Adult Translation Backlist Fall 2016
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FICTION Mystery/Thriller/Crime/ Steampunk
Gretchen Archer The Davis Way Crime Caper Series (Books 1 & 2)
Mystery/Crime Caper ✴ Henery Press
“Funny & wonderful & human. It gets the Stephanie Plum seal of approval.” -Janet Evanovich
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Double Whammy (2013) Davis Way thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she lands a job as the fifth wheel on an elite security team at the fabulous Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. But once there, she runs straight into her ex-husband, a rigged slot machine, her evil twin, and a trail of dead bodies. Davis learns the truth and it does not set her free--in fact, it lands her in the pokey.
Buried under a mistaken identity, unable to seek help from her family, her hot streak runs cold until her landlord, Bradley Cole, steps in. Make that her landlord, lawyer, and love interest. With his help, Davis must win this high stakes game before her luck runs out.
Double Dip (2014) It’s Davis Way’s first slot-tournament season working on the Bellissimo Resort and Casino’s elite security team. And it may very well be her last. When the Gulf weather turns chilly, the casino’s high rollers take cover at the slot machines, where they compete in tournaments featuring fantastic odds, extravagant prizes, and colossal jackpots. Tournament play begins just as a perfect storm blows in: Bianca Sanders’ personal assistant goes missing, a little old lady who lives at a church goes on a suspicious winning streak, and a Bellissimo executive goes gaga for Davis. When she’s not disguised as a tournament player or batting away unwanted attention, Davis follows a trail of disappearing slot-tournament players. She hits a dead end at the So Help Me God Pentecostal Church in Beehive, Alabama, where she jumps headlong into a high stakes holy scandal.
The good news is, she’s too busy at work to worry about the bad news at home, where Mary Harper Hathaway, Southern Belle Home Wrecker, threatens everything Davis loves when she joins her boyfriend Bradley Cole’s legal team. Bradley is the love of Davis’s life, but what if she’s not his? The worst? Davis doesn’t feel so hot. Maybe it’s the banana pudding, or maybe it’s a little bundle of something else.
Gretchen Archer is a Tennessee housewife who began writing when her daughters, seeking higher educations, ran off and left her. She lives on Lookout Mountain with her husband, son, and a Yorkie named Bently.
Gretchen Archer The Davis Way Crime Caper Series (Books 3 & 4)
Mystery/Crime Caper ✴ Henery Press
Double Strike (2014) Davis Way knows three things: Cooking isn’t a prerequisite for a happy marriage, don’t trust men who look like David Hasselhoff, and money doesn’t grow on Christmas trees. None of which help when a storm hits the Gulf a week before the most anticipated event in Bellissimo history: the Strike It Rich Sweepstakes. Securing the guests, staff, and property might take a stray bullet. Or two.
Davis Way has three problems: She’s desperate to change her marital status, she has a new boss who speaks in hashtags, and Bianca Sanders has confiscated her clothes. All of which bring on a headache hot enough to spark a fire. Solving her problems means stealing a car. From a dingbat lawyer. Davis Way has three goals: Keep the Sanders family out of prison, regain her footing in her relationship, and find the genius who wrote the software for futureGaming. One of which, the manhunt one, is iffy. Because when Alabama hides someone, they hide them good.
DOUBLE STRIKE. A VIP invitation to an extraordinary high-stakes gaming event, as thieves, feds, dance instructors, shady bankers, kidnappers, and gold waiters go all in.
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Double Mint (2015) It’s convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino and Davis Way Cole barely notices. It’s hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when Special Events Coordinator Holder Darby walks off the job just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front door, Davis steps up. Or would that be in? Definitely in. Davis steps in. It.
Not only has the convention director vanished, but also a certain Bellissimo guest is missing. One who forgot to pack the million dollars he left in the bathtub. It looks like our redhead newlywed Super Secret Spy’s lazy summer is over when the Bellissimo vault is robbed. Can Davis connect the dots before it’s too late? Can she get her Taser gun back from Bianca Sanders? Will she be stuck with Eddie Crawford’s 1962 Cadillac forever? What Davis needs is a little faith. And a lot of luck.
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Maia Chance Snow White Red-Handed Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery Series (Book 1)
Mystery ✴ November 2014 ✴ Berkley Prime Crime
“Offering a clever twist on the tales of the Brothers Grimm, this debut historical cozy (and series launch) introduces an attractive, spunky heroine…and an entertaining, well-constructed plot that will satisfy fans of folklore and fairy tales.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Deliciously Gothic, intriguingly different, this story plunges us into the world of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, where the greed and evil are all too real, and everyone has something to hide.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author
“[Chance’s] lively debut, the first in a new cozy series…will whet the reader’s appetite for Ophelia and Prue’s next misadventure.” —Publishers Weekly
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The Black Forest, 1867: Plucky American variety hall actress Ophelia Flax has fast-talked her way out of a scrape, and into the role of lady’s maid to a New York millionaire’s bride. But she didn’t reckon the job would whisk her away to a storybook castle in the heart of Grimm territory. When the ruins of Snow White’s cottage are discovered in the castle forest—complete with a dwarf ’s skeleton—and the millionaire is done in with a poisoned apple, Ophelia is obliged to take matters into her own capable hands before she’s locked up in a tower like Rapunzel. With the help of Professor Penrose—the suspiciously swashbuckling scholar who’s come to study the cottage—Ophelia snoops through the secrets of a wicked stepsister, a Russian princess, a roulette-cursed aristocrat, a dwarf financier, and a village-full of shifty folk, unraveling a tale of blackmail, gold, and priceless relics that’s as thorny as the brambles of the Black Forest.
Also by Maia Chance Cinderella Six Feet Under Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery Series (Book 2)
Mystery ✴ 2015 ✴ Berkley Prime Crime
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Dauntless variety hall actress Ophelia Flax means to put her Continental misadventures behind her and make a beeline back home to New York—just as soon as she installs her young friend Prue in the arms of her long-lost mother, Henrietta. But when they arrive at Henrietta’s crumbling, mouse-infested Paris mansion, Henrietta has gone missing and Prue’s two spoiled stepsisters have wicked plans up their sleeves. Things turn more peculiar still when Ophelia and Prue stumble upon a girl, wearing a gold-and-silver ball gown and one glass slipper, dead as a doornail in the mansion’s overgrown pumpkin patch . . . and the corpse bears an uncanny likeness to Prue.
As Ophelia and Penrose stalk the murderer through sinister clockwork toy shops, labyrinthine backstage corridors in the Paris Opera’s Salle Le Peletier, and an enchanting countryside château, they piece together the puzzle of a scheming ballerina, a charmless prince, a troupe of mousy seamstresses, and a fairy godmother-like couturiere whose sumptuous gowns just might have magical—or deadly—powers of transformation.
Also by Maia Chance Come Hell or Highball The Discreet Retrieval Agency Series (Book 1)
Mystery ✴ September 2015 ✴ St. Martin’s Press
“Flawless.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets-and has a high old time doing it! So will you.” --Ann B. Ross, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Julia’s Marvelous Makeover
“Maia Chance's novel is an absolutely delightful read. It's a wonderful period piece with a strong, sassy and smart heroine that will keep the reader turning the pages till the very end.” --Emily Brightwell, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Jeffries Turns the Tide
“Interfering relatives, difficult friends, and fearsome gangsters make prohibition-era New York the perfect site for a delightful mystery with the tang of speakeasy hooch.” --Kate Parker, author of The Vanishing Thief
“Chance provides enough saucy characters and silly antics to encourage admirers, just like Lola herself.” --Kirkus Reviews
30-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage Rights Available: with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer Translation cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune…or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City. But when rent comes due, Lola and Berta have no choice but to accept an offer made by one of Alfie's girls-on-the-side at his funeral: in exchange for a handsome sum of money, the girl wants Lola to retrieve a mysterious reel of film for her. It sounds like an easy enough way to earn the rent money. But Lola and Berta realize they're in way over their heads when, before they can retrieve it, the man currently in possession of the film reel is murdered, and the reel disappears. On a quest to retrieve the reel and solve the murder before the killer comes after them next, Lola and Berta find themselves navigating one wacky situation after another in high style and low company.
Charming, witty, often laugh-out-loud funny, Maia Chance's Come Hell or Highball introduces a sparkling new voice in crime fiction.
Suzanne Chazin The Fourth Angel
Mystery/Thriller ✴ April 2001 ✴ Putnam
“A red-hot debut…A searing, emotionally explosive novel of heroism, love and desperate acts. Georgia Skeehan is an incredibly strong character...” --USA Today
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A Manhattan building lies in ashes, dozens of prominent New Yorkers have been incinerated and it's up to rookie FDNY fire investigator Georgia Skeehan to solve one of the city's most gruesome arsons ever. But everything about the blaze is shrouded in mystery--the biblical intensity of the fire, its connection to other arsons, the strange reticence within her own department, and the eerie, scripture-laden taunts of a madman. Before it's over, Georgia will have to confront the ultimate test of courage and come to terms with her own tormented and secretive past.
Suzanne Chazin is the author of three novels published by Putnam: THE FOURTH ANGEL, FLASHOVER and FIREPLAY, all featuring New York City (FDNY) fire investigator Georgia Skeehan. The series received high praise from such publications as People Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times and USA Today. Chazin is the wife of a high-ranking chief in the FDNY and the author of the forthcoming mystery novel, LAND OF CAREFUL SHADOWS (coming out Dec. 2014 from Kensington). A former journalist, Chazin has written for such publications as Family Circle, The Ladies Home Journal, The New York Times and Reader’s Digest. Her short fiction appeared in the anthology, BRONX NOIR, which won the 2008 Book of the Year Award for special fiction from the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association.
