What if Franklin Roosevelt didn't die of natural causes?
What if FDR had been the victim of the twentieth century's greatest cover-up?
What if he was assassinated?

From the bestselling author of War of the Rats, David L. Robbins delivers a thriller as relentless and gripping as The Day of the Jackal. Rich with authenticity, history, and suspense, THE ASSASSIN'S GALLERY is vintage Robbins. In the dying days of World War II, a deadly game of cat and mouse has begun. As a hired killer stalks President Franklin D. Roosevelt, only a professor whose unique specialty is the study of assassinations can stop her-but to do so, he must target the president himself. Blending breakneck action and a brilliant alternate-history twist, Robbins takes readers on an electrifying journey across a country at war and a landscape of shadowy deceit and shifting allegiances, thrusting readers to the killing edge of an astonishingly original tale that challenges the very course of history. David L. Robbins is the author of War of the Rats, The End of War, Scorched Earth, Last Citadel, and Liberation Road. He is currently at work on his next historical thriller, which Bantam will publish in 2007.

For the first time ever in one combined volume, Steve Mitchell's hilarious "Suthun" wit and wisdom is decoded for all the "Nawthun" upstarts looking for the secrets to unlocking the Red States accent. Dedicated to all Yankees in the hope that it will teach them to talk right (and embraced by Southerners no matter where they live), THE COMPLETE HOW TO SPEAK SOUTHERN combines the beloved wit and wisdom of Steve Mitchell's classic How to Speak Southern (published in 1976 with well over 1 million copies sold) and More How to Speak Southern, with hilarious illustrations from renowned cartoonist Scrawls. From "aig" (a breakfast food) to "farn" (anything not domestic) to "Jawja" (Southern state north of Florida) and "nooclar" (having to do with atomic power), this pocket-sized dictionary will keep you laughing no matter where you fall on the Mason Dixon line.

Body language often reveals that what people say is very different from what they think or feel. This new, expanded and revised edition of one of the best books of all time on how to read body language, Signals (Bantam, 1984), is from internationally renowned and bestselling communication and relationship experts Allan and Barbara Pease, and it has already racked up sales of over 4 million copies worldwide. This new edition reveals the secrets of non-verbal communication to give anyone confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter-from making a positive first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner. Close to a million gestures and expressions make up more than 50% of human communication, yet most people don't know how to read body language and don't realize how their own non-verbal communication speaks to others. Here the Peases examine each component of body language, revealing the basic "vocabulary" we all need to interpret what a person is really saying and to ensure that our own gestures are sending the right message. Chapters include: how palms and handshakes are used to control; eight of the most common gestures of liars; the nine keys to making a great first impression; how feet tell the truth; the thirteen gestures you'll see daily; how the body points where the mind wants to go, and much more. With the authors' special blend of science, including expert research from biology and psychology, humor, and understanding of human nature, THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BODY LANGUAGE is the perfect book for anyone trying to ace a job interview, catch a cheating spouse, or decide who should be our next president. Allan and Barbara Pease are among the world's leading experts on human relations, communication, and body language. Allan Pease has written nine other bestselling books about communication and relationships, including, with Barbara Pease, Why Men Don't Listen and Why Women Can't Read Maps and Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Why Women Always Need New Shoes. Barbara Pease is CEO of Pease International. The Peases live half the year in Queensland, Australia, and the other half outside of London, England.

Beloved columnist Jeanne Marie Laskas-"the thinking woman's Erma Bombeck" (Andrea Sachs, Time.com); "a wonderful writer, smart as they come, and a real joy to read" (Annie Dillard)-explores the often weird, always wondrous landscape of motherhood in this soulful, witty, extraordinarily wise collection of essays filled with love and laughter. Having previously explored the trials of moving from the city to a farm in Fifty Acres and a Poodle, then extending her family by adopting a young daughter in The Exact Same Moon, Laskas continues to offer her readers insights into all the glories and challenges of life on Sweetwater Farm, from the miraculous Spring in which seven ewes, one donkey, and dozens of chickens all gave birth, to her six-year-old daughter Anna's first summer romance. Filled with love and laughter, as well as heartache, here is a collection of true stories told by a truly remarkable writer. Jeanne Marie Laskas writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies Home Journal and is a weekly columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a contributing editor at Esquire, and the author of Fifty Acres and a Poodle and The Exact Same Moon, which won Elle Magazine's "Elle's Lettres" Readers Prize in 2003. Jeanne Marie Laskas lives with her husband and their two daughters at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

