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| Publishers Marketplace -- April 8, 2008 --
Complex Chinese rights for Masha Hamilton’s THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE to
Yuan-Liou Publisher at auction and simplified Chinese rights to
Horizon Media by Gray Tan of JIA-XI Books on behalf of Michael
Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. |
| Publishers Marketplace -- April 8, 2008 --
Croatian rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL just long
listed for the Orange Prize and sold in other 16 countries to Hena
Com by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. |
Publishers Marketplace -- March 06, 2008 --
THE INHERITANCE by Simon Tolkien --
Simon Tolkien’s THE INHERITANCE, in which an aging police
inspector decides to travel from England to France to delve into a
possible World War II theft and crime hoping to save an upper-class
student set to hang for murdering his father, an Oxford historian...
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Publishers Marketplace -
February 28, 2008 -- TEN DEGREES OF RECKONING by Hester
Rumberg -- Hester Rumberg's TEN DEGREES OF RECKONING, pitched as
part Adrift, part Civil Action, the story of Judith Sleavin, the
lone survivor of the shipwreck of her family's boat the Melinda Lee
that was hit due to the recklessness of a freighter near the shores
of New Zealand...
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Publishers Marketplace -
February 28, 2008 -- CURDS AND WHEY by Kathe Lison --
Kathe Lison’s CURDS AND WHEY part travelogue, part culinary guide,
part memoir, tells the stories and histories of French cheesemaking,
from the popular to the artisanal as we travel the French
countryside tasting its rich fare, meeting cheesemakers whose
lifestyles...
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Publishers Marketplace -
February 28, 2008 -- THE CRACKER KITCHEN by Janis Owens --
Janis Owens’ THE CRACKER KITCHEN, an irreverent but affectionate
look at an American subculture, with recipes, family stories, and
lively humor to Scribner’s Beth Wareham in a very nice deal...
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Publishers Marketplace -- January 03, 2008 -- THE
REBEL PRINCESS by Judith K. Healey to William Morrow -- Judith
K. Healey's THE REBEL PRINCESS, the story of Princess Alais Capet,
sister to King Philippe Auguste of France, who battles corrupt court
officials, religious fanatics and her beloved Lord William as she
engages a band...
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Publishers Marketplace -
January 03, 2008
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THE FLEA PALACE and THE GAZE by Elif Shafak - Italian rights --
Italian rights to Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's THE BASTARD OF
ISTANBUL and THE FLEA PALACE (Bit Palas original Turkish) to Rizzoli’s
Francesca Cristoffanini by...
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Publishers Marketplace --
December 5, 2007 -- Elif Shafak's BLACK MILK to Viking --
Elif Shafak's BLACK MILK a personal
account of the depression, identity crises and recovery that
followed the birth of her daughter in Istanbul, offering an
imaginative exploration of her journey...
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Publishers Marketplace -- December
5, 2007 -- Rolan Merullo's JESUS AND THE JOURNALIST --
Roland Merullo's lighthearted novel
JESUS AND THE JOURNALIST about Jesus's return to earth in
contemporary America to Algonquin’s...
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Publishers Marketplace -- December
5, 2007 -- French rights to Ron Rash's SERENA and ONE FOOT IN EDEN --
French rights to Ron Rash’s ONE
FOOT IN EDEN and SERENA to Editions du Masque’s Marie-Caroline Auber
by Anna Jarota...
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Publishers Marketplace --
December 5, 2007 -- Judi Ryan Hendricks' THE LAWS OF HARMONY to
Harper --
Judi Ryan Hendricks’, THE LAWS OF
HARMONY, about a woman who leaves Albuquerque for the Pacific
Northwest when her fiancé is killed, and begins a journey that leads
her to confront memories of her unhappy...
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Publishers Marketplace -
December 5, 2007 -- Elif Shafak's THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL Spanish rights
--
Spanish rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL to
Lumen/Random House Mondadori’s Silvia Querini at auction in a very
nice deal...
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Publishers Marketplace --
December 5, 2007 -- Ron Rash's SERENA at Ecco/Harper Collins --
Ron Rash's SERENA in which a lumber
baron and his new bride arrive in the North Carolina mountains of
1929 and kill or vanquish anyone who...
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Publishers Marketplace --
December 5, 2007 -- Rolan Merullo's two UNTITLED novels. --
Roland Merullo's two UNTITLED novels to
Shaye Areheart of Crown's Shaye Areheart Books...