Also by Suzanne Chazin Flashover
Mystery/Thriller ✴ May 2002 ✴ Putnam
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In this second installment in the series, Georgia Skeehan investigates the fiery deaths of two FDNY doctors in a trail of secrets going back almost thirty years.
Fire marshal Georgia Skeehan investigates two mysterious deaths, both involving victims of fires that show signs of "flashover"--the vicious and overwhelming combustion of a room and its contents by simultaneous ignition. She suspects the connection between the two might be disputes over line-of-duty compensation for disabled firefighters. But her life is soon upended when a close female friend disappears and the only person found at the scene is Georgia's boyfriend and fellow marshal, Mac Marenko. Betrayal--both personal and professional--has never hit so close to home.
Fireplay
Mystery/Thriller ✴ May 2003 ✴ Putnam
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In this third installment in the series, Georgia Skeehan goes undercover in a joint FDNY/FBI investigation to flush out ecoterrorists.
Two firefighters are killed in a deliberately-set restaurant blaze and Georgia quickly finds the culprit, a slick, vicious arsonist-for-hire known as "the Freezer." There's just one catch: he's an FBI informant. The only way the FDNY can ever hope for justice is for Georgia to go undercover in a joint operation with the FBI. But while undercover, the Freezer makes sure Georgia comes face-to-face with the one man she never dreamed of setting up: the long-absent father of her 10-year-old son.
Phillippe Diederich Sofrito
Fiction/Mystery ✴ June 2015 ✴ Cinco Puntos Press
“Sofrito has the sweaty seduction of Havana’s streets and the warm spirit of its food. —Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History and Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“Peppered with cooking advice from chefs, ordinary folks, and celebrities including Fidel Castro himself (an advocate of pork), Phillippe Diederich’s Sofrito is a love letter to the deepest recesses of nostalgia’s heart.”— Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban and King of Cuba
“A moveable feast full of folkloric flavors, comical rhythms and magic. One man’s quest for the perfect spice leads him towards love for a woman and for his lost Cuba. In heaven, I know Oscar Hijuelos is smiling.” – Ernesto Quiñones, author of Bodega Dreams and Chango’s Fire
Frank Delgado is no thief. He co-owns a failing Cuban restaurant in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The restaurant, like Frank, is rudderless. Lost. He decides he’ll save the restaurant by traveling to Cuba to steal the legendary chicken recipe from the famed El Ajillo restaurant in Havana. The recipe is a state secret, so prized that no cook knows the whole recipe. But Frank’s rationale is ironclad— Fidel stole the secret from his family, so he will steal it back. He will triumphantly bring that recipe back to Manhattan and turn his fortunes around.
Frank has no interest in Cuba. His parents fled after the Revolution. His dead father spent his life erasing all traces of Cuba from his heart with barbeques, television, lawn mowing, and alcohol. So Frank is not prepared for the real Cuba. Sure, he gets beat up and almost killed, the secret service threatens him, but in the midst of the chaos, he falls in love with a prostitute and the city, and he unwraps the heroic story of his parents’ life. Cuba begins to bind Frank together, the way a good sofrito binds the flavors of a Cuban dish.
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Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian-American writer and photojournalist raised in Mexico City and Miami, Florida. Dictator Françoise Duvalier forced his parents out of Haiti in the early 1960s. Phillippe grew up listening to stories of nostalgia, revolution, and exile. He is also the author of a young adult novel—Playing for the Devil’s Fire—also from Cinco Puntos Press.
Chris Goff Dark Waters A Raisa Jordan Thriller (Book 1) International Thriller ✴ September 2015 ✴ Crooked Lane
"Great characters, action and location--altogether terrific." --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"A relentless international thriller with a terrifying topic and an impressive heroine. Well done!" --David Morrell, NY Times bestselling author of First Blood and Brotherhood of the Rose
" Great characters, cool setting, and sharp, tight writing make Dark Waters a sure winner." --J.T. Ellison, NY Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind
Rights Available: Raisa “Rae” Jordan, an agent Translation for the U.S. Diplomatic Audio Security Service, isn't in Israel ______for more than a day before her Rights Sold: predecessor is gunned down in Italy (Leone Editore) a Tel Aviv square by a sniper. Israel (Korim Publishing) Assigned to investigate the assassination of one of her own, she must also protect Judge Ben Taylor and his teenage daughter. They may be the sniper's next targets and are most certainly being threatened by a desperate cadre of terrorists with their sights set on the Secretary of State's upcoming visit. But is an attack on the Secretary of State all that they have planned or is that just the beginning?
There are no protocols for this kind of a situation, and following the rules is exactly the kind of thing that could get the Taylors killed. To subvert an attack that could crush the fledgling peace in the Middle East, Jordan must trust her instincts and bring together a contentious team of agents from Israel, the U.S., and the Palestinian territories to uncover a conspiracy years in the making.
With millions of lives hanging in the balance, Dark Waters, Chris Goff's explosive new thriller, is a series debut that mirrors global headlines and will have readers frantically turning pages.
Christine (Chris) Goff, an award-winning mystery author, began her career as a newspaper columnist. She has taught writing workshops and has served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Colorado. This is her first thriller.
Norman Draper Backyard
Contemporary Fiction/Satire ✴ November 2014 ✴ Kensington
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“Readers looking for a quick, witty read will enjoy the thorns in this prickly arrangement.” --Publishers Weekly
“Draper’s savory satire of such an unlikely source of obsession and greed demonstrates a splendid affinity for Mother Nature and a sardonic appraisal of human nature.” --Booklist
“[A] laugh-out-loud novel…” --Minneapolis Star Tribune
With the same sort of gentle humor of Dave Barry and Garrison Keeler, Backyard peels back the placid, Miracle- Gro-soaked sod of gardening to reveal a culture of yucca fetishes, monarda mutilations, and herbivore-induced hissy fits.
When the news leaks that Burdick’s PlantWorld is sponsoring a garden contest the likes of which the unassuming suburb of Livia has never seen, the town’s middle-aged gardening reprobates take notice. There’s a cowled spy, a witch who channels the spirit power of millions of dead flower souls, and a saboteur who’ll unleash a Mongol horde of half-starved rabbits on any garden if the price of right. None of these residents compare to the resident gardening psychopath Dr. Phyllis Sproot, who will stop at nothing to maintain her dominance as Livia’s most eminent gardener.
Against these forbidding forces stands determined couple George and Nan Fremont. In their quest for the first-place prize, they vow to turn their backyard into a suburban paradise of bursting summer blooms and thrilling songbirds while blissfully sipping their favorite merlot and brandishing a butcher knife and genuine “Smokestack” Gaines baseball bat.
Norman Draper spent 35 years as a newspaper reporter. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as journalism major. He now lives and writes in Bloomington, MN with his wife, Jennifer, and sons Sam and Ed. Unlike his wife, the real gardener in the family, Norman is always ready to uncork a bottle of Sagelands 2007 merlot once Jennifer’s hard day of work in the garden is done.
Also by Norman Draper Front Yard
Contemporary Fiction/Satire ✴ September 2015 ✴ Kensington
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"... darkly hilarious ... Readers looking for a quick, witty read will enjoy the thorns in this prickly arrangement." -- Publishers Weekly
"Draper lavishly describes the gardens of Livia...the silly shenanigans keep the pace speedy... a ... tale of suburban warfare waged by the gardening elite." --Kirkus Reports
"Draper’s savory satire ... demonstrates a splendid affinity for Mother Nature and a sardonic appraisal of human nature." --Booklist
Livia is a quiet Midwestern suburb known for its green- thumbed residents and their impeccable yards--but this summer, they'll be digging up a lot more than weeds.
George and Nan Fremont are renowned among their neighbors for their meticulously manicured backyard. Now that the weather's warming up, it's time for them to give their neglected front yard a much-needed makeover. Luckily, their daughter Mary and their gardening intern Shirelle are around to help.
But a bevy of meddlers stonewall their latest project before they can even dig in. Shirelle's college advisor, Dr. Brockheimer, is a little too enamored with the Fremonts' gardening prowess. Livia's resident historian, Miss Price, seems to be hiding something about the history of their property. And their nosy neighbor, Jim Graybill, is forever scanning their lawn for buried treasures with his beloved metal detector--but could he actually be onto something for once?
Trouble is in full bloom in Livia, but with a trowel in one hand and a glass of merlot in the other, George and Nan count on everything coming up roses.
K.W. Jeter Fiendish Schemes
Science Fiction ✴ October 2013 ✴ Tor Books
“Jeter is an exhilarating writer who always seems to have another rabbit to pull out of his hat.”--The New York Times Book Review
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In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term “steampunk,” applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure, Infernal Devices. At last he has returned with the sequel, Fiendish Schemes.
The world George Dower left when he went into hiding at the end of Infernal Devices was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London, a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected places. After accepting congratulations for his late father’s grandest invention—a walking, steam- powered lighthouse—Dower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess.
If he can locate and make his father’s Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future, he is promised, is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who promises him aid, but is more interested in converting sentient whales to Christianity—and making money—than in helping George. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated by men, women, and the steam-powered Prime Minister, Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world.
K. W. Jeter is an American science fiction and thriller author known as the “godfather of steampunk” for first inventing the term. He is the author of Infernal Devices, Morlock Night, the cyberpunk novel Dr. Adder, noir sequels to Blade Runner as well as dark fantasy and other visionary science fiction. A native of California, he currently lives in Ecuador. His latest novels are The Kingdom of Shadows, set in the sinister & glamorous world of the film industry of the Third Reich, and the Kim Oh Thriller series -- with more to come.
