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Carolyn Barnes, of CLEANMOMMA fame, teaches us how to lose weight, get fit and stay healthy while you clean your house! She has developed a unique workout which combines ballet, pilates and cardio with common household chores like scrubbing the floors, emptying the dishwasher or doing laundry. By partnering her strengthening, body-toning exercises with these tasks, she maximizes not only time but also the effectiveness of the workout. Filled with step-by-step photos to take readers through the workout along with tips on creating a healthy lifestyle and diet, this book is a multi-tasker’s dream. Carolyn Barnes is a mother of 2, certified pilates instructor, health and wellness coach, motivational speaker, and TV personality. Willam Morrow Paperbacks

Estimated length: 256 pages; black and white photos throughout

Manuscript available: May 2012

Brinkley, Dannion

Dannion Brinkley had a near death experience that he chronicled in his bestselling book, SAVED BY THE LIGHT, and since then, he has experienced a dramatic change in personality and purpose for his life. Before, he was an uncaring war veteran, but now is a compassionate man trying to make real here on earth what he saw during his brief visit to heaven. One of the greatest things to come out of Brinkley’s NDE was the realization that we don’t have to live lives of fear, anxiety, or worry, and he now offers this insight to all in TEN THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO. Here, he provides the ten secrets everyone needs to know in order to feel the peace, happiness, and joy of heaven today, in this life. This will be an insightful guide to how best live our lives today in view of the afterlife to come. DANNION BRINKLEY is the author of the New York Times bestseller SAVED BY THE LIGHT and SECRETS OF THE LIGHT. Dannion has survived insurmountable odds including two lightning strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery, a massive grand mal seizure, and three near death experiences, giving him unparalleled expertise in the area of life after death. In 2001, Dannion was nominated for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association’s prestigious Heart of Hospice Award. Dannion has appeared on major television and radio shows, including Larry King, Oprah, Dateline, Unsolved Mysteries, The Pax Network, and many others. A made for television movie based on Dannion’s best seller, SAVED BY THE LIGHT, debuted as one of the highest rated television movies in FOX Television Network history. HarperOne

Estimated length: 224 pages

Manuscript available: December 2012
Colquhoun, James

ten Bosch, Laurentine

In HUNGRY FOR CHANGE, the world’s leading experts in nutrition and natural medicine team up with the creators of the groundbreaking documentary Foodmatters, on a practical and prescriptive companion to discovering true health. The book exposes the shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industry don’t want you to know about - deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more so that the foods we are eating actually keep us stuck in the diet trap. Features include: How to navigate the supermarket - what to buy and what to avoid; the real truth behind “DIET,” “SUGAR-FREE” and “FAT-FREE” products; how to overcome food addictions and cravings; why fad diets don’t work; what food additives to avoid and how to read labels; what fat and cellulite are and how do we get rid of them for good; the most effective detox and cleansing strategies; and how to eat for clear eyes, glowing skin and healthy hair. The experts (including contributors such as Jamie Oliver, Alejandro Junger and Christiane Northrup) share their secrets, offering the reader a complete and practical guide to creating lasting weight loss, abundant energy and vibrant health. With real life transformational stories, detoxes, recipes, and more, this book will be chock-full of solutions that could save your life. James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch are nutritional consultants turned filmmakers. Motivated by an illness in their own family, the duo set off to make the documentary FoodMatters in 2008. Their second documentary, Hungry for Change, will be released in October 2012.  HarperOne

Estimated length: 256 pages; photos throughout

Manuscript available: July 2012

Dotz, Tom

Hoobyar, Tom

NLP: A Power-User’s Manual

By the team behind the bestselling NLP: The New Technology of Achievement comes an essential new guide to NLP techniques—for self-development and influencing others—in a focused, step-by-step handbook. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has helped millions of people overcome fears, increase confidence, enrich relationships, and achieve greater success since its creation in the mid 1970’s. Written by an NLP Master Practitioner and Training Coach, with an introduction from the President of NLP Comprehensive, NLP: The Power User’s Manual guides users to peak performance in business and life. In twelve illuminating sections, it leads you through dozens of “discoveries”—revelations of NLP practice that enable you to explore your own personal thinking patterns, to manage them—and to transform them. Divided into two categories, “All About You” and “All About the Other Guy,” these strategies offer a personal and interpersonal program that frees you to become better at managing your feelings instead of being dominated by them, managing your motivations, being less judgemental, more productive, more confident, more flexible, more persuasive, liked, and respected. Through “mind reading” techniques—non-verbal communication, and “hearing what’s missing”—learn the secrets of relating with others, understanding how they are thinking—and influencing them. A streamlined all-purpose guide for both newcomers and NLP veterans, NLP: A Power User’s Manual is the new all-in-one, eye-opening blueprint for your own ultimate success. Tom Hoobyar has been conducting advanced programs in NLP for almost 15 years, and has served on the board of NLP Comprehensive, a world-leader in NLP training. William Morrow Paperbacks