In his dazzling debut, author Scott Lynch mixes it up with the best of them in this wonderfully twisty adventure that's one part Robin Hood, one part "Ocean's Eleven," and one part fantasy. In a colorful city run by an omnipotent crime boss, there is no honor among thieves… except with the tight group of light-fingered Gentlemen Bastards, led by the eccentric and brilliant Locke Lamora. They've vowed to beat the Capa at his own criminal game or die trying. But even the criminal class of this wonderfully realized world has its code-and five thousand thieves, murderers, prostitutes, beggars, and thugs can't be wrong. Locke and his charismatic band of Gentlemen Bastards have broken the rules a few too many times, and a reckoning is due. Witty and fast paced, and certain to be one of the most enjoyable debut fantasy novels of the year, THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA launches a series with verve and distinction. Scott Lynch currently lives in Wisconsin with his fiancée and a small menagerie of household critters. He moonlights as a game designer and volunteer firefighter. His next novel, Red Seas Under Red Skies, is coming from Bantam in Summer 2007.

Booksense and international bestseller Stephen Booth makes his Bantam hardcover debut with ONE LAST BREATH, a twisting, searingly intelligent psychological thriller. The caves beneath England's Peak District throng with tourists-and conceal a convicted killer bent on the ultimate revenge. Detective Constable Ben Cooper's father was the cop who arrested the infamous Mansell Quinn. Now, as Ben and his partner, Diane Fry, face a bewildering volley of decades-old questions, they must also protect Quinn's potential victims-including Ben himself. A bestseller in England, where he is published by HarperCollins, Stephen Booth's unparalleled ability to explore those under siege from both ordinary life and extraordinary crime has earned him Anthony, Barry, and CWA Dagger awards. He is a former journalist and the author of Blind to the Bones, which Bantam will publish in mass-market paperback in July 2006. He is at work on his next novel, The Dead Place, which Bantam will publish in 2007.

Beginning with the unprecedented success of Summer's Child and Summer of Roses and the Lifetime TV five-week mini-series based on Beach Girls, which aired this summer, and continuing on to the forthcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Silver Bells this winter, 2005 is one of the best years ever for Luanne Rice. Now, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the heart of summers past and summers to come, as a long-estranged couple meet once more on the timeless Connecticut shoreline for the wedding of their daughter. In SANDCASTLES, Sculptor Mary Frances Dillon has made a life for herself and her three daughters teaching art at the Star of the Sea Academy, a thriving convent school blessed with a generous endowment, a beautiful seaside campus, and the enlightened stewardship of Mother Superior Bernadette Ignatius. The wedding of her oldest daughter, Maggie, should be an event of pure joy. But Maggie's happiness will not be complete without her father, Kieran, a brilliant, haunted photographer who broke Mary's heart. Now, after years spent in self-imposed seclusion, Kieran is coming back to the family he loved desperately and left, setting in motion a chain of events that will shake the old school to its foundations. Luanne Rice is the author of twenty one novels, most recently Summer of Roses, Summer's Child, Silver Bells, Beach Girls, Dance With Me and The Perfect Summer. She divides her time between New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.

With the dark imagination, unrelenting pacing, and the forensic detail of bestsellers like Patricia Cornwell, SHADOW MAN marks the blazing suspense debut of Cody McFadyen. Snapped up in a heated auction by Bantam, and already making news as its hotly contested foreign rights are sold in England, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Holland, Sweden, Italy, and more, SHADOW MAN is certain to have booksellers and readers talking throughout the summer. A killer with the knowledge of what frightens you most. A madman with a maniacal conviction that he's born to kill. A genius who paws over your darkest secrets, and then drags them into the light. He's The Shadow Man… Smoky Barrett was the FBI's hottest serial-killer hunter, until a terrifying encounter with a psychotic killer left her husband and daughter dead-and Smoky's body and mind terribly scarred. With nothing left to live for and only nightmares for company, Smoky is about to put her automatic between her lips and pull the trigger one last time. After all, when everything you love has been taken away, there's nothing else fate can throw at you. She's wrong. There is: The Shadow Man. Cody McFadyen lives with his family in California. SHADOW MAN is his first novel. He is at work on a new novel featuring Smoky Barrett.