Gary Kriss The Zodiac Deception
Mystery/Thriller ✴ May 2014 ✴ Tor/Forge
Intriguing…a World War Two thriller in the grand old style, but with fresh new twists. I loved it.” –Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author
A smart, sophisticated, and inventive thriller, The Zodiac Deception is an utterly convincing and compelling debut. Don’t miss it." --J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of When Shadows Fall
“Entertaining…Kriss sweeps readers along with complex action sequences and an impressive array of tangential challenges. Crisp prose and a well-structured storyline bode well for the sequel.” —Publishers Weekly
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The con man known as David Walker didn't exactly volunteer, but OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan convinced him that serving his country by posing as German astrologer Peter Kepler was a better use of his time than going to prison for impersonating a Yale University professor. Walker’s mission: use his skills in illusion, sleight of hand, and deception to persuade Heinrich Himmler to assassinate Adolph Hitler.
Playing on the high command’s fascination with the occult, Walker penetrates the highest levels of Nazi power. From Berlin to Paris to Cairo, from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest to Himmler’s Wewelsburg Castle, he will have to walk a tightrope of deceit to complete his mission—and survive it.
Gary Kriss has been stringing together words for longer than he cares to remember, including for The New York Times where he wrote critically acclaimed feature articles. Like the protagonist of THE ZODIAC DECEPTION, Gary's an accomplished mentalist, magician and ventriloquist. He’s also an active member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America. Currently he’s working on his next novel, THE HOUDINI KILLER.
Lisa Q. Mathews Cardiac Arrest Book #1 in The Ladies Smythe & Westin Series Mystery ✴ November 2015 ✴ Carina Press (Harlequin)
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When a man falls at your feet, you'd better hope he's not dead.
Twenty-something party girl Summer Smythe is starting over in the unlikeliest of places: Hibiscus Pointe, a kitschy retirement community in upscale Milano, Florida. Her new gig? Working for Dr. A, Milano’s much-loved cardiologist. But being in over her head is the least of Summer’s worries when her new boss drops dead…right in front of her.
Long-time resident Dorothy Westin prefers to mind her own business. But when the young blonde already causing ripples throughout Hibiscus Pointe becomes a person of interest in Dr. A’s murder, Dorothy springs into action. Not only because the real killer is still on the loose, but because there’s simply no way her clueless-but-kind new friend could have poisoned someone.
Dorothy and Summer soon discover that despite his chosen specialty, Dr. A had quite a reputation for breaking hearts. And if the Ladies Smythe and Westin don’t identify the guilty party fast, Summer will end up in handcuffs…and Dorothy in a body bag.
LISA Q. MATHEWS worked as a lifeguard, a figure skating pro, and a book editor before becoming a full-time author. She began her publishing career at New American Library, where she edited mystery, romance, young adult, and male action adventure titles. Later, she edited several Nancy Drew series and became Creative Director at Random House Children’s Books. She also wrote under pseudonym for kids’ series such as Mary-Kate and Ashley and The Lizzie McGuire Mysteries. A native New Englander and Williams College graduate, Lisa has lived in Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, and Nashville. Mom to three grown kids, she now resides in New Hampshire with her husband, mom, and crazy Golden Retriever. Like her characters Summer and Dorothy in The Ladies Smythe & Westin series, Lisa enjoys swimming, rich desserts, Nora Ephron movies, and above all a good mystery. CARDIAC ARREST is her first book for adults.
Aimée & David Thurlo Grave Consequences A Charlie Henry Mystery (Book 2)
Mystery ✴ April 2015 ✴ Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press
“A fast-paced thriller” --Kirkus
“Aimée and David Thurlo surely deserve to be called the successors to Tony Hillerman.” —Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Rizzoli & Isles: Last to Die
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Charlie is a former Special Forces operative and newly minted pawnbroker. He thinks he’s finally turned a corner and found the calm, quiet life he’s always wanted. But life has a way of confounding such ambitions. A young Navajo man comes into his shop, claiming his girlfriend mistakenly pawned a beautiful family heirloom, a turquoise necklace that she desperately needs back. When he’s unable to produce any proof of this tale, Charlie is immediately suspicious. No claim ticket, no exchange. Then the young man returns with reinforcements—and guns— making it abundantly clear that there’s ore to this story than just a family heirloom.
The heirloom quickly becomes the focus of a case where everyone lies, and every question seems to answer with gunfire. And in an act so taboo in Navajo culture as to be unthinkable, the piece was stolen from the grave of the murdered Navajo silversmith who made it. It’s up to Charlie and his comrades in arms to help find out who’s really telling the truth, and uncover the mysteries that this heirloom holds.
This was Aimée Thurlo’s last novel before she passed away unexpectedly in 2014. David Thurlo will continue to write the series with Book 3 in the series scheduled for publication in 2016.
Also by Aimée & David Thurlo Ghost Medicine An Ella Clah Novel
Mystery ✴ November 2013 ✴ Forge Books
“An outstanding series.” —Booklist
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah takes all her cases personally, but some cases are more personal than others. The murder of Harry Ute is one of those—not only because Ella and Harry dated, years ago, but also because Harry was once a member of her investigative team. Ella’s team is as close to her as family and a blow against one is a blow against all.
Harry’s been working for Bruce “Teeny” Little, a local security expert, but despite their long friendship, Teeny won’t tell Ella much, just the job involves theft of government property. The dead man was found in an isolated area of the Rez that is reportedly haunted by skinwalkers and the scattered residents are too frightened of the Navajo witches to tell the police much.
County cop Dan Nez is also looking into the government thefts. The two detectives—each top dog in their own territory—will have to share jurisdiction, something complicated by their growing attraction to each other.
Ella finds evidence that connects Harry’s murder to the secret sale of previously unknown Navajo artifacts. If Harry discovered a hidden—and illegal—dig, the artifact smugglers might have killed him to protect their lucrative operation.
Identifying the murderer isn’t going to be easy. But Harry was one of her own and Ella is determined to bring his killer to justice.
In addition to the Ella Clah mysteries, Aimée and David Thurlo have written many Harlequin Intrigue titles. Their Navajo characters reflect David’s many years on the Navajo reservation. Aimée is a native of Cuba who has lived in the American Southwest for more than thirty years.
Also by Aimée & David Thurlo A Time of Change
Romance/Mystery ✴ April 2013 ✴ Forge Books
“A rich mix of engaging characters, nail-biting suspense, complex mystery, and tantalizing romance.” —Rebecca York, New York Times bestselling author
“Aimée and David Thurlo surely deserve to be called the successors to Tony Hillerman.” —Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Rizzoli & Isles: Last to Die
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When The Outpost's owner dies, Josephine, a young Navajo woman, is shocked to discover that Tom Stuart, whom she thought of as a surrogate father, has left her the business.
Ben Stuart and his dad had had problems, but military service changed Ben for the better and put the two men back in each other's lives. His father's sudden death ends any possibility of a true reconciliation and leaves Ben fuming at being disinherited.
Suspecting that Jo had an affair with his father, Ben is determined to get control of the trading post. Jo's hataalii training shows her that Ben is wounded in both body and soul, and she becomes determined to help him.
As Jo and Ben move toward a deeper understanding of each other, they learn that Tom Stuart was murdered and that the trading post at the center of their lives holds many secrets.
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Kristin Cast Amber Smoke Book #1 in The Escaped Series New Adult ✴ June 2015 ✴ Diversion Books
"Amber Smoke is thrilling and funny with just the right amount of magic. Brilliant job, Kristin Cast!" —Kresley Cole, #1 NY Times bestselling author
"I love Kristin Cast! In Amber Smoke, Cast's wit, creativity, and talent shine! I turned the pages at lightning speed, ready for more! What a tasty treat!" —Gena Showalter, NY Times & USA Today bestselling author
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There is a world that runs parallel to our own, a world in which the souls of the damned are caged, where they are looked over by the Furies, and where they spend eternity in torment, mirroring the devastation and mayhem they created when alive. Someone has opened the cage.
The worst of terrors has crossed the barrier that separates our world from theirs, and the Furies send a great, albeit untested warrior—their only son, Alek—to try to bring those souls back. He is young and handsome, headstrong and impulsive, and he won’t be able to do it alone. Eva has grown up, beautiful and beloved, but surrounded by secrets. First, she will be hunted in an ancient feud that will threaten her life. Then, she will become the hunter.
With the police closing in and two worlds on the verge of crumbling around them, Alek and Eva must find each other, discover the limits of their powers, and work together to save everything they hold dear, including one another. Blending elements of mythology with the dazzling storytelling that her fans have devoured through the HOUSE OF NIGHT series, Kristin Cast weaves a spellbinding and passionate tale that starts a thrilling new series with an explosive charge.
Kristin Cast is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author who teamed with her mother to write the wildly successful HOUSE OF NIGHT series. She has editorial credits, a thriving t-shirt line, and a passion for all things paranormal. When away from her writing desk, Kristin loves relaxing with her significant other and their dogs, and discovering new hobbies. This year she'll work on swimming, yoga, and adding to her Doctor Who collection.
