of his finest work-while incarcerated in an insane asylum. Inexorably, the two find themselves falling deeper and deeper into love. One day Catherine finds a Dadd miniature in John's house… This begins a series of unsettling discoveries that leave Catherine wondering if she really knows this man who has opened her heart and mind to the poignant beauty of the world. Intercut with striking passages in which we experience Dadd's world in all its genius and insanity, THE GIRL IN THE GREEN GLASS MIRROR is a rich emotional journey that ultimately celebrates the strength we must all find within our own hearts. Elizabeth McGregor lives in Dorset on the south coast of England, where she is at work on her next novel.
LETTERS FROM THE HIVE: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey, and Humankind by Stephen Buchmann with Banning Repplier Performance: Judith Riven Literary Agent, 212-255-1009	April Nonfiction
Aristotle called it ambrosia, the nectar of the gods. It is repeatedly mentioned in the Koran and in the Bible. It is the prize that lures Pooh. It has been used as an antibiotic dressing for wounds and burns since ancient times. It is an expression of love, a wonder food, and it is fermented into wine, or mead, the world's oldest alcoholic beverage. It is celebrated in ancient rituals still practiced in remote corners of the world. It was part of daily life in the Roman Empire and a status symbol in China over 2,000 years ago. And, this masterpiece is created by bees! LETTERS FROM THE HIVE is an engaging cultural and natural history of the social, historical, and economic impact of the world's oldest natural sweetener, familiar to millions all over the world for thousands of years yet whose origins remain shrouded in myth and legend and whose historical and global importance is little understood. Peppered with beautifully-rendered line drawings and vivid photographs, LETTERS FROM THE HIVE is a unique blend of anthropology and entomology that will appeal to a wide range of intellectual curiosities. Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D., is a renowned expert on pollination, a beekeeper, and Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of Arizona. He is affiliated with the departments of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History and the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson and is an elected fellow of the Linnaean Society in London, among other scientific societies. Banning Repplier is a writer who lives in New York City.
LIFE EXTENSION REVOLUTION: The New Science of Growing Older Without Aging by Philip Lee Miller, M.D., and the Life Extension Foundation Scientific Advisory Board with Monica Reinagel Audio and Performance: Life Extension Foundation c/o Lynn Sonberg, 212-316-4353 (P), 212-316-6537 (F)	July Nonfiction
Leading-edge science, fascinating case histories, and an individualized, practical program compose this new vision of aging based on the latest research from the Life Extension Foundation. The Life Extension Foundation is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the investigation of scientific methods of preventing and treating disease, slowing down aging, and delaying death. In addition to developing scientific disease treatment protocols, the Foundation funds pioneering scientific research aimed at achieving an indefinitely extended healthy human life span. The Life Extension Foundation founders have been involved in anti-aging research since the 1960s. LIFE EXTENSION REVOLUTION is written for the millions of people in their forties, fifties, and sixties by Dr. Philip Lee Miller, a leading anti-aging physician. It explains how to extend the prime of our lives-our healthy, vital, productive years-for many decades, with a complete program to forestall or reverse the so-called "normal" changes of aging and to prevent the feared diseases that shorten so many lives today. Drawing on Dr. Miller's own clinical experience, as well as on the groundbreaking research by the non-profit Life Extension Foundation, LIFE EXTENSION REVOLUTION offers: detailed strategies to retain physical vigor, mental clarity, and youthful appearance; a comprehensive plan to protect yourself from cancer, heart disease, arthritis and Alzheimer's at the cellular level; a guide to individualizing the program; and how to use medical tests to monitor your progress. The final chapters offer an inspiring overview of the future of life extension science, which will change the face of aging in the 21st century. Philip Lee Miller, M.D., is Founder and Medical Director of the Los Gatos Longevity Institute in Northern California. A practicing clinician for more than 30 years, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Life Extension Foundation.
LOCKED ROOMS by Laurie King First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Linda Allen Literary Agency, 415-921-6437	June Fiction
Hot on the heels of her New York Times and national bestseller The Game, comes a tantalizing new adventure from the author hailed by The Washington Post as "a one-woman case for the defense of unauthorized literary sequels… intelligent, witty, [and] complex." LOCKED ROOMS is the eighth novel in King's Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. In 1924, San Francisco is booming. The great fire and earthquake of 1906 cleared the ground for a modern city, and Mary Russell finds that her deceased father's businesses and properties are central to someone's plan for rebuilding-she just isn't sure who that someone is. But as Russell and her husband, the eminent Sherlock Holmes, attempt to settle their affairs in the City by the Bay, Mary's past isn't the only thing that catches up with them-a mysterious woman from Savannah is waiting for the pair, and she may be the only one who holds the key to the locked rooms that have been haunting Mary's dreams… Showcasing King's masterful plotting and brilliant characters, LOCKED ROOMS sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase. Laurie King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the bestselling author of seven Mary Russell mysteries, four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the critically acclaimed stand-alone novels of suspense Keeping Watch, Folly, and A Darker Place. She is currently at work on her next novel which Bantam will publish in 2006
MISSION ROAD by Rick Riordan First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Gina Maccoby Literary Agency, 914-238-5630	July Fiction
The Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony award-winning author, praised as "one of the real artists in the world of neo-noir" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is back with a new Tres Navarre novel. When homicide detective Ana DeLeon is shot, her husband, pawn shop king and reformed criminal Ralph Arguello, becomes the prime suspect. With the full force of the San Antonio police department on his trail, Ralph must turn fugitive to find the real gunman and clear his name-and his first stop is his old pal Tres Navarre. With the help of his girlfriend, Maia Lee, and an old rival, mob boss Guy White, Tres walks a tightrope of violence, lies, loyalty and revenge to save a friend. In so doing, he opens the door on a thirty-year-old crime that has already destroyed one woman, but may save another. "Tres's taste for excess is as ferocious as his addiction to fiery food, and the fearless joy he takes in his roughneck adventures gives a real kick to this colorful series," sings The New York Times Book Review. Riordan lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas, where he is at work on his next novel for Bantam.
