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Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-65361316388300018592011-07-15T07:55:00.000-07:002011-07-15T08:10:12.982-07:00July & August 2011 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqdQ5bdedYOJagXli3CG4Ik64bQv2X4yZqi0ouWRWB1oZgQcE0fAjAGChcSybL9kggNKFJOxLZkeBPuW5utGeg57Li_U4dIKHM__2NlV2fq8ZDBROTrbXxl4vQ-BvxFN0R6HrZ0GfF6Xua/s1600/Secrets+of+the+Wolves+cover%252C+cropped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqdQ5bdedYOJagXli3CG4Ik64bQv2X4yZqi0ouWRWB1oZgQcE0fAjAGChcSybL9kggNKFJOxLZkeBPuW5utGeg57Li_U4dIKHM__2NlV2fq8ZDBROTrbXxl4vQ-BvxFN0R6HrZ0GfF6Xua/s320/Secrets+of+the+Wolves+cover%252C+cropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629596240025616818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;" >SECRETS OF THE WOLVES by Dorothy Hearst</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">The rules of the Wide Valley wolves were clear: Never consort with humans; never kill a human unprovoked; never allow a mixed-blood wolf to liv</span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">e. But they were rules destined to be broken. Now, in the second riveting installment of The Wolf Chronicles the stakes are higher than ever. Young Kaala of the Swift River pack shattered the rules of the valley and exposed the lies hidden beneath them. Now, responsibility for the consequences rests with her. Along with her young packmates and the humans they have befriended, she must find a way for the wolves and humans of the Wide Valley to live in harmony. If they succeed, Kaala will finally prove herself worthy of her pack. But if s</span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">he fails, the Greatwolves who rule wolf-kind</span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;"> will kill every wolf and human in the valley. </span> </p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">Told from the wolf's point-of-view and set 14,000 years ago in a time when the cultures of wolves and humans were not so different, SECRETS OF THE WOLVES transports us to a world where instincts are our only compass and cooperation between potential enemies could mean the difference between life and death.</span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-size:130%;">“</span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">A <b><span style="background: #ffff00">vivid, enchanting</span></b> tale of friendship, trust, and adventur</span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">e, <b><span style="background: #ffff00">good Tolkien-esque ingredients</span></b>.” --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, on PROMISE OF THE WOLVES</span></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:100%;">Simon & Schuster, August 2011</span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBS5fi7_OYt23HCk-_bDboDt7S5IXbMQrLt2E8ObfekqHF1HTSnmFZushaUphP95VIA1semSWRnqec8UWbOoV5qdmHfd014RLwKaqK_JVTI-RxpwbW-1xvXyvsvQt81uF-BgA9ANsvv0gq/s1600/Hooked+cover+final.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBS5fi7_OYt23HCk-_bDboDt7S5IXbMQrLt2E8ObfekqHF1HTSnmFZushaUphP95VIA1semSWRnqec8UWbOoV5qdmHfd014RLwKaqK_JVTI-RxpwbW-1xvXyvsvQt81uF-BgA9ANsvv0gq/s320/Hooked+cover+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629596100505135506" border="0" /></a> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">HOOKED by Catherine Greeman</span></p><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Why would 17-year-old Thea Galehouse—sophisticated and smart, yet cynical—opt to bring a baby into the world? To hold onto the beautiful Will Weston? To escape the pressure of her high school and type-A parents? To never be alone? Whatever the</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal"> reason, Thea catapults herself into parenthood, taking Will and all four dysfunctional grandparents-to-be along for the ride. </span></span> </p><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" > </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="background: transparent">Although conflicted and scared when Ian is born, Thea catches glimpses of a family happiness she's rarely experienced. But after an accident, Will loses faith. Thea’s dad steps in and begs broken-hearted Thea to move in with him. She acquiesces, but father-daughter peace is rocky. In HOOKED, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Thea explores the murky waters </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of a post-divorce family, the exhilaration of first love, the minefield of parenting, and the redemption hiding in second chances. HOOKED is at once completely relatable and un-put-down-able.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } TT { font-family: "Cumberland", monospace } --> </style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><tt>“</tt><span style="font-family:Times, serif;"><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal"><b><span style="background: #ffff00">It's impossible not to get hooked in</span></b></span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal"> to this tender and moving story—</span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal"><b><span style="background: #ffff00">it totally won my heart</span></b></span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="background: transparent">.</span></span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal">” --Rachel Cohn, co-author of NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST</span></span></tt></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:100%;">Delacorte, August 2011</span></p><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKUDNlZGIH3rHGpnjjm1jtk_DeJlhdDBzYIWxT5SdQJd7owZvwikzXmfYhs5tjwVlhT0CPwaVGETZ8fyLqMBTHbTj09xvRQUYJ2QbpxTx9jbsbl1Zc6XB_q2owIwXYMjJbZeKzZokKlPb/s1600/Every+Day+on+Earth+cover%252C+cropped.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKUDNlZGIH3rHGpnjjm1jtk_DeJlhdDBzYIWxT5SdQJd7owZvwikzXmfYhs5tjwVlhT0CPwaVGETZ8fyLqMBTHbTj09xvRQUYJ2QbpxTx9jbsbl1Zc6XB_q2owIwXYMjJbZeKzZokKlPb/s320/Every+Day+on+Earth+cover%252C+cropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629595852900243202" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;" >EVERY DAY ON EARTH by Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:130%;">Discover all of the amazing things that can happen around the world in just one day! Your taste bud cells are replaced at a rate of 50,000 a day. Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day just to make paper bags. And a mayfly lives its entire life in a single day. This book is full of fun facts about space, technology, pop culture, food, animals, sports, the human body, and more! What can you do in a day?</span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif;font-size:100%;">Scholastic, August 2011</span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-58119649627507850472011-05-23T14:13:00.000-07:002011-05-23T14:29:46.262-07:00May & June 2011 Releases<span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQJ8pMzEu-ZKdSoI4zUJPJLhe-L5JYnIXem2Mp88bwfCx7mFr-_Ccv0naqRfnv3BlyaaoIC5sblxcNpT7mqKZeajQTBTnjCp6I9Ubq8PgsmCR8Zl4cpfPgpHNY2Ki9mpyi4uNJHdk_eqq/s1600/The+Practical+Napper+cover%252C+final.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQJ8pMzEu-ZKdSoI4zUJPJLhe-L5JYnIXem2Mp88bwfCx7mFr-_Ccv0naqRfnv3BlyaaoIC5sblxcNpT7mqKZeajQTBTnjCp6I9Ubq8PgsmCR8Zl4cpfPgpHNY2Ki9mpyi4uNJHdk_eqq/s320/The+Practical+Napper+cover%252C+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610024837428462098" border="0" /></a></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >THE PRACTICAL NAPPER by Jennifer Eyre White</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >THE PRACTICAL NAPPER is a small, humorous gift book written for people who believe the phrase “good nap” is redundant. Sleep-deprived parents, slacker students, and typically torpid retirees will find a wealth of information to support and encourage their napping habit, such as, “Naps are like Prozac, but without all the sexual side effects.” </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">The book also features insightful napping quotes from celebrity practitioners like Jack Handey, Dave Barry, Yogi Berra, and David Sed</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">aris. And it asks probing intellectual questions, like why is catnapping a restful pastime, while dog-napping is a criminal act? For everyone who loves a good nap (and who doesn't?), THE PRACTICAL NAPPER is the perfect gift.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">“<span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">My motto has always been 'More napping, less slapping.' </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">This funny and informative book takes us ever closer to that dream.</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">” --Jack Han</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">dey, author of DEEP THOUGHTS</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Andrews McMeel, June 2011</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPFdnBVJAgw9DucmdAA-d_8JAGSggEOKQ9RsU-lOuAYgX91ziUJ5gOxomuqD2zkLEBu6_oHL5PPj-hrm8zV1NJk1ib8nkzPrts5ULw0VoKeRi425flqMBe6Ar4ub3tVdkmrm8QrdTdRvs/s1600/Before+Versailles+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPFdnBVJAgw9DucmdAA-d_8JAGSggEOKQ9RsU-lOuAYgX91ziUJ5gOxomuqD2zkLEBu6_oHL5PPj-hrm8zV1NJk1ib8nkzPrts5ULw0VoKeRi425flqMBe6Ar4ub3tVdkmrm8QrdTdRvs/s320/Before+Versailles+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610024615996754642" border="0" /></a></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >BEFORE VERSAILLES by Karleen Koen</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >Karleen Koen takes us to a place and time where Louis XIV was just beginning to establish the strength and wealth of his kingdom—despite the many forces pushing against him. After the death of his prime minister, 22-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can get—including his brother's wife. While the love affair between Louis and Princess Henriette burns, his brother's jealousy coupled with his mother's rage sets the kingdom on the road toward unmistakable scandal. <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But there are other problems lurking outside the chateau of Fontainebleau: a boy in an iron mask has been seen in the woods, and the king's finance minister, has proven to be more powerful than Louis ever thought.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“</span><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Rich with detail and action</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">...</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Marvelous great fun</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.”</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i> --Library Journa</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">l,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><b>starred review</b></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:100%;" >Crown, June 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaq1Dve7ST1SzCAmAEkTaeSj1bwhduVtgAUk0iSl5nHltIak1fhvIWdrIyEHY4HmKpxJ6o5-KKzasu7_2HHcnxzqk193AqJAYivOOdiGGTkCTsU78IOVwqKi69DUE11LVm8XsWtbWnfOB/s1600/Little+Black+Book+cover%252C+final.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHaq1Dve7ST1SzCAmAEkTaeSj1bwhduVtgAUk0iSl5nHltIak1fhvIWdrIyEHY4HmKpxJ6o5-KKzasu7_2HHcnxzqk193AqJAYivOOdiGGTkCTsU78IOVwqKi69DUE11LVm8XsWtbWnfOB/s320/Little+Black+Book+cover%252C+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610024141913494338" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF BIG RED FLAGS by Natasha Burton, Julie Fishman, Meagan McCrary</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal;">Creators of the popular blog </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">, Natasha Burton, Julie Fishman, and Meagan McCrary have teamed up to create a book version of their hit—THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF BIG RED FLAGS. </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The authors rifled through blog submissions from women across the U.S. (and even around the world) for the can’t-believe-it-really-happened, most outrageous red flag stories ever received. The end result was a hip and humorous guide that helps women navigate the treacherous waters of dating and spot the warning signs so they can jump ship before the boat goes down in a fiery wreck. The blog has been featured on </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">MSN, MSN Lifestyl</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">e, Glo, YourTango, Asylum</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, and</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> FHM Online</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, among others, and the blog’s founders are regular dating advice contributors to </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Glo, YourTango, </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Asylum. </span></i></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"> <span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >Examples of big red flags: </span> </p> <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%;"> <span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >He asks you out because he's trying to “hit” all ethnicities.</span></p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;">He screams, “You don't want to mess with me in this game or in </span><i>life</i><span style="font-style: normal;">!” while playing Trivial Pursuit with your grandma.</span></span></p> </li></ul> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:100%;" >Adams Media, June 2011</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHriOyoLKK2A6bNxnoYMM_ZysQpi7NjMVsvzKXY7GpQnaNLDQHQDOQO3gGymU8lEiwk5sHml0dQWolxMzE7-M8n7gebsTaRqluF2bAGbou4iqtR6FoMPMtiGgobu_uTRHDYeO_aMJ53et/s1600/Among+the+Missing+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHriOyoLKK2A6bNxnoYMM_ZysQpi7NjMVsvzKXY7GpQnaNLDQHQDOQO3gGymU8lEiwk5sHml0dQWolxMzE7-M8n7gebsTaRqluF2bAGbou4iqtR6FoMPMtiGgobu_uTRHDYeO_aMJ53et/s320/Among+the+Missing+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610023783342112546" border="0" /></a></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >AMONG THE MISSING by Morag Joss</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >P.D. James calls Morag Joss “[An] exciting talent in British crime writing,” and in her newest novel, Joss explores the aftermath of a tragic bridge collapse in Scotland. Silva and Annabel live in a small, spartan cabin by the river, downstream from the bridge that fell. When it collapsed, it took Silva's husband and daughter, but still she waits for them, convinced that they must be alive. The bridge's fall gave Annabel the opportunity to fake her own death and start anew, but the secrets she keeps grow inside of her—as does her unborn child. They live anonymously, making tentative plans for the future. But secrets cannot stay buried forever, and the past soon finds them, and the river that gave them shelter will bring devastating consequences. </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >A <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">haunting</span></b> journey that should burnish the reputation of Joss as <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">one of Britain's most original crafters of psychological suspense</span></b>.” --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>starred review</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">, on THE NIGHT FOLLOWING</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:100%;" >Delacorte Press, June 2011</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLsAXHHQkBSTUnZ1-c2F7tKQEsHoeCEY76eY3MEVNiL5WHtjDy_05lPss7L8tgw2nn_r_R5VEaiA92nZ2FLh4x4xeL9wZGyFZg95cfiUpuV2gOgl8RyxMpBPU5FkePi4iJCkvLBL-o-90/s1600/Once+Every+Never+cover%252C+final.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwLsAXHHQkBSTUnZ1-c2F7tKQEsHoeCEY76eY3MEVNiL5WHtjDy_05lPss7L8tgw2nn_r_R5VEaiA92nZ2FLh4x4xeL9wZGyFZg95cfiUpuV2gOgl8RyxMpBPU5FkePi4iJCkvLBL-o-90/s320/Once+Every+Never+cover%252C+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610023264074796338" border="0" /></a></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >ONCE EVERY NEVER by Lesley Livingston</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Clare Reid always thought she was a little different. But a Druid Blood Curse? Not quite what she was expecting. