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Stephen Baker was BusinessWeek’s senior technology writer for a decade, based first in Paris and later New York. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. Roger Lowenstein called his first book, The Numerati, “an eye-opening and chilling book.” This is his first novel. Rights sold: Korean: Sejong Books 
Bergreen, Karen PERFECT IS OVERRATED (St. Martin’s Griffin, July 2012) Trade Paperback, 320 pages Karen Bergreen’s debut, Following Polly, was praised as “a laugh-out-loud page turner” (Huffington Post) and “a great read!” (Joan Rivers). Now, with PERFECT IS OVERRATED, she delivers another wickedly funny and slightly twisted romp that shows how being the perfect mom can be murder… Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her postpartum depression. After years of suffering, all it took to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides. Sounds evil, but it’s not! When someone starts offing the alpha-mothers from Kate’s daughter’s preschool, Kate—a former Assistant District Attorney—decides it is time for her to get out of bed and find out who is killing all the mommies you love to hate. PERFECT IS OVERRATED is deliciously human and romantic, with an overlay of suspense that keeps the reader glued to the page. Karen Bergreen is a former attorney who clerked for a federal judge. She gave that up to become one of New York City’s stand-up comics, performing weekly at Caroline’s, Stand-Up New York, Gotham and The Comic Strip. She has appeared on Comedy Central, the Oxygen network, Court TV and Law & Order. She lives in New York City. Praise: “In [a] twist-filled sendup of upper-crust New York City parents, [Bergreen] leaves a vivid but not blindingly obvious trail of clues leading to the murderer, punctuated with black humor from a wickedly funny narrator… readers will be wildly guessing until the end.” –Publishers Weekly "Here are a few things Karen Bergreen knows about: mothers you love to hate, sexy exes, the drill (and charm) of hanging out with little kids. PERFECT IS OVERRATED throws all of it into the wash cycle and suds it up with humor and warmth. If you read it, you'll recommend it, too!" --Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climbers Handbook “PERFECT IS OVERRATED is such a fast, fizzy, fun read! Buy one for yourself and six more for the other moms in the pickup line, then decide which mom you’d take with you if stuck on a deserted island. For me, she’d have to love mascara and be witty.”—Kelly Killoren Bensimon, author of I Can Make You Hot!
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THEORY OF REMAINDERS (Winter Goose Publishing, May 2013) Manuscript (364 pages) World English rights with Winter Goose A suspenseful literary novel set in the lush backgrounds of Normandy, THEORY OF REMAINDERS explores the secret ties between love, trauma, and language. At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to his ex-wife’s homeland of France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. Prodded by his former brother-in-law and stirred by the unspent embers of his marriage, he embarks on a mission to resolve lingering questions about this past, hoping to heal himself along the way. The search leads to a disturbed man who may hold more answers than anyone expects—if only Philip can hear what he’s trying to say. Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches French literature and critical theory at Carleton College (MN), where he has written extensively on the representation of madness in the novel, political allegory, and literary hoaxes. His fiction has appeared in such journals as Chamber Four, Ducts, Midwestern Gothic, The MacGuffin, Prime Number and Spilling Ink. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a semi-finalist for the MVP competition at New Rivers Press, his first collection, This Jealous Earth (MG Press) will be available in 2013. Praise for his debut story collection, This Jealous Earth: “Tautly constructed, psychologically acute, and elegantly written stories…By turns sad, funny, tender, and alarming. This Jealous Earth examines the nuanced turns and shifts of human events and feelings that imbue the ordinary with the extraordinary.” –Siri Hustvedt, bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men “Modern, witty, provocative. This Jealous Earth is an auspicious debut.” –Alethea Black, author of I Knew You’d Be Lovely “Stories like time bombs.” –Gregory Blake Smith, Minnesota Book Award winner F  riedman, Daniel
