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I'M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY by Diana Joseph. A collection of essays by this winner of the Kentucky Women Writers Prize for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Sarah Vowell, about the men in her life. These essays show how Joseph's relationships with these men are both overly complicated and weirdly simple, and how she learned something about herself from each of them along the way.
Amy Einhorn Books, January 2009
PHYSICS FOR FUTURE PRESIDENTS by Richard A. Muller. Richard Muller, a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and Professor at UC Berkeley, will base this book on his extremely popular course, which explains in layman’s terms issues of the utmost importance to future leaders and concerned voters: global warming, terrorism, radiation poisoning, and energy conservation, just to name a few.
W.W. Norton; Spring 2008
TANGLED ROOTS by Sue Guiney. In this debut novel, overlapping lives
are seen from two perspectives that of a mother and her grown son,
leading to the inevitable question: “what really happened?” John, a 40- year old cosmologist, is at a turning point in his life, an "event horizon," where he finds himself lost and angry -- with himself, with his now dead mother, and with a past which he has spent a lifetime
trying to ignore. His mother Grace’s life is revealed through stories
told in her own voice, stories which unfold her progression from
youthful joys and frustrations to adult tragedies, and then beyond to
a personal discovery of peace. These two individual journeys are
revealed separately, yet together they express the often unknown, yet
undeniable influences one life ultimately has on another.
Bluechrome Publishing UK; April 2008
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Clare Langley-Hawthorne
THE SERPENT AND THE SCORPION: Book 2 of the Ursula Marlow mystery
series by Clare Langley-Hawthorne. Now an independent business woman,
Ursula Marlow's trip to Eqypt is interrupted by two violent deaths.
Headstrong as ever, Ursula is determined to unravel the possible
connection between the deaths, the return of her Bolshevik ex-lover
and disturbing events in the Middle East.
Penguin Books; August 2008
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Justin Catanoso
MY COUSIN THE SAINT: An experienced journalist and public speaker who has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize, Justin Catanoso tells the story of a family challenged by the illness of his older brother Alan, a family split by immigration then joyously reunited three generations later when one of their own, Father Gaetano Catanoso, a humble priest from southern Italy who died 40 years ago, is canonized as a saint. This extended family on both sides of the Atlantic invokes the memory of a religious hero they share in common in the prayerful hopes of physical and emotional healing.
HarperCollins; 2008
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Ira Glass
THE NEW KINGS OF NON-FICTION: Ira Glass, producer and host of This American Life, will select his favorite pieces of narrative non-fiction; those that he believes constitute the best of this genre that no one has a name for. Smart, surprising and entertaining pieces by the likes of Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell, James McManus and others.
Riverhead, 2007
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Don Borchert
FREE-FOR-ALL: ODDBALLS, GEEKS AND GANGSTAS IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY: Don Borchert was a short-order cook, door-to-door salesman, telemarketer, publicist for a national music chain and Christmas-tree-chopper before settling, to his astonishment, for a job in a California public library. He had never wondered what life behind the stacks would be like. And he never could have predicted the encounters with the rowdy gang of kids who nearly demolished an entire section of the library, the burka-wearing female employee who suffered a curse-ridden meltdown, and the lonely, neglected kid who grew up in the library and still sends postcards to his surrogate parents—the librarians.
Virgin Books USA; November 2007
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Mickey Podell and Charles Pignone
THE COPA: JULES PODELL AND THE HOTTEST CLUB NORTH OF HAVANA: The Copacabana was the premier nightclub in New York from the 1940s through the early 1970s, and showcased all the major acts of those years: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bobby Darrin, Jimmy Durante, the Temptations, Diana Ross, etc. This book, which will feature exclusive photos, stories and celebrity interviews will be written by Mickey Podell, Jules Podell’s daughter, and Charles Pignone, Sinatra family archivist and author of the bestseller THE SINATRA TREASURES.
Collins, Winter 2007
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Ayn Carillo Gailey
PORNOLOGY, by Tu Ciudad Los Angeles columnist Ayn Carillo Gailey, self-avowed good girl and Harvard grad with dreams of winning a Pulitzer, who embarks on a quest to understand why men love porn and what's in it for women, after her semi-significant other accuses her of being "pornophobic" upon receiving her ten-page letter explaining (he called it "ranting") why it was anti-feminist to like porn.
Running Press; April 2007
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Clare Langley-Hawthorne
CONSEQUENCES OF SIN: A historical mystery set in Victorian England, which tells the story of a young heiress and suffragette who must solve a series of murders which are linked to her father's business endeavors abroad.
"This is the best historical novel featuring a feminist heroine that I've read since Jacqueline Winspear arrived on the mystery scene with her enterprising protagonist, Maisie Dobbs" -- Mystery Lovers Review
Viking/Penguin; February 2007
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Bonny Wolf
(NPR Weekend Edition commentator)
TALKING WITH MY MOUTH FULL: Crabcakes, Bundt Cakes and Other Kitchen Stories. A collection of pieces about what people from the heartland to the coasts really eat and why; from Tunnel of Fudge bundt cake to potato salad to popovers, with one classic recipe per chapter, and a foreword by Scott Turow
St. Martins Press; November 2006
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Joyce Maynard
(author of THE USUAL RULES, TO DIE FOR and AT HOME IN THE WORLD)
INTERNAL COMBUSTION: The True Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City; a true crime psychological thriller about the recent conviction of a once-beloved fourth grade teacher, in the ax murder of her husband of 32 years, continuing Maynard's theme of a dangerous power imbalance in a complex intimate relationship
Jossey Bass; October 2006
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Michael Beaumier
I KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE
by THIS AMERICAN LIFE contributor Michael Beaumier; about what it's like to work in the personals department of an alternative weekly newspaper, complete with quirky advertisers, neurotic employees and a sharply observant and reflective editor searching for love
Three Rivers Press; August 2006
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Keith Raffel
DOT DEAD
a Silicon Valley mystery
Midnight Ink
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Bob Schwartz
WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE SEND ME TO MY ROOM?
A HILARIOUS LOOK AT FAMILY LIFE
www.schwartzhumor.com
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"Erma Bombeck meets Dave Barry in these sidesplitting tales about parenting from a dad of three... Modern day dads are sure to love laughing along with Schwartz in this hysterical book!"
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David Brenner
I THINK THERE'S A TERRORIST IN MY SOUP: HOW TO SOLVE PERSONAL AND WORLD PROBLEMS WITH LAUGHTER - SERIOUSLY*
www.davidbrenner.net
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Amy Koppelman
A MOUTHFUL OF AIR*
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Jacqueline Winspear
MAISIE DOBBS*
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Elise Lufkin
SECOND CHANCES: MORE TALES OF FOUND DOGS*
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* Books sold with
The Amy Rennert Agency, Inc. |
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