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">What started off as Summer Vacation in Dullsville suddenly spirals into a deadly race to find an ancient bracelet, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, and right a dreadful wrong that happened centuries before Clare was even born. </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"><span style=";font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >With the help of her best friend and brainiac sidekick, Clare is about to discover there’s a lot more to “ancient history” than textbooks have led her to believe, having a “destiny” is a lot more fun than it sounds, and romance can get <i>really</i> complicated when two incredibly hot guys start inhabiting the same body—especially when one of them has been dead for over two thousand years. This is the kind of adventure that happens to a girl once every… never.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“<span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">A refreshing, spirited read</span></b></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> where </span></span><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">humor abounds alongside unparalleled world-building</span></b></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and–my favorite–hot guys. </span></span><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">I laughed and bit my fingernails.</span></b></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">” --Aprilynne Pike, #1 </span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">NYT</span></i></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> bestselling author of WINGS and SPELLS</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Penguin Canada, June 2011</span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-45840140965376219202011-04-08T09:49:00.000-07:002011-04-08T10:11:40.127-07:00April 2011 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80tAvuAaPqubZUoneq7RvwdCMgKMMmoCm6Km11Wp5w3etNdejd4w9XLjLJo6MrK7AnbtKo1h2iFIPAy0CoOoG0_cKttJwWkgu_SPYebtzP-q5WCY16w2Qg-svQ1tswJRbqminsAMz063A/s1600/Minding+Ben+cover%252C+final.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj80tAvuAaPqubZUoneq7RvwdCMgKMMmoCm6Km11Wp5w3etNdejd4w9XLjLJo6MrK7AnbtKo1h2iFIPAy0CoOoG0_cKttJwWkgu_SPYebtzP-q5WCY16w2Qg-svQ1tswJRbqminsAMz063A/s320/Minding+Ben+cover%252C+final.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593259645351140930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >MINDING BEN by Victoria Brown</span> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >When Grace leaves her small village in Trinidad t</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >o immigrate to New York, she is in search of a better life. However, not all goes quite as planned: Instead of limitless opportunity and an easy path to education, Grace finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family. The humiliating work tha</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >t t</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >he family subjects Grace to is nearly too much to bear. That, coupled with th</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >e complicated playground politics among the West Indian babysitting community and complicated relationships among her extended family and friends, makes the reality of Grace's young life seem like a waking nightmare. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Author Victoria Brown was herself a nanny when she a</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">rrived in New York City twenty years ago from her native Trinidad. </span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“<span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">[A] </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">spirited</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> voice...</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">A moving immigrant sto</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">ry</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...Brown was...not afraid to tackle the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">thorny issues of race, religion, and class</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">” --</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Library Journal</span></i></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Editor's Pick</b></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Hyperion, April 2011</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWvG0HEihck0zUdO16e_R92ykZQcgBYhzi7ZkZGnx0Dc4SVPAp1Cn3OmotbxfxZVFUw7cvwPr2nPm1ik7-UjnVXWhaBkdv8OzB7EoIvTzy2ABlpKAxHbBnc7wOIxMV4o_9gfwd19QCa6o/s1600/A+Sea+in+Flames+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPWvG0HEihck0zUdO16e_R92ykZQcgBYhzi7ZkZGnx0Dc4SVPAp1Cn3OmotbxfxZVFUw7cvwPr2nPm1ik7-UjnVXWhaBkdv8OzB7EoIvTzy2ABlpKAxHbBnc7wOIxMV4o_9gfwd19QCa6o/s320/A+Sea+in+Flames+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593259356774568658" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">A SEA IN FLAMES by Carl Safina</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >In a book that only the multiple award winning MacArthur Genius Grant Winner and head of the Blue Ocean Institute could write, Carl Safina's BLOWOUT provides us with the definitive book about the short- and long-term repercussions of this century's Chernobyl. In this account of the first months of the BP oil spill, Safina discusses the events that caused the explosion, the habitats affected by the spill, the wildlife directly harmed, and the ways in which the government contributed to the disaster. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Safina weaves unfolding news accounts with the events he exp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">erienced</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> firsthand, creating a simulacrum of the c</span>haos accompanying the spill. His narration is a medium through which to better understand the BP oil spill, why it occurred, and what will come after. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:130%;"> “</span><span style=";font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal;">Environmentalist Safina brings his </span><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">signature compassion, marine expertise, and gorgeous writing</span></b> to his <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">candidly expressive coverage</span></b> of the Deepwater Horizon disaster a <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">year after the explosion</span>.” --<i>Booklist</i></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Crown, April 2011 </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgoVHpE-48mLfwwEq6RSpSzG_Kz8ew1OAq9vmD5P758goz7LwR5i7PYrcJ9dgg2FC47_6VWMYOJpfm8FT6b-uIeUH8hkCRPhyphenhyphenvFHeN88R_qygV2jD7jL4l2U8bJInUIbJ-jXvt_ChqVUS/s1600/Coffins+of+Little+Hope+final+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgoVHpE-48mLfwwEq6RSpSzG_Kz8ew1OAq9vmD5P758goz7LwR5i7PYrcJ9dgg2FC47_6VWMYOJpfm8FT6b-uIeUH8hkCRPhyphenhyphenvFHeN88R_qygV2jD7jL4l2U8bJInUIbJ-jXvt_ChqVUS/s320/Coffins+of+Little+Hope+final+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593259099002912242" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">THE COFFINS OF LITTLE HOPE by Timothy Schaffert</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >With dark humor and characteristically vibrant prose, Timothy Schaffert brings to light the many obsessions and foibles of our society in THE COFFINS OF LITTLE HOPE. His tale proceeds via an 83-year-old obituary writer in a small Nebraskan town. The town, however, is far from ordinary, beset as it is by group hysteria over the latest book in a children's series and morbid fascination surrounding a missing girl. When Esther Myles finds herself caught up in the mystery of the missing girl, she must confront the possibility that the girl's disappear</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >ance may be nothing more than a poorly orchestrated hoax. Soon this small town will have to choose between profiting off others' weaknesses or tumbling into obscurity and extinction. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;">“<b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Sublime</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...</span></span><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Piercing observations and sharp, subtle wit make this a standout.</span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">” </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">--</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Publishers Weekly</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>starred review</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Unbridled Books, April 2011 </span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"> </p> <p face="times new roman" style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"> </p> <p face="times new roman" style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EanxzjxKFosfyqz8X8yji31uBcq0T946evsa-i7xVv5ybrZQIyBrCOwRnfDKzTEgx_jPgUPYxmqRMFvtPq96upU2hPH6xixyEHBQ9FuN6ZEkNv5PDXWJhWi3HgBVGDmmFvOLzat-OGNZ/s1600/Fires+of+the+Gods+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EanxzjxKFosfyqz8X8yji31uBcq0T946evsa-i7xVv5ybrZQIyBrCOwRnfDKzTEgx_jPgUPYxmqRMFvtPq96upU2hPH6xixyEHBQ9FuN6ZEkNv5PDXWJhWi3HgBVGDmmFvOLzat-OGNZ/s320/Fires+of+the+Gods+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593257989363163090" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">THE FIRES OF THE GODS by I.J. Parker</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The capital is plagued by unexplained fires and panic threatens to break out, but Akitada has his own problems to worry about: his ailing wife is expecting a child and he has lost his job to a political appointee. When he attempts to confront the nobleman who is responsible for his dismissal, Akitada ends up suspected for his murder. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >With no income and a growing family to support, Akitada plunges into the investigation of the murder and searches for a missing acolyte. The seemingly unrelated cases converge, involving Akitada and his servant Tora in dangerous secrets that threaten to topple the government. Akitada has inadvertently placed no only his own life, but also the lives of his wife and child, in grave danger.</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“Parker <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">raises the stakes considerably</span></b> for her fallible but honorable series sleuth in her <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">excellent</span></b> eighth mystery...<b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Masterfully blends action and detection</span></b> while making the attitudes and customs of the period <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">accessible</span></b>.” --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, <span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><b>starred review</b></span></span></p> <p face="times new roman" style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Severn House, April 2011</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"></p><p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1XIS5ZUM7VaoUVy84W8zhkXDIuV7g83aceuxwnD9hFCQrzLV_t_WOl-1QY-BzWk_amnNgmlVjT7jGiJYZXxo1n0il2Ne_-SjHFO6JbOW0MCKaCHy5R-FEQH2p1ko593kg5UPsns5TYhQ/s1600/Summer+of+May+cover+front.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1XIS5ZUM7VaoUVy84W8zhkXDIuV7g83aceuxwnD9hFCQrzLV_t_WOl-1QY-BzWk_amnNgmlVjT7jGiJYZXxo1n0il2Ne_-SjHFO6JbOW0MCKaCHy5R-FEQH2p1ko593kg5UPsns5TYhQ/s320/Summer+of+May+cover+front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593257305625079858" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">THE SUMMER OF MAY by Cecilia Galante</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Twelve-year-old May O'Toole's father is completely absent and her grandmother is too busy mourning the absence of May's mother to do much else. May resents her new, dangerously run-down, low-income housing neighborhood and has started picking fights. There's nothing she likes about eighth grade. In fact, since her mother left the house last year, there's not much May likes about anything anymore. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >But when May is caught graffiti-ing her least favorite teacher's classroom, she is faced with a choice: expulsion or one-on-one summer school with the teacher she most detests. Begrudgingly, May chooses summer school, and she ultimately learns that her teacher has a secret past—and might just hold the key to answers no one else will give May about her mother. </span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> </p> <p style="margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Bittersweet</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Brimming with emotion and insight</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...Galante's prose investigates the impact of loss and the importance of making amends.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">”</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> --</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Publishers Weekly</span></i></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Aladdin, April 2011 </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> </p><p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eXra9BNYMvJjM_Z3DDpq6TTUt-FlVaFWx_-x6kHlxpdGUNPAsoSR7dhyphenhyphenxIcCDeLc37pUol25v1nH_BZuWpd7VR6xRW92pPfU5hPCp-06RaX6rigfYAvKuYxXo61Ca_5HR6DA7CWQL1Yq/s1600/Future+Imperfect+cover%252C+final.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eXra9BNYMvJjM_Z3DDpq6TTUt-FlVaFWx_-x6kHlxpdGUNPAsoSR7dhyphenhyphenxIcCDeLc37pUol25v1nH_BZuWpd7VR6xRW92pPfU5hPCp-06RaX6rigfYAvKuYxXo61Ca_5HR6DA7CWQL1Yq/s320/Future+Imperfect+cover%252C+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593256734628671394" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">FUTURE IMPERFECT by K. Ryer Breese</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Ade Patience can see the future and it's destroying his life. Each time the 17-year-old knocks himself unconscious, he sees days, weeks, decades into his own future. And each time, his memory worsens, his grades fall further, and both Ade's best friend and his shrink beg him to stop before he kills himself. Ade knows he needs to straighten out. Luckily, the stunning Vauxhall Rodolfo has finally transferred to Mantlo High and, as Ade has seen in a vision , they're totally going to fall in love. Only things are a bit more complicated than Ade had thought. When Ade has a vision in which he murders Vauxhall's too-close friend Jimmy, he fears his life may finally fall apart all at once.</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> “</span><span style="font-size:130%;">[An] <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">inventive</span></b> debut..<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">.This psychic love story has </span><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">an offbeat appeal</span></b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...</span><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Memorable characters and a superhero comic sensibility.</span></b>” --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">St. Martin's Press, April 2011 </span> </p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-12530369606255062192011-02-25T15:37:00.000-08:002011-02-25T15:51:38.224-08:00March 2011 Releases<span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhv2Qo7r0YyYAADV7Dk9lWk8TNUDtNTBZqvNy1V3UGMWmPG0AMs1seVCcz-wqdExLetGmMt9lzfASpv9bqYCx7T138sA1QXQY7qIX87FspL_t6fcXaXyWtLWEeImlkIdzz6esKXCM8o_Ud/s1600/A+Double+Life+cover%252C+final.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhv2Qo7r0YyYAADV7Dk9lWk8TNUDtNTBZqvNy1V3UGMWmPG0AMs1seVCcz-wqdExLetGmMt9lzfASpv9bqYCx7T138sA1QXQY7qIX87FspL_t6fcXaXyWtLWEeImlkIdzz6esKXCM8o_Ud/s320/A+Double+Life+cover%252C+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577778424981552210" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;" >A DOUBLE LIFE by Lisa Catherine Harper</span> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;">There is no denying it: motherhood splits a woman’s life forever, into a before and an after. To this doubled life Lisa Catherine Harper brings a wealth of feeling and a wry sense of humor, a will to understand the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and a narrative gift that any reader will enjoy. Harper documents her own journey across this great divide as a seasoned explorer might, observing, researching, and relating anecdotes. From late-nig</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ht Lindy Hop dancing to crippling sciatica and morning sickness to indulgent meals, Harper marries scientific details w</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ith in</span><span style="font-size:130%;">timate insights as she uncovers the fascinating strangeness of this remarkably familiar territory. Harper’s carefully researched story reminds us that motherhood’s central joys are also its most essential transformations. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;font-size:130%;" >“<span style="font-style: normal;">Harper's </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">elegant, thoughful writing</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> makes this </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">a must-read </span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">for e</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">xpectant parents...The author </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">skillfully moves between the personal and the technical</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Universa</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">l, moving, and relevant.</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">” --</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Publishers Weekly</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">University of Nebraska Press, March 2011</span></p><p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZn8QznGNP9Ff0iirbzImRR8xDfP4YtY7z9KB5NriZkPO_dzn0IHpeDS44wlYXx8HQEI7bszbZLkBRwgIJNGfzRejyiyZYDTYP3fPNuP4L7KPPZ33nINu7opxLQOasp1sngd4C2T3ZyEm/s1600/A+Watershed+Year+cover%252C+nonfinal.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZn8QznGNP9Ff0iirbzImRR8xDfP4YtY7z9KB5NriZkPO_dzn0IHpeDS44wlYXx8HQEI7bszbZLkBRwgIJNGfzRejyiyZYDTYP3fPNuP4L7KPPZ33nINu7opxLQOasp1sngd4C2T3ZyEm/s320/A+Watershed+Year+cover%252C+nonfinal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577777853669104034" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">A WATERSHED YEAR by Susan Schoenberg</span><span style="font-size:130%;">er</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Lucy never confessed her love to her best friend Harlan before he passed away. Two months after his funeral, she is haunted by the power of things left unsaid. But then she receives the first of his emails, arranged to be sent after his death. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;">In an email, Harlan says that Lucy is destined for motherhoo</span><span style="font-size:130%;">d. In her grief, she suddenly rediscovers hope, journeying to Russia to adopt a four-year-old boy, Mat. Mat is also mending a wounded heart and is just as lost as she is. Together, they learn to trust, each helping the other to heal. But just as they're welcoming their new normal, Mat's father comes to America to reclaim his son and reveals the truth about Mat's past. </span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:130%;"> “</span><span style="font-size:130%;">A <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">well-told tale of life and death</span></b> and the way, when we least</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> expect it, love can encompass us roundabout...[Schoenberger] has created <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">a vivid and continuous dream of what it means to create a kind of family</span></b>, for better and worse. <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">This is a brave and moving novel.</span></b>” --Bret Lott, bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club selection JEWEL</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Guideposts, March 2011</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd11JTT18nQ9dbLJCNbYnAzuZJa5TBdthQStFep28LylvEiOb8cWBI1vDBBEvP1csZWUo10pJ3F5bAMihs1jecuRi3guENGC83xBKtF3R1iqxkM-A3mv8HFADJX_7F1qwzjwFTxhLzL2mP/s1600/US%252C+The+Land+of+Painted+Caves+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd11JTT18nQ9dbLJCNbYnAzuZJa5TBdthQStFep28LylvEiOb8cWBI1vDBBEvP1csZWUo10pJ3F5bAMihs1jecuRi3guENGC83xBKtF3R1iqxkM-A3mv8HFADJX_7F1qwzjwFTxhLzL2mP/s320/US%252C+The+Land+of+Painted+Caves+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577776916576861234" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES by Jean M. Auel</span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">With </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">, Auel gives fans the finale they’ve been looking for. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this page-turning continuation of the beloved saga, Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community’s spiritual leaders and healers. Ayla becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar. Once again Jean Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;font-family:times new roman;"> <style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> </p><p face="times new roman" style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> “</span><span style="font-size:130%;">Auel is a <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">true spell-weaver</span></b>...The world she creates is <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">vibrant and exciting</span></b>.” --<i>Los Angeles Times</i></span></p> <p style="margin-right: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-family: times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Crown, March 2011</span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-47214719047641711352010-12-22T09:28:00.001-08:002010-12-22T09:30:04.324-08:00Happy Holidays from JVNLA!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvoexpncn_aNK27oK5hvHSNgKhTaBsadaATgm1G5IOyvOOj0sFzIrLH0RIV4xhzwtQv3qNR9vwFWDUd8knQDran8pgttnDdooqgUbKLs3aPxMg_nhK9zypZLB0Wme-APQL_X29gxfNDBO/s1600/JVNLA+holiday+card+2010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvoexpncn_aNK27oK5hvHSNgKhTaBsadaATgm1G5IOyvOOj0sFzIrLH0RIV4xhzwtQv3qNR9vwFWDUd8knQDran8pgttnDdooqgUbKLs3aPxMg_nhK9zypZLB0Wme-APQL_X29gxfNDBO/s400/JVNLA+holiday+card+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553560181267951842" border="0" /></a>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-50598762592228006342010-12-03T09:23:00.000-08:002010-12-03T10:08:14.325-08:00January and February 2011 Releases<style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><a name="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT49911"></a><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75ra0uYNrlzO558nnkaY4RAAwCOaSPtgCFXLD320Q-nudXteQxIOpCG29e4XnIUPRHp9f7l53T6yFKDIa3b-iHr1qPHx-5mG1sbU5ZD6Ntpn61HJ0FOYRC_A9wY7YMJON5NCv3ir6ShlJ/s1600/The+View+from+Lazy+Point+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75ra0uYNrlzO558nnkaY4RAAwCOaSPtgCFXLD320Q-nudXteQxIOpCG29e4XnIUPRHp9f7l53T6yFKDIa3b-iHr1qPHx-5mG1sbU5ZD6Ntpn61HJ0FOYRC_A9wY7YMJON5NCv3ir6ShlJ/s320/The+View+from+Lazy+Point+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546515038981938194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> by Carl Safina</span></p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">In the elegant, lyrical prose we have come to expect from Carl Safina's earlier books, SONG FOR THE BLUE OCEAN, EYE OF THE ALBATROSS and VOYAGE OF THE TURTLE, THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT offers profound insights and environmental wisdom. The book follows Safina (</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">New York Times </span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">contributer, MacArthur Genius Grant winner, and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute) through one year of observation and discovery from his home in Long Island, New York, to Alaska, Central and South America, and the Pacific and Polar regions. According to Safina, the environment's problems drive very real matters of human justice, well-being, and our prospects for peace. Nature and human dignity require one another. </span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">But in Safina's hands, all is not doom and gloom. THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT grants new insights into how our world is changing and what our responses should be. </span></span></span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">“</span></span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Solid science and excellent storytelling. A superb work of environmental reportage and reflection.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">” --</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Kirkus</span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">starred review</span></b></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Henry Holt, January 2011</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YvEN_YyKg59ipSi01BHZogtSjuRw_vfJqbOa2GPzZac6Vxj2A1adS39KIQS9EkxwAK2BAO4W6jb27Ye23xxxrV9hFp71AfjZ2T0yCfzOpbNpL9pUIZc0-jP407nCfhZLIFfRlIr0sKtE/s1600/TRAVELING+LIGHT+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YvEN_YyKg59ipSi01BHZogtSjuRw_vfJqbOa2GPzZac6Vxj2A1adS39KIQS9EkxwAK2BAO4W6jb27Ye23xxxrV9hFp71AfjZ2T0yCfzOpbNpL9pUIZc0-jP407nCfhZLIFfRlIr0sKtE/s320/TRAVELING+LIGHT+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546514646504583362" border="0" /></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TRAVELING LIGHT: POEMS</span> by Linda P</span><span style="font-size:130%;">astan</span></p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A new collection from a poet long recognized for her </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">“</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">unfailing mastery of her medium</span></b></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">”</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (</span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">New York Times</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">).</span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">Linda Pastan meditates on themes of aging and memory, language and art in this moving collection, where she travels from the Thanksgiving table, a “palimpsest / with traces of the past / showing through,” to Japan, where she dreams in haiku. “</span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b>Pastan . . . expresses a full range of the possibilities and potencies of the human, feminine voice</b></span></span><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">” (</span><em><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">Boston Globe</span></em><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">). </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="CENTER"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">From "In the Forest"<br /></span><em><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">The trees are lit<br />from within like Sabbath candles<br />before they are snuffed out.<br />Autumn is such a Jewish season,<br />the whole minor key of it.<br />Hear how the wind trembles<br />through the branches, vibrato<br />as notes of cello music.</span></em></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">W.W. Norton & Company, January 2011</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQurtHu1khZdvZ4RKAi-0Mg33KAR_nDgFxSd-W6TKaS649aejIFcfeEnkwTV1fH1mRxrB9QpThL8NcmC5fmVPndDxIdMtVezKJOJavZPqFiEkRNaHvNU_3T2P44oaeKlncT8Q3_y7urk8A/s1600/Pale+Rose+of+England+final+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQurtHu1khZdvZ4RKAi-0Mg33KAR_nDgFxSd-W6TKaS649aejIFcfeEnkwTV1fH1mRxrB9QpThL8NcmC5fmVPndDxIdMtVezKJOJavZPqFiEkRNaHvNU_3T2P44oaeKlncT8Q3_y7urk8A/s320/Pale+Rose+of+England+final+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546514280032449058" border="0" /></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PALE ROSE OF ENGLAND</span> by Sandra Worth</span></p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">Beauty is both a blessing and a curse for Lady Catherine, the Pale of Rose England. It is a blessing when it helps win her the heart and hand of Richard, Duke of York—pretender to the throne of England. But the gift becomes a curse when Richard is captured during his war waged against the crown and she is laid at the feet of the King in chains.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">The King is as smitten with her beauty as was the challenger to his throne; ordering the chains removed, he names her lady in waiting to his Queen. But can his passion for her change the course of her affection for Richard--the disgraced, tormented husband who is trapped in the King's halls, who is planning the most daring of escapes?</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >“<span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Luminous</span></b> . . . <b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">impressive</span></b> . . . Worth examines Elizabeth's life with a journalist's eye.” --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, on THE KING'S DAUGHTER</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Berkley, February 2011</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsRir5VMrBB56wbGNo5mmbBrWfBZNDIlolVdkrhhXu074kJYknskr3nmUmIXLdC19izGed9U2tSmxOLu5tqUusetrPbksuHn11JmZlJX74lLdc6vQ0DO4eU5n7Vo3h0p3broOcLqQr04-/s1600/The+Tudor+Secret+cover.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQsRir5VMrBB56wbGNo5mmbBrWfBZNDIlolVdkrhhXu074kJYknskr3nmUmIXLdC19izGed9U2tSmxOLu5tqUusetrPbksuHn11JmZlJX74lLdc6vQ0DO4eU5n7Vo3h0p3broOcLqQr04-/s320/The+Tudor+Secret+cover.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546513804273325250" border="0" /></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE TUDOR SECRET</span> by C.W. Gortner</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a name="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT49911"></a></span> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><a name="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT49911"></a> <span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;">THE TUDOR SECRET introduces Brendan Prescott, a foundling reared in the Dudley household, as he arrives at court to serve as squire to the arrogant Lord Robert Dudley. Keen and ambitious, Brendan hopes to gain advancement in his post—until Lord Robert dispatches him on an illicit mission to the King's sister, Princess Elizabeth. A dark plot brews around Elizabeth's quest to unravel the truth of her brother King Edward VI's disappearance. Lured into her service as a spy, with only a bold stable boy and an audacious lady-in-waiting at his side, Brendan plunges into a ruthless gambit of half-truths and lies, pitted against the wiles of a vengeful opponent who may know the secret of his birth—a secret that could shatter everything he believes and cast a shadow over him, Elizabeth, and the future of England.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:130%;">THE TUDOR SECRET is the first book in <i>The Spymaster Chonicles</i>, which depicts the rise of Brendan Prescott as a spymaster for Elizabeth I.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">“</span></span></span></em></span><span style="font-family:Bell MT,serif;font-size:130%;"><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Riveting</span></b></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...In Gortner’s capable hands, </span></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Prescott is a believable and enjoyable hero</span></b></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...Robert has </span></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">depth</span></b></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...</span></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Gortner handles action with aplomb, adding a riveting, fast-paced thriller to...Tudor fiction.</span></b></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">” --</span></span></span></span></span></em><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Publishers Weekly</span></span></i></span></span></em></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">St. Martin's Press, February 2011</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G3mrfCOnXwfWPngb0C0B9enSJ8nNNENZrjRfwLY7GfIWOGUvQquwt6UTGMTh6hNiGwA8xJbA-QMEKhn3THWq_FR1gG1lC3A_YpGldM2JLb-ybmeg4zpz1Dv4E7QKiRKDq75brWL2cmQ_/s1600/Hollywood+Forever+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G3mrfCOnXwfWPngb0C0B9enSJ8nNNENZrjRfwLY7GfIWOGUvQquwt6UTGMTh6hNiGwA8xJbA-QMEKhn3THWq_FR1gG1lC3A_YpGldM2JLb-ybmeg4zpz1Dv4E7QKiRKDq75brWL2cmQ_/s320/Hollywood+Forever+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546513137295540258" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOLLYWOOD FOREVER</span> by Susan Goldstein</span></p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } TT { font-family: "Cumberland", monospace } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;">April is a lovely month in Beverly Hills, California, but things are not going well for wealthy, spoiled Samantha Crowley, whose superstar husband has filed for divorce. Unhappy with what the law has to offer, Samantha embarks on her own agenda for "divorce justice.” But every person to whom she turns for aid in her scheme is dead within 24 hours of meeting Samantha. Then her husband is murdered. Samantha's life begins to resemble a 1940's noir in which she is both leading lady and number one suspect.