THE SILVER BOUGH by Lisa Tuttle
First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433

The acclaimed author of The Mysteries returns with another stylish and haunting contemporary fantasy, where magic lies but a hairsbreadth from our own familiar world. Lisa Tuttle is praised for "successfully balancing the miraculous and the mundane," (The Washington Post Book World) and for fiction that is "Engaging, delightful, and wonderfully written" (Dean Koontz). In THE SILVER BOUGH, Lisa Tuttle once again enchants readers-and chills them-with a story that breaks many genre conventions. In a small Scottish village-located at the tip of an isolated peninsula-the residents are cut off from the wider world and from the usual constraints of reality. When a sudden landslide blocks the only road out of Appleton, the town's residents find themselves in a world in which legends come to life. A world, where, like Eden, the bite of a single apple can alter everything-even fate. Lisa Tuttle won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974. Her first novel, Windhaven, was written with George R.R. Martin and her other novels include Lost Futures (short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Pillow Friend (Bantam Spectra January 2006), and The Mysteries (Bantam Spectra, March 2005).

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper saves the best for last in the almost unbearably intense conclusion to her spellbinding Fear Trilogy, which already has over one million copies of the first two books in print. Agent Riley Crane of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit is used to dealing with bizarre situations and violent death, but when she wakes up alone, head pounding and covered in blood-human blood-she knows she's entered a new kind of nightmare. The trouble is, that's all she knows. With the last two weeks of her life wiped from her memory, Riley's in the middle of an undercover operation where friend and foe look terrifyingly alike, and where the murderer could be someone close to her. Perhaps someone she loves. Perhaps even… herself. Kay Hooper is the award-winning author of numerous novels, including the first two novels of the Fear Trilogy: Hunting Fear and Chill of Fear and two trilogies, the Shadows Trilogy and the Evil Trilogy, which combined have over 4.5 million copies in print. She lives in North Carolina, where she is at work on her next book for Bantam.

TEN-SECOND STAIRCASE by Christopher Fowler
First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, Inc., 212-529-4433

WASHINGTON'S SPIES: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
British, Translation, Audio, and Performance:
Fletcher & Parry, LLC, 212-614-0778

WASHINGTON'S SPIES is the story of America's first spy ring, a gripping tale of how five individuals waged a silent war against superior British intelligence and helped win the American Revolution. These five were a small band of seemingly ordinary men-with no experience of secret service-who managed to create a network and a system that outfoxed the British for five years. Washington's chief of intelligence, Benjamin Tallmadge was a young, idealistic cavalry man whose dearest friend, Nathan Hale, was executed by the British. Tallmadge recruited his childhood friend, Abraham Woodhull, a sickly, nervous Long Island farmer; Robert Townshed, a merchant who suffered from depression, traded with the enemy, demanded money for his secret services but rarely received it and continued to risk his life nonetheless; Caleb Brewster, an enterprising whaleboatman who volunteered his services; and Austin Roe, a hard-drinking tavern keeper in New York City who served as a messenger between these four. Alexander Rose brings their world to life in WASHINGTON'S SPIES. Based on stunning new primary source research-including full access to General Washington's correspondence with the spies and others about their work-this is at once a gripping tale of how these five individuals waged a secret war and an unusual and fascinating new insight into the strategy behind winning the American Revolution.