DON’T EVER GET OLD (Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press, May 2012) Hardcover (304 pages) Amazon Editor’s Pick! BookPage June 2012 Top Pick in Mystery! This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eighty-seven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all plugged-in grandson as his sidekick. When Buck Schatz learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a very motley (and very murderous) crew. This is sure to be a big hit with readers who love Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, early Jonathan Lethem, and superlative detective fiction in general. Daniel Friedman is a graduate of the University of Maryland and New York University School of Law. He lives in New York City. Praise: “Once you start reading this wonderfully original and totally engrossing story, you’ll do what I did: keep reading, mostly to see what comes out of Buck’s mouth next. When I’m 87, I want to be Buck Schatz.” –Nelson DeMille, NYT bestselling author
“A knockout of a book.” –Booklist, starred review “A sardonically appealing debut.” –Kirkus, starred review Rights sold: French: Sonatine Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Novo Seculo 
James, Geoffrey SORCERER: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth’s Conjuror (Grand Mal Press, January 2013) Manuscript (100,000 words) John Dee, mathematician, alchemist and scholar, is a favorite of Queen Elizabeth’s. He has been searching for the secret that will produce not just gold from lead, but also the elixir of life. But he is aging and Her Majesty is losing faith, so he turns to magic, summoning angels who (he believes) can uncover the truth. Dee finds the ideal ally for his experiments, Edward Kelley–a perfect vessel but a most imperfect human being–a con man who’s been beaten to within an inch of his life. Edward gives in to Dee’s urgent ministrations out of a desire for safety, and brings with him a young nun-to-be named Alice, whom he desperately tried to leave behind. Dee himself, in his fifties, is suddenly stuck (by the Queen, no less!) with a wife named Jennet, a beauty less than half her age, whose shallowness belies her beautiful exterior. These four ill-matched people embark on a trail of exploration and destruction that will affect the Spanish King and the English Queen, the fate of the Spanish Armada, indeed of history itself. The journey will bear out Dee’s fondest desire as well, but in a way he never could have imagined.
When Shep Davis inherits a house, the family moves to Lancaster County, PA, in hopes of a fresh start. Shep enthusiastically runs his new bicycle shop while his wife, Jennie, is torn between being a stay-at-home mom to their two teenagers and finding professional fulfillment for herself. When Jennie begins a friendship with her Amish neighbor, Mary Fischer encourages Jennie to market and sell her delicious homemade candy. While Jenny’s candy business takes off, business at Shep’s bike shop is less rewarding, and tensions between them resurface. However, the troubled couple set aside their differences when their son’s friend, an Amish boy on rumspringa, desperately needs their help. As their Amish neighbors celebrate the return of their son, the Davis family also has a reason to rejoice: while finding peace and harmony in their household, they’ve also rediscovered the meaning of Christmas. Cynthia Keller is the coauthor of seven novels by the pseudonymous Cynthia Victor: Consequences, Relative Sins, Only You, What Matters Most, The Secret, The Sisters, and The Three of Us, as well as the author of An Amish Christmas and A Plain & Fancy Christmas. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children. Previous titles:  
Rights sold: German: Weltbild Praise for Cynthia Keller’s heartwarming Amish novels: An Amish Christmas “This little book is a holiday charmer young and old will find appealing.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance–Star “[A] sweet, poignant story.”—USA Today A Plain & Fancy Christmas “[This novel] does what a good holiday tale should; it invites readers to turn off the cellphone and television and wrap themselves up in a warm, compelling story.”—Lincoln Journal Star “A wonderful read for the Christmas season.”—FaithfulNews Kelly, Mary Louise ANONYMOUS SOURCES (formerly, The Scoop) (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, June 2013) Manuscript due October 2012 Thom Carlyle had it all: the rowing trophies, the Oxbridge education, the glamorous girlfriend. But on a glorious summer evening in Harvard Square, Thom is murdered – pushed from the top of a Harvard bell tower. The New England Chronicle sends a beautiful but troubled young reporter named Alexandra James to investigate. It is the story of a lifetime. But it is not what it seems. Alex’s reporting takes her from the cobbled courtyards of Cambridge, England… to the inside of a network of nuclear terrorists… to the corridors of the CIA… and finally, to the terrorists’ target itself: the White House. Alex begins unraveling the threads of the story in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a