SAILING FROM BZYANTIUM: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World by Colin Wells Audio and Performance: New England Publishing Associates, Inc., 860-345-7323	July 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 dark magnificence of a millennial city in the final moments of its last siege to the brilliantly rich and colorful towns of Renaissance Italy. Here you will meet the keenly perceptive, 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), where he took an upper second in Greats (Greek and Latin language and literature). He is an educational writer.
SUMMER'S CHILD & SUMMER OF ROSES by Luanne Rice First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Jane Rotrosen Agency, 212-593-4330	July/August Fiction
A sensational summer event certain to delight Luanne Rice's loyal fans: two novels, one story. New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice opens her story with SUMMER'S CHILD in paperback in June and brings the story full circle in August with the hardcover, SUMMER OF ROSES, an unforgettable novel destined to take its place as one of her most beloved works. In SUMMER'S CHILD, Luanne Rice transports readers to the windswept coast of Nova Scotia and into the lives of Lily, her eight-year-old daughter, Rose, and those whose paths will intersect with theirs: Liam Neill, a dedicated teacher living in self-imposed isolation; Maeve Jameson, in far away Connecticut, mourning the loss of a granddaughter she struggled all her life to protect;and Mark Murphy, a dogged police detective obsessed with a woman who vanished years ago, who may or may not find what he seeks in a tiny maritime village. Now the story circles back to the past, and to a man who bars Lily from all that she has loved-but who may hold the only key to Rose's future. Rounding out a year-long Luanne Rice celebration with releases in an array of new formats and the repackaging of her backlist, SUMMER OF ROSES is the triumphant conclusion to a saga only Luanne Rice could create, the conclusion of a special summer-long gift for the millions of readers who have made her novels staples of the paperback bestseller lists and a powerful, utterly enthralling new statement sure to capture multitudes more. Luanne Rice is the author of eighteen novels, most recently Silver Bells, Beach Girls, Dance With Me, The Perfect Summer, and The Secret Hour. She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.
UP FROM ORCHARD STREET by Eleanor Widmer British, Translation, and Performance: Margaret McBride Literary Agency, 858-454-1550	August Fiction
First-time novelist Eleanor Widmer recreates the soul and spirit of New York City's Lower East Side in a novel of immigrant family life worthy of Cynthia Freeman. Lovingly narrated by their precocious, adoring granddaughter Elka, the life of Manya and her husband Misha is the stuff of many family legends. Teenage Manya Roth and her dashing husband Misha dreamt of a land of endless possibility when they arrived in New York City after fleeing the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia. Life as young immigrants was difficult-back-breaking work for little money, dank basement rooms, freezing New York winters-still Manya and Misha had one another. But tragedy struck the young couple when Misha died of tuberculosis, leaving young Manya to fend for herself and their infant son. Years later, Manya has become a matriarchal figure in her Lower East Side neighborhood. In the crowded tenement flat she shares with her son Jack, his wife Lil, and her two grandchildren Elka and Willy, she daily serves legendary five-course meals to the merchants and shoppers who populate the Jewish ghetto. Through Elka, Eleanor Widmer brings to life the myriad of people who pass through the makeshift restaurant. Faced with poverty, illness, and uncertainty, this feisty, irrepressible cast of characters has an infectious passion for living and a plethora of sharp wits, quick tongues, and adamant opinions. It is here-in the indomitable spirits of these remarkable people-that the heart of the American immigrant experience can be found. Eleanor Widmer grew up in the Lower East Side and has first-person knowledge of tenement life. She is a noted restaurant critic in the San Diego area.