THE WISDOM OF YOGA: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope
Audio and Performance:
The Ned Leavitt Agency, 212-334-0999

With all the humor and practicality that have made him a favorite on the popular home improvement shows "Clean Sweep" and "Trading Places," as well as the new NBC show, "Three Wishes," Eric Stromer, named one of People Magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive," hammers out family friendly projects for tackling storage problems, controlling clutter, and creating fun play spaces that give parents some much needed grown-up time. Eric presents simple, practical solutions for home improvement and recreation projects that moms can easily do on their own or with the help of their own "Dream Team"-involving dads and kids for activities the whole family can enjoy. DO-IT-YOURSELF FAMILY features innovative ways to: create an amazing rumpus room, with an "all the world's a stage" activity center; transform Mom and Dad's room into a romantic oasis; make outdoor space fun and functional; purge the living-room of soccer balls by giving them a new home in the garage on a spiffy Sports Wall, and much more. Eric Stromer studied theater at the University of Colorado, where he worked in construction to make ends meet. He then moved to Los Angeles and began remodeling houses, which is where his eye for design, attention to detail and great craftsmanship captured the attention of the cable network TLC.

Epic romance and richly imagined fantasy are here joined in a bracingly contemporary fantasy-tale-of-manners that's perfect for the readers of Georgette Heyer and Jacqueline Carey. Once again, Kushner weaves a highly literate and bawdy, swashbuckling fantasy soaked in intrigue, history, and romance. In THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD, a young woman, anticipating a life of strict adherence to the codes of behavior, is abruptly forced to undertake a journey that becomes a quest for self-discovery as much as an adventure. Ellen Kushner is the host of "Sound & Spirit" on National Public Radio, a nationally syndicated show which explores the musical connections between myth and magic, folklore and literature, anthropology and history. She is the author of Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer, and the coauthor (with Delia Sherman) of The Fall of the Kings.

SPIN CONTROL by Chris Moriarty
British, Translation, and Performance:
The Vines Agency, 212-777-5522

Following her highly-praised debut, Spin State, nominated for the prestigious 2003 Philip K. Dick Award, critically acclaimed Science Fiction author Chris Moriarty delivers a fast-paced, genre-bending novel that cleverly poses questions of ethics, of the definition of both intelligence and humanity, and examines the fine line that can divide peace-bringing liberators from dogma-spouting fanatics. Here she sends Major Catherine Li and the marvelously human and humane A.I. Hyacinthe Cohen on another impossible quest to recapture a defecting clone who has absconded with a radical genetic weapon that could compromise the balance of power in the universe. Moving at light-speed pace, this genre bending novel is hard-Science Fiction at its best. Moriarty's Spin State was praised as "[the] most impressive U.S. debut I've seen in several years, ambitious and full of inventive energy." (F&SF), and Publisher's Weekly noted that "Moriarty manages fresh insights into humanity-and post humanity-in this highly atmospheric debut." An experienced ranch hand and former environmental attorney, Chris Moriarty has lived in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and now resides in New York State.

From a striking new voice in fiction, Diana Peterfreund's exhilarating debut takes readers on an exclusive tour of the Ivy League's shady substructure and whisks them back to the heady days of quads, keggers, and… conspiracy theories. Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped for Rose & Grave, the country's most powerful-and notorious-secret society. She isn't rich, politically connected, or, well, male. But get tapped she did, and life has gotten exponentially more interesting ever since. Between attending druidic initiation rituals, battling disgruntled alumni, maintaining her "barbarian" (read "non-member") relationships, and keeping a certain friend-with-benefits at arm's length, pulling off that "A" in Russian Lit is going to prove a bit trickier than usual. And then there's the little matter of George Harrison Prescott-a handsome fellow pledge who seems to offer everything Amy never thought she was looking for. A witty and fast-paced introduction to the life and times of a young woman in way over her head, SECRET SOCIETY GIRL paves the way for the groundbreaking, genre-bending new series forthcoming from one of the hottest young writers today. Diana Peterfreund graduated from Yale University in 2001 and currently resides in Washington, DC. She is a former food critic who now edits scientific journals. This is her first novel. Bantam will publish the second book in the Secret Society Girl series in Summer 2007.