couple of front-page scoops she finds herself at a dead end. Her editors are frantic: Carlyle’s father is the President’s lawyer, one of the most powerful men in Washington, and the story is playing to national headlines. So Alex decides to follow the story to Cambridge University in England, where Thom had just completed a year abroad. She chases leads to clandestine meetings at Claridge’s Hotel and the Groucho Club in London, and she begins a romance with the charming Lucien Sly (who is also not what he seems). The chase suits her: Alex has always been able to get in anywhere, to sleep with anyone she fancies, to out-drink and out-shop her demons. But by the time Alex arrives in Washington, D.C. for a key interview, Alex the hunter has become Alex the hunted. An assassin sent to kill her only narrowly misses. Her laptop disappears. Her phone is tapped. And she begins to grasp that Thom Carlyle was killed to hide a terrifying conspiracy: a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb inside the White House. She must find a way to convince the spies, lawyers and Generals that she encounters in Washington that they are in extreme danger. What she does not realize – until the last pages – is that her enemy lurks inside the CIA itself. Edmund Tusk is something of a legend at Langley: he has bargained with dictators, he has survived three assassination attempts, and he now keeps a cat named Philby under his desk. After several twists and turns, the nuke beneath the West Wing is dismantled. But Alex must still reckon with Tusk. He has nothing left to lose, and he is bent on revenge. Their final meeting ends with a scene that echoes the murder at the beginning of the book... A man falling from a rooftop, grabbing for a gutter, a ledge, anything. There is nothing and he falls, wide-eyed, into the gathering twilight below. Mary Louise Kelly is a guest host for NPR's news and talk programs. In 2004, Kelly launched NPR's intelligence beat, covering wars and terrorism, reporting regularly on spy agencies such as the CIA and the National Security Agency, and the policy-makers that oversee them. As part of the national security team, she traveled extensively to investigate and report on a range of foreign policy and military issues. A Georgia native, Kelly currently teaches national security and journalism classes at Georgetown University. After so many years on the spy beat, she decided it was time to write a spy thriller of her own. THE SCOOP is her first novel. 
Klosterman, Chuck THE VISIBLE MAN: A Novel (Scribner, October 2011) Trade Paperback, June 2012 (256 pages) From the provocative cultural commentator and author who “makes good, smart company” (The New York Times) comes an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient—a man who can render himself invisible. Austin, Texas, therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikeable man who insists his situation is unique and unfathomable. As he slowly reveals himself, Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a scientist who stole cloaking technology from an aborted government project in order to render himself nearly invisible. He says he uses this ability to observe random individuals within their daily lives, usually when they are alone and vulnerable. Unsure of his motives or honesty, Vick becomes obsessed with her patient and the disclosure of his increasingly bizarre and disturbing tales. Over time, it threatens her career, her marriage, and her own identity. Interspersed with notes, correspondence, and transcriptions that catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear, THE VISIBLE MAN touches on all of Chuck Klosterman’s favorite themes—the consequences of culture, the influence of media, the complexity of voyeurism, and the existential contradiction of normalcy. Is this comedy, criticism, or horror? Not even Y__ seems to know for sure. Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Downtown Owl and Eating the Dinosaur. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, was winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and ESPN, and regularly writes about sports and pop culture for Grantland.com. Praise: “[A] tour de force exploration of intimacy and voyeurism…Strikingly original, a vibrant mix of thriller, sci-fi, and literary fiction genres.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review “Klosterman has fashioned a compelling and exceedingly entertaining page-turner of a novel that touches on various aspects of popular culture, from the pervasive influence of the media on our day-to-day lives to the role of science in society to such basic issues as what constitutes identity and reality.” –Booklist, starred review “Daring and ambitious… immersed as always in popular culture, but rises to the challenge of creative fiction.” –Kirkus Review Film Rights: Kassie Evashevski, UTA Rights sold: Bulgarian: Riva Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Bertrand Turkish: Ithaki K  losterman, Chuck