Publication: February 2013 (JS)

Estimated length: 224 pages

Manuscript available: July 2012

Consider this: 80 percent of lies go undetected; 9 out of 10 people who apply for jobs overemphasize, or downright fabricate, positive traits about themselves; since 1991, infidelity among men over 60 has doubled; in women, it has tripled; adult men and women lie in 1 out of every 5 social interactions. But what if you had a test that tipped you off the instant a lie was being told? Janine Driver (aka the ‘Lyin’ Tamer) has spent almost two decades teaching hundreds of thousands of people—chiefs of police, titans of industry, suspicious housewives, jaded lovers—how to protect themselves from liars. In YOU CAN’T LIE TO ME, Driver reveals all her tricks, distilling years of behind-the-scenes knowledge, cutting-edge science, and dramatic case studies into a simple, shockingly effective program that teaches you how to get the truth. You’ll learn lie-spotting techniques that will help you to surround yourself with honest people, protect your aging loved ones from unscrupulous con artists, outsmart backstabbing colleagues; attract true love and spot losers from a mile away; start relationships on the right foot; and most importantly, stop lying to yourself-and a live happier, more productive, more passionate life. World-renowned body language expert, Janine Driver, is the New York Times bestselling author of YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK, which has been translated into 11 languages. She spent 16 years at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, training thousands of law enforcement agents how to decipher fact from fiction. Driver is the founder and president of The Body Language Institute (BLI) and an in-demand motivational speaker for many of the world’s most elite companies. She has appeared on a number of television programs, including The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and Rachel Ray. HarperOne

Estimated length: 288 pages; illustrations throughout

Manuscript available
Finkelstein, Michael B., MD, F.A.C.P., A.B.I.H.M.

*BEYOND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE: The 77 Skillful Questions that Will Finally Heal You

“Michael Finkelstein is an astute clinician who understands how to treat the illness AND the patient.” – Mehmet C. Oz MD

“Beyond Conventional Medicine represents a superbly insightful advancement in the literature of Integrative Health. It is important, fun to read, and potentially life changing.” – Andrew Weil, MD

Healthcare is changing. It is no longer a fringe concept to rely on prescriptions and specialists alongside naturopathic remedies and integrative professionals.  Dr. Michael Finkelstein is uniquely positioned at the nexus of Eastern and Western medicine. Finkelstein, a pioneer in the growing field of Integrative Medicine, gives frustrated patients the tools to adopt an integrative approach to manage their own healing. Drawing on decades of experience in both Internal and Integrative Medicine, Dr. Finkelstein offers the 77 Skillful Questions that will allow readers to understand their symptoms, their causes, and the entire realm of solutions open to them, in order to tackle even the most persistent and chronic illnesses.  We will learn how to expand our understanding of how physical, psychological, environmental and spiritual factors connect to our wellness, making use of ultramodern science without losing touch with traditional wisdom. Michael Finkelstein combines a doctor’s precision with the insight of a gifted healer.  He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Program in Integrative Medicine under preeminent holistic doctor and bestselling author, Andrew Weil, MD. Tens of thousands of patients have embraced Finkelstein’s unique blend of integrative and internal medicine expertise and traditional and progressive philosophies, and 750,000 listeners regularly tune into his online radio show The Skillful Living Room. Now he can help the hundreds of thousands of other patients who are frustrated with the limitations of conventional medicine. William Morrow