</span></tt></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family:Thorndale AMT,Times New Roman,serif;font-size:130%;"><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">HOLLYWOOD FOREVER is a smart and humorous mystery chronicling the journey of a gutsy and irreverent heroine, from the pampered life to the alleys and landmarks of Hollywood, in search of a cold-blooded and cool-headed killer. </span></span></tt></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><tt><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">“</span></tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Delightful</span></b></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">...Goldstein supplies </span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">one surprise after another</span></b></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> as </span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">the action builds to a suitable Hollywood ending</span></b></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">.” --</span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Publishers Weekly</span></i></span></tt></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Five Star, February 2011</span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-1014636800577840152010-10-29T11:38:00.000-07:002010-12-03T09:12:53.011-08:00November and December 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Z4EniKy6-C4zKYbYDqifW1VvhvYEExMAlrt5hFkZPdZWjGNadVobkYlN1dHpN4DRyI3QvqMQxLh5bCIF-Xd7YEItqSw0qfbRthEKa94ciI_Y7mkPaOoD23ovydgqWES2SwlI3w6tNeqk/s1600/TEMPESTUOUS+cover.jpeg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Z4EniKy6-C4zKYbYDqifW1VvhvYEExMAlrt5hFkZPdZWjGNadVobkYlN1dHpN4DRyI3QvqMQxLh5bCIF-Xd7YEItqSw0qfbRthEKa94ciI_Y7mkPaOoD23ovydgqWES2SwlI3w6tNeqk/s320/TEMPESTUOUS+cover.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546504820526212210" border="0" /></a><br /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } TT { font-family: "Cumberland", monospace } -</style><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEMPESTUOUS</span> by Lesley Livingston</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;">“<span lang="en-US"><i>I don’t love Sonny Flannery.” </i></span><span lang="en-US">That’s the lie Kelley Winslow told to protect the boy she loves from a power he doesn’t know he possesses. Devastated, Sonny retreats to a haven for Lost Fae hidden deep beneath New York City. But Kelley’s not about to let things end in heartbreak. To get Sonny back, she’s got to find out who’s after his magick—and how to use her own. She’s got to uncover who’s recruiting Janus Guards to hunt innocent Faerie. She’s got to help rebuild the shattered theater company she called family. And she’s got to do it all without getting distracted by the Fennrys Wolf, whose legendary heart of stone seems to melt whenever he’s around Kelley. </span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" lang="en-US" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The intrigue and romance that began with WONDROUS STRANGE and DARKLIGHT comes to a stormy head in TEMPESTUOUS, the breathtaking conclusion to Lesley Livingston’s urban Faerie trilogy.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“</span><span style="font-size:100%;">The third and final entry in the series that began with <em>Wondrous Strange</em></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (2008), this </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">ends the story just right</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">...</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">The romance! And the battles! And all the Shakespeare! It’s enjoyable [and] well plotted.</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">” --</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>Kirkus Reviews<br /></i></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Harper Teen, December 2010</span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJsqK_u5h8zqaUipFKnoQpNklcfIEOPrs5Q-0fycSqBc7XnkPPasnS2GMlPCJ2nZw805E56S9uYHaGAd2EAgq4WcjXT4KRz3u9SBn1GLzSX-klD_tolBVJIwb_xkJMl_7vwgc_8kMwUfq/s1600/The+First+Book+of+Seconds+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJsqK_u5h8zqaUipFKnoQpNklcfIEOPrs5Q-0fycSqBc7XnkPPasnS2GMlPCJ2nZw805E56S9uYHaGAd2EAgq4WcjXT4KRz3u9SBn1GLzSX-klD_tolBVJIwb_xkJMl_7vwgc_8kMwUfq/s320/The+First+Book+of+Seconds+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533539943323475906" border="0" /></a> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } TT { font-family: "Cumberland", monospa</style><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE FIRST BOOK OF SECONDS</span> by Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">While some might think that being second is nothing more than being the first loser, THE FIRST BOOK OF SECONDS</span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">presents the perspective that being second can be magna cum laude. Rather than reproducing the same facts </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">and rankings of other popular reference books, THE FIRST BOOK OF SECONDS</span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></i><span style="text-decoration: none;">takes a distinctive approach by presenting all of the amazing details concerning those who have eluded the first spot due to history, nature, or fortune. Check out th</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">is fascinating example:</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >“The world’s second largest land animal could fit inside of the world’s largest land animal with room to spare. What are these two animals? E</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >le</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >phants—both of them.” </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Adams Media, November 2010</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcj0M__i-IT2YDV0BH0aV0t_IL84awRkGTJkWayzxURHs5RynE1FYWV6TM0LwHIAJE0OZLksmXDIXuTlv6rH2aG0PtFJ1L3H5PPPD3v_ezq_WMbVaMJDuYlo33sWrr4Pk0WounqoNzAd1/s1600/SweetnessofSaltCov.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcj0M__i-IT2YDV0BH0aV0t_IL84awRkGTJkWayzxURHs5RynE1FYWV6TM0LwHIAJE0OZLksmXDIXuTlv6rH2aG0PtFJ1L3H5PPPD3v_ezq_WMbVaMJDuYlo33sWrr4Pk0WounqoNzAd1/s320/SweetnessofSaltCov.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533540153700498498" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE SWEETNESS OF SALT</span> by Cecilia Galante </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">For the most part, Julia Winters has led an idyllic life. Except for the occasional outburst when her troubled older sister,<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> Sophie,</span> drops in for one of her <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">always</span> tumultuous visits, Julia’s life has been relatively happy. Now a senior in high school, Julia will be graduating at the top of her class, has a full ride to college, and is looking forward to starting a new chapter in her life.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">But when Sophie shows up at the graduation ceremony determined to unload a family secret, Julia's plans come to a screeching halt. Instead of starting her prestigious summer internship, Julia follows Sophie back to Vermont. What follows is a season of revelations, some heartwarming, so</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">m</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">e heartbreaking, and all slowly pointing Julia toward a new understanding of herself, th</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">e nature of love, and why sadness is sometimes needed to bring out the sweetness in life. </span></span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Like salt brings out sweetness, the drama draws out the </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">sweet, sniffle-inducing ending</span></b></span></span></strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">."--</span></span></span><em><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Kirkus Reviews</span></span></i></em></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bloomsbury, November 2010</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4uLNNgIHhNAhWwkgQwdSGfYxKzvDeOPg3YHrqR7GuMhc5uIs4n9Yj2k73J8YyWoG_rJLtyoMF0DtVJ9zv4zEnnzhVTXFnnP8IXL2Wx_iHp4_cflEhSWo3QvwZk6puk6_ANY9R3nWoaYQ0/s1600/TransformationOfThings+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4uLNNgIHhNAhWwkgQwdSGfYxKzvDeOPg3YHrqR7GuMhc5uIs4n9Yj2k73J8YyWoG_rJLtyoMF0DtVJ9zv4zEnnzhVTXFnnP8IXL2Wx_iHp4_cflEhSWo3QvwZk6puk6_ANY9R3nWoaYQ0/s320/TransformationOfThings+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533540518464802466" border="0" /></a> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE TRANSFORMATION OF THINGS</span> by Jillian Cantor</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Jennifer Levenworth's perfect suburban life begins to unravel<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>when her husband is indicted for bribery and is forced to surrender his law license. Though he claims his innocence, the Levenworths are quietly booted out of the country club and their old life. </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;">Things take another unexpected turn when, after a trip to her herbalist, Jen starts dreaming</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;"> o</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;">f her friends and family. She dreams of her former tennis partner Lisa falling into a deep depression, her best friend from the city Kat longing for an affair, her sister Kelly being overwhelmed by motherhood, and </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;">her husband deeply un</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:11pt;">happy in his former life as a judge. A<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s Jennifer begins to see the lives around her more clearly, she starts to decipher what it is she truly wants in her own life.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:100%;"> “</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Cantor puts a unique spin on this tale of a woma</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">n in transition.</span></b>” --<i>Booklist</i></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Avon, November 2010</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzS7V0pxRT2U1wHF3E7EYWf5U-W8DuCW4sq2SucC07R4f85bLLSxGI7PM-CizxAx5JlFyZQdZV3eMTcKL0NGzZaYc30lXqE60tWvNy3Fzw0zpQ6xvzS-g2k1BW7GiB8t1GSO59Z3rsNmj/s1600/The+Masuda+Affair+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzS7V0pxRT2U1wHF3E7EYWf5U-W8DuCW4sq2SucC07R4f85bLLSxGI7PM-CizxAx5JlFyZQdZV3eMTcKL0NGzZaYc30lXqE60tWvNy3Fzw0zpQ6xvzS-g2k1BW7GiB8t1GSO59Z3rsNmj/s320/The+Masuda+Affair+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533540765945813474" border="0" /></a></p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE MASUDA AFFAIR</span> by I.J. Parker</span></p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Still grieving the death of his small son, Akitada risks his freedom, career, and family to rescue an abused child from a life of misery. The search for the boy’s parentage leads him to a harrowing story of love, murder, and abandonment. Meanwhile, his faithful servant Tora loses his bride to a powerful man who pursues beautiful women and will stop at nothing to possess them. The trails of both cases lead Akitada among the prostitutes and courtesans of the amusement quarter, and murder soon follows his steps.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >“<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Terrific.</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">” --</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Publishers Weekly</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(197, 0, 11);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>starred review</b></span></span></span></p> <p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Severn House, November 2010</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjObAIp_Dafw6rQyhKL-kNcl9NmxFdk0bQEFdWgAts9Xse3IMFGGK9Cr1mT-XRdDhdzlWeq98CudrP879nxchiaj6a1_aCui5sbXzxi-rVOJEfFJtslzMjSrPdyI37caTspe62ZXigkEDne/s1600/DAKOTA+cover%28scaled%29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjObAIp_Dafw6rQyhKL-kNcl9NmxFdk0bQEFdWgAts9Xse3IMFGGK9Cr1mT-XRdDhdzlWeq98CudrP879nxchiaj6a1_aCui5sbXzxi-rVOJEfFJtslzMjSrPdyI37caTspe62ZXigkEDne/s320/DAKOTA+cover%28scaled%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533541081261447890" border="0" /></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DAKOTA</span> by Brenda Marshall</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:100%;">The lives and schemes of frontier politicians, Northern Pacific Railroad executives, bonanza farmers, and homesteaders converge in this brave and moving epic set in late 19<sup>th</sup>-century Dakota Territory. Emotionally complex, willful, and resourceful, Frances is seduced by the myths of opportunity driving the settlement of Dakota Territory and dares to dream of a new world in which to realize her unconventi<span style="font-weight: normal;">onal desires. </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Kirsten, daughter of Norwegian homesteaders, observes the world around her with equal parts absurdity and insight as she grows from a voluble girl to a formidable woman. In DAKOTA, Marshall opens a window onto the history of a place little known and often misunderstood to tell an original tale of desire and ambition. </span></span></span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"><span style="font-size:100%;">“</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">A vibrant, teeming work, filled with feeling, intelligence, and ultimately grace.</span></b></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">” --Peter Ho Davies, author of THE WELSH GIRL</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">North Dakota Institute, November 2010</span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-15850186252590824742010-09-03T08:25:00.000-07:002010-09-03T08:34:47.569-07:00September and October 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcKLnTtg2O_DAe5L7qf_HnBsRb7CxwDcbKgO5fKaXq48DWl_IJ7aPwRHXvqSvN8Gho0pNzY5ylQgld6R07f_rubJXj7M0Fi91gS1USvnKsAOpiEZ5BnMUR_jmb9COIof0E5VjVkIWP9G_N/s1600/WHEN+MOLLY+WAS+A+HARVEY+GIRL+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcKLnTtg2O_DAe5L7qf_HnBsRb7CxwDcbKgO5fKaXq48DWl_IJ7aPwRHXvqSvN8Gho0pNzY5ylQgld6R07f_rubJXj7M0Fi91gS1USvnKsAOpiEZ5BnMUR_jmb9COIof0E5VjVkIWP9G_N/s320/WHEN+MOLLY+WAS+A+HARVEY+GIRL+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512709498032170370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Nimbus Roman No9 L,serif;font-size:100%;" >WHEN MOLLY WAS A HARVEY GIRL by Frances Wood</span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thirteen-year-old Molly's father has recently died, leaving her 19-year-old sister Colleen in charge of keeping a roof over their heads. Unfortunately, there's not much money left and few options for young girls in the late nineteenth century. Colleen dresses Molly in women's clothing—good thing she's tall!—and both apply for positions at the Harvey Eating Houses—famous along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. To Molly's dismay, the plan works, and she soon finds herself far away from her friends in the heart of the Wild West working 12-hour shifts. Determined to get back home, Molly concocts a plan to marry off her sister. But will she be able to circumvent the elusive outlaw Genius Jim?</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Wood's prose is dense with the smells and tastes of a heroine's work.