DOWNTOWN OWL: A Novel (Scribner/S&S, September 2008) Trade Paperback, June 2009 (304 pages) Film rights: Kassie Evashevski, UTA Rights sold: German: S. Fischer Verlag L  ourey, Jess
DECEMBER DREAD: A Murder-By-Month Mystery (Book #8) (Midnight Ink, October 2012) Trade Paperback (288 pages) Lefty-Nominated Series! Welcome to Battle Lake, Minnesota: home to trophy fish, 23-foot fiberglass statues, and a murder a month. With Christmas just over a week away, ‘tis the season for grinning sales elves on TV, maddeningly jolly Muzak, and a guilty Nut Goodie addiction. But for Mira James and other Battle Lake-area women, the holidays are marred by something far worse—a serial killer leaving candy canes as his calling card. His target? Thirty-something brunettes who look just like Mira. When a women from her high school graduating class becomes his latest victim, Mira plows through a case of online dating turned deadly with Mrs. Berns at her side. Will she earn her detective stripes… or end up deader than the Ghost of Christmas Past? Jess Lourey spent her formative years in Paynesville, Minnesota, a small town not unlike the Murder-by-Month series' Battle Lake. She is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries, a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and The Loft, and a founding faculty member of the Mystery Writers of America’s MWA University. Lourey resides in St. Cloud, Minn., where she is a professor of writing and sociology. Praise: “It’s not easy to make people laugh while they’re on the edge of their seats, but Lourey pulls it off…[A] very clever series.” –Booklist, starred review “Snappy jokes and edgy dialogue. Get started on this Lefty-nominated series if you’ve previously missed it.” –Library Journal, starred review “Her latest is loaded with humor, and many of the descriptions are downright poetic.” –The Strand, starred review Entire Murder-by-Month Series Now Available! May Day (March 2006) June Bug (March 2007) Knee High by the Fourth of July (Sept. 2007) August Moon (June 2008) September Fair (Sept. 2009) October Fest (May 2011) November Hunt (March 2012)       
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TRAIL OF THE SPELLMANS: Document #5 (Simon & Schuster, March 2012) Hardcover (384 pages) Lisa Lutz has delivered another knock-out adventure in what Library Journal has deemed a “side-splitting series”—here is the long awaited fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavity-nominated series about an eccentric sleuthing family. For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, PI, might be the most normal member of her family. Mom has taken on an outrageous assortment of extracurricular activities—with no apparent motive. Dad has a secret. Izzy’s brother and sister are at war—for no apparent reason. And her niece keeps saying “banana” even though she hates bananas. That's not to say that Izzy isn't without her own troubles. Her boyfriend, Henry Stone, keeps wanting "to talk," a prospect Isabel evades by going out with her new drinking buddy, none other than Gertrude Stone, Henry's mother. Things aren't any simpler on the business side of Spellman Investigations. First, Rae is assigned to follow a girl, only to fake the surveillance reports. Then a math professor hires Izzy to watch his immaculate apartment while he unravels like a bad formula. And as the questions pile up, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers-even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family. Lisa Lutz is the author of The New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavity-nominated, and Alice Award-winning Spellman Files series. She is most recently the author of Heads You Lose, written with David Hayward, and lives and works in California. Praise: “Lisa Lutz’s Spellman books are always hilarious, but Trail of the Spellmans reminded me how serious funny books can be. As precocious as the Spellman kids have always been, they’re only now really coming of age and the result is, yes, hilarious, but also tender and melancholy and full of hard-won wisdom. This one’s going to stay with readers for a long time.” –Laura Lippman, bestselling author of the Tess Monaghan series “Private investigator Isabel “Izzy” Spellman is not your typical gumshoe…irreverent…amusing…[Trail of the Spellmans is] a wise (and wise-cracking) choice for mystery readers seeking a break from the genre’s bloodier fare.” –Booklist “…engaging…Lutz’s dry, biting humor is in full force. A series that keeps getting better and better.” Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 364.43 Kb. Share with your friends:
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