THE WATER ROOM by Christopher Fowler First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433	June Fiction
Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler's Bantam debut, was praised by the Los Angeles Times as "a madcap mystery that's completely crazy and great fun for it." Now, everyone's favorite cantankerous detective heroes, Arthur Bryant and John May, founders of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit, return in a darkly hilarious puzzler that just might land both of them in hot water-permanently. When the elderly sister of Bryant's friend is found dead in the basement of her decrepit house in Kentish Town, they find themselves on the verge of being shut down. According to the coroner, Ruth Singh's heart simply stopped beating. But why was a woman who rarely left the house fully dressed for an outing? And why was there river water in her throat? Convinced that the old lady didn't die a natural death, the detectives delve into a murky case with no apparent motive, no forensics, and no clues. And they've barely launched their investigation when death claims another victim. Suddenly they discover some very unnatural behavior surrounding Ruth Singh's death by "natural" causes, from shady real estate developers and racist threats to two troubled marriages; from a dodgy academician working London's notorious "grey economy" to a network of antiquities collectors obsessed with Egyptian mythology. And running beneath it all are the sweeping tentacles of London's vast and forgotten underground river system. As the rains pour down and the water rises, Bryant and May must rely on instinct, experience, and their own very peculiar methods to stem a tide of evil that threatens to drown them all. Edgy, suspenseful and darkly comic, THE WATER ROOM makes for a compelling read. Christopher Fowler is at work on his next Bryant & May mystery, Darkest Day, coming from Bantam in 2006.
WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD by John Burnett British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, Inc., 212-627-9100	June Nonfiction
"There is going to be shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy's first round. The soldier, about 10 years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver's face… unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief worker, my driver is going to get his head blown off." Thus opens John Burnett's gripping, first-hand account of UN relief work. WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD offers a rare insider's look into the life of humanitarians struggling to aid war-ravaged Somalia and Iraq. Last year, more UN civilian workers than peacekeepers were killed. Burnett, a former congressional speechwriter and journalist, walked away from that life to become an international relief worker journeying to Somalia and Baghdad-where he lived in the UN compound shortly before the terror bombing that killed so many. His account of the grim days, nightmarish violence, civil chaos, and the politics of aid work unveils the little-known story of those men and women serving the United Nations, Red Cross, and other nongovernmental humanitarian organizations, oftentimes unpaid volunteers, who daily wonder whether they are going to make it home alive. WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD is John's journey into a world rarely covered by the press. It ably stands beside Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan atrocities, We Wish To Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. John Burnett is a former reporter for United Press International who has written for National Geographic, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He is the author of Dangerous Waters, Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas.




BANTAM TRADE PAPERBACK
ALTERNATE BEAUTY by Andrea Rains Waggener Performance: W.E. Agency, 360-538-7764	August Fiction
"With tenderness and tongue in 'chic,' Andrea Rains Waggener has tapped into the fat fantasy/nightmare we all wonder about: what would life be like if fat was fabulous and thin was anything but? A wonderful read for the sleeping beauty in each and every body."-Wendy Shanker, author of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life. Ronnie Tremayne has always wanted to be a fashion designer. Only, as her slender, fashionable and controlling mother so frequently tells her, what beautiful person would want to know that her clothes were designed by a fat woman? Always a chubby and ungainly as a child, Ronnie grows up into an unhappy and even heavier adult, and gives up her dreams of fashion design to become a salesgirl at a plus-size dress shop. But even the pleasures she finds in that job are about to be demolished when her boss decides that Ronnie has become too large for her position. For in a world in which her only comfort has become food, Ronnie is now pushing 300 pounds. One night, in a burst of heart-felt misery, Ronnie goes to sleep praying that she could live in a world in which fat is beautiful only to find herself, the next morning, in just such an alternate reality. Now, suddenly, Ronnie is lauded as one of the most beautiful women of her generation, and finds all of her dreams coming true. But is this enough to make her happy? Or is there some flaw in herself that will prevent Ronnie from ever finding true happiness, no matter how well the world is treating her? Andrea Rains Waggener left a career in law to pursue a career in writing. Her book Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise--52 Life-Changing Lessons For The 21st Century comes out in February 2005 from Hazeldon. Her weekly newspaper column, "The Up Beat" has inspired people for over five years to live an upbeat life. She has also struggled with her own weight, ranging in her adult life from a size 8 to a size 26. (She is currently a size 12.) She lives with her husband and dog near the coast in Washington State.
BABY HEARTS: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D. British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises, 323-662-1987	July Nonfiction
The authors of the bestselling Baby Signs and Baby Minds (more than 400,000 combined copies sold), now present the third volume in their acclaimed science-based parenting series. BABY HEARTS is the definitive guide to fostering healthy emotional development in infants and toddlers. Developing emotional intelligence and sensitivity to other people's feelings is critical to becoming emotionally healthy and happy in life-and there's an ideal time to begin: from 0 to 36 months. Psychologist and renowned child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., bring the fruits of their twenty-years-plus research on parent-infant communication to reveal the rich, emotional lives of young babies and, through simple ideas and guidelines, to teach parents ways to give their baby or toddler an emotional head start during the earliest and most critical years. BABY HEARTS translates up-to-date, intriguing research findings ("news flashes") into practical strategies and fun activities that will help you understand what your baby is "saying," and to help you help her feel secure, express emotions effectively, show empathy for others, develop healthy friendships, and feel good about herself. Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Davis, California. Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Child Development at California State University, Stanislaus. Their pioneering research and discovery that babies can learn to use simple sign language to communicate before they can talk resulted in the renowned Baby Signs (McGraw Hill) book and program. Bantam published Baby Minds, the second in their parenting series, in 2002.