Like David Sedaris for the daddy-set or an edgier Dave Barry, Robert Wilder's DADDY NEEDS A DRINK is a laugh-out-loud debut collection of essays already winning praise from Tom Perrotta, Augusten Burroughs, and Haven Kimmel as the "funniest, most irreverent book about parenting in recent memory," (Tom Perrotta). In this hilarious collection of linked essays, Wilder takes a very real look at his life as a suburban dad to two small children with the kind of laser-sharp wit and vision that cuts through the sentimentality that often surrounds parenthood. Whether he is dealing with the realities of sleep-and-cocktail deprivation, handling the bizarre obsessions of his children, or figuring out what to do when one of his children's best friends is a dreaded "biter," Wilder offers a refreshing sense of self-awareness and ironic distance from the colorful and sticky chaos-and, okay, unbridled joy-that occurs when living with these little twisted, beautiful, and funny creatures. Rob Wilder is a writer and teacher who lives with his artist wife and two children in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has published fiction and nonfiction and has been a commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition." He has a monthly column for the Santa Fe Reporter called, "Daddy Needs a Drink."

New York Times bestseller Lee Child returns with another highly-charged new novel starring "one of the most popular characters in contemporary thrillers" (Chicago Sun Times). Lee Child's New York Times bestseller One Shot (Delacorte, 6/05), which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, was hailed by the New York Times as "Pure, escapist gold… Not for nothing do reviewers tell readers to disconnect the phone when the latest Reacher knockout comes along". The Enemy (Delacorte, 5/04) was praised as "A fabulously suspenseful prequel… Child's best so far" (Kirkus Review, starred review). In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, THE HARD WAY, ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would... and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth-and save two innocent lives-is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance-because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world. On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer's past... and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He's beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he's already in way too deep to stop now. Lee Child, winner of both the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery, is the author of ten novels and published in thirty-nine territories. A native of England, Child is a former television writer who now lives outside of New York City.

Bibliophiles rejoice! Here is a delightful debut that's like popcorn for readers of The Jane Austen Book Club and Book Lust: a novel of one woman's quest to find the perfect read for every imperfect moment in her life. Whenever she's in crisis-her marriage ends, her career stalls, her fantasy man shows signs of human frailty-Dora, named for Eudora Welty, escapes into novels, shutting the door of her Santa Monica apartment for one long marathon of novel reading. But life is more than a page-a-day and people are not as compliant as the beloved characters in her novels… LITERACY AND LONGING IN L.A. is a charming, smart, romantic debut novel about Dora's love for the two very different men in her life, her soon-to-be ex-husband and the verse-spouting hunk at her local bookstore, and her desire to go back to work as a beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Whether she is being seduced by a quotation-quipping Don Juan or explaining death to a child while reading aloud from Charlotte's Web, Dora is one of the most enchanting "every reader" you'll meet. Jennifer Kaufman was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and is now a free lance writer. Karen Mack is an Emmy award winning film and television producer. Both live in Los Angeles, where they are at work on their next novel for Delacorte.

THE PEDANT'S REVOLT: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong by Andrea Barham
British, Translation, and Performance:
Michael O'Mara Books, Ltd. , +44 207 720 8643

STUART: A Life Backwards by Alex Masters
British, Translation, Audio, and Performance:
Inkwell Management, LLC., 212-922-3500

Published to unprecedented critical acclaim in the UK (by HarperColllins), STUART: A Life Backwards is the most original, moving, shocking, life-changing biography you are likely to read this or any other year. Astonishing… Devastating… Inspirational… Utterly compelling… Heartbreaking… Hilarious: these are just some of the words used by critics to describe this extraordinary debut. When Alexander Masters first met Stuart Shorter, he was an American studying in Cambridge, England, and Stuart was, by his own admission, a chaotic, knife-wielding alcoholic with a heroin problem who had spent half his life in prison and the other half on the streets. Thus began the unlikeliest of friendships and the most powerfully original biography: the tragic, yet ultimately uplifting story of a boy whose life left the rails early and just kept going. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the UK's top nonfiction book award, STUART: A Life Backwards has been sold to director Sam Mendes for HBO/BBC, for major motion picture release.