Fiction Romance/Women’s Fiction/Mashup
Rebecca Coleman Inside These Walls
Women’s Fiction ✴ January 2014 ✴ Harlequin/MIRA/Digital First
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There is only one day, and I live it over and over…
For Clara Mattingly, routine is the key to enduring the endless weeks, months and years of a life sentence in a women’s prison. The convicted murderer never looks back at who she once was—a shy young art student whose life took a sudden tragic turn. And she allows herself no hope for a better future. Survival is a day-to-day game. But when a surprise visitor shows up one day, Clara finds that in an instant everything has changed. Now she must account for the life she has led—its beauty as well as its brutality—and face the truth behind the terrible secret she has kept to herself all these years.
Critically acclaimed author Rebecca Coleman brings you the haunting story of a woman’s deepest passions, darkest regrets, and her unforgettable and emotional journey toward redemption.
Rebecca Coleman is the author of THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD, an ABNA 2010 semifinalist and HEAVEN SHOULD FALL. She received her B.A. in English literature from the University of Maryland at College Park and speaks to writers' groups on the subjects of creative writing and publishing. A native New Yorker, she now lives and works near Washington, D.C. Visit her at www.RebeccaColeman.net.
Also by Rebecca Coleman Heaven Should Fall
Commercial Fiction ✴ October 2012 ✴ MIRA
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College student Jill Wagner dreams of carving out a rugged existence at the edge of the woods, teaching primitive living skills to eco-hipsters and survivalists. When she meets Cade Olmstead, a Poli-Sci major with rural roots and aspirations to become a Congressman, she falls hard for his passionate idealism and his drive to change the world for the better. But when her unexpected pregnancy forces them to take refuge at his parents’ farm in northern New Hampshire, she discovers the family is controlled by son-in-law Dodge, whose anti-government beliefs have turned the household into a small-scale militia that is a world apart from the life she and Cade hope to create. She finds a kindred spirit in Cade’s brother Elias, a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan, whose contempt for Dodge— and infatuation with Jill—are only thinly concealed.
As Jill and Cade struggle to get Elias the treatment he needs to move on from the trauma of war, Jill finds joy in her competence, resilience, and adaptability. But everything changes when Elias, overcome by either post-traumatic stress disorder or the hopelessness of loving Jill, commits suicide. Cade turns his grief to anger at the government for stonewalling Elias’s treatment, and begins plotting large-scale revenge. Jill, who had hoped for a quiet life beside the woods, now finds herself trapped by isolation as she must protect herself and her child from what will come of her husband’s impending domestic terrorism.
Also by Rebecca Coleman The Kingdom of Childhood
Commercial Fiction ✴ October 2011 ✴ MIRA
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THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother’s extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realize is that their relationship is—for Judy—only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.
Rebecca Coleman’s manuscript for THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD was a semifinalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. An emotionally tense, increasingly chilling work of fiction set in the controversial Waldorf school community, it is equal parts enchanting and unsettling and has been a much-discussed and much-debated novel.
Sheri Browning Erwin Jane Slayre & Grave Expectations Classical Mashup ✴ April 2010/August 2011 ✴ Pocket Books/Gallery
Jane Slayre... embodies the flawless union of supernatural fiction and the best of classic literature." - Library Journal
A timeless tale of love, devotion… and the undead.
Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampire kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she's meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he's hiding a violent werewolf in the attic-in the form of his bloodthirsty first wife.
“Highly recommended; astounding, great fun." - Library Journal
Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings . . .
Bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind. But then, a mysterious benefactor sends him to London for the finest werewolf education money can buy. In the company of other furry young gentlemen, Pip tempers his violent transformations and devours the secrets of his dark world. When he discovers that his beloved Estella is a slayer of supernatural creatures, trained by the corpse-like vampire Miss Havisham, Pip’s desire for her grows stronger than his midnight hunger for rare fresh beef. But can he risk his hide for a truth that will make Estella his forever—or will she drive one last silver stake through his heart?
Rights Available: Sherri Browning Erwin, best known for critically acclaimed classic mash-ups Jane Translation Slayre and Grave Expectations, also writes paranormal romance and historical ______romance as Sherri Browning. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sherri has lived in Massachusetts and Michigan, but is now settled with her family in Rights Sold: Connecticut. She returns to historical romance with the Edwardian-set Thornbrook Audio (Blackstone) Park series. http://www.sherribrowningerwin.com.
Pamela Binnings Ewen The Moon in the Mango Tree
Women’s Fiction ✴ May 2008 ✴ B&H Fiction
Winner of the Eudora Welty Memorial Award from the National League of Pen Women - 2012 Biennial Letters Competition
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Based on a true story, THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE chronicles the life of Barbara Bond and her struggles between what she wants and what she needs.
THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE is set in the Roaring Twenties when young women were lobbying to get the right to vote and forge new ground. Barbara is faced with a decision to follow her own dream of becoming an opera singer and her responsibility to follow her husband to Siam, present day Thailand. When she chooses her husband, Barbara finds herself on a journey to the jungles of Siam to take on the role of missionary doctor’s wife. There she encounters the local people and Buddhist culture and the missionary workers trying to bring Jesus to this remote location.
Though taking place 90 years ago, the book illustrates the struggles that women face even today. Should they give up their careers to stay home and care for children? If the husband is transferred, does the women automatically give up her dream job to follow? Is the women’s place to support her husband in his endeavors?
Pamela Binnings Ewen practiced law for 25 years before following in the literary footsteps of family members such as James Lee Burke (The Tin Roof Blowdown) and Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog). This is her third novel. She lives with her husband near New Orleans.
Molly Harper Half Moon Hollow Series Paranormal Romance ✴ Pocket Books
Single Undead Moms Club (October 2015) Widow Libby Stratton arranged to be turned into a vampire after she was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. It wasn’t the best idea she’s ever had, but she was desperate—she’s not about to leave her seven-year-old son to be raised by her rigid, overbearing in-laws. On top of post-turning transition issues, like being ignored at PTA meetings and other mothers rejecting her son’s invitations for sleepovers, Libby must deal with her father-in-law’s attempts to declare her an unfit mother, her growing feelings for Wade—a tattooed redneck single dad she met while hiding in a closet at Back to School Night—and the return of her sire, who hasn’t stopped thinking about brave, snarky Libby since he turned her. With the help of her new vampire circle, Libby negotiates this unfamiliar quagmire of legal troubles, parental duties, relationships, and, as always in Harper’s distinct, comedic novels, “characters you can’t help but fall in love with” (RT Book Reviews).
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Fangs for the Memories (November 2015) Half-Moon Hollow’s supernatural social event of the season—Zeb’s Titanic- themed werewolf wedding—is coming up, and Dick Cheney (not that Dick Cheney!) needs a date. But Andrea’s had enough of clever, handsome, and rakish to last a lifetime, and Dick Cheney is certainly not the sort of man you bring home to mom (not that Andrea’s deadest parents are speaking to her ever since she dropped out of college and became a blood surrogate.) Shameless, relentless, roguish, with a Stetson-worthy swagger, a naughty sparkle in his eyes, and a constant smirk—oh, and fangs—no, Dick is the last person (er…vampire) Andrea wants to date.
But the infuriatingly irresistible man who lives quietly on the edge of a criminal underworld knows exactly what he wants, and once he surprises Andrea with a thrilling hot and dirty kiss behind the paranormal bookshop, she knows what she wants too: Dick. All it takes to ignite their unconventional courtship is a near-undeath experience that confronts Dick with a choice between turning Andrea, losing her forever, or tapping into his countless shady resources in this hilarious and heartwarming e-novella that revisits the early days of Molly Harper’s Nice Girls series—one that “makes me laugh and laugh” (USA TODAY).
Also by Molly Harper Half Moon Hollow Series Paranormal Romance ✴ Pocket Books
A Witch’s Handbook of Kisses & Curses (June 2013) Rights Available: Translation, UK Commonwealth
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Nola Leary would have been content to stay in Kilcairy, Ireland, healing villagers at her family’s clinic with a mix of magic and modern medicine. But a series of ill- timed omens and a deathbed promise to her grandmother have sent her on a quest to Half-Moon Hollow, Kentucky, to secure her family’s magical potency for the next generation. Her supernatural task? To unearth four artifacts hidden by her grandfather before a rival magical family beats her to it. And teaming up with a real life Adonis is as dangerous as it sounds, especially when he’s got the face of an angel and the abs of a washboard—can Nola complete her mission before falling completely under his spell?
The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires (July 2012)
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Iris Scanlon runs a “daywalker service” for vampires in Half-Moon Hollow. Vampires have trouble running errands and keeping their households operating in a daytime-oriented society. Iris’s new service is booming and she’s successfully avoiding her clients, until she goes into her newest customer’s house to find him dying of silver poisoning on his kitchen floor. The vampire, Cal, offers her an obscene amount of money if Iris will get him out of his house and shelter him until he can heal. Cal, a 500-year-old vampire, is a recent appointee to the local Council. Unbeknownst to the other Council members, he has been brought to the Hollow to investigate a recent rash of vamp-on- human crimes. Cal believes his position has made him a target and is afraid that whoever poisoned his blood supply could be planning to try again. As Cal grows stronger, he and Iris become closer as they continue his investigation. But what kind of life can a girl have with the undead?
Molly Harper is the author of over a dozen novels, including THE CARE AND FEEDING OF STRAY VAMPIRES (which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and 5 Stars from Romantic Times) and NICE GIRLS DON’T BITE THEIR NEIGHBORS. She worked for six years as a reporter and humor columnist for The Paducah Sun. Molly lives in western Kentucky with her family.