</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;">” --</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><i>Publishers Weekly</i></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;">Kane Miller, September 2010</span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-3SLNH7VrdEZ6P2Y80rw3oXlbjTxBOF9eneZmSp-6_DqvqXwkVTOyCEs4YYxlOyOKCDqb58hxZInJYeVHxgnbcInx9kwd5jXmXZOyUS-dU0SZpFKHqiy_sW5YidT6jlwUh-xxlpYF0NH/s1600/Kneebone+Boy+cover1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-3SLNH7VrdEZ6P2Y80rw3oXlbjTxBOF9eneZmSp-6_DqvqXwkVTOyCEs4YYxlOyOKCDqb58hxZInJYeVHxgnbcInx9kwd5jXmXZOyUS-dU0SZpFKHqiy_sW5YidT6jlwUh-xxlpYF0NH/s320/Kneebone+Boy+cover1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512709740566432626" border="0" /></a></span></tt></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THE KNEEBONE BOY by Ellen Potter</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the small English town of Little Tunks, everyone loves to gossip about the Hardscrabble family—in between avoiding them like the plague. Mrs. Hardscrabble mysteriously disappeared years ago, which is when 13-year-old Otto Hardscrabble stopped talking. Mr. Hardscrabble is frequently absent. </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;">When their father has to go abroad for a few weeks, he sends the children—Otto, adventure-seeking Lucia, and whip-smart Max—to stay with a relative in London. Plans are bungled and the Hardscrabbles find themselves stranded in the city. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Barely escaping the clutches of an angry, tattooed man, they manage to track down their great aunt Haddie Piggit, a young, eccentric American with a penchant for Pixy Stix living in a child-sized castle in Snoring-by-the-Sea. Soon the children discover they may be living next door to the Kneebone Boy, a horribly misshapen child who has figured in local legend for centuries. </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">In trying to help him, they begin to have suspicions about his identity...as well as the identity of their mother</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">“</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Fresh, funny and surprising...Wonderfully odd characters....A quirky charmer.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">” --</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Kirkus</span></span></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;">, <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">starred review</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="text-decoration: none;">“</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">Often laugh-out-loud funny, this tale quietly solves a deeper mystery: how to heal the hearts of this immensely likable trio.</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">” --</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Publisher's Weekly</span></i></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, September 2010</span></span></span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-36951384968485975502010-08-23T10:42:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:46:40.455-07:00July and August 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2Vuc5ycZ4p3f5JItbuyA3GZtMlGLGwyHbNzLMJelN_hve-C80MNK1TlI-1aQYlugVgZxVf0tsD2jn6AUoqjq9wVIUqvOntQrsCVvf9285Ai-HCNYrolY0Ierg33vJCPM-Zp6TrpNmntB/s1600/HOLLYWOOD+SAVAGE+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2Vuc5ycZ4p3f5JItbuyA3GZtMlGLGwyHbNzLMJelN_hve-C80MNK1TlI-1aQYlugVgZxVf0tsD2jn6AUoqjq9wVIUqvOntQrsCVvf9285Ai-HCNYrolY0Ierg33vJCPM-Zp6TrpNmntB/s320/HOLLYWOOD+SAVAGE+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508662936495187330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hollywood Savage by Kristin McCloy</span>--Miles is a successful writer whose latest book is being made into a high-profile movie in Hollywood. While in California writing the script, Miles begins to record escalating fantasies in his journal, fantasies that his glamorous New York wife is having an affair with Connor, one of Miles's young students in New York. Trapped between his fantasy world and the sun-buffed, egocentric society in which he finds himself, Miles wallows in his sense of betrayal. Meanwhile, a woman named Lucy gradually enters his life. Lucy seduces Miles's imagination with her searching mind, lack of guile, and unselfconscious motherhood. Inexorably, they move toward a passionate love-affair, a potent broth of guilt, infidelity, and loss.<br /></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">With a mature cynicism and flair, Kri</span>stin creates pro</span><span style="font-size:100%;">foundly memorable characters and relationships. She captures the<span lang="en-US"> flavor </span>of New York City and the exploitive brashness of Hollywood. Her writing is terse and powerful, alternately lyrical and understated.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:100%;">"<b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">...an absolutely fascinating narrator. McCloy’s raw prose and Miles’s wild unpredictability will keep readers hooked as Miles flirts with a potentially catastrophic crash and burn.</span></b>" —<i>Publisher's Weekly</i></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;" align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size:85%;">Washington Square Press July 2010</span></p><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnap6MQ6-lsUmu3_VfgKRHl2kLJh1du-JcHPwQjAbmIlJ9IkjJz33Iu1Cmp7qAiyrv3I8hLRC2KN3Y1bNOV7pdAFvHoykhrcsSS4t7mMC2dpVLzVk61I03kZh7ppY79N838OhRfhHIJQug/s1600/Parenting+Apart+cover.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnap6MQ6-lsUmu3_VfgKRHl2kLJh1du-JcHPwQjAbmIlJ9IkjJz33Iu1Cmp7qAiyrv3I8hLRC2KN3Y1bNOV7pdAFvHoykhrcsSS4t7mMC2dpVLzVk61I03kZh7ppY79N838OhRfhHIJQug/s320/Parenting+Apart+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508663120327249858" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Parenting Apart by Christina McGhee-</b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">-</span><span style="font-size:100%;">Unlike other experts, who get bogged down in elaborate theories about divorce and child development, McGhee presents practical tips for meeting a child's needs. Her argument--that children can not only survive, but also thrive following their parents' divorce-- is convincing and inspiring.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">McGhee, an internationally acclaimed divorce coach and parent educator, understands that parents sometimes need their hands held, too. Her narrative voice hits exactly the right notes of sensitivity and structure. </span> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Berkley August 2010</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLA_O5OzJPWUikohG5tszO0EjewbwP_5eznAYUcKq0du40YMAM6Nzs1adEZr3-UOsOWObD5vV7Ug7ugWCPBlfW_Gt6rRDyts28MOAgfn3K2RDJmN6nd-6WpF_mvo4FsivCZhxDHDrXPUYq/s1600/STORM+MOUNTAIN+jacket.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLA_O5OzJPWUikohG5tszO0EjewbwP_5eznAYUcKq0du40YMAM6Nzs1adEZr3-UOsOWObD5vV7Ug7ugWCPBlfW_Gt6rRDyts28MOAgfn3K2RDJmN6nd-6WpF_mvo4FsivCZhxDHDrXPUYq/s320/STORM+MOUNTAIN+jacket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533200987497949490" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Storm Mountain by Tom Birdseye</span>--It's stupid, all right, and it's all Ty's fault! It was Cat's impulsive, irrepressible cousin Ty's harebrained idea to spread the ashes of their late fathers at the summit of the same treacherous mountain that claimed both their lives. Now Cat must put all her mountaineering knowledge to work if they are to survive Storm Mountain and a snow storm that might become as dangerous as the one their fathers encountered seven years ago.<br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;font-family:georgia;">STORM MOUNTAIN is a gripping wilderness adventure lightened by humor and made truly memorable by the young protagonists, whose struggles help mend their fractious relationship and strengthen the bond formed by shared tragedy.<br /></p><p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">"<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Dramatic, insightful.</span>" --<span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span> on award-winning author Tom Birdseye's JUST CALL ME STUPID</p><p face="georgia" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Holiday House August 2010</span><br /></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-68935195437311298062010-06-23T13:34:00.000-07:002010-06-23T14:06:56.160-07:00May and June 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26Dx1qf3lgBoxFCwlu9kYS323AFUsPAkSc1y-lnukuTegHIU87uInrHSpdswfu23Ij6Lj2Y2ieUkVYvitwSaPnjV0W1j-296WWjWGJ3mg6ExmDZfoiHBjBas3fQJc4XB1Osn4Uv1d5cmS/s1600/Gypsy+Goodbye+Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26Dx1qf3lgBoxFCwlu9kYS323AFUsPAkSc1y-lnukuTegHIU87uInrHSpdswfu23Ij6Lj2Y2ieUkVYvitwSaPnjV0W1j-296WWjWGJ3mg6ExmDZfoiHBjBas3fQJc4XB1Osn4Uv1d5cmS/s320/Gypsy+Goodbye+Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486074969689358562" border="0" /></a>All good things must come to an end. Fortunately for Enola fans around the globe, some good things, at least, manage to end quite well. Enola's relationship with her famous brothers Sherlock and Mycroft is finally resolved in Enola's final adventure, in a most unlikely context at that--including gypsies, a peculiar coded message from Mum, tracking dogs, quantities of mud, midnight, cutthroats, and, of course, the daring rescue of a lovely and helpless missing lady.<br /><br />“In this concluding book in the series, Enola, true to her previous adventures, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">uncovers multiple social injustices</span> lurking beneath the pomp of Victorian England....Enola, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the quintessential spunky heroine</span>, navigates the historical setting <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">with the pluck of Nancy Drew but within the constraints of her upbringing</span>....Springer takes time with her conclusion, letting this final series installment play out well and wrap up loose ends.” --<span style="font-style: italic;">Horn Book Review</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Philomel May 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBK2P-fHfefUW84JZJQqg034nwO3Ib3Kxi0ERFoQsGxVVD4JPfnAjo9_SZd_qFdQA2vszErQ_sgaeW55PMOjcIFmmTAE69-hxikQsjrJo_N9xEnvvkN2bID2xmVNnG6a-Ob7cqVW4uGPQ/s1600/By+Accident+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBK2P-fHfefUW84JZJQqg034nwO3Ib3Kxi0ERFoQsGxVVD4JPfnAjo9_SZd_qFdQA2vszErQ_sgaeW55PMOjcIFmmTAE69-hxikQsjrJo_N9xEnvvkN2bID2xmVNnG6a-Ob7cqVW4uGPQ/s320/By+Accident+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486075821577909778" border="0" /></a>Driving side-by-side with her son on the way to a week-long family vacation, Laura Lucas watches helplessly from the adjoining highway lane as her son Whit is killed in an accident. Three months later she remains paralyzed with a grief that strains her marriage and family. Trouble brews when Elliot Hatcher moves in next door. Twenty-eight-years-old, engaging and outgoing, Elliot draws Laura out of her despondency with his cavalier grace and joie de vivre. Does her affection for this boy-child arise out of her need to fill the void left by lost son? Or is it something else entirely . . . something transgressive, dangerous—and yet alluring all the same?<br /><br />Secrets, betrayal, and the cold, hard brutality of chance collide in this captivating exploration by an award-winning, developing talent.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Pegasus May 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTAIPuZ0pM82cp5qywaFaYSqV7FeS90kvuExoZ8Z9oDNbOspl2iArJ0KaYKWCkB58ggJRLHsO7U-nU0t6wI0LvNLspri5bo-lIhyphenhyphennRalyrZQ1GCB-ypYG7f20liJffIxHR3t9zdsd7IhJ/s1600/SUPREME+JUSTICE+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTAIPuZ0pM82cp5qywaFaYSqV7FeS90kvuExoZ8Z9oDNbOspl2iArJ0KaYKWCkB58ggJRLHsO7U-nU0t6wI0LvNLspri5bo-lIhyphenhyphennRalyrZQ1GCB-ypYG7f20liJffIxHR3t9zdsd7IhJ/s320/SUPREME+JUSTICE+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486076299306551602" border="0" /></a>New York Times Bestselling author Phillip Margolin's SUPREME JUSTICE opens with a bang during an attempted one-man mutiny on Captain John Finley's The China Sea, a vessel packed with the kind of lucrative goods that criminals would kill for. Finley is the sole member of his crew to survive the attack, and he escapes with contraband in tow. Too bad he doesn't notice the car trailing him as he flees the scene of the crime.<br /><br />This high-octane opening by the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span> bestselling author of FUGITIVE (“<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">a plot set on full boil</span>”--<span style="font-style: italic;">Publisher's Weekly</span>) and EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE (“<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">.38 special hot</span>”--<span style="font-style: italic;">USA Today</span>) becomes linked with a controversy that envelopes the US Supreme Court. The Court is split over a case weighing the validity of the protection of state secrets against the rights of a convicted citizen on death row. Amidst the failed assassination of a Supreme Court Justice and the blackmailing of the president that results in a corrupt judge's entrance into the case, law clerk Brad Miller must navigate the cross-hairs of a conspiracy of murder and drug smuggling.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Harper May 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_-zIAaAKQ6kBbC0W_SpKq7FoTuhvJIcvnn-uqZApyQifAPsIL6yUSoJM2sf2k0K_Cy1-9GKh3n27KZ__IHC8y7nvuOUxJrzqTJO1BZDgpwSEa4f-E2SKBiSR9_YhlSHebqiVTtnK6IgS/s1600/HOW+TO+BOOZE+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_-zIAaAKQ6kBbC0W_SpKq7FoTuhvJIcvnn-uqZApyQifAPsIL6yUSoJM2sf2k0K_Cy1-9GKh3n27KZ__IHC8y7nvuOUxJrzqTJO1BZDgpwSEa4f-E2SKBiSR9_YhlSHebqiVTtnK6IgS/s320/HOW+TO+BOOZE+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486076583731415682" border="0" /></a>Stalking your ex. Meeting your new in-laws. Dancing like a fool at your high school reunion. Procreating. Chances are, you will find yourself taking on at least one of these regrettable activities during a long life of unwise choices. And the situation will undoubtedly call for a cocktail – but which one?<br /><br />Other books may teach you how to mix drinks, but How to Booze goes one step further, serving up the one perfect cocktail for every situation that might arise in your life (and a few that hopefully won't). With nearly 100 classic, easy-to-make recipes, How to Booze offers clear instruction on how to mix a masterful drink with a minimal amount of fuss -- and plenty of insight into managing your life, too.<br /><br />“This book’s gimmick—<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">half bartender’s guide, half advice column</span>—is a good one, and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">reading it is like getting a talking-to from a bartender who’s seen it all</span>...<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">[Kaye and Altier] keep the patter snappy</span>...with entertaining entries for such unique crises as “Drowning Out the Ticking of Your Biological Clock” and “Realizing Your Child Is a Fucking Idiot”....<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The drinks advice is remarkably good</span>, from empowering explanations of cocktail fundamentals to variations on classics that are well worth trying.” —<span style="font-style: italic;">Booklist</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Harper May 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWDjueGUDHaaqwAdxzJQbwXqiCOEKYmqqrc05s5Zh2BK9xzcuk35IBdfrgnM6tzngwLjLm3gbPoITrK1Mp1P25PQgZLio4AxEaD0k5w2wAawimZMvluOi1ipdD4acpp4-UZFX-nlMmWJy/s1600/Catherine+De+Medici+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrWDjueGUDHaaqwAdxzJQbwXqiCOEKYmqqrc05s5Zh2BK9xzcuk35IBdfrgnM6tzngwLjLm3gbPoITrK1Mp1P25PQgZLio4AxEaD0k5w2wAawimZMvluOi1ipdD4acpp4-UZFX-nlMmWJy/s320/Catherine+De+Medici+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486077115449071826" border="0" /></a>To some she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others she was the passionate savior of the French monarchy. In this brilliantly imagined novel, C.W. Gortner brings Catherine to life in her own voice, allowing us to enter the intimate world of a woman whose determination to protect her family's throne and realm plunged her into a lethal struggle for power. From the fairy-tale chateau in the Loire Valley to the battlefields of religious wars to the mob-filled streets of Paris, THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI is the extraordinary, untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen.<br /><br />“<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Remarkably thoughtful</span> in its insight into an unapologetically ruthless Queen.” --<span style="font-style: italic;">Publishers Weekly</span><br /><br />“<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Meticulously researched</span> . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">vivid</span>.” –<span style="font-style: italic;">Library Journal</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Ballantine May 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvXrnBFMfnwlGuNmpQzB8ZSL792DlO4zDUufHx7nfvs7YUm2Z3M19dpxWtgLoNpITsQmPwPm68cAVKh07TATF6RqTW-UXa7JarMeB6aGQJKDE6RL3gYeXAsa8pD9Tr5BFgP8U3am_49mr/s1600/commuters+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvXrnBFMfnwlGuNmpQzB8ZSL792DlO4zDUufHx7nfvs7YUm2Z3M19dpxWtgLoNpITsQmPwPm68cAVKh07TATF6RqTW-UXa7JarMeB6aGQJKDE6RL3gYeXAsa8pD9Tr5BFgP8U3am_49mr/s320/commuters+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486077352696131074" border="0" /></a>Set in the small town of Hartfield NY, Tedrowe's debut depicts the shock waves set into motion by the marriage of one middle-class family's 78 year-old-matriarch to a wealthy, 81-year-old outsider. Winnie Easton has finally found love with Jerry Trevis, but their decision to buy one of the town's biggest homes ignites an outburst from Jerry's family, grounded in facts about Jerry that Winnie has yet to discover. With so much riding on Jerry's money, Jerry's rapid physical decline forces hard decisions within the family, as well as renewed loyalties, and surprising alliances.<br /><br />Reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS, but with dash of feminine perspective, Emily Tedrowe's debut novel is a powerful, heartbreakingly funny drama about the powerful, combustible forces of love and money, how the intersection of both can pull a family together--or threaten to take it all down.<br /><br />“Tedrowe...shows great promise in her <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">compassionate, nuanced depiction of love</span>--among the old and young alike--and her <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">confident handling of alternating, multigenerational narrators</span>.” --<span style="font-style: italic;">Publisher's Weekly</span><br /><br />“In her <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">wonderfully cohesive</span> debut novel, short-story writer Tedrowe graduates to <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">elegant novelist</span> with a winding, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">convincing familial drama</span> about the ties that bind and the bonds that bend to the breaking point...<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">A lovely and literate family drama that wins bonus points for its sincerity and open-hearted delivery</span>.” --<span style="font-style: italic;">Kirkus </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Harper Perennial June 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzXSJl0XSz6M0FY281PCczT3H7pmiYpTpAzEY4C3VbuVqkuGMQJRhohfyI1lEZ7BdSl-CXz4re8ESSu15N0be8w-dru51r9vyegI1tzESjl7q9EvWNKtXG1ZOShwoaEcwz7kipiLYp5vg/s1600/lifeafteryes+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFzXSJl0XSz6M0FY281PCczT3H7pmiYpTpAzEY4C3VbuVqkuGMQJRhohfyI1lEZ7BdSl-CXz4re8ESSu15N0be8w-dru51r9vyegI1tzESjl7q9EvWNKtXG1ZOShwoaEcwz7kipiLYp5vg/s320/lifeafteryes+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486077647778839026" border="0" /></a>Freshly back from a weekend in Paris with her beau Sage, Quinn becomes engaged, with the flashy diamond solitaire to prove it. The proposal was everything she'd ever hoped forso why does that fast-approaching wedding ceremony feel more to her like a sentence than a cause for celebration? Maybe it has something to do with the wild side she never could manage to shake, the way she can still put down drinks “like a college girl.” Or is it the buried grief over her father's untimely demise?<br /><br />Whatever it is, she better figure it out fast. As Quinn wobbles uncertainly through the months leading to The Big Day, she comes into contact with universal truths about self-acceptance, grief, and loss, finally reaching an understanding of love, commitment, and the imperfections of life.<br /><br />“First-novelist Rowley creates <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">credible characters</span> and situations with <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">sharp dialogue</span> and apt descriptions, and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">wisely lets a personal perspective embody the story of a national disaster</span>.” —<span style="font-style: italic;">Booklist</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Avon June 2010</span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-2778855200916261472010-03-09T08:05:00.000-08:002010-03-09T13:17:27.423-08:00Upcoming April 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wTnHPJG2FCYWGneA_V-hbUQrRLsoRuAqVqFe9l4K_k8T1FjG4-jlIS6YqCNrS-xld5MRVFbYHU0tF7ERNduosygzqyGHjhHyRlt0Sp_2uMZUo8y2fMnnq5Vd8kDteGGqiYY_C1rR_UzG/s1600-h/DAUGHTER+TRAP+cover.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wTnHPJG2FCYWGneA_V-hbUQrRLsoRuAqVqFe9l4K_k8T1FjG4-jlIS6YqCNrS-xld5MRVFbYHU0tF7ERNduosygzqyGHjhHyRlt0Sp_2uMZUo8y2fMnnq5Vd8kDteGGqiYY_C1rR_UzG/s320/DAUGHTER+TRAP+cover.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446668825747471074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the tradition of PERFECT MADNESS and THE FEMININE MISTAKE, Laurel Kennedy's THE DAUGHTER TRAP is the first book to identify a hot-button issue that directly affects 39.2 per cent of Boomer women: No matter how many husbands and siblings factor into the equation, it's almost always the daughter who gets handed the parental role in taking care of aging parents. And women (who are caught between t</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he competing de</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">mands of frail parents, a working spouse, school-aged kids and a full-time career) are being taxed to their physical and emotional limits.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >St. Martin's Press April 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7a1X6znf7pmxdMrAjL3KVVnAz0cCiYBtggze9Km2tLrbQLWTbuKXSmk9_6tB-7d2jukgZsuAL6peZLiP6Pj4_6t5DIe2_X_lHM1KF51B1Zl9qb2-0Jq0KEGHIae-2sV4Bo4IigGsBYwI/s1600-h/Synthetic+Fish+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ7a1X6znf7pmxdMrAjL3KVVnAz0cCiYBtggze9Km2tLrbQLWTbuKXSmk9_6tB-7d2jukgZsuAL6peZLiP6Pj4_6t5DIe2_X_lHM1KF51B1Zl9qb2-0Jq0KEGHIae-2sV4Bo4IigGsBYwI/s320/Synthetic+Fish+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446669080884098162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hailed as the saviors of democracy, vilified as a scourge on the native biota everywhere they have been introduced, rainbo</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">w trout are the repository of more than a century of American's shifting relations with the natural world. Through a series of fascinating characters, this book will chronicle the discovery of rainbow trout, their introduction to every state in the country and every continent except Antarctica, and the reasons that, even while they are being eradicated in some waters, they are still the most commonly stocked fish in the United States.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"With <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">prose as engaging as it is thoughtful</span>, Halverson has crafted a cautionary tale of ecological trial and error, documenting our tardy but increasing understanding of biological interdependence an</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">d its immeasurable value.”<i>--Washington Post</i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Yale University Press April 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGkBxj_MKuxw2NFomcHEVt3i9ecndjDQRvuG7IgOVHpmqYBdkiKe7BdGBrE_4-VOwXXVRSU3OFcD5d1hqpnicfuEDYUa95ca06xFSmeSJyp8r5ey1zCSpgLXfEsY1jLOV_PNW-Xp-yy6s/s1600-h/FACEBOOK+FAIRYTALES+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGkBxj_MKuxw2NFomcHEVt3i9ecndjDQRvuG7IgOVHpmqYBdkiKe7BdGBrE_4-VOwXXVRSU3OFcD5d1hqpnicfuEDYUa95ca06xFSmeSJyp8r5ey1zCSpgLXfEsY1jLOV_PNW-Xp-yy6s/s320/FACEBOOK+FAIRYTALES+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446669815372956930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Reaching a milestone of 400 million active users, Facebook, the Web’s dominant social ecosystem and an essential personal and business networking tool in the wired world, continues to grow at a record-breaking pace. What comes of these millions of connections? Stories.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A modern-day CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL from a seasoned lifestyle writer with extensive experience writing people profile articles, FACEBOOK FAIRYTALES is a collection of roughly twenty-five of the most inspiring stories that have resulted from these “kismet connections,” and includes material from an exclusive interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">What does the world look like when a billion people are using social networks and they can share even more than they're able to today? A lot more things will be possible</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> . . .</span>" --<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, from the Introduction of FACEBOOK FAIRYTALES</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Skyhorse April 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7ap-boX15OngRDMJO1iOQ6UYeuIFPof-fbIhj_gXRIGL5nfZ7skqDo-B5QIph1tXFhHrOBdhLo_8HF7uOpfPSADvzmqxCK7pl66BeKhpaTsOxWSDojZH6C5RRvRCjhOkZ1lm1aWz6mNx/s1600-h/Night+Navigation+pbk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz7ap-boX15OngRDMJO1iOQ6UYeuIFPof-fbIhj_gXRIGL5nfZ7skqDo-B5QIph1tXFhHrOBdhLo_8HF7uOpfPSADvzmqxCK7pl66BeKhpaTsOxWSDojZH6C5RRvRCjhOkZ1lm1aWz6mNx/s320/Night+Navigation+pbk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446733626837799106" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Very, very good</span> . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">page after page [of] unrelenting truth</span> ... When asked if Night Navigation is based on her own life, Ms. Howard replied, '... the core of the story springs from real events in my own family's life . . . Like Del Merrick, the mother in Night Navigation, I have received many calls in the night, driven many miles on snowy roads to support meetings: Al-Anon, where I've been encouraged to “let-go,” and to National Alliance on Mental Illness groups, where I've been advised to “hang on.” . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">So smooth a telling of a rough ride that you'd think it was the author's fourth, fifth or sixth book, not her first</span> . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">A major accomplishment. Ginnah Howard is a writer to watch</span>.” --<span style="font-style: italic;">Washington Times</span><br /><br />"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The strength of this story pulls Howard's readers along, unable to turn away from a fierce mother and son who are determined to negotiate the future without having to 'detour around every moment of their past</span>." <i>--New York Times Book Review</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >Mariner paperback April 2010<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBoEuL88e8AZYv0tzasmuitaAikYvD1W9RcwtI8wwSlZrcF9q-S1lPvsvI-m_lLh0stdCye4bBzcp0OzEIoSLwzmVsCc1n_D6QzyJlkFDXYtGzSdQOd2dTO46J_3_gPg0YJUYutNO1jjmd/s1600-h/POSSESSING+JESSIE.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBoEuL88e8AZYv0tzasmuitaAikYvD1W9RcwtI8wwSlZrcF9q-S1lPvsvI-m_lLh0stdCye4bBzcp0OzEIoSLwzmVsCc1n_D6QzyJlkFDXYtGzSdQOd2dTO46J_3_gPg0YJUYutNO1jjmd/s320/POSSESSING+JESSIE.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446669341774324514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Edgy and disarming, Springer's newest is tale of Jessie, a young teenager who has recently lost her older brother Jason, the apple of her mother's eye. Her mother, paralyzed by grief, has been neglecting Jessie. Struck with an unusual idea, Jessie decides to dress up just like Jason in an atte</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">mpt to pull her mother out of the shocked stupor of her loss. The plan works wonders.<br /><br />But trouble brews when Jessie continues on to school still dressed as her brother, and is confronted by her friends, teachers, and the administration. Things take a turn for the worse when Jessie, visiting Jason's grave, is seized by--<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">something</span></i> as her novel plan begins to spiral dangerously out of control...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >Holiday House April 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4AS7d6LFF3J30Bxb8C7fCdZFuO_edjyaWV3Z4J4pSDpGYKHX5e4RAnq25rbh06X2Sj1X_XwPSNfQSw3ih7FBkwKW8puzwgD4OKUQQeKFyMq_QfkCEenb5jppS9-3XrT5o3GqKIJfeJ9-W/s1600-h/Spilling+Ink+cover.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4AS7d6LFF3J30Bxb8C7fCdZFuO_edjyaWV3Z4J4pSDpGYKHX5e4RAnq25rbh06X2Sj1X_XwPSNfQSw3ih7FBkwKW8puzwgD4OKUQQeKFyMq_QfkCEenb5jppS9-3XrT5o3GqKIJfeJ9-W/s320/Spilling+Ink+cover.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446688304863560882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Think <i>A DANGEROUS BOOK FOR YOUNG WRITERS</i>!<br /><br />Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter have received thousands of fan letters. They majority of them have asked the same question: How do you write?<br /><br />Ao Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter being the industrious, intrepid, and experienced writers that they are--Anne is the uathor of over forty books for young readers, Ellen is the author of SLOB, PISH POSH, and the Olivia Kidney series--decided to coauthor a lively and upbeat book about that very topic. Eschewing strict and boring writing rules, Anne and Ellen talk about their own approaches to writing and guide young readers to find what works best for them.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Agreeable, practical, and commonsensical</span> . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">engaging and always appealing</span>” --<i>Booklist</i><br /><br />"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Cogent and invaluable</span>." <i>--Publishers Weekly</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" >Roaring Brook Press April 2010</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ifZ7DEdkpTFQbF4Q98AAIFcwjLkntUTpo5HNyxmqXVAFLYZupzlzOw7ZBoJ4sUB4djQxZEkQB1CQw1yPWc8vsa65wGZb3icvpOWHHkdJ0_bnCXmSNGWGxnuqquK8Q9EcT-Ziwj3UJlTJ/s1600-h/HalcyonCrane.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ifZ7DEdkpTFQbF4Q98AAIFcwjLkntUTpo5HNyxmqXVAFLYZupzlzOw7ZBoJ4sUB4djQxZEkQB1CQw1yPWc8vsa65wGZb3icvpOWHHkdJ0_bnCXmSNGWGxnuqquK8Q9EcT-Ziwj3UJlTJ/s320/HalcyonCrane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446675048142884402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Raised by her loving father, Hallie has been told all her life that her mother died tragically during Hallie's infancy. What happened to her family thirty years ago that lead her father to steal her away and hide the truth past even his own demise?<br /><br />Searching for answers, Hallie travels to the remote island where her mother lived, where she quickly realizes her family's dark secrets are enmeshed in the history of this strange community. Maybe it's just the eerie atmosphere, but Hallie can't shake the feeling that strange things are about to happen . . .<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">An engaging modern gothic tale with a strong female protagonist and well-done suspense</span>. Fans of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Mary Higgins Clark</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Barbara Michaels</span> and readers who like supernatural elements in their fiction will enjoy this debut.” <i>--Library Journal</i></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Holt April 2010</span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-67737581116885245202010-02-08T14:57:00.000-08:002010-02-08T15:19:11.695-08:00First Review for Webb's TALE OF HALCYON CRANE!!!<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Waiting for that <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">very first review</span> from the press must be stressful, especially for a debut novelist like Wendy Webb.<br /><br />But if this </span><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6716046.html?q=webb+halcyon">Library Journal review</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, the first for the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">upcoming HALCYON CRANE</span>, is any indication of what's to come, Wendy's got nothing to fear (expect maybe that creepy girl from Holt's spectacular cover art, or the many chills 'n thrills from Wendy's imagination lying in wait within the book's covers . . .) </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqFofdgINYgJMQb0CNo8z5EfLcGKzF7d0SExuK1wWe9K8vxMDWrgOgj73Q3IEJR02dX9Y14I_wuQLlrSvWhnyQzYbTaWmuksN8XlNDEpzhJ7_RxoGtZI1b1htR4bWMkwfqt-koHyh01km/s1600-h/HalcyonCrane.