Estimated length: 320 pages

Manuscript available: September 2012           

Proposal available

Every day we are confronted with hundreds of choices that either make us feel confident and strong or rob us of the things we desire the most. When we lack confidence, we feel unworthy of having what we want, of speaking our truth, of making decisions that have the ability to change and improve our lives. When we feel weak, helpless, or powerless, we lack the strength to ward off the thoughts of defeat, negativity and fear that fill our minds and prevent us from living the lives we want. For decades, Debbie Ford has been helping people break free from the emotional baggage that has held them hostage and discover profound tools for finding confident and authentic self expression. In THE COURAGE WITHIN, Debbie Ford provides a life-altering journey based on decades of work. By learning to accept all of who we are, including our histories, our flaws, our misgivings, our weaknesses, and our fears, we discover that what keeps us stuck and feeling weak is nothing more than an illusion of the past. By showing us how to be confident, stand in all our strength, and feel great about ourselves, a new self emerges with the power to accomplish anything. By introducing seven guiding principles, Debbie Ford expertly guides readers out of the common pitfalls of fear and insecurity and into the strength, power and freedom of a courage that has been present all along. Debbie Ford is the national bestselling author of SPIRITUAL DIVORCE, THE BEST YEAR OF YOUR LIFE, WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, THE 21 DAY CONSCIOUSNESS CLEANSE and the co-author of THE SHADOW EFFECT. She conducts workshops across the country. HarperOne

Estimated length: 240 pages

Book available
Greene, Tiger

*SACKING OBESITY

Tiger Greene had always been a “big kid,” but by age 12 he weighed 250 pounds-twice the normal weight for a child of his age. He had sleep apnea, was pre-diabetic, and had signs of fatty liver disease and heart damage-all due to his obesity. He realized that he needed to make a change. But there were no TV shows he could turn to for inspiration, or any other “big kids” who were winning the battle with weight loss whose behavior he could emulate. So he decided to become that very kid. In addition, he decided to change not only his own life, but also the lives of other overweight kids, and started, along with his father, a non-profit foundation called Team Tiger to help kids fight childhood obesity. Within just six months of making simple but important changes in his diet and committing himself to a regular twice a day workout regimen, Tiger lost 50 pounds and 11 inches from his waistline, cut his percentage of body fat in half, and got off all his medications. Tiger’s goal went far beyond reaching any target weight. He set a mission for himself-to help families all over the world get healthy, and to be a role model other kids can look to for inspiration. From devising healthier menu options for local Little League park concessions, to partnering with NFL players for a series of sports and wellness camps to help obese kids around the country, to speaking to children’s healthcare providers, Tiger has worked to spread the message that kids really can change their lives. HarperOne

Estimated length: 256 pages; 75 images for instruction and illustration

Manuscript available: April 2012
Joyner, Donna Richardson

WITNESS TO FITNESS: 30 Days of Powerful Exercises, Delicious Food, and Joyful Praise

For the first time, Donna Richardson Joyner has created a fitness program that harnesses the strength, support, and joy to be found in faith. Based on her popular Body Gospel fitness DVDs, this program combines Joyner’s proven nutritional program and exercise plan to help readers achieve the same dramatic results her DVD fans have enjoyed for years. There is no better way to glorify God than to take care of the one body we’ll ever get. For nearly 30 years, Donna Richardson Joyner has been inspiring and empowering men, women, and children to lead healthier lives. Certified by AFAA and ACE as an International Fitness Expert, she has appeared on national television, hosted her own fitness program, “Sweating in the Spirit,” and created the popular “Body Gospel” fitness DVDs. Currently serving her second term on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, Joyner is a member of the Fitness Hall of Fame and has been named one of the “25 most inspiring women in America” by Essence magazine. HarperOne

Estimated length: 304 pages; black and white photos throughout

Manuscript available: September 2012
Junger, Alejandro

CLEAN FOR LIFE: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Back Your Health and Vitality in a Toxic World

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Junger has shown that the majority of common ailments we all face—from colds to depression, allergies to indigestion, sleeplessness to extra weight—is the direct result of toxic buildup in our bodies. The combination of our standard diet and the chemical filled environments surrounding us has left our bodies compromised and unable to perform their natural healing functions. Typical medical treatments for these health issues address the symptoms for temporary relief but fail to get at the root cause of the problems. CLEAN FOR LIFE attacks the root of the problems and restores our body’s amazing healing powers. The annoying health issues will go away, additional weight will vanish, and we will literally look and feel better than ever before. Unlike the 21 day cleanse, this is no temporary fix. CLEAN FOR LIFE is specifically designed to inform our choices and guide our behaviors every day of the year. Utilizing the best of Western medicine and wellness practices, Dr. Junger explains the scientific realities of living in a chemical world and then helps readers chart their own personal health course, exploding myths and mistaken beliefs along the way. Alejandro Junger, M.D. is a doctor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology in New York City and Los Angeles. He has studied Eastern medicine in India, and was Medical Director of WE Care Holistic Health Center in Palm Springs, a world famous center for fasting, cleansing and detoxification. Currently, he is in private practice at the renowned Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and is the director of Integrative Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. HarperOne
CLEAN sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Business Weekly; Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Fonghong Media; Croatian/Planetopija; Danish/Det bla Hus; Finnish/Basam Books; French/Ed. Ariane; Hebrew/Focus Publishing; Indonesian/Mizan; Italian/Il Punto d’Incontro; Korean/Sam & Parkers; Polish/MT Biznes; Romanian/Paralela; Russian/Exmo; Spanish/Siete Cuentos
Publication: March 2013 (CBR)