SUN STORM by Åsa Larsson
Translation and Performance: Bonnier Group Agency (Sweden), +49 8 696 8910 (T), +49 8 696 8911 (F)

TRIPTYCH by Karin Slaughter
British, Translation, and Performance:
Victoria Sanders & Associates, 212-633-8811

A WORLD UNDONE: The Story of the Great War
by G.J. Meyer
Performance: Judith Riven, Literary Agent, 212-255-1009

Sandra Kring's debut novel, Carry Me Home, was a BookSense Notable Book, and was nominated for the MBA Midwest Award. It was praised by The Washington Post as "touching... surprisingly poignant... builds to an emotional crescendo... The book becomes so engrossing that it's tough to see it end." And Luanne Rice wrote that "I read this novel straight through and never wanted it to end." Now, in her second novel, Kring turns her attention to the story of two young girls and their imaginary world. Shy, 9-year-old Evelyn "Button" Peters knows 1961 will be the biggest summer of her life the moment she sees wispy little Winnalee Malone and her fiery-spirited sister Freeda blow into town. Winnalee carries an urn containing her dead mother's ashes at all times, along with her Book of Bright Ideas, which she claims will reveal to her the secrets of life-and the two girls quickly become best friends. With the adults, things are more complicated: Freeda's spirit brings her as many enemies as friends, especially Button's mother, and throughout a summer of dry heat and upheaval, loyalties are tested, unlikely alliances formed, and secrets revealed. Button fears nothing will ever be the same-or worse: that it will. Sandra Kring lives in the north woods of Wisconsin. She has run support groups and workshops for adult survivors of trauma

CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES by Barbara Fischkin Translation, Audio, and Performance:
Literary Agency East, Inc., 212-274-1616

It is the story of their lives: two reporters, Fischkin and Mulvaney, who are hot for headlines and each other, team up (at home) and compete (at work) in a laugh-out-loud fictional adventure that's ripped from their bylines! As a journalist, Barbara Fischkin covered stories in New York, Latin America, Hong Kong, Dublin, Belfast-and Ronkonkoma. As a novelist, she is the author of Exclusive: Reporters in Love…and War, a roman a clef in which Fischkin and Mulvaney discovered just how much fun journalism can be when they sparred for stories and love. Publisher's Weekly praised it as "a crisp read buoyed by a delightfully caustic voice." Their adventures continue in this new novel in which they are still hunting The Big Story-this time in Mexico City, Central America, Hong Kong, and the annals of domestic bliss. With in-laws, ahmahs, and the almighty Mulvaney Curse in tow, this dynamic duo powers on, finding new ways to Get Good Play-and adding a couple of little Mulvaneys to the team while they're at it. Barbara Fischkin lives in Long Beach, Long Island, with her husband, who continues to be Jim Mulvaney, and their two sons.

THE CORINNE T. NETZER CARBOHYDRATE
DIETER'S DIARY by Corinne T. Netzer
All rights inquiries to Bantam Dell Publishing,
212-782-9800 (F)

From one of the most trusted names in nutrition, this is a newly updated edition of this classic dieting tool, which is a companion to the bestselling Corinne T. Netzer Dieter's Diary. Everyone knows now more than ever that counting carbs is key to healthy living and responsible dieting, and this newly revised THE CORINNE T. NETZER CARBOHYDRATE DIETER'S DIARY makes it easier than ever. Keep track of your daily intake with this handy spiral-bound diary, which includes:

A page-per-day format for recording daily carbohydrate totals for up to 16 weeks
Inspiration and advice to help maintain a regimen
A weekly progress report to keep dieters informed and motivated
A fully revised and up-to-date carbohydrate counter for instant reference

Corinne T. Netzer is the author of dozens of books on diet and nutrition, including The Complete Book of Food Counts, The Carbohydrate Counter, and The Corinne T. Netzer Dieter's Activity Diary. There are over 30 million of her books in print.

GUCCI GUCCI COO by Sue Margolis
British, Translation, Audio, and Performance:
Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, 212-245-1993

HAND IN THE GLOVE and PLAY TO THE END
by Robert Goddard
First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: InkWell Management, 212-922-3500

Delta's six-book re-launch from a master of psychological suspense who "combines the expert suspense manipulation skills of a Daphne du Maurier romance with those of a John le Carré thriller" (The New York Times) continues with our release of two more masterful works. Never before published in the States, PLAY TO THE END was an in-stand top-ten bestseller in the UK. Former Hollywood film actor Toby Flood is serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play-a play that might have saved Toby's career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show's swan song is coming to Brighton, where Toby's wife happens to be living happily with another man in anticipation of a divorce decree. Then, almost as if it were scripted, a stranger enters the scene... A stalker is frightening Toby's wife, Jenny, who believes the man is probably one of her estranged husband's fans. Asked to confront the man, Toby leaps at the chance. Soon, he's moonlighting from the stage lights and heroically pursuing... something. The truth is, the more Toby finds out about Jenny's stalker, the more questions he has about a twisting tale of unexplained deaths, interlocking lives, and the violent, greedy adventures of none other than Jenny's wealthy fiancé-a man who might make the perfect villain, if only the hero lives long enough to prove it.