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqFofdgINYgJMQb0CNo8z5EfLcGKzF7d0SExuK1wWe9K8vxMDWrgOgj73Q3IEJR02dX9Y14I_wuQLlrSvWhnyQzYbTaWmuksN8XlNDEpzhJ7_RxoGtZI1b1htR4bWMkwfqt-koHyh01km/s320/HalcyonCrane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436011598830259330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >An engaging modern gothic tale with a strong female protagonist and well-done suspense.</span> Fans of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Mary Higgins Clark</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >and </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Barbara Michaels</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> and readers who like supernatural elements in their fiction will enjoy this debut.”—</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Library Journal<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" >THE TALE OF HALCYON CRANE has it all</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> . . a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" >complex, atmospheric</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> tale that </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" >will remind you of why you first loved reading</span><span style="font-size:100%;">.” --Patry Francis, author of </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >THE LIAR'S DIARY</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />“</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);font-size:100%;" >The perfect cozy read</span><span style="font-size:100%;">.”—Mary Sharratt, author of </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >The Vanishing Point</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> and </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Daughters of the Witching Hill</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Holt April 2010</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-11693522034815247932010-01-25T13:19:00.000-08:002010-01-26T08:52:19.568-08:00Upcoming February and March 2010 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5SJvGVFyhmT8RgSWgt5zhVxbpDcDNtaYcQi8YhS5baS63Rt9C3SbrzVapU6NGGvH7MAd42bWFPUaMnAj6l8-chl-t8bSZyXbCLjnaJBQVO40MjH8mrEoFEZRxL7KU6hdxgsTfm65ZX3l/s1600-h/RUFUS+AND+FRIENDS+SCHOOL+DAYS.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5SJvGVFyhmT8RgSWgt5zhVxbpDcDNtaYcQi8YhS5baS63Rt9C3SbrzVapU6NGGvH7MAd42bWFPUaMnAj6l8-chl-t8bSZyXbCLjnaJBQVO40MjH8mrEoFEZRxL7KU6hdxgsTfm65ZX3l/s320/RUFUS+AND+FRIENDS+SCHOOL+DAYS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430795618565633954" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What are the Four Rs? Reading 'riting, 'rithmetic, and Rufus, of course!</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rufus is back, with even more of his puppy friends. Spend a day in school with the clever canine as they read, write, count, and sing--and make mischief in the library.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Charlesbridge, February 2010</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTJeU3cT9kZ-S3onDmfe33jPBUPoDd8YcfxavPICG7f0ZTFLAtGV9ci1MEptyE01d10urxBwzi38QRAYu4X9qZEbL-Jc1RdusJGlMO7UucPfz9ztn7mvYJMCrDtRvwuT7mFBLJud5VQNc/s1600-h/willowood+final.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTJeU3cT9kZ-S3onDmfe33jPBUPoDd8YcfxavPICG7f0ZTFLAtGV9ci1MEptyE01d10urxBwzi38QRAYu4X9qZEbL-Jc1RdusJGlMO7UucPfz9ztn7mvYJMCrDtRvwuT7mFBLJud5VQNc/s320/willowood+final.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431091163726388994" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There's nothing ten-year-old Lily Sinclair likes about her new life in the city with her single mom. She misses her best friend, who seems to have forgotten her and their secret place, Willowood. She almost never sees her hard-working mom, can't get her to tell Lily anything about her absent father. Her only source of comfort is her beloved pet gecko, Weemis. Everything changes when Mrs. Hiller introduces Lily to the owner of the Pet Palace, a nearby pet store, and his adult Down's syndrome son, Nate. Lily finds herself with an unofficial after school job--and forges a tentative friendship with Nate that's threatened by a dark secret about Nate that Lily has yet to discover.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), March 2010 </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr5uXq3e1kq2rkWyF11RXAaDAbv13ALWNO4A8Nk4myb_J1w_R61vjD2Wg1UL1swK9su_l-9umAZ0NdEQYzEetqU4KhgeecQyOz5vJYM1qlq6tROsDV38nyMXekMJa2EResWfhZeSW6KvL/s1600-h/LANGUAGE+OF+SECRETS+cover.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr5uXq3e1kq2rkWyF11RXAaDAbv13ALWNO4A8Nk4myb_J1w_R61vjD2Wg1UL1swK9su_l-9umAZ0NdEQYzEetqU4KhgeecQyOz5vJYM1qlq6tROsDV38nyMXekMJa2EResWfhZeSW6KvL/s320/LANGUAGE+OF+SECRETS+cover.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430799701820203602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">“</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">THE LANGUAGE OF SECRETS is </span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">a psychological mystery with emotional under-pinnings that will have you puzzled and intrigued right up to the moment Dixon’s sleight-of-hand is revealed</span></b></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">.”</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> —</span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b>Sue Grafton</b></span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">"</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">A lovely, compelling debut novel</span></b></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">. Aptly titled, THE LANGUAGE OF SECRETS explores the ramifications of loss, the aftermath of tragedy, and the sometimes terrible cost a ch</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">ild can pay for a parent's guilt." --</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b>Kristin Hannah</b></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">, </span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><i>New York Times-</i></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Bestselling author of Firefly Lane</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />DoubleDay, March 2010</span></span></span></span></span><br /><style type="text/css"><!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --></style><style type="text/css"><!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --></style>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-82632127531068469072010-01-20T08:34:00.001-08:002010-01-20T09:22:01.116-08:00CASE OF THE CRYPTIC CRINOLINE nominated for Edgar Award!!<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nancy Springer is no stranger to the Edgar Award, having won in the Best Juvenile category not once, but twice--for LOOKING FOR JAMIE BRIDGER in 1994 and for TOUGHING IT in 1996.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But two things make her current </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/34935018"><span>nomination for 2009 Edgar Award THE CASE OF THE CRYPTIC CRINOLINE</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>extra-special: this is the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">second time</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that Springer's </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">critically-acclaimed<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> Enola Holmes </span>series</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, starring the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, has been nominated for the award; the first title in the series, THE CASE OF THE MISSING MARQUESS, was also up for the award in 2006.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Secondly, the double nomination for the series (could it be Springer's third win?) will likely to provide a nice boost to the concluding chapter in the Enola Holmes saga: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CASE OF THE GYPSY GOODBYE</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, coming May 2010!</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a85giJoXTydMJZe9L4du4k5qYmNZZDsPKeL-_mnIcOe4-050w9jIrqBmry8GqhxbTsKEals8eT5ewDCS8_elMF9itllbEmyQv1Xl9Q_i7QAdCcObKDxl8zguiZPSEpEPjNASZIEj3TAq/s1600-h/Gypsy+Goodbye+Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a85giJoXTydMJZe9L4du4k5qYmNZZDsPKeL-_mnIcOe4-050w9jIrqBmry8GqhxbTsKEals8eT5ewDCS8_elMF9itllbEmyQv1Xl9Q_i7QAdCcObKDxl8zguiZPSEpEPjNASZIEj3TAq/s320/Gypsy+Goodbye+Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428871703986748258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Philomel May 2010</span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-79646745249610497742009-12-16T09:20:00.000-08:002009-12-16T09:35:20.033-08:00New Booklist Reviews, December and January Realeases<span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">The December 15th edition of </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Booklist</span></b></span><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"> has positive words for the second titles from both Lesley Livingston (<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwjvnlacom-20/detail/0061575399">WONDROUS STRANGE</a>) and Jillian Cantor (<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwjvnlacom-20/detail/0061686484">SEPTEMBER SISTERS</a>).<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwqLcVdwpo00UZnw6TcnQl195Vkd-CrkTZp5k7RxkplqZ43RiOR90qWHbmWeA3Ufed1H8FAQUjfIlLqCmJoWCqja42BH_5_-4lAFi5cK72cTB5RSvy2TtMHkF-gkEuCNU1yAmhGtIHgP_/s1600-h/DARKLIGHT+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwqLcVdwpo00UZnw6TcnQl195Vkd-CrkTZp5k7RxkplqZ43RiOR90qWHbmWeA3Ufed1H8FAQUjfIlLqCmJoWCqja42BH_5_-4lAFi5cK72cTB5RSvy2TtMHkF-gkEuCNU1yAmhGtIHgP_/s200/DARKLIGHT+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415887468312650930" border="0" /></a><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">A</span></span><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">fter the "<b><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;">action-packed</span></b>" </span></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">DARKLIGHT</span></span></b><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">, the sequel to </span></span><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">Livingston's WONDROUS STRANGE, </span></span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwjvnlacom-20/detail/0061575402"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">coming next week</span></span></b></a><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"> from Harper Teen, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Booklist</span></i> has no doubt that "<b><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;">readers will anxiously await the concluding volume</span></b>."</span></span><br /><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"><br /></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">DARKLIGHT, Harper Teen December 2009</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomUQi8RPERc9CIJXLe8WtWht6u2tQQDJI_fJSrKOw1W8i2wWuKKW1LBpo1A9Zhe081PqJw2t3LXAOFR83Jo-PNpCZrUSacc2DpWiNpOhDT1QZYbR7snprX4Q5Uz3LV5mp0gka_V6GBgT_/s1600-h/Life+of+Glass+des1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomUQi8RPERc9CIJXLe8WtWht6u2tQQDJI_fJSrKOw1W8i2wWuKKW1LBpo1A9Zhe081PqJw2t3LXAOFR83Jo-PNpCZrUSacc2DpWiNpOhDT1QZYbR7snprX4Q5Uz3LV5mp0gka_V6GBgT_/s200/Life+of+Glass+des1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415887912921453218" border="0" /></a><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;">As for Cantor's LIFE OF GLASS, </span></span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/wwwjvnlacom-20/detail/0061686514"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">coming</span></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1803">January</span> 2010</span></b></span></span></a><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:black;"> from Harper Teen, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Booklist</span></i> states that the talented Cantor succeeds in painting "a <b><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-weight: bold;">gentle portrait</span></b> of a girl growing through her grief."<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />LIFE OF GLASS, Harper Teen January 2009<br /></span></span></span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-87566958259780226932009-12-10T14:18:00.000-08:002009-12-10T14:22:25.040-08:00Happy Holidays from JVNLA!!<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1076"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT2678"><a href="http://jvnla.com/Holiday_Card.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Click here </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">to see the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">animated card</span></a></span></span></span>!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLWJ3dQqkP27rVv-y6Cja2eD24vHLoijd7yDkd9R7sMUjHpa6yLw57QMPqciY1vj6c8eyP5EA-6jcwIznnPSRqiAvXSoQuCVLNWYHsrdkLs5751uGc7E7LJWJnoJUe_HcBQV66b2Yl8Xm/s1600-h/rabbit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLWJ3dQqkP27rVv-y6Cja2eD24vHLoijd7yDkd9R7sMUjHpa6yLw57QMPqciY1vj6c8eyP5EA-6jcwIznnPSRqiAvXSoQuCVLNWYHsrdkLs5751uGc7E7LJWJnoJUe_HcBQV66b2Yl8Xm/s400/rabbit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413736209078432866" border="0" /></a>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-13656514664657503422009-11-24T14:36:00.000-08:002009-11-25T08:57:03.001-08:00Upcoming December 2009 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeM9rlOxUImsCUZ73et5iMKena66W-fI6eXtHUkrTzbjP4R6nn0QP2oSP3fXPOVxAJlzDHgYEZuwI0AoDC-wJ_qVvBu4Q9yhu51PVi9g9_NLfsygq0IUrLHoBPvk3SVXC3TSWu4WxsdWO/s1600/DARKLIGHT+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeM9rlOxUImsCUZ73et5iMKena66W-fI6eXtHUkrTzbjP4R6nn0QP2oSP3fXPOVxAJlzDHgYEZuwI0AoDC-wJ_qVvBu4Q9yhu51PVi9g9_NLfsygq0IUrLHoBPvk3SVXC3TSWu4WxsdWO/s320/DARKLIGHT+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407805158654433218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Book Two of the WONDROUS STRANGE Series</span><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Praise for WONDROUS STRANGE:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Readers will revel in the hints of Shakespeare within the text</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . Set against the backdrop of present-day New York City, this </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">enchanting first novel</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> weaves together worlds of theater and magic in a way that is </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">sure to please</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> fans of both." -- </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">School Library Journal</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stands out with a balanced mix of folklore and authorial invention</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . Kelley is appealingly feisty and stubborn, and her romance in Sonny develops quickly but believably . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[Wondrous Strange] will capture readers eager for romance, magic and suspense</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Booklist</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">HarperTeen December 2009</span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-68039580092652985122009-11-02T08:30:00.000-08:002009-11-02T09:27:35.156-08:00Upcoming November 2009 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgYe4B7Sr8BQLDfQiHQclL2RTB-kAlb6qkNCyf26mg0eY6T66xg1WSN4F31N9__1QV-U50kjvu6YFrQtWvsVJPwU_bL9Sj2TsskMXaRtCxEKxOIzK8jGsPtNv0H0SZiaFClKtXo3yMh8r/s1600-h/BECOMING+FAULKNER+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgYe4B7Sr8BQLDfQiHQclL2RTB-kAlb6qkNCyf26mg0eY6T66xg1WSN4F31N9__1QV-U50kjvu6YFrQtWvsVJPwU_bL9Sj2TsskMXaRtCxEKxOIzK8jGsPtNv0H0SZiaFClKtXo3yMh8r/s320/BECOMING+FAULKNER+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399556423943968722" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This <span style="font-weight: bold;">rich work</span> will be <span style="font-weight: bold;">well received</span> by Faulknerian students and scholars. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Highly recommended</span>.<strong></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">" --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Library Journal</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">William Faulkner is often cited as the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Repeatedly, he failed to master the challenges that erupted upon him in charged moments: crises involving love, war, and race, as well as family, Hollywood, and alcohol. In this imaginative biography, Philip Weinstein, a leading authority on Faulkner, targets Faulkner's sense of unpreparedness as central to both his life and his work.