Estimated length: 304 pages

Manuscript available: September 2012
Karp, Harvey

HAPPIEST BABY’S GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years

The world’s #1 parenting expert, bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block, turns his unparalleled insight to solving parents’ #1 concern: poor sleep. THE HAPPIEST BABY’S GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP redefines our culture’s understanding of a child’s sleep needs and gives foolproof advice on how to quickly turn nighttime shrieks into night long serenity. This book will introduce paradigm-shifting techniques debunking a multitude of myths that have frustrated and misled parents for centuries. For example, Never wake a sleeping baby…Wrong! Babies sleep best in a quiet room… Wrong! Rocking babies to sleep spoils them…Wrong! The book equips parents with a host of unique, sure-fire, slumber-boosting techniques, such as: 2 Good to Be True: Two steps that train even newborns to sleep; Scheduling: The truth (and folly) in raising kids by the clock; “Dream Feeds” and “Sleepy” Foods: Meals that boost an infant’s slumber. Dr. Karp is the world’s leading baby expert. He has been a pediatrician and child development specialist for 30 years and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. Through his books and DVDs he has taught his extraordinary techniques to millions of parents, including: Michele Pfeiffer, Madonna, Jody Foster, Pierce Brosnan, Alfre Woodard, Ann Archer, and Hunter Tylo. In 2005, he closed his private practice to dedicate his professional life to teaching and writing. He is one of the most respected authorities on children’s health. His books have been translated into 24 languages. William Morrow

THE HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE BLOCK sold: Chinese (simplified)/Cheers Publishing; Croatian/Planetopija; Czech/Euromedia; French/Editions ADA; German/Random House; Korean/Haneon Co. Ltd.; Portuguese (Brazil) /Novo Secula; Russian/Popurri; Spanish/Ediciones Medici; Turkish/Yakamoz Yayincilik Hizmetleri; Vietnamese/Llac Hong Book

Estimated length: 368 pages

Manuscript available
Manning, Drew

*FIT2FAT2FIT: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 Pounds on Purpose

Drew Manning, a longtime personal trainer and admitted fitness addict, has never been overweight. He has never craved processed foods, or known what it was like to move through the world carrying dozens of extra pounds. So he decided to learn what millions of Americans, and many of his clients, live with every day. In May 2011, Manning made the radical decision to let himself go. For six months, he stopped exercising and ate a common American diet of fast food and refined, processed snacks. Followers of his website voted on weekly food challenges, and Manning lived up to his end of the bargain by devouring towers of doughnuts or completing “the Fuddrucker Challenge” (dining on a one-pound burger, one pound of bacon cheese fries, and a huge brownie sundae, that is). The result? A seventy-five pound weight gain, more than he even expected. Manning then devoted the next six months to losing the weight, sharing his meal plans, exercise strategies, ups, and downs with followers of his website. Now, Manning is candidly describing all the details of that journey: He will reveal that at the outset, he found some joy in relaxing and allowing himself to let go of decades’ worth of health and fitness rules. He’ll detail the quickly mounting physical effects of his experiment-including plummeting energy, lower levels of testosterone, and the challenge of merely putting on his shoes-as well as the self-consciousness that came with his heavier physique. And he will consider the impact this experience had on his family, from his struggle to play with his young children to the strain his changing health and body put on his marriage. What started in his mind as a physical experiment, transformed into an impactful and eye-opening emotional journey. Obesity is an epidemic, but very few people can understand it from both sides. Manning’s unique, compassionate take on the issue is as fascinating to read as it is crucial to understand. Drew Manning is a personal trainer and medical technician. HarperOne

Estimated length: 224 pages; black and white illustrations throughout

Manuscript available: February 2012
Romaniello, John

Bornstein, Adam