THE ENERGY PRESCRIPTION: Eight Gateways to a Life of Abundant Vitality and Health by Constance Grauds and Doug Childers Foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D. Performance: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, 212-337-0934	August Nonfiction
The leading natural pharmacist and initiated shamana combines two complimentary, powerful medicinal traditions in a unique program that identifies the root cause of exhaustion, lethargy, insomnia and depression and offers a healing path to sustained physical and emotional vitality. Drawing on her ten year apprenticeship in ancient Amazonian shamanic traditions and her pharmaceutical work in the health care trenches, Constance Grauds shows why fear, "susto," is the root of restlessness, anxiety, a compromised immune system, and other common ailments, and introduces shamanic energy principles in applications that help readers assess the degree to which fear disrupts their lives. Grauds details a process that will help people free themselves from a fear-based to a vital, energized self. The steps she explains include applying body awareness (using the 4 step shift) to foods, botanics, exercise, and nature *mastering the eight active disciplinas--breathing, conscious relaxation, mediation, prayer, ritual, meaningful work or service, being in nature alone and with others; understanding why the "not doing" disciplinas-celibacy, dietary, fasting (from food or media), silence and solitude are needed from time to time; showing how to reduce internal toxins; demonstrating the role shallow breathing and under-oxygenation play in the cyle of fear --and the benefits of complete breathing; and, why water matters more than you probably think and in surprising ways; imparting the shaman's sleep cure-and much Constance Grauds's work is praised by Larry Dossey and Deepak Chopra. She is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco. A nationally known lecturer, she is the only pharmacist to undergo extensive shamanic training in the Amazon. She is president of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists, which provides education on natural medicine to thousands of healthcare professionals, and the author of Kava and Anxiety. Doug Childers is a writer and editor, and is an assistant pastor in Fairfax, California.
HAMMERJACK by Marc Giller Performance: Reece Halsey North Agency, 415-789-9191	June Fiction
Dive into this dark, futuristic debut novel, a slick, fast-paced, and darkly violent high-tech thriller about a deadly evolutionary race between human beings and a biological supercomputer which threatens to displace man as the highest form of life on the planet. Once, a long time ago, Cray Alden faced a choice-his soul or his life-and took what he thought was the easy way out. Now this former hacker works as a corporate spook, chasing down the information traffickers who have turned the matters of business into a clandestine war, and war into profit. But beneath the surface skirmishes lies an even greater secret. On one side a group of corporations, known as the Collective, has been developing the technology for a living computer. On the other, a mysterious group called the Inru-techno-terrorists who have been waging a holy war against the Collective while also pursuing a dark plan of their own. In the middle is Clay. When something goes terribly wrong in what should have been a routine takedown, Cray is drawn into a conspiracy that could cost him his life-and change forever the balance of power between man and machine. Marc Giller lives in Florida where he is at work on the sequel to HAMMERJACK, to be published by Bantam in 2006.
THE HOT SEX HANDBOOK by Tracey Cox British, Translation, and Performance: Random House Australia, Ltd., +61-2-9954-9966 (P), + 61-2-9954-4562 (F)	August Fiction
The fabulous, pocket-sized edition of the bestselling sensation Hot Sex: How To Do It (over 150,000 copies in print!) from international sexpert Tracey Cox. THE HOT SEX HANDBOOK serves up all the juiciest bits from Hot Sex in a handy take-anywhere size that is perfect bedtime reading for two. It's practical, explicit, sexy, and fun, and includes hundreds of steamy tips, such as: his and her how-to-find-it guides to the G-spot; sex toys tried and tested, and enough foreplay ideas to keep you amused for days, weeks, and months. Tracey Cox is an international sex and relationships counselor, writer, and TV presenter. Her first book, Hot Sex became a bestseller worldwide (available now in more than 40 countries), as did the sequel Hot Relationships (available in more than 30 countries). Tracey frequently contributes articles to leading women's magazines around the world, and can be seen as the body language expert on the TV series Date Patrol (on TLC), and its previous BBC incarnation, Would Like to Meet. She lives in London, and her website is www.traceycox.com.