In HAND IN GLOVE, a classic mystery once again available in the States, Beatrix Abberley is murdered during an apparent robbery. The discovery of letters relating to her brother, a poet and Spanish Civil War hero, draws the dead woman's niece and the accused killer's brother into a chain of shattering events that move from contemporary England to wartime Spain and reveal shocking truths about a modern killer and the darkest secrets of the legendary poet.

Robert Goddard graduated from Cambridge University and worked as an educational administrator before becoming a full-time novelist. The author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Sight Unseen, Play to the End, In Pale Battalions, and Hand in Glove, which will be forthcoming from Delta, Goddard lives in England, where he is at work on his next novel. .

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TAPAS: Around Spain on Two Wheels by Polly Evans
British, Translation, Audio, and Performance:
Gregory & Company,
+44 20 7610-4676 (P), +44 20 7610-4686 (F)

Armchair adventurers, foodies, and fans of travelogues such as Holy Cow will adore this "hilarious account of an epic adventure around bike-mad Spain" (Daily Express, UK, "Book of the Week"). Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and bustle of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, of matadors and promenades, and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any dream pursued, Polly's came with its own reality: of thighs screaming with pain and goats trying to run her off the road, of strange local delicacies and overzealous suitors. In fact, like any great traveler, Polly bit off more than she could chew-and took delight in every bite. Exploring the country that gave the world flamenco, chocolate, sherry, Franco and Picasso, in IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TAPAS Polly takes us from the towering Pyrenees to the vineyards of Jerez de la Frontera, spinning tales of conquistadors and Kings, vibrant history and mouthwatering cuisine. In the end, this hilarious, irreverent, always engaging memoir of a journey on two wheels unveils a lot about one modern woman, even more about an utterly fascinating nation, and countless reasons why it's better when you do it on a bike. With more than 25,000 copies sold in the UK alone and shortlisted for the WHSmith People's Choice Travel Book Award, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TAPAS is smart, sassy, and irreverent. Polly Evans studied modern languages at Cambridge University, where she learned a little Spanish and a little more about men. The hours of hard research she poured into these two subjects, plus a four-year stint at Hong Kong's largest weekly magazine, inspired her first three books, which include Fried Eggs with Chopsticks and Kiwis Might Fly, both forthcoming from Dell. Polly now lives in London, where she is at work on the tale of her attempts to learn to ride in horse-mad Argentina.

LILY'S GHOST by Cheryl Drake Harris
First Serial, British, Translation, Audio, and Performance: The Wendy Weil Agency, Inc., 212-685-0030

"Cheryl Drake Harris makes a compelling, memorable debut" writes Frederick Busch. "[A] story of great courage and tremendous power," asserts Robert Stone. As gripping as Sue Miller's classic The Good Mother, LILY'S GHOST is a haunting debut novel that explores the abiding love between parent and child as it examines the terrifying legacy of trauma and memory. As a doctor in Vietnam, Lily bore witness to untold horrors. Even now-safe in a small Maine town-she likes the dark too much, and can't escape the wide-eyed Vietnamese girl who inhabits her dreams. But when her husband leaves-and sues for custody-not even Lily's demons are as terrifying as the prospect of losing her son. From the bustle of Saigon to her improbable friendship with a local plumber, in Lily Cheryl Drake deftly unmasks the legacy of women who served in wartime Vietnam, and tells the remarkable tale of a woman buoyed by her own resolve, and surprised-for isn't everyone?-by love. Cheryl Drake lives with her husband in Massachusetts, where she is at work on her second novel.

SNAKESKIN SHAMISEN: A Mas Arai Mystery
by Naomi Hirahara
First Serial, Audio, and Performance:
Rosenstone/Wender, 212-725-9445