Also by Molly Harper How to Run With a Naked Werewolf Paranormal Romance ✴ January 2014 ✴ Pocket Star
In just a few hours, Anna has witnessed a shooting, watched her car get pulverized, and rescued a wounded stranger only to discover he’s really a werewolf. And by her recent standards, things are actually looking up. Lycanthropes don’t faze Anna. Doctoring a wolf pack outside Grundy, Alaska was the closest thing to real home-life she’s known in years. But hitching a ride all the way to Anchorage with long-absent Grundy packmate Caleb Graham— that’s a real risk. Part of her itches to whack his nose with a newspaper. The rest is trying unsuccessfully to keep her own paws off every delicious inch of him.
As a not-quite-legal bounty hunter, Caleb uses his lupine abilities to track those who don’t want to be found. It’s lucrative, uncomplicated work, until he crosses paths with Anna. Anna’s on the run from something big and Caleb hasn’t given her any reason to trust him. Between the problems from her past closing in and the perils of Caleb’s job, Anna wants to bolt. Despite her reservations, he seems determined to keep her by his side. Are his intentions noble or is he working a more predatory angle? Can human Anna return to a semi-normal life or can Caleb keep her running with the wolves? Other books in the series: How to Flirt With a Naked Werewolf (February 2011) The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf (March 2011)
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Better Homes and Hauntings
Paranormal Romance ✴ June 2014 ✴ Pocket
When Seattle society wife Kathleen Whitney fled her husband’s luxurious summer retreat in 1929, only to be found floating in the bay, the tragedy sent echoes of grief and failure affecting every generation since. The crumbling “cottage” on secluded Whitney Island comes complete with twelve bedrooms, a shattered solarium and multiple malicious spirits. So naturally, social-media magnate Deacon Whitney wants to use it as his weekend place. But only four restorers are crazy enough to take a summer restoration job on “Certain Death Island.” It’s not long before spooky paranormal episodes derail the team’s progress, and soon the group feels compelled to solve the mystery of Katherine’s death – before one of them becomes part of the Crane’s Nest ghost population.
Also by Molly Harper Nice Girls Series
Paranormal Romance ✴ Pocket Books
Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their Neighbors (March 2012)
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Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever (December 2009)
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Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men (August 2009)
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Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs (April 2009) Rights Available: Translation, UK Commonwealth
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Also by Molly Harper How To Flirt With a Naked Werewolf
Paranormal Romance ✴ February 2011 ✴ Pocket Books
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When a naked guy shows up on your front porch with a bear-trap clamped on his ankle, it's best to just do what he asks. Mississippi transplant Mo Duvall-Wenstein moves to Grundy, Alaska to get away from her over-involved hippie helicopter parents. There, she finds peace, peppered with frustration in the form of said naked guy, Cooper Graham. Aside from being surly, unfriendly and frequently nude, Cooper happens to be the self-exiled leader of the local werewolf pack. As outright loathing simmers down to warmer, friendlier feelings, Mo and Cooper's relationship is complicated by a series of animal attacks on Grundy residents. Mo wants to believe Cooper would never hurt a human being, but even he thinks he might be responsible. As Mo seeks the answers to clear Cooper's conscience, the question remains: If Cooper's not attacking people, what is?
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
Paranormal Romance ✴ March 2011 ✴ Pocket Books
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Generations of werewolves have been secretly residing in a secluded valley a stone's throw from Grundy, Alaska. So when a snooping Outsider comes to Grundy to investigate rumors of lycanthropic shenanigans in the area, the valley pack's alpha, Maggie Graham, resolves to chase him away, even if doing so takes a quick bite on the butt. What a pity that researcher Nick Thatcher turns out to be so drool-worthy, and that his kisses make Maggie want to sit up and beg. Maggie just can't seem to convince Nick to leave... and even worse, she can't convince herself to stay away from him. Cross-species dating is problem enough for a harried alpha female, but on top of that, a rival group of werewolves is trying to move into the valley. With inter-pack ware threatening, Maggie can't afford to be distracted. Combining romance and a career can be tough for anyone; for a werewolf in love with a human, it may be disastrous.
Also by Molly Harper Driving Mr. Dead
Paranormal Romance ✴ January 2012 ✴ Pocket Books
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Miranda Puckett has failed at every job she’s ever had. Her mother just wants her to come home, join the family law firm, and settle down with Jason, the perfect lawyer boyfriend. But when Jason turns out to be a lying cheater, Miranda seizes on a job that gets her out of town: long-distance vampire transportation. Her first assignment is to drive vampire Collin Sutherland and his secret cargo from Washington to sleepy Half Moon Hollow without incident—no small feat for a woman whom trouble seems to follow like a faithful hound dog! And she has to do it without letting her passenger—the most persnickety, stuffy, devastatingly handsome vamp she’s ever met—drive her crazy. As she and Collin find disaster on the roads, they also find an undeniable spark between them. Could Miranda have found the perfect job and the perfect guy for her?
And One Last Thing Contemporary Romance/Humor ✴ July 2010 ✴ Pocket Books
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When a misdirected bouquet of flowers alerts Lacey Terwilliger to her husband’s pantless office hijinks, she turns her annual “Christmas in July” newsletter into a scathing divorce announcement chock full of scandalous email excerpts and full- color photos, never expecting the newsletter to go viral and become an Internet phenomenon. With her life in ruins and her husband threatening a libel lawsuit, Lacey retreats to the remote lakeside family cabin to lick her wounds. But the peace she hoped for is interrupted by Lefty Monroe, a brooding crime writer who’s not thrilled to have the newly divorced Lacey as his new neighbor…
Also by Molly Harper Bluegrass Series
Contemporary Romance ✴ Pocket Star
An original eBook series from popular romance author Molly Harper!
My Bluegrass Baby (December 2012)
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Rhythm and Bluegrass (October 2013)
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Snow Falling on Bluegrass (September 2014)
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Andrea Lochen Imaginary Things
Commercial Women’s Fiction ✴ Spring 2015 ✴ Astor + Blue
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Burned-out and broke, single mother Anna Jennings moves to her grandparents’ rural home with her four- year-old son, David. The sudden appearance of shadowy dinosaurs forces Anna to admit that either she’s gone crazy or she can see her son’s active imagination.
The discovery leads her to reconsider her fraught relationship with her mother, and with the help of her grandparents and her childhood friend, Jamie—who has grown much more handsome and hardened than the boy she once knew—she starts to uncover secrets about her past and her own imaginary friend. Yet as David’s visions become more wild and persistent, Anna must ask herself: what dark secret is her son’s imagination trying to show her . . . and can she save him?
Andrea Lochen’s debut novel, THE REPEAT YEAR (Berkley 2013) won the Hopwood Award for the Novel and has been optioned for film. Andrea has taught writing at the University of Michigan and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin.
Also by Andrea Lochen The Repeat Year
Commercial Women’s Fiction ✴ May 2013 ✴ Berkley Trade
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Everyone has days, weeks, even months they wish they could do over — but what about an entire year? After living through the worst twelve months of her life, intensive care nurse Olive Watson is given a second chance to relive her past and attempt to discover where she went wrong…
After a year of hardships, including a messy breakup with her longtime boyfriend, Phil, the prospect of her mother’s remarriage, and heartbreaking patient losses at the hospital, Olive is ready to start fresh. But when she wakes up in her ex-boyfriend’s bed on New Year’s Day 2011 — a day she has already lived — Olive’s world is turned upside down. Shouldering a year of memories that no one else can recall, even Olive begins to question herself — until she discovers that she is not alone. Upon crossing paths with Sherry Witan, an experienced “repeater,” Olive learns that she has the chance to rewrite her future. Given the opportunity of a lifetime, Olive has to decide what she really wants. Should she make different choices, or accept her life, as she knows it, flaws and all?
Collette Yvonne The Perils of Pauline
Women’s Fiction ✴ March 2015 ✴ Astor + Blue
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Life seems "picture perfect" for Army veteran, Pauline Parril: a solid career, a loving (though slightly absent) husband, and two adorable young children. Sure, it could be a bit mundane, but all in all, Pauline is loving life. That is, until the usual Friday meeting at Pauline's office ends with a termination letter.
As Pauline navigates the difficulties of unemployment, she finds the handles of her world turning upside down. Her estranged daughter, Serenity, returns home with shocking secrets. Her husband, Donald, is acting suspicious, and a handsome stranger opens her eyes to the complex worlds of poetry and temptation.
In this uproarious female comedy of just how one event can change the course of...well everything. THE PERILS OF PAULINE follows an intrepid every-woman as she marches through the pressures of building the "perfect life," finding there's actually more to discover about yourself than you dreamed, and constantly answering the scariest question of adulthood: "What now?"
A graduate of Toronto's York University with an Honors BA degree in Creative Writing, Collette Yvonne writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, THE QUEEN OF CUPS, was released in August 2006 by Panic House and received distinction as a Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year 2006 contest in the Humor category. Collette's publication credits include over 150 articles, reviews, and interviews in national Canadian publications, including The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. One of Collette's short stories was made into an award-winning film, Snapshots for Henry, which received a 2007 Genie nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama. Another of Collette’s short stories, BOM DIAS, won first place in the 2008 Scugog Council for the Arts literary contest.
NONFICTION Spirituality/Religion Health/Wellness Psychology/Self-Help
Concetta Bertoldi Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs? Questions You’d Ask A Medium If You Had The Chance
New Age & Spirituality ✴ April 2009 ✴ William Morrow
The highly anticipated follow-up to New York Times bestseller Do Dead People Watch You Shower?
“The charm of this ‘average Jersey Girl who talks to the dead’ goes a long way.” —Publishers Weekly
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Highly unorthodox questions and answers about life after life from America's most delightful medium.
Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In her previous book, the bestselling Do Dead People Watch You Shower, she addressed questions about the afterlife that ranged from the poignant to the provocative. Now she returns with Do Dead People Walk Their Dogs, a second volume of intriguing observations about our beloved deceased.
Moving, funny, and fascinating, it will open your eyes to what really comes after life—while offering intimate insights into Concetta's own astonishing life and what her gift has meant to her marriage, her friendships, and the path she was destined to take.
Concetta Bertoldi is a full-time medium with a two-year waiting list, who is regularly consulted by members of Britain's royal family, American celebrities, politicians, and others. She lives in New Jersey with her husband.
Also by Concetta Bertoldi Inside the Other Side Soul Contracts, Life Lessons, and How Dead People Help Us Between Here and Heaven
New Age & Spirituality ✴ 2012 ✴ William Morrow
Psychic medium Concetta Bertoldi offers guidance on how we can fulfill the agreements we’ve made with God before coming to planet Earth, how to cope with difficult issues from relationships to a lack of abundance, illness and ageing, and loss of a loved one, and how we are helped by our angels, protectors, and guides on the Other Side.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Do Dead People Watch You Shower?, celebrity psychic medium Concetta Bertoldi talks intimately about soul contracts, life lessons, and how dead people help us between here and heaven, as she leads us on an eye-opening tour Inside the Other Side. With the same compassion and wit that inspired Publishers Weekly to praise “the charm of this ‘average Jersey girl who talks to the dead,’” Concetta shares, her own experiences with loss, as well as the fascinating and comforting anecdotes of those she’s read for over the years. Readers of Sylvia Browne and Alison Dubois, and the avid television audience for John Edward and Lisa Williams will be inspired by Concetta’s powerful insights and guidance as she explains how to cope with life’s most difficult issues by getting in touch with angels – or “the dead guys” as Concetta calls them, on the Other Side.
David J. Bookbinder & Emily Sper 52 Flower Mandalas Adult Coloring Book Coloring Book ✴ Fall 2015 ✴ Diversion Books
Fifty-Two Flower Mandala images to color for relaxation, meditation, and creativity.
52 intricate flower mandala designs, each with a facing page that holds an inspirational quotation and space for the artist to write her own thoughts. The images have been drawn from award-winning flower photographs that have been manipulated digitally into beautiful mandalas.
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David J. Bookbinder is a psychotherapist in private practice and an avid award-winning photographer. Emily Sper is a graphic artist, the principal of Blue Iris Design, and author/artist of several coloring books.
Chris Brya & Miguel Almarez WTF Are Men Thinking?
Relationship/Self-Help ✴ October 2012 ✴ Sourcebooks
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Did you know that men will sleep with practically any woman on the first date, but have reservations about kissing? How do men really know that the woman they’re dating is “the one?” What’s the one thing that nearly all women do that makes men want to cheat?
The first in a potential series of Q&A format self help books based upon the wisdom of crowds, WTF ARE MEN THINKING? provides the answer to these questions and hundreds more. Its “Dear Abby” meets modern research, providing more insight into how and why men think, act, and react in 250 pages than some women may learn in a lifetime. The book’s takeaways are not based on opinion or theory of any one author, columnist or therapist, but instead by what over 250,000 men have told the authors openly and honestly about the mistakes women make with regard to dating, sex, relationships, communication, and more.
Targeting female readers, aged 18-55, WTF Are Men Thinking? answers women’s questions in an unbiased and unvarnished way that boyfriends, brothers, male friends, and even husbands just can’t.
Chris Brya, founder of Solavista Research
Miguel Almaraz, chief research officer at Solavista, is a user experience and online research professional. He has conducted literally hundreds of studies to unlock the story of what truly motivates people and has worked previously at Fortune 1000 companies like Motorola, Pearson and Thomson NetG.
Alex Lickerman, MD The Undefeated Mind On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self Psychology ✴ November 2012 ✴ HCI
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Tools for cultivating the inner strength to face hard times with a fearless heart
A job loss, a devastating illness, the death of a loved one…our ability to control what happens to us in life may be limited, but our ability to surmount the suffering life brings us is not. To find such strength, however, we need wisdom—wisdom that only the experience of adversity has the potential to impart. Combining core tenets of Nichiren Buddhism with the latest scientific research The Undefeated Mind provides the tools we need to develop a mind that faces all circumstances—good and bad alike—with a sense of calm and that remains joyful not matter what happens.
Dr. Lickerman, a respected physician and practicing Buddhist for more than twenty years, distills the wisdom necessary for anyone to create genuine resilience into nine core principles. Through stories of patients who have used these principles to overcome suffering caused by unemployment, unwanted weight gain, addition, rejection, chronic pain, retirement, illness, loss, and even death, Dr. Lickerman shows us how to make these principles function in our own lives, enabling us to develop the resilience we need to achieve indestructible happiness.
Alex Lickerman, MD, is a physician and former director of primary care at one of the world's most prestigious universities, the University of Chicago. He is also a practicing Nichiren Buddhist and leader in the Nichiren Buddhist lay organization, the Soka Gakkai International, USA (SGI-USA). Dr. Lickerman is a prolific writer, having written for medical textbooks, national trade publications, and even for Hollywood with an adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost. He has extensive speaking experience, having given lectures at high schools, colleges, and medical conferences, and was recently selected by the Consumers' Research Council of America as one of America's top physicians in their publication Guide to America's Top Physicians. Dr. Lickerman's blog "Happiness in this World" is syndicated on the website of Psychology Today, and receives over one hundred thousand unique visitors per month. Please visit his website at www.alexlickerman.com.
Lucinda K. Porter Free From Hepatitis C
Health/Wellness ✴ December 2011 ✴ Square One Publishing
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 3.2 million Americans are infected with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV is a potentially infectious virus, passed from blood-to-blood contact. The virus primarily attacks the liver, although it can attack other organs. HCV patients experience a host of symptoms, including exhaustion, body aches and mental fogginess. The emotional aspects of living with HCV may be more devastating than the relentless physical reminders of it. Patients live in fear of infecting others, particularly their loved ones. Sex lives are affected. Ordinary hopes and dreams are replaced by fear and uncertainty. Questions about a future, of illness, disability and premature death become nagging companions.
There is treatment for HCV. But it is long, difficult, fraught with debilitating side effects, and the success rates are only about fifty percent. However, with support, patients are able to face the obstacles, complete prescribed treatment and reach the goal of better health.
FREE FROM HEPATITIS C is written from the unique perspective of a medical professional that has not only worked with HCV patients, but has also been one herself for more than 20 years. Having undergone treatment for it twice, Lucinda K. Porter knows firsthand the fears and difficulties patients endure, and the support and encouragement needed for successful recovery.
Lucinda K. Porter, RN, has not only worked with HCV patients at Stanford University Medical Center, but also for more than 20 years has been a patient. Since 1998, Lucinda has lectured across North America, written a monthly column in the HCV Advocate, and co-authored more than 100 HCV-related guides, fact sheets and articles.
Rev. Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite #OccupyTheBible
Non-Fiction/ Politics/Religion ✴ February 2013 ✴ Astor + Blue
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Jesus of Nazareth said and did a lot about money and power in his own time. But Jesus wasn’t a “free market capitalist,” despite what some conservative Christians would like us to believe in the 21st century.
! Jesus occupied the Temple in Jerusalem—effectively the national bank of his time—and threw out those who were exploiting the poor. ! Jesus organized fishermen whose industry had been wrecked by the Roman Empire. ! His followers included powerful “women of means,” like Mary Magdalene, who was last at the cross, first at the tomb, and who went on to become missionaries. • Jesus taught “in the streets,” preaching that God’s “side” is not that of the wealthy and powerful; and that all believers need to confront inequality now.
#OccupytheBible is an eye-opening, no-holds barred look at the real message of Jesus, using the scriptures that are foundational for the Christian faith. #OTB is also a practical “how to” guide for potential Christian “occupiers”—people sincerely committed to confronting the rising poverty and economic inequality in the United States using the powerful, unvarnished message of Jesus of Nazareth.”
Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a professor of theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and formerly served as its president from 1998 to 2008. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ since 1974, she’s authored numerous books, and has worked on two different translations of the Bible. She also writes a weekly column for the Washington Post (“On Faith”) and is a frequent media commentator on religion and public events. Her previous works include Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Alternatives to War (USIP, 2008) and Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome Project (Fortress Press, 2003). She currently serves on the boards of the Center for American Progress, Faith in Public Life, the Interfaith Youth Core, and the Medill Center for Religion in the News Media. She has a Ph.D. from Duke University, a Masters of Divinity (Summa Cum Laude) from Duke Divinity School, and a B.A. from Smith College. She lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
Val Walker The Art of Comforting
Self-Help/Relationship ✴ October 2010 ✴ Tarcher
Winner of the 2011 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
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This step-by-step guide helps readers understand what to say and do to offer warmth and support to others who are grieving or suffering, inspiring readers to become more confident and adept at making the human connections that are so essential to helping someone in distress. Includes numerous interviews with people the author considers to be “Master Comforters” and a final chapter that is a guide to all things comforting.
Val Walker provides training in the art of comforting at hospitals, schools, community centers, and businesses. She holds a Master of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University, with specialized study in grief, loss, and disability. She has facilitated bereavement support groups at the Massey Cancer Center, Medical College of Virginia, and later developed support groups, guided grieving families, and trained bereavement volunteers as a bereavement coordinator at a hospice in Maine. She lives in Maine.