SLEEPING WITH BEAUTY by Donna Kauffman First Serial, Audio, and Performance: Spencerhill Associates, 518-392-9293	July Fiction
"Donna Kauffman writes smart and sexy, with sizzle to spare," raves Janet Evanovich. Now the bestselling author of The Cinderella Rules and Dear Prince Charming returns with an enchanting new novel in the beloved Glass Slipper series. When a much-needed girl's night of beauty is cancelled, philosophy professor Lucy Harper is left alone with a stack of freshman essay exams, a bowlful of homemade apricot-oatmeal face mask and that ever-present nagging feeling that, belief in free-will notwithstanding, a solitary life seems to be her destiny. Feeling more like Pippi Longstocking than a fishnet-clad sex goddess, it seems to Lucy that the night of frivolous beauty treatments best be ended early. That is, until a sex appeal survey in a fashion magazine proves too distracting and then confirms her worst fears: she has slipped into a sex coma-the final stages of Sleeping Beauty Syndrome-and apparently it's going to take a lot more than a little peck on the lips to awaken her. Determined to break this self-imposed spell, Lucy's childhood friends Jana Green and Grady Matthews, set out to find her prince charming. But Lucy decides to take matters into her own hands and enlists Glass Slippers, Inc.'s three modern-day, entrepreneurial fairy godmothers who, for a fee, can bring out the princess in any woman. What Lucy doesn't know yet is that the heart of a princess is more precious than her tiara and that the soul mate she's been searching for has never really left her side. Fresh and funny and filled with Donna's trademark hot sex and cool humor, SLEEPING WITH BEAUTY makes for a sizzling, satisfying read. Look for the next installment in the Glass Slipper series, Not-So-Snow White, coming in 2006.
THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD GUIDE TO ECCENTRIC & DISCREDITED DISEASES, ed. Mark Roberts, Jeff Vandermeer All rights inquiries: Nightshade Books, c/o Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433	May Fiction
"Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you're afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!" - Booklist Previously published by a small press, this fictional medical compendium, with contributions by some of the best authors writing today's science fiction and horror, has garnered industry kudos: it was a Booksense 76 Pick in October/November 2003 and has been nominated for the 2004 British Fantasy Awards (Best Anthology); the Hugo Award ("Other" category); and the International Horror Guild Award (Best Anthology). THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD GUIDE TO ECCENTRIC & DISCREDITED DISEASES is the complete compendium of diseases both rare and fantastical, a reference no good doctor (or happy hypochondriac) should be without. Offering complete histories, symptom guides, and suggested treatments for such startling ailments as Pentzler's Lubriciousness, Tian Shian-Gobi Assimilation, and Printer's Evil, THE THACKERY GUIDE provides a sorely needed dose of good humor for every sleep-deprived medical student, weary physician, overworked professor, and curious reader. With a beautifully illustrated design to match its Victorian "origins," THE THACKERY GUIDE is a deliciously clever visual and literary treat for audiences young and old. Contributors include Kage Baker, K.J. Bishop, Richard Calder, Paul diFilippo, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Neil Gaiman, Tim Lebbon, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, and Liz Williams, among others.
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BADWATER by Clinton McKinzie Audio and Performance: The John Talbot Agency, Inc., 914-381-9463	May Fiction
Here is the fifth novel in Clinton McKinzie's "riveting and powerfully unique" (Iris Johansen) series featuring Special Agent Antonio Burns. Antonio isn't proud of himself these days. He rarely sees his six-month-old daughter and ex-fiancée, his mentor will have nothing to do with him, his brother Roberto was seriously maimed and nearly killed because of him, and his career is on a downward trajectory. And trouble just keeps on coming. The good folks of Badwater, Wyoming, want the tourist they feel is responsible for the drowning of a 12-year-old boy to be tried and convicted of murder. Jonah Strasberg claims it was an accident and Burns is forced into working for the prosecution. When a media-savvy celebrity lawyer takes up Strasberg's defense, truth and justice run a distant second to the battle for power in this neck of the woods. A man's innocence or guilt carries no weight. Clinton McKinzie's previous titles include The Edge of Justice, Point of Law, Trial by Ice and Fire, and Crossing the Line. He lives with his family in Colorado and is at work on his next novel for Delacorte.
CASE OF LIES by Perri O'Shaughnessy British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Lowenstein-Yost Associates, Inc., 212-206-1630	July Fiction
Nina Reilly, "one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today" (San Jose Mercury News), returns in the eleventh book of this thrilling New York Times bestselling series. With over 8.2 million Nina Reilly legal thrillers in print, our sales for the series thrive in both hardcover and paperback as the books climb the bestseller lists. Unfit to Practice was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Writ of Execution and Move to Strike (as high as #2) were New York Times bestsellers in paperback. Now, in the latest book, Nina learns that sometimes moving forward can mean going backward. After a bittersweet final parting from her on-again/off-again lover, Paul van Wagoner, attorney Nina Reilly is happy to return to Tahoe, even if she is a little lonely. When an unexpected call comes through from a potential client, Nina is all ears-especially when the woman on the other end mentions that Nina comes recommended by Kurt Scott: the father of Nina's son. Tortured by guilt for running away from the scene of a crime she witnessed while vacationing in Tahoe two years ago (a couple was robbed and the wife shot dead), the woman wants Nina to find out what happened. She soon discovers that though the crime has remained unsolved, the husband-who claims he knows who killed his wife-tried taking matters into his own hands by filing a wrongful death lawsuit. But no lawyer would touch the case since the man in question had a solid alibi. A witness changes everything, though, and Nina agrees to act as the husband's counsel. When the witness goes missing, Nina has to enlist Kurt's help to track her down... and in the process discovers that the way to her future may just lie in her past. Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pen name for sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy, who live in Hawaii and on Lake Tahoe, California. Pamela was a trial lawyer for sixteen years, and Mary is a former editor. They have written ten bestselling Nina Reilly novels and are at work on their next book for Dell.
