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Sales catalogs now available at www.harpercollinscatalogs.com 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS FICTION………………………………………………4 AVON………..……………………………….….…..21 BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR………………………….......28 ENTERTAINMENT / POP CULTURE……….…………37 NON-FICTION…………………......……………..….46 BUSINESS.……….……………………………….…70 PSYCHOLOGY / SELF-HELP………..……………....76 RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY………………...……......87 ILLUSTRATED……………….…………….………...95 COOKBOOKS……………………………….……….100 *Indicates a new addition to the list since BEA 2010 3 FICTION Arsenault, Emily *IN SEARCH OF THE ROSE NOTES “This debut novel has a delightful premise, crisply drawn characters, and a subtle sense of humor. …The very definition of a promising debut.”— Booklist on BROKEN TEAGLASS “Arsenault's quirky, arresting debut ... [is] an absorbing, offbeat mystery–meets–coming-of-age novel that's as sweet as it is suspenseful.”— Publishers Weekly on BROKEN TEAGLASS A complex and well-crafted mystery from the author of the critically acclaimed BROKEN TEAGLASS. Molly and Charlotte spent an idyllic summer together as children, but when Rose, their teenage babysitter, disappears under mysterious circumstances their sheltered existence ends. They try to find out what happened to Rose, but are stopped by secrets the adults around them don’t want them to know. As adults they meet again when Rose’s body is found and new developments come to light. As the case unfolds, both women find they’re not quite ready for the secrets that surface and for the enormity of the changes the truth will have on their current lives. Avon A UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Laura Langlie Literary Agency Publication: May 2011 (CB) Estimated length: 304 pages Manuscript available: November 2010 Bache, Ellyn *THE ART OF SAYING GOODBYE In the tradition of Elizabeth Berg’s TALK BEFORE SLEEP, Kristin Hannah’s FIREFLY LANE, and Marisa de los Santos’s BELONG TO ME, comes a beautiful and touching story by critically acclaimed author Ellyn Bache. In a close-knit community, four women come together to support a long-time neighbor who has become ill. During a tense three months, comforting their friend also makes each of them face the big issues of their own lives – a marriage put on hold because of a critically ill child, a nurse’s eerie and unwanted gift of diagnosis, a widow’s destructive bitterness, and the price of a successful career. Slowly, each come away with a new sense of priorities as they learn that, in the afterglow of someone else’s life, their own is brighter and more precious than they’d thought. Ellyn Bache is the author of SAFE PASSAGE and a collection of stories, THE VALUE OF KINDNESS, which won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. Avon A UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: The Bent Agency Publication: June 2011 (CB) Estimated length: 304 pages Manuscript available: November 2010 Ballantine, Pip and Morris, Tee *PHOENIX RISING A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel The first in a new Edwardian steampunk adventure series, PHOENIX RISING features two secret agents from the “Ministry of Peculiar Occurences,” who investigate a startling conspiracy. In the vein of Gail Carriger’s bestselling SOULLESS and CHANGELESS, this is lush and intricate—a bit proper, and a bit naughty—with lots of adventure and a period setting. As an archivist, Wellington Books is most content when left alone. When Miss Eliza D. Braun, a field agent for the Ministry with a fondness for dynamite and daring-do, ends up assigned to work with him, his tranquility is forever broken. Boredom leads Agent Braun to open a long dead case, which drove Agent Braun’s previous partner mad, and Wellington soon finds himself in the middle of more adventures and dangers than he would have ever dreamed of. Secret societies, carriage chases and explosions are so very hard to catalogue properly. Philippa Ballantine’s novels have been shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel and the Parsec Awards. Eos Category: Steampunk Fantasy (CB) Publication: May 2011 Estimated length: 320 pages Manuscript available 4 Barron, Sandra Rodriguez STAY WITH ME “Rodriguez Barron’s exuberant prose yields an immensely entertaining reading experience.” – Isabel Allende on THE HEIRESS OF WATER In this gripping and deftly written novel, Sandra Rodriguez Barron explores the mystery surrounding seven adults who, as toddlers, were discovered stranded alone, drifting in the ocean after a hurricane. Despite extensive media coverage and international cooperation, the children’s origin was never found. Reunited 30 years later, they attempt to uncover the circumstances behind their abandonment, and deal with the physical and psychological consequences of their ordeal. Sandra Rodriguez Barron’s previous novel, THE HEIRESS OF WATER, won the Mariposa Award for debut fiction. Harper Paperbacks Spanish and UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Castiglia Literary Agency ([email protected]) Publication: December 2010 (CB) Estimated length: 352 pages Manuscript available Blau, Jessica Anya DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME When Louise suffers a massive heart attack, her three adult children rush home to be with their parents, but they do not come alone. Anna brings thoughts of infidelity and her lifelong struggles with addiction. Portia brings a deep well of grief over her failed marriage. And Emery brings his boyfriend Alejandro and a request that one of his sisters donate eggs so that he and Alejandro can have a baby. As the three siblings float between the hospital and their parents' house, they revisit the past, imagine their futures, and come to terms with the present. Jessica Anya Blau is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, where she received her masters in fiction and where she currently lectures and teaches Creative Writing. Her previous novel is THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES. Harper Perennial UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Brandt & Hochman Publication: January 2011 (LR) Estimated length: 400 pages ARE available Cabot, Meg *UNTITLED GOTHAM GIRL #2 “Cabot winningly applies her trademark likably fallible protagonists and breezy storytelling to a vampire war in New York City.” – Publishers Weekly on INSATIABLE New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot delivers the second book in her brilliantly funny vampire series featuring Meena Harper. In this new installment, Meena is hired to work for the Manhattan office of a powerful secret military unit of the Vatican mandated to guard human beings from demon possession. With her ability to predict how and sometimes when the living are going to die, the Palatine Guard finally have an advantage over their undead enemy. But none of the guards like Meena, and danger mounts when a mysterious pastor from Brazil arrives to restore a cathedral. William Morrow INSATIABLE sold in Brazil/Record; Czech/Euromedia; France/Hachette; Germany/Blanvalet; Poland/Amber; Portugal/Bertrand; Russia/Ast; Slovakia/Ikar; UK/HarperCollins UK Publication: June 2011 (CB) Estimated length: 320 pages Manuscript available: November 2010 Cooper, Dennis and Mayerson, Keith HORROR HOSPITAL UNPLUGGED A stunning and surreal graphic collaboration between novelist and poet Dennis Cooper and artist Keith Mayerson. Dennis Cooper, best known for his transgressive novels of gay teen angst and brutal sexual longing, has adapted one of his early short stories into this large-sized, punked-out graphic novel. Tracing the early career of Trevor Machine, rock star on the rise, Cooper manages to parody the L.A. teen scene as well as all of popular culture. 5 The superb, surrealist drawings by Keith Mayerson bring Cooper’s descriptions and dialogue to new heights of demented parody and social commentary. HORROR HOSPITAL UNPLUGGED is artistic cross-pollination of the highest order: smart, shocking, and always just over the line. Harper Perennial UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Sterling Lord Literistic ([email protected]) Publication: July 2011 (CB) Estimated length: 256 pages; 8 ½ x 11; b&w throughout Sample pages available Davis, Joann THE BOOK OF ELIZABETH "Joann Davis has 'done it again.' In THE BOOK OF ELIZABETH she delivers another parable of immense