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Publishers Marketplace -- December
5, 2007 -- Spanish rights to THE MIRACLES OF PRATO by Laurie Lico Albanese
and Laura Morowitz --
Spanish rights to Laurie Albanese
and Laura Morowitz's THE MIRACLES OF PRATO, to Ediciones B’s Lucia
Luengo...
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Publishers Marketplace -
October 9, 2007 --
German rights to WIFE OF THE GODS by Kwei Quartey --
German rights to Kwei Quartey’s WIFE OF THE GODS the story of a big
city detective in Ghana sent to a tribal place to investigate a
murder to Regina Hartig at Lubbe in a preempt by...
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Publishers Marketplace -
October 01, 2007 -- Brazilian and German rights to
THE MIRACLES OF PRATO by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz --
Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz's THE MIRACLES OF PRATO, set
in renaissance Italy, the story of painter-monk Fra Filippo Lippi
and young nun Lucrezia Buti who becomes his muse, lover, and mother
of his children to...
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Publishers Marketplace -- September 25, 2007 --
WOODSBURNER by John Pipkin --
John Pipkin's WOODSBURNER chronicles the lives of a lovesick
Norwegian immigrant farm hand, a struggling bookseller, a fire and
brimstone preacher, and a pencil maker named Henry David Thoreau as
their stories intersect over a fire Thoreau accidentally set...
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Publishers Marketplace -- September 25, 2007 -- IN
HIS SIGHTS by Kate Brennan --
Kate Brennan's IN HIS SIGHTS, the harrowing true story of a woman
stalked by a wealthy and ruthless ex-boyfriend that ultimately
forces her to assume a false identity and give up any semblance of a
normal...
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Publishers Marketplace -- September 25, 2007 -- A
BOOK OF AGES by Eric Hanson -- Eric
Hanson's A BOOK OF AGES an idiosyncratic miscellany of biographical
facts of the famous and infamous, including failures, rejections,
dead ends, as well as early masterpieces, second chances and
lifetime achievements, organized by ages...
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Publishers Marketplace -
September 25, 2007 -- THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak - Norwegian
rights --
Norwegian rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL which
tells the tale of an exiled Armenian family in San Francisco and the
Kazancis of Istanbul, whose contemporary stories conjoin through a
secret that began with the 1915 massacre...
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Publishers Marketplace -
September 19, 2007 --
THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN by Thrity Umrigar -- Thrity
Umrigar's THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN, the story of a young American couple
who travel to India to heal from the grief of the death of their son
and while there decide to adopt a child, but are forced to face with
their own cultural imperialism, again to Claire Wachtel at...
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Publishers Marketplace - September
18, 2007
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THE FLEA PALACE by Elif Shafak - Hebrew rights
Hebrew rights to Elif Shafak's THE FLEA PALACE, to Ziv Lewis at
Kinneret, by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.
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Publishers Marketplace - September
10, 2007 --
Untitled two novels by Lisa Tucker -- Two novels by Lisa Tucker, to Greer Hendricks at Atria, in a
significant deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world)
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Publishers Marketplace -
September 10, 2007 --
WIFE OF THE GODS by Kwei Quartey -- Kwei Quartey's WIFE
OF THE GODS, about a big city detective in Ghana who is sent to a
tribal place to investigate the murder of a young female medical
student in the very area of West Africa where his mother had long
ago...
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Publishers Marketplace -- September 10, 2007 --
THE WITCH'S TRINITY by Erika Mailman UK
rights --
Erica Mailman's THE WITCH'S TRINITY, the story of a witch trial
during a harsh winter in a small German town in 1487, to Kate Howard
at Hodder & Stoughton...
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Publishers Marketplace -- THE DEAL OF THE DAY --
September 10, 2007 -- FIRST DARLING OF THE MORNING by Thrity
Umrigar --
Thrity Umrigar's FIRST DARLING OF
MORNING, her coming-of-age story as a young Parsi girl in Bombay,
that traces the path that made her a writer, again to Claire...
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Publishers Marketplace -
September 10, 2007 -- I WANT TO RELAX: GOLFING AND EATING IN ITALY by
Roland Merullo --
Roland Merullo's GOLFING AND EATING IN ITALY, about a summer spent
with family at Lake Como eating well, playing golf and learning...
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Publishers Marketplace -
September 10, 2007 -- THE MIRACLES OF PRATO by Laurie Albanese and Laura
Morowitz --Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz's THE
MIRACLES OF PRATO, set in renaissance Italy, the story of
painter-monk Fra Filippo Lippi and young nun Lucrezia Buti who
becomes his muse, lover, and mother of his children, and the
resulting scandal that went to the very power centers in Florence...
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