FISHING ON THE EDGE: The Mike Iaconelli Story by Michael Iaconelli with Tim Tucker All rights inquiries: The Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 212-782-9800 (F)	June Nonfiction
The first superstar of bass fishing, the most in-demand angler on the planet, the champ who has Esquire writing about fishing-FISHING!-and The New York Times writing about him, Mike Iaconelli is young (32), tattooed, cocky, loves hip-hop, break dances when he wins a tournament, and he's the most controversial sports figure to demand attention since Dennis Rodman. But, unlike Rodman, Mike is passionate about fish, specifically Largemouth Bass (the only thing he likes more than fishing is talking about fishing) and he is poised to be the face of a sport that's breaking away from its Southern roots. Like NASCAR before it, the sport of bass fishing is exploding with weekly tournament television coverage by ESPN, six-figure purses and corporate endorsement contracts. Bass fishing is a $28 billion business with an estimated 21 million active participants in the US alone. That's more than golf and tennis combined. Mike exploded onto the professional bass fishing scene in 2003, when at age 30-a mere four years after turning pro-he became the second Northerner ever to win the extremely prestigious Bassmasters Classics (the Super Bowl/World Series of bass fishing). His stereotype-busting ways are controversial in the old school, Southern bass fishing world. Even as he helps bring the sport into the national consciousness, he's often misunderstood and criticized for the very things that set him apart-not that that's going to stop him. Just in time for Father's Day, Bantam will publish Mike's fresh and entertaining memoir and advice guide to bass fishing. Part compelling personal story, part how-to packed with insider tips and secrets, FISHING ON THE EDGE is essential reading for the weekend bass fisher and the more serious angler-as well as for the millions who are waking up to the sport's appeal. Mike Iaconelli won the 2003 Bassmasters Classic Champion. He's been fishing regularly since he was 12 years old. His list of sponsors includes Dick's Sporting Goods, Yamaha, Ranger Boats, Mann's Bait Company, Fitovers Eyewear, Stren fishing lines, and Daiwa tackle. He lives in New Jersey. Tim Tucker has covered the professional fishing scene for more than 20 years as a senior writer for Bassmaster Magazine and BASS Times. He's the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Strictly Bass Fishing with Tim Tucker, the author of nine books, and publisher of the subscription newsletter Pro Angling Insider: Your Guide to the Business Side of Fishing. He lives in Florida.
MADAME BOVARY'S OVARIES: A Darwinian Look at Literature by David Barash and Nanelle Barash British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, 212-529-4433	May Nonfiction
In MADAME BOVARY'S OVARIES, a renowned evolutionary biologist and his daughter apply Darwin's theories to great works of literature with provocative, insightful and entertaining results. What can the mating behavior of elephant seals tell us about The Iliad? What do blood-sucking bats have in common with the characters in The Grapes of Wrath? What can the study of gorillas add to our appreciation of Shakespeare? According to David and Nanelle Barash, the answer is the most important word in biology: evolution. We share a universal human nature that was shaped millions of years ago by natural selection and which has remained essentially unchanged, even though we now live in a very different world from that of our Pleistocene ancestors. So it should be no surprise that the biological forces that drive animals in general, and Homo sapiens in particular, should be clearly discernible in the vast array of human literature, from Homer to Huckleberry Finn. Seen through the lens of evolutionary biology, the witty repartee of Jane Austen's courting couples, the misdirected rage of Othello, the griping of Holden Caulfield and the indiscretions of Madame Bovary herself, all make a fresh and exciting kind of sense, as we discover what really makes the human animals of literature tick. Zoologist David Barash is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington and the author of more than a dozen books, including The Myth of Monogamy (W.H. Freeman & Co.), written with his wife, a psychiatrist. Nanelle Barash is studying literature at Swarthmore College.
ONE SHOT by Lee Child British, Translation, and Performance: Darley Anderson Literary Agency (London), +44-207-385-6652 (P), +44-207-386-5571 (F)	July Fiction
Jack Reacher is "the thinking reader's action hero" (Seattle Times), "a new American hero for our time" (Denver Post), and "just plain smarter than everyone, including us" (Sunday Oregonian). Now, New York Times bestseller Lee Child sends Reacher on his most puzzling quest for justice yet-a man's life is on the line, and Reacher has just one shot at finding the truth. When a former soldier is accused of a random killing spree, Reacher heads not to his rescue, but to aid his prosecution. For Reacher knows that this soldier has killed before. But, when the perfect evidence in a perfect case unravels, Jack Reacher must turn his back on everything he knows and everything he believes to save the last man on earth who deserves his help. Lee Child is a national and New York Times bestseller in hardback and paperback reprint and his sales and stellar review coverage grow with each Jack Reacher novel. His recent hardcover, The Enemy, is Child's strongest hardcover seller to date. It spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and appeared on the bestseller lists for Publishers Weekly, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, the Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Lee Child is the winner of the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery and is the author of nine internationally acclaimed Jack Reacher novels. He lives in New York, where he is at work on his next Jack Reacher novel for Delacorte.