Diana Winston & Susan Smalley Fully Present: The Practical Art and Science of Mindfulness
Mind/Body/Spirit ✴ July 2010 ✴ Da Capo
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In a society full of speed, technology, and information overload, too many of us are experiencing an increased sense of doubt in our own abilities to make decisions and effect change. We are flooded with feelings of fear, frustration, stress, and confusion. In the midst of this escalating techno-savvy culture, the ancient practice of mindfulness has become a growing topic of scientific investigation as an antidote to the ills of the modern world. Science shows that mindfulness can: Boost the body’s immunity to fight disease, improve coping with painful life events, help master negative emotion, enhance positive emotions which include happiness and compassion, help reduce stress, reduce physical pain in chronic illness, improve self-understanding, improve concentration, increase interpersonal skills, reduce addictive behavior, enhance performance in work, sports, and academics, and stimulate and release creativity. FULLY PRESENT tells the “how” and the “why” of mindfulness.
Diana Winston has been teaching meditation to young people in the U.S. and India since 1993 and has brought mindful awareness into schools, hospitals, and nonprofits, as well as to seniors, leaders, activists, and healthcare professionals. She founded the Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement and served as the associate director for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Berkeley, California. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and Tricycle among other publications, and spent one year in a Burmese monastery serving as a Buddhist nun. Presently, Diana is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and serves as Director of Mindfulness in Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Susan Smalley is the Founder and Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Smalley has published extensively in professional journals, invited editorials, and books on the genetics of psychiatric disorders, in particular ADHD. Trained as a biological anthropologist, she completed post-doctoral training in Childhood Psychotherapy and Medical Genetics as UCLA, and is a founding Ph.D. Medical Geneticist of the AMA Medical Center of Genetics. With National Institute of Mental Health grant support over the last two decades, Dr. Smalley’s lab has been a leader in gene discoveries in autism and ADHD. An international speaker on these subjects, she is now emerging as a leader in the intersection of genetics, mindful awareness, health, and well-being.
Also by Diana Winston Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens Spirituality/Young Adult ✴ August 2003 ✴ Perigee
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Most teens these days are under a great deal of stress, whether it comes from family and friends, drugs, or other areas of concern. Through Buddhism’s four noble paths and eight worldly conditions, Diana Winston teaches these teens to wake up to their lives and their world, accept themselves for who they are, and develop awareness of what behaviors they want to claim and strengthen and who they can choose to become.
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Rinku Bhattacharya The Bengali Five Spice Chronicles Enjoying the Cuisine of Eastern India Cooking ✴ November 2012 ✴ Hippocrene Books
Winner of 2013 Gourmand World Cookbook Award “Best In the USA in the Indian Cuisine Category”
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Bengalis have been compared to the French in terms of food- obsessed peoples, as dining and entertaining are such an integral part of the culture. The book begins with a thorough introduction to Bengali culture and cooking, including sections on spices, ingredients, and equipment. Following are recipe chapters (incorporating a balance of traditional and contemporary recipes) on Rice & Breads, Lentils, Fried Vegetables and Fritters, Vegetarian First Courses, Vegetarian Entrees, Eggs, Fish, Chicken & Poultry, Meat Dishes, Chutneys & Relishes, Drinks & Snacks, and Desserts. Includes 180 easy-to-follow recipes, plus sections on spice pastes, spice blends, and essential tools, along with sidebars with family anecdotes, historical, and cultural information.
Rinku Bhattacharya is an accomplished cooking teacher and the author of the blog, Cooking in Westchester: Where Spices Meet the Seasons. She writes the weekly online Journal News column, “Spices and Seasons.” Her expertise and passion rests in meshing the rich, healthy, and vibrant flavors of her Indian childhood with the local bounty. A busy mother with two young children, mealtimes in her household are a simple and sustainable family affair. Rinku lives with her family in Westchester County, NY where she runs a home-based cooking school. She also leads classes at the Hilltop Hannover Farm and other public locations. She can be found in various local markets chatting with the farmers or doing cooking demonstrations with her family in tow. Her latest book is Spices and Seasons: Simple, Sustainable Indian Flavors.
Marlisa Brown Gluten Free, Hassle Free: 2nd Edition A Simple, Sane, Dietitian-Approved Program for Eating Your Way Back to Health
Diet/Health ✴ December 2013 ✴ Demos Health
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Now with Gluten-Free, Hassle Free you can learn: • An upbeat empowering approach to gluten- free living • A wealth of simple, practical solutions, strategies, and shortcuts • Information on being diagnosed with celiac disease • Gluten-free safe food lists • Gluten-free cooking and baking tips • Gluten-free dining out information • Over 100 recipes with nutritional information • Gluten-free travel trips • A full month of day-to-day gluten-free meals Rights Available: Translation
Marlisa Brown is president and owner of Total Wellness, a consulting firm that creates recipes and nutrition programs for celebrity brands, including products from Richard Simmons, Kathy Smith, Leslie Sansone, and Jorge Cruise. A widely known expert on nutrition, gluten intolerance, and nutrition-related illness, Marlisa has appeared over 60 times on television and radio. She has written for Shape Magazine, Women’s World, Fitness Magazine, and many other publications. She is also the resident nutrition expert for Newsday’s Wellness Magazine, for which she writes a regular column. She is a registered dietitian, a chef, and a media representative for the New York State Dietetic Association. She has won awards for her work from the American Dietetic Association.
Also By Marlisa Brown Gluten Free, Hassle Free Cookbook Delicious, Foolproof Recipes for Every Day and Every Occasion
Diet/Health ✴ March 2015 ✴ Demos Health
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All of the gluten-free and allergy-friendly recipes you'll ever need
Whether you are cooking for yourself, your family, or a crowd, preparing quick and tasty gluten-free meals doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. Registered dietitian Marlisa Brown shows you how to stock your kitchen with the essentials and shares the go-to recipes you'll want to make again and again, including easy breads, pies, and cakes. Each recipe includes nutrition, allergy, and FODMAPs information as well as substitutions for other dietary restrictions.
With no fuss but lots of flavor, The Gluten-Free, Hassle-Free Cookbook delivers recipes for every craving, including favorites you may have thought were impossible to create gluten free.
• Quick and Easy Dinners: Oven baked "fried" chicken, black bean burgers with creamy cilantro pesto, broccoli and cheese casserole • Easy Appetizers and Sides: Crab cakes, cheese puffs, zucchini sticks, batter-fried onion rings • Comfort Food Classics: Buckwheat pancakes with cinnamon apples, macaroni and cheese, pizza, deep dish chicken pot pie • Breads and Biscuits: Skillet corn cakes, Irish soda bread, pull-apart rolls • Luscious Desserts: Chocolate peanut butter tart, black and white cookies, cherry vanilla chip shortbread • And much more.
Stanley Ginsberg & Norman Berg Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking Cooking/History ✴ October 2011 ✴ Camino Books
Winner of the IACP 2012 Jane Grigson Award for "distinguished scholarship in the quality of its research and presentation."
“A fascinating historical and cultural narrative of Ashkenazi Jewish life in Europe and America--scholarly, deeply personal, and highly readable.” - Library Journal
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More than a collection of recipes, Inside the Jewish Bakery chronicles the history and traditions—as well as the distinctive baked goods—of Ashkenazic Jewry in Eastern Europe and America. Drawing on sources as diverse as the Talmud, Sholom Aleichem and the yizkor books that memorialize communities destroyed in the Holocaust, the authors have crafted an engaging “edible history” that endows their recipes with a powerful sense of time and place. Featuring 344 pages, and 48 color photos.
Stanley Ginsberg, a native of Brooklyn, grew up in a close-knit neighborhood where generations lived side by side. He learned to cook and bake from his grandmother, who lived just upstairs in the same apartment building, and has continued cooking and baking ever since. He currently lives in Southern California.
Norman Berg, a Bronx native, has spent 25 years as a professional baker and general manager at several bakeries that became Bronx institutions, including Weber’s, Enrico’s, Yonkers Pastry and Greystone Bakery.
NONFICTION Memoirs & Biographies
Scott and Joan Bolzan (with Caitlin Rother) My Life Deleted Memoir ✴ October 2011 ✴ HarperOne
The week before Christmas, 2008, Scott Bolzan slipped on a spill in the men’s room of his office building; he fell hard, cracking his skull, resulting in the loss of 46 years of memory – his entire life. He doesn’t remember playing for the NFL. He doesn’t remember getting his pilot’s license, or the business he created leasing planes to fly organs for transplant or to transport celebrities. He doesn’t remember his wife of 26 years – his college sweetheart, his two living children, or the first daughter who was stillborn. But after rounds of testing and months of patience, he does know this: his memory loss is permanent.
In MY LIFE DELETED, Scott Bolzan, a victim of one of the most severe cases of profound retrograde autobiographical and historical amnesia on record, tells his story – of waking up not knowing who he is, and then coming to wonder whether who he was is who he really wants to go on being. The accident has caused changes to Scott’s personality. He’s less Alpha, more introspective, more eager to share, inspire and make a difference in the lives of others. And in the midst of this crisis, all the loss, and all the change, Scott falls in love with his wife all over again and asks her to re-marry him.
Scott Bolzan is a former professional football player, pilot, and successful businessman. Drafted by the NFL's New England Patriots he played several seasons at offensive guard for the Cleveland Browns and with the USFL, Memphis Showboats. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Legendary Jets in Tempe, AZ., and has been married to his college sweetheart for 25 years and has two children and resides in Gilbert, AZ.
