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| Publishers Marketplace - December 19, 2011 - From
Robin Oliveira, New York Times bestselling author of MY NAME IS MARY
SUTTER and winner of the Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction,
an UNTITLED novel set in the nineteenth-century art world of
Paris about the extraordinary and passionate 40-year relationship
between the American painter Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to Kathryn
Court at Viking in a significant deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly
Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - December 19, 2011 - Frank
O'Connor 2010 Award winner Ron Rash's UNTITLED story collection
to Lee Boudreaux at Ecco/Harper Collins by agent Marly Rusoff at
Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - December 19, 2011 - Janis
Owens’ AMERICAN GHOST set in contemporary Florida and inspired
by a historic local lynching, in which a the daughter of a preacher
from a family distrustful of outsiders meets and falls in love with
a crusading Jewish grad student in anthropology from Miami who
arrives to do an ethnic study of the region and unwittingly sets in
motion troubles that reach far back in time, exposing long buried
secrets that ultimately need to be set right to Whitney Frick at
Scribner by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.(NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - December 19, 2011 -
Margaret Wurtele's THE GOLDEN HOUR, set in war torn Italy, and
following the German army's invasion of her village, a young Italian
woman risks her life to defy the injustice surrounding her, in this
novel of forbidden love to Claire Zion at NAL/Penguin by agent Marly
Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English) |
| Publishers Marketplace - December 15, 2011 -
Author of THE LOST SUMMER OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Kelly O'Connor
McNees's IN NEED OF A GOOD WIFE, the story of three women in a
group of mail-order brides who travel from New York City to Nebraska
in 1867 -- a combative Civil War widow in financial ruin, an
introspective Bavarian laundress, and the barmaid-turned-matchmaker
who launches the venture to thwart her grief after the death of her
baby, to Claire Zion at Berkley, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff &
Associates (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - December 15, 2011 - Mary
Lou Kirwin's THE KILLER LIBRARIAN, in which a small-town
Midwestern librarian gets dumped by her boyfriend moments before
their long-awaited trip to England but she goes anyway and finds not
only books galore, but a dead botanist, and just maybe the love of
her life, to Kathy Sagan at Gallery Books, in a two-book deal, by
Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English). |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 30, 2011 -
Margaret Wrinkle’s TRUE FOR SURE, set in 1823 on the Tennessee
frontier, is the story of a young black man named Wash who is forced
to work as a stud in the breeding of slaves by his owner, troubled
Revolutionary War veteran Richardson, whose debt and isolation lead
him into an uneasy intimacy with both Wash and an enslaved healer
named Pallas as she inspires Wash to transcend his harsh reality by
forging an understanding of his shamanic African inheritance, all
told through a delicate love story unfolding against this
historically harrowing period to Elisabeth Schmitz at Grove Atlantic
in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff &
Associates. (world English) |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 22, 2011 - Mary
Curran Hackett's PROOF OF HEAVEN, in which a single mother struggles
to keep her son alive in the face of a rare heart disease that
causes him to die seven times before his seventh birthday, while the
mother searches for answers in the divine, her son's doctor searches
for a cure, but the boy wishes to meet his long-lost father, a
journey that will test their faith and courage as they face the
ultimate question of proof of heaven, to Lucia Macro at William
Morrow, in a nice deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates
(NA). |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 22, 2011 -
Caroline Stoessinger's ALICE'S WORLD, in which the life of 107-year
old Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor
and concert pianist, is used as a lens not only to show the power of
music, but how her refusal to hate brings goodness into the world,
to Cindy Spiegel of Spiegel & Grau, in a good deal, in a pre-empt,
for publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff &
Associates (World). |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 22, 2011 - Lisa
Tucker's two untitled novels, to Greer Hendricks at Atria, in a good
deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (World). |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 16, 2011 -
Beverly Swerling's BRISTOL HOUSE, a novel of intrigue set in London
in the sixteenth century and today, in which a thirty-something
American architectural historian rents a flat she comes to believe
is haunted by a monk from Tudor times fleeing the rage of Thomas
Cromwell, their duel stories told with flashbacks between 1536 and a
present-day search for ancient Judaica lost during Cromwell's day,
further complicated by her meeting a modern Englishman who is the
monk's exact double, in a drama involving betrayal and atonement
that spans the centuries, to Clare Ferraro for Viking, with Carole
DeSanti editing, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for
publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff &
Associates (world English). |
| Publishers Marketplace - October 8, 2010 -
Jessica Jackley, co founder of Kiva.org and now US-focused
ProFounder.com, discusses in EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS I
LEARNED FROM GOAT HERDERS her journey from philosophy undergrad
to Stanford Business School, from Silicon Valley to the Great Rift
Valley and back, to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams with the
support of family, friends and a global community to Cindy Spiegel
at Spiegel & Grau in a significant deal in a preempt by agent Marly
Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English) |
| Publishers Marketplace - October 8, 2010 -
Meg Waite Clayton's THE WEDNESDAY DAUGHTERS a sequel of sorts
to the national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters, in which three of
the Sister's now-grown daughters travel to the English Lake country
to scatter Ally's ashes, and to clear out the cottage where she's
been writing a Beatrix Potter biography to Caitlin Alexander at
Ballantine in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff &
Associates. (NA, audio) |
| Publishers Marketplace - September 28, 2010 -
Jonathan Odell's THE HEALING opens in 1930s Mississippi when
a young girl traumatized by her mother's death is abandoned to the
care of Gran Gran, an ancient midwife and plantation healer whose
mixtures of roots, herbs, and potions fail to help the mother but
whose tales of her life on a Mississippi plantation as a reluctant
apprentice to a brilliant slave doctor teach them both the power of
story to heal the body, spirit and ultimately an entire community,
to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese, with Ronit Feldman editing, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by
Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA). |
| Publishers Marketplace - June 24, 2010 - Peter
Troy’s THE ODYSSEY OF ETHAN MCOWEN opens in mid-nineteenth
century Ireland during the Famine when Ethan sails to America, later
joins the famous Fighting 69th Civil War brigade, and falls in love
with a Spanish society girl turned abolitionist, before their
stories entwine with the perilous journeys of two slaves, Mary, a
seamstress in Virginia, and Micah, a freedom-seeking carpenter and
poet from South Carolina, and all four lives come together in
upstate New York at the war’s end, to Doubleday’s Alison Callahan in
a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - May 20, 2010 -
Robert J. Barclay’s MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY the story of a
schoolteacher who inherits her grandmother's lakeside cabin and
unexpectedly finds love with the solitary man healing from family
tragedy who lives nearby only to discover their families are linked
and he's harboring a secret that could destroy their newfound
happiness to Morrow’s Lucia Macro in a good deal by agent Marly
Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - May 20, 2010 -
Theresa Weir’s THE ORCHARD, part Mary Karr, part Rachel Carson,
is the story of a city girl’s attempt to escape her troubled past by
moving to rural America where she marries a handsome young farmer
only to find that her new home in his family’s idyllic orchard is
actually a dangerous and toxic trap to Grand Central’s Deb Futter in
a very nice deal preempt by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff &
Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - May 20, 2010 -
Evelyn Toynton’s THE ORIENTAL WIFE tells the story of two
assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who escape Hitler's
Germany, meet again in New York, and fall in love both with each
other and with America but after the war the stress of their lives
as immigrants takes a toll on them and the family they form, to
Other Press’ Judith Gurevich in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of
Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world) |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - John
Kralik’s UNTITLED inspiring true story that follows a year in
his life when at a personal nadir he decided that he would never get
what he wanted out of life unless he learned to be grateful for what
he had, in a significant deal to Barbara Jones at Hyperion by agent
Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - DEAL OF
THE DAY - Pat
Conroy’s MY LIFE IN BOOKS, in which one of America’s bestselling
storytellers, revisits a life of passionate reading, and discusses
the books that helped him find a place in the world, with personal
ruminations on the people, writers, and books that made him into the
reader and writer he is today, from Tolstoy to Thomas Wolfe and
beyond in a major deal to Nan Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent
Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World) |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - Talia
Carner’s JERUSALEM MAIDEN a rich historical tale of one woman’s
struggle for self-expression, which opens in 1911 with the city
under Ottoman rule and follows the life of twelve-year-old Esther
Kaminsky to adulthood as her art sets her against her orthodox
society’s expectations of her as a wife and mother to Katherine
Nintzel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of
Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - UK
rights to Elif Shafak’s THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE to Penguin’s
Kate Barker by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of
Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - Czech
rights to Ron Rash’s SERENA to Jota Publishing by Kristin Olson
of Kristin Olson Literary Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at
Marly Rusoff & Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - Korean
rights to Pat Conroy’s THE WATER IS WIDE to Thinking Tree
Publishing by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of
Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - UK
rights to Laurie Viera Rigler’s RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN
ADDICT the sequel to “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” to
Bloomsbury's Helen Garnons-Williams by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham
Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff &
Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - Italian
rights to Michael Stanley’s THE SECOND DEATH OF GOODLUCK TINUBU
to Rizzoli by Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - March 24, 2010 - UK
rights to Robin Oliveira’s MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER to Juliet
Annan of Fig Tree/Penguin by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates
on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates. |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 12, 2009 --
Kamala Nair’s THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN, the redemptive journey
of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory
the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet
troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village
untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her
ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying
secret to Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central in a good deal by agent
Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English) |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 12, 2009 --
Michael Stanley's THE DEATH OF THE MANTIS, the third
Detective Kubu novel, in which a series of unexplained and
apparently unconnected deaths hits the southern Kalahari in
Botswana, leading to tension with the Bushman people and conflict in
the Criminal Investigation Department, which Kubu tries to resolve
while investigating the murders to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins
in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates
(world English) |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 5, 2009 --
John Pipkin’s THE BLIND ASTRONOMER’S NOTEBOOK, is set in
1798, against the background of Romanic scientific discoveries, with
a young woman’s return to Ireland from England and her discovery of
a notebook left by her late father, a blind astronomer who spent his
life futilely searching for a new planet, and who becomes determined
to complete her father’s work, caught in a race against astronomers
throughout Europe, looking for the same planet, while contending
with a violent rebellion at home that threatens to destroy her
father’s observatory to Nan Tales in a very nice deal by agent Marly
Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 5, 2009 --
Kwei Quartey's CHILDREN OF THE STREET, the second Detective
Inspector Darko Dawson mystery set in Ghana, in which the discovery
of a corpse plunges Darko into the brutal environment of Accra’s
largest slum, a dog-eat-dog underground economy in where street
children fight for survival, and a series of shocking murders begin
to resemble ritual killings, to Jennifer Smith at Random House in a
nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 5, 2009 --
AUDIO -- 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 to Eileen Hutton of Brilliance Audio by agent Marly Rusoff
at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - November 5, 2009 --
Bob Harris’s FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF BOB in which this
son of a blue-collar autoworker takes money her earned reporting on
the most opulent, over-the-top, billionaire-friendly accommodations
on earth for a luxury web site and through microlending and the
power of the internet, loans that money to others using Kiva.org a
site that makes it is possible for an ordinary guy to connect with a
Kyrgyz farmer or a Rwandan dressmaker, and then follow the money to
Bloomsbury’s George Gibson in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at
Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
| Publishers Marketplace - June 18, 2009 --
Robert Newcomb writing as Robert J Barclay, IF WISHES WERE HORSES
in which a grieving Florida horse rancher decides to reinstate his
late wife’s equine therapy program for troubled teens but when the
widow of the drunk driver who killed his family unexpectedly begs
him to admit her young son to the program, he is forced to examine
the true natures of love and forgiveness in ways he could have never
imagined to Lucia Macro at Wm. Morrow in a good deal, in a pre-empt,
by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA). |
| Publishers Marketplace - June 18, 2009 --
Dr. Robert L. Kane’s THE GOOD CAREGIVER: Straight-Up Advice for
Caregivers of Aging Parents and Spouses in a Broken System is a
survival guide by frequent media commentator and chair of the Center
for Aging at the University of Minnesota who tackles the problems
and indignities of aging and care giving for the millions of
unprepared baby boomers who will likely soon face the brunt of a
healthcare system in crisis to Megan Newman at Avery Penguin in a
very nice deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA) |
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