THE PATRIOTS CLUB by Christopher Reich British, Translation, and Performance: Arthur Pine Associates, 212-265-7330	August Fiction
"Reich deftly blends Wall Street and bulletdodging…[in a] fast-paced international thriller." - USA Today "If you want high-concept espionage, it doesn't get much better than this." - Booklist. Christopher Reich returns with a new thriller that combines American Revolution-era historical detail with his trademark behind-the-scenes look into the world of international finance, sweeping readers to a whole new level of suspense. From his broad, rowing-champion's shoulders to his Ivy League, Rhodes Scholar pedigree, Billy Blaine is perfectly groomed for success. Having accepted a coveted position at Jefferson Partners, the world's largest-and most secretive-private equity firm, he's on the fast track. If he passes the most challenging test of his life, he will gain entry to Jefferson Partners' elite inner circle, the Patriots Club. But with great privilege comes great responsibility and even greater danger-for the Patriots Club has a bizarre agenda all its own that is as old as the Constitution-and just as fiercely protected. When Blaine realizes what it's going to take to stay on the fast track, it may be too late for him to put on the brakes... and even downshifting at Jefferson may cost him much more than just his job. Christopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of Devil's Banker, The First Billion, The Runner and Numbered Account. He worked in the private banking department of a major Swiss bank in Geneva before joining the bank's department of Mergers and Acquisitions in Zurich. He lives in southern California with his wife and children.
RED LEAVES by Belva Plain First Serial, British, Translation, and Performance: Janklow & Nesbit Associates, 212-421-1700	August
Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers, including the classic Evergreen, have made Belva Plain a storyteller beloved by millions. In RED LEAVES, her new emotionally compelling novel about mothers and daughters, Belva Plain once again goes right to the hearts of her readers. Jean Wright is a widow in a small New England city and the owner of a venerable old glassworks company. When a tragic car accident robs her of her daughter and son-in-law, Jean must put aside her grief to take in her one-year-old granddaughter, Gwen. But as Gwen grows into a shy, dreamy girl, their life together is fraught with conflict. When Gwen defies her grandmother by striking out on her own-writing children's books and eloping with a man far below her social standing-their relationship seems irreparably damaged. It is only when Gwen has a child of her own, a little girl who is so very like Jean in personality, that events come full circle… And she finds that the qualities that drive you apart can also draw you together. Belva Plain, who "doesn't know how not to write a bestseller" (Newsday), works her magic once again in RED LEAVES. The author of more than twenty previous novels with an astonishing 30 million copies in print, Belva Plain continues to reach new readers. Her current book, The Sight of the Stars was chosen by Reader's Digest Select Editions Books and was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club.














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EXCLUSIVE by Barbara Fischkin Translation, Audio, and Performance: Literary Agency East, 212-274-1616	May Fiction
A romantic, screwball romp, a sophisticated contemporary comedy that harkens back to the best Hollywood offered in the 1930s and '40s, EXCLUSIVE is a novel loosely based on the careers and marriage of our author and her husband. New York City investigative journalists, competitors, rivals, wife-and-husband-our heroine's and husband's romance unfolds and survives against an international backdrop of Long Island shady social establishments, illicit Brooklyn gambling dens, influence peddling, questionable journalism ethics, terrorism and hoodlum violence. And, all the while, our heroine, whose story this is, never gives up her quest for social justice, personal redemption, guilt-free dry cleaning, and her own byline. As a journalist, Barbara Fischkin has reported from New York, Hong Kong, Latin America, and Dublin. She is the author of Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America. She lives on Long Island with her husband and their two sons.
GUARDIAN OF THE DAWN by Richard Zimler British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Cynthia Cannell Literary Agency, 212-396-9595	August Fiction
Author of the internationally bestselling Hunting Midnight-praised by Sarah Dunant as "a page-turning story of cruelty, conspiracy, hunting and escape… that makes you read more greedily, eager to get to the end"-Richard Zimler returns with a brilliantly rendered historical novel that probes the very essence of love and evil. In his acclaimed novels Hunting Midnight and The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler has spun luminous historical fiction from the experience of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. Spanning decades and continents, his new novel is set in the lush world of colonial India during the age of the Inquisition. Here is the astonishing story of Tiago Zarco, a young man whose family fled forced conversions in Portugal and now lives in a twilight between local Hindus and the ruling Portuguese Catholics. As Tiago comes of age in Goa, the capital of the spice trade, he struggles to keep the far-reaching powers of the Inquisition from destroying his family and pulling him apart from the Hindu girl he loves. When an act of betrayal puts his beloved father in prison, Tiago is forced to hunt down the traitor and make an unimaginable choice... and for him, a harrowing journey begins-one that will show him the depths of human depravity, and the dark, poisonous salvation of revenge....