New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 10 books. Rother was a Pulitzer- nominated staff writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, and also has been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post. Her more than 100 TV/radio appearances include "Nancy Grace” "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, "Women Who Kill" on E!, "Snapped," and numerous shows on Investigation Discovery, C-SPAN, XM Radio and various PBS affiliates. Visit her website at caitlinrother.com.
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Chris Cooper My Best Race
Nonfiction/Sports Anthology ✴ September 2013 ✴ Diversion Books
“Such wonderful and inspiring stories by a diverse group of runners - bravo!” - Ryan Lamppa, Media Director of Running USA.
Fifty runners, from the world’s elite to passionate amateurs, share the races they’ll never forget.
Every runner that enters a race has a unique reason for competing: racing for the challenge, for the achievement, for the health benefits, or for more personal reasons. But whether they are twenty-mile-a-day elite marathoners or twenty-mile- a-week recreational runners, each of them can invariably point to a singular performance as “the best race I ever ran.”
MY BEST RACE is a collection of those singular performances. In this inspirational collection, fifty runners, from Olympians and World Champions, to courageous disabled athletes and middle-of-the-packers, share their personal accounts of what they consider the best race they ever ran...and why.
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Chris Cooper is the author of Long May You Run (Touchstone, October 2010). Running has been his passion for over twenty years. He competes as a serious amateur in all race distances, having won two citywide road races and a duathlon in his racing career, along with numerous age-group awards. He is also a Boston Marathon finisher for which he qualified with a sub three-hour marathon.
Forrest Pritchard Gaining Ground A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm
Memoir ✴ May 2013 ✴ Lyons Press
A New York Times Bestseller!
"Pritchard is a born storyteller with a shrewd ability to make lively everything from his father's battle with a rogue pig to simple chores like selling firewood or bailing hay. His learned- the-hard-way experiences are thoroughly entertaining and non- farmers will absorb enough about raising livestock and tending land to broaden their expertise at the farmers' market and grocery store. By the end of his wonderful book, Pritchard lies in a field pondering his own slim margin of success from slowing things down in our fast paced world; a well-deserved moment of happiness for this important new spokesperson of the future of agriculture and poet of the earth." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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From 1996, when five enormous loads of grain reaped the slim profit of $18.16, to now, fifteen years later, selling crops at leading farmer’s markets in DC and hosting an annual tour attended by thousands, Forrest Pritchard’s journey to the top of the sustainable farming community has been extremely fulfilling. The seventh-generation farm has taken on ambitious – and often hilarious – endeavors in an effort to save the farm in the Shenandoah Valley. While selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, Pritchard runs into a colorful cast of local characters that brings the story to warm, communal life.
Soon after his father’s death, Pritchard is faced with the decision of whether to continue serving his community’s needs, or to succumb to the exploding external demand for his wares. The reader experiences this dilemma with Pritchard through his vibrant narrative.
Forrest Pritchard is a professional farmer and New York Times bestselling author, holding degrees in English and Geology from William and Mary. His farm, Smith Meadows, was one of the first "grass finished" farms in the country, and has sold at leading farmers' markets in Washington DC for fifteen years. Pritchard is also an accomplished public speaker, and a frequent contributor to food and farming blogs. His latest book is Growing Tomorrow: Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat.
Harry Kelsey Philip of Spain, King of England
History/Biography ✴ January 2012 ✴ IB Taurus
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The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery, and treachery. However, the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor. This important new book sheds new light on Philip II of Spain, England’s forgotten sovereign. Previous accounts of Mary’s brief reign have focused on the martyrdom of Protestant dissenters, the loss of English territory, as well as Mary’s infamous personality, meaning that her husband Philip has remained in the shadows.
In this book, Harry Kelsey uncovers Philip’s life - from his childhood and education in Spain, to his marriage to Mary and the political maneuverings involved in the marriage contract, to the tumultuous aftermath of Mary’s death, which ultimately led to hostile relations between Queen Elizabeth and Philip, culminating in the Armada. Focusing especially on the period of Philip’s marriage to Mary, Kelsey shows that Philip was, in fact, an active King of England who took a keen interest in the rule of his wife’s kingdom. Casting fresh light on both Mary and Philip, as well as European history more generally, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Tudor era.
Harry Kelsey is the author of SIR FRANCIS DRAKE: THE QUEEN’S PIRATE and SIR JOHN HAWKINS: QUEEN ELIZABETH’S SLAVE TRADER.
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John Dvorak Earthquake Storms The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault
Science ✴ March 2015 ✴ Pegasus Books
“Dvorak has done earthquake science a sterling service by writing what is unarguably the best, the most comprehensive, and compellingly readable book about the great fault that will one day affect all our lives.” --Simon Winchester, NYT bestselling author of Krakatoa
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It is a prominent geological feature that is almost impossible to see unless you know where to look. Hundreds of thousands of people drive across it every day. The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth’s crust is inevitable. In fact, it is a geologic necessity.
The San Andreas Fault runs almost the entire length of California, from the redwood forest to the east edge of the Salton Sea. Along the way, it passes through two of the largest urban areas of the country―San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dozens of major highways and interstates cross it. Scores of housing developments have been planted over it. The words “San Andreas” are so familiar today that they have become synonymous with earthquake.
Yet, few people understand the San Andreas or the network of subsidiary faults it has spawned. Some run through Hollywood, others through Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. The Hayward fault slices the football stadium at the University of California in half. Even among scientists, few appreciate that the San Andreas Fault is a transient, evolving system that, as seen today, is younger than the Grand Canyon and key to our understanding of earthquakes worldwide.
Dr. John Dvorak, PhD, worked on volcanoes and earthquakes for the U.S. Geological Survey. In addition to dozens of scientific papers published in professional journals, Dvorak has written cover stories for Scientific American, Physics Today and Astronomy magazines, as well as a series of essays about earthquakes and volcanoes for American Scientist. From 1991 to 1997 he was an associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dvorak has taught geology and astronomy at the University of Hawaii and lectured at several universities and institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He has appeared on local radio programs and given public lectures about earthquakes and volcanoes and the history of science.
Sidney Perkowitz Slow Light: Invisibility, Teleportation and Other Mysteries of Light Science ✴ August 2011 ✴ Imperial College Press
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Scientists have recently found that they can slow light to walking speed and even bring it to a dead stop; they can quicken light beyond its speed in vacuum; and they can make light run backwards so it leaves a medium before entering it.
Remarkably, exotically slow, fast, or backward light has real applications. Just as remarkably, slow light was foreseen in a 40-year old science fiction story. Other new marvels of light are equally science- fictionish. One is what Einstein called the “spooky” behavior of photons. Through some eerie process, these quantum packets of light appear mutually aware or “entangled” even many miles apart. Physicists don’t know why photons behave as if they were objects being teleported through space to the starship Enterprise (“beam me up, Scotty”) but teleportation is now a serious research subject. Scientists manipulate light in other fantastic ways too, for instance, rendering people and things invisible à la Harry Potter’s Cloak of Invisibility.
These and other seemingly incredible advances come from properties of light that are not well understood despite centuries of study. But scientists are invariably stimulated by what they don’t fully grasp. And so, what began as science fiction flashes on the scene to create astonishing new science – science explored at a popular level by Slow Light.
Sidney Perkowitz was born in Brooklyn, NY, and was educated at Polytechnic University, New York, and the University of Pennsylvania. As Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University, his research has produced over 100 scientific papers and books. He has been funded by most major governmental agencies and has consulted for industry and government. In 1990, his interests turned to presenting science to non-scientists via books and articles, the media, lectures, and museum exhibits. He also maintains a highly visible internet presence as a regular blogger for the National Academy of Sciences Science and Entertainment Exchange http://blog.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/.
John Shivik Predator Paradox Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes Science ✴ May 2014 ✴ Beacon Press
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“Both ranchers and predator advocates will have something to learn from Shivik’s survey.” —Publishers Weekly
“Shivik’s style makes the science accessible and relevant for general readers. The narrative is carried by the author’s insights, admonitions and the engaging profiles of those working to resolve the predator paradox.” —Kirkus Reviews
Many of those who live near wild places are understandably intolerant of the damage that predators cause, and we apply the arts of war against our wolves, bears, coyotes, and mountain lions. Thus, the greatest threat to mammalian predators is our response to the damage that they do, and conflicts are increasing exponentially. Simultaneously, we are discovering the essential value of apex predators in ecosystems and are trying to recover their populations. The predator paradox is that we want predators and healthy ecosystems but also demand an abundant and inexpensive food supply as well as safety for ourselves and our pets. Predator Paradox presents non- lethal management techniques and concepts that will help ensure survival of North American carnivores in perpetuity and are also applicable to other densely populated areas around the world.
John Shivik, Ph.D. is a recognized leader in non-lethal techniques for predator management. He has developed and tested many innovative approaches and inventions for non-lethal management of our carnivore species. Shivik’s field research has been geographically diverse, and he has worked on wildlife studies in Utah, California, Wyoming, Texas, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Virginia, Arizona, New Mexico and even crossed the Atlantic to study foxes in several regions of Spain. He has authored dozens of scientific papers during his 20 year career in such academic outlets as The Journal of Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology, Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, Oikos, BioScience, and The Wildlife Society Bulletin and popular articles in outlets such as ActionBioscience, International Wolf (which was translated to German for that market), and a narrative non-fiction piece in the collection The Back Road to Crazy. His work has been covered often by the press (e.g., the AP, radio and television, and magazines such as Discover and Wildlife Conservation). He is frequently invited to give public and professional seminars and workshops across the U.S. and internationally.