ORIGINAL CYN by Sue Margolis British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, 212-245-1993	May Fiction
A new bawdy, funny novel from Sue Margolis, the author of Breakfast at Stephanie's ("[A] comic, breezy winner from popular and sexy Margolis."-Booklist) and Apocalipstick ("Sexy British romp." -USA Today). Cyn Fishbein may have been christened Cynthia (after John Lennon's first wife-Yoko Fishbein just didn't have a ring to it, somehow), but she always goes by Cyn-a name that couldn't be more ironic. The world has never seen a less sinful woman. Sure, Cyn's a rising star in the advertising world, and she's funny and sexy, but she hates making a scene. She's the epitome of the "good girl": she works hard, never complains, never takes risks, never gets angry. It's even starting to drive her crazy. She's just too bloody nice, and she knows it. But when a co-worker finally pushes Cyn too far by stealing her idea for an ad campaign, Cyn surprises even herself by doing her one better-she decides to steal the other woman's identity. And when a sexy new bloke joins her therapy group, Cyn decides to hell with the rule against members meeting outside the group. For the first time in her life, Cyn is breaking rules: going out with somebody highly unsuitable, leading a double life, pretending to be someone she's not-and adoring every minute. But will it all come crashing down around her? Bantam's commitment to Sue Margolis extends to three more novels: Gucci Gucci Coo, Untitled, and The Grapes Of Froth.
SPIRIT BABIES: How to Communicate with the Child You're Meant to Have by Walter Makichen Performance: Natasha Kern Literary Agency, 503-297-6190	July Nonfiction
From the next frontier in spirit communications comes this helpful, reassuring guide by a clairvoyant medium who assists prospective parents in spiritually connecting with the unborn child they are meant to have. Popular mediums like Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, and James Van Praagh have millions of followers who accept the idea of communication with the spirits of people who have "passed over." For 20 years, Walter Makichen has shared his extraordinary gift with thousands of couples, serving as a go-between for them and their "spirit babies": their not-yet-conceived or not-yet-born children. In workshops and private consultations, Makichen relays messages and teaches prospective parents specific techniques so that they can communicate directly with their spirit babies and make powerful emotional bonds with them that overcome difficulties of conception and pregnancy. Walter Makichen thus enhances the relationship between mothers and their children and assists in their bonding and preparation for a happy life together by forging a connection between the rich emotional life of a spirit baby and his prospective mother. Solace, reassurance, joy-and conception!-are to be found in studying and using Walter's techniques, here offered for the first time in book form. Readers will learn about problems of conception and miscarriage and share in the wisdom of his suggestions and techniques so they, too, can experience amazing and joyous results. The book includes many warm, comforting stories of women and couples who have had difficulty conceiving and are now, with the author's help, happy parents. Walter Makichen's work is endorsed by doctors, psychologists, therapists, and the many women and couples he has helped. He founded the Center for Self Teaching in California, an organization dedicated to helping people better understand the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of their lives. He has worked with individuals throughout the United States and Europe.
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THE RED CARPET: Bangalore Stories by Lavanya Sankaran First Serial, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, LLC., 212-765-6900	May Fiction
Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in today's Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran's fresh and original talent. In, THE RED CARPET: Bangalore Stories, her masterful debut story collection, a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner cavalierly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter's resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his traditional credos with his employer's mini-skirted lifestyle. With the subtle wit and amused detachment of such writers as Diane Johnson and Anita Desai, Lavanya Sankaran takes her place among the brightest social chroniclers in today's fiction. Lavanya Sankaran lives in Bangalore, India. Her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. She is currently at work on her first novel.
TEMPLE STREAM by Bill Roorbach First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: The Gernert Company, 212-838-7777	June Nonfiction
Part memoir, part natural science, part meditation on rural life, this evocative and textured work is based on the author's article in Harper's about the stream that runs by his home in Farmington, Maine. Temple Stream courses by the old house that belongs to Bill Roorbach and his wife and daughter. To Roorbach, it is a place for recreation and contemplation. But, above all, it is a conduit to the ever-changing face of nature. Structuring his narrative season by season, Roorbach shares the stream he has come to think of as his own with the reader: the foliage that grows on its banks, the pathways it provides, via canoe, to the more populated landscape around it, and finally to his neighbors-particularly one: a massive, menacing forest-philosopher who becomes the measuring rod for the author's own questions about authenticity. Combining an intimate connection to subject with a mature literary style, Roorbach's memoir will take its place among the best works of narrative nonfiction published this year. Roorbach's memoir, Summers With Juliet (Houghton Mifflin), was widely acclaimed. His essays have appeared in Harper's and the Atlantic and have been widely anthologized. He has won the Flannery O'Connor Fiction Prize and an O'Henry Award for the title story in his collection Big Bend (h/c University of Georgia Press/ pb Counterpoint). He received a National Endowment for The Arts fellowship and he holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.


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