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Oxford University Press November 2009</span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-41668871154554898732009-10-21T07:44:00.001-07:002009-10-21T08:04:49.694-07:00Lisa Cook's JAPAN TOOK THE JAP OUT OF ME Out Now!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52zpJHj07KU6b3tVYYoRIvkpJQJdLCVH9ZK8qTsCp0mqxbKR0w5XRbWpcTt-bpCQNrvx41QAyx-2Ysp9jvvMGO6b-JVvlHBcJDw46jzuFSUQlfY78V9RDIUT1J8Na8cmQFsHxEIpzK1tC/s1600-h/auth+photo+cropped.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52zpJHj07KU6b3tVYYoRIvkpJQJdLCVH9ZK8qTsCp0mqxbKR0w5XRbWpcTt-bpCQNrvx41QAyx-2Ysp9jvvMGO6b-JVvlHBcJDw46jzuFSUQlfY78V9RDIUT1J8Na8cmQFsHxEIpzK1tC/s200/auth+photo+cropped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395068905967666802" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Cook digs deep</span> beyond the trials and tribulation of a Yank in Japan into how she feels about aspects of the Japanese culture . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">profound</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> passages</span>" -- <a href="http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2009/10/japan-took-jap-out-of-me-lisa-fineberg.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Harriet Klausner</span>, </a></span><a style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2009/10/japan-took-jap-out-of-me-lisa-fineberg.html"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Genre Go Round Reviews</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Downtown Press, October 2009</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-71124189081498372602009-10-09T07:30:00.000-07:002009-10-09T08:49:34.243-07:00Upcoming October 2009 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvK5nLGRnQxbulVc2EcoNL1Yeet8DqwMp1gLk7A47RCp8jYfBAuRJ8ghuV2FKYvyxrhSJODvuTuplGd1DmSUhZAyq-l_MNrmHSjTkirbc0rSAVbTQvDTMGiYSfzGLniUxSHTWukp-be26d/s1600-h/Japan+cover.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvK5nLGRnQxbulVc2EcoNL1Yeet8DqwMp1gLk7A47RCp8jYfBAuRJ8ghuV2FKYvyxrhSJODvuTuplGd1DmSUhZAyq-l_MNrmHSjTkirbc0rSAVbTQvDTMGiYSfzGLniUxSHTWukp-be26d/s320/Japan+cover.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390608452399257314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From oy vey to arigato . . .</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A hilarious and heartwarming memoir about a nice Jewish girl from the West Coast who learns to negotiate a new marriage, a new culture, and a new outlook on life when she moves to the far east.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><br />Downtown Press October 2009</span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-66962418710633498462009-08-24T13:53:00.000-07:002009-09-01T06:55:31.566-07:00Upcoming September 2009 releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV_cSmf1Ydn2tEaXuwGATcqk4mJaYKU_N0nMEsLVlwfBU6f2k5nD1r55IT7NDwRn_GljhodVLtFqUWCqrfoODP3RbKuV1F2oaHImBl0FFIJNQDi15X1ebE8n8JI1L_UsizZxZQzZ1p0iOp/s1600-h/BYE+BYE+BABY+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV_cSmf1Ydn2tEaXuwGATcqk4mJaYKU_N0nMEsLVlwfBU6f2k5nD1r55IT7NDwRn_GljhodVLtFqUWCqrfoODP3RbKuV1F2oaHImBl0FFIJNQDi15X1ebE8n8JI1L_UsizZxZQzZ1p0iOp/s320/BYE+BYE+BABY+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373925618116728722" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A fresh sardonic twist on sibli</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ng rivalry. Warning: may require hippos.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Felix is not happy about his new baby sister. In fact, he thinks she should be sent back to where she came from. That's when a trip to the zoo inspires some creative solutions to his problem--but Felix will need some animal participation for his plan to work. Expertly brought to life by illustrator Larry Day, Richard Morris's quirky, tongue-in-cheek take on the new baby in the house is sure to entertain parents and children alike, and will help any older sibling realize that sometimes, even little sisters can come in handy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Walker and Co September 2009</span><br /><br />---<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBDghjFwKz0vbhRy8QhT3z5soQeXV_QsmcbCcCTEhNMa6SAOAjkipW1sAuDEPx87o-NiYNVg0pgBFsKLqg_b4Fm4ubQH3dVA3pwbXOvFsW1jsYJG2bExmwlnR4cb6R_8qLcN83lWWFYJQ/s1600-h/Indy+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBDghjFwKz0vbhRy8QhT3z5soQeXV_QsmcbCcCTEhNMa6SAOAjkipW1sAuDEPx87o-NiYNVg0pgBFsKLqg_b4Fm4ubQH3dVA3pwbXOvFsW1jsYJG2bExmwlnR4cb6R_8qLcN83lWWFYJQ/s320/Indy+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373925494456324466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />On a treacherous odyssey across the Island of the Dead, where the legend of the zombi looms large, spiders, snakes, booby traps, will prove the least of Indy's challenges. Even with the agents Japanese and German and an infamous voodoo priest hot in pursuit, capturing the fabled black pearl known as the Heart of Darkness will be child’s play compared to confronting an enemy unlike any other, whose numbers are legion and nearly impossible to kill–-because they’re already dead . . .</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Del Rey</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >September 2009</span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-65108171675713411822009-08-17T14:02:00.001-07:002009-08-18T08:14:56.808-07:00Not-to-Miss April 2009 Releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjas7kBrCbEOIpGL8YjIpSqdxRIJRb2jVV0uRhJiNS2_1ZYIzlisncIuWsI31DXuPDTRUub3wRJEn3vjzDxh3x6l4ubkwCqXjh3zBLn-0a0QjGqQK4zTGqWvGHSj8s9L7n2WeNw5TtPerNA/s1600-h/LAST+SECRET+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjas7kBrCbEOIpGL8YjIpSqdxRIJRb2jVV0uRhJiNS2_1ZYIzlisncIuWsI31DXuPDTRUub3wRJEn3vjzDxh3x6l4ubkwCqXjh3zBLn-0a0QjGqQK4zTGqWvGHSj8s9L7n2WeNw5TtPerNA/s320/LAST+SECRET+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371041251596535618" border="0" /></a> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Morris pumps [the story of a wronged</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> woman] </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">full of adrenaline</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by running a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wicked psychological thriller</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in the background</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">painfully insightful</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. . . It all leads to </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">propulsive climax</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that makes this </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">sensitive work of literary fiction</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> also </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">incredibly exciting</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Don't wait</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for the inevitable movie version." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Washington Post</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Skillfully paced</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, its characters </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">engrossingly snared</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in complicated relationships</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Intense, urgent</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> feelings . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pulse</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> through its pages</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">New York Times Book Review</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Shaye Areheart April 2009</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >-----</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHzYy5cbnInACryaqxXwqBCrWM8WUYTZgw0pRUd2wcs2P5NPW22z3USOIUDbRoq_SQ2EZ151JKNhBGyQgXAjM8GuKIqWjhbLnGMgwGBGOedzHYrIYneopttK-pP8h5GNT2JCNtPm6H82kz/s1600-h/TT+BOOK+Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHzYy5cbnInACryaqxXwqBCrWM8WUYTZgw0pRUd2wcs2P5NPW22z3USOIUDbRoq_SQ2EZ151JKNhBGyQgXAjM8GuKIqWjhbLnGMgwGBGOedzHYrIYneopttK-pP8h5GNT2JCNtPm6H82kz/s320/TT+BOOK+Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371046487761700498" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><br /></p><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br />Going through a breakup? Stressed out? Looking for inspiration or romance? Hoping to reinvent yourself or give back? Emmy award-winning travel writer Karen Schaler highlights more than 100 vacation option, complete with chapter-specific quizzes and insights from therapists and other travelers to help you pick the right trip.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Seal Press April 2009</span><br /><br />-----<br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7NY__zkEHi6mUAiQN0i3YGBDqeW2LDbox0dPyIt34VyChV5DBvTLOAqQdt7vbYyW6Dc9IsJV2v3uL-OwT5tUq27M2zbenE20QbVc7G0adkw8OIfZVUqcZa3Z9D4dUUB4t7wwnM02GdAG/s1600-h/Very+Mercenary.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7NY__zkEHi6mUAiQN0i3YGBDqeW2LDbox0dPyIt34VyChV5DBvTLOAqQdt7vbYyW6Dc9IsJV2v3uL-OwT5tUq27M2zbenE20QbVc7G0adkw8OIfZVUqcZa3Z9D4dUUB4t7wwnM02GdAG/s320/Very+Mercenary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371053663191278610" border="0" /></a></p> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A razor-sharp, darkly satirical and warped novel about murder, love, torture, art, ninjas, ambition, drugs...and everything in between.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Leigh Tiller has just been kidnapped. The beautiful, ineffably cool New York socialite is being held by a bunch of stylish, but imbecilic terrorists who've demanded millions in ransom from Leigh's wealthy father. There's just one problem: Kip Tiller doesn't want Leigh back. He wants her dead. And he's hired the Serologist—a psychotic, patchwork-scarred hit man—to make sure it happens.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Kensington April 2009</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family:Thorndale;"><span style="font-size:100%;">-----</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="justify"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2J7pjX6VEr8OW09OlANzA5nK3OHOYmhjXXMdVPxQYAfqXudHd7Q5A_IXSJnSojh-ngh2erba8j5mXUcD0aCiErleO4BQyZwG2hn23-T15ePGiKEZCxR3rX06DDs2yk9H91tB_SDlusSv/s1600-h/Night+Navigation+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2J7pjX6VEr8OW09OlANzA5nK3OHOYmhjXXMdVPxQYAfqXudHd7Q5A_IXSJnSojh-ngh2erba8j5mXUcD0aCiErleO4BQyZwG2hn23-T15ePGiKEZCxR3rX06DDs2yk9H91tB_SDlusSv/s320/Night+Navigation+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371315101676813698" border="0" /></a></p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br />"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Very, very good</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so smooth a telling of a rough ride that you'd think it was the author's fourth, fifth, or sixth book, not her first</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">major accomplishment</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Ginnah Howard is </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a writer to watch</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Washington Times<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wrenching</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tragic</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> family drama</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Howard is a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">graceful</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">spare</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">fluid</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> writer, and her somber and bleak novel has </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the power to lift and inspire</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Publishers Weekly</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Harrowing</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">unflinching</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . Stark scenarios [that] will be cathartic for readers who have dealt with them firsthand and cautionary for those who haven't</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kirkus</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">starred review</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2009</span></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-17634608118328816262009-08-14T07:52:00.001-07:002009-08-14T08:48:49.506-07:00Reviews Roundup: Phillip Margolin's FUGITIVE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qwZSdfGYY2Eqhnas8N6VECLXA-5XHaCej3kyGreQXYolHwP7EyWn55ZkjdF3IfEitIOfHEHJSyR3Ob__AdRgMhd4FctE-KTKJahmgz_Hys3uJ97_F_w8SpyefXG7FbBop4v8T3wBIGlS/s1600-h/Fugitive+cover.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qwZSdfGYY2Eqhnas8N6VECLXA-5XHaCej3kyGreQXYolHwP7EyWn55ZkjdF3IfEitIOfHEHJSyR3Ob__AdRgMhd4FctE-KTKJahmgz_Hys3uJ97_F_w8SpyefXG7FbBop4v8T3wBIGlS/s320/Fugitive+cover.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369832675919891234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A strong, smart and attractive heroine . . . Pay close attention when reading Phillip Margolin's latest thriller</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This terrific thriller writer outdoes himself</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">superbly clean, fluid style</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, which seems so </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">effortless</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> it's rarely noticed . . . </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">guarantee</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> you'll enjoy it</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Sullivan County Democrat</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sit in your favorite chair, get some iced tea and take this page-turner with you</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . Phillip Margolin is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a master of his craft who deserves the highest rating he can get</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">constant action, danger, and evil villians</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in the book are </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so compelling</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">you will not put it down until the end</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OnceUponARomance.net</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Smart, spunky, and young trial lawyer Amanda Jaffe is now becoming synonymous with smart and young lady lawyers- in and outside of fiction</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> . . . </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Margolin action at its ultimate best</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that culminates in a finish that only he could have thought of. A </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">highly suspenseful and quick-paced</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> read, this latest comes </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">highly recommended</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">New Mystery Reader</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> "</span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A sizzling international thriller</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Examiner<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size:85%;">HarperCollins June 2009</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058101689251072059.post-1128049370684053912009-08-07T06:10:00.000-07:002009-08-07T09:06:16.545-07:00Not-to-Miss May 2009 releases<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1utky2iOfFUr-bHY5WKU5N7kiGtt256yMQH4k5l8VeUE2c1NhB23JaOdrX1Y5AphtX0LMizk6KY0ChT1960WIaA0xKGlD2zSDdai0a7FoavQW_YcVXYcB56TWWji490sMG9LPpAdNAg0I/s1600-h/Little+Stranger.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1utky2iOfFUr-bHY5WKU5N7kiGtt256yMQH4k5l8VeUE2c1NhB23JaOdrX1Y5AphtX0LMizk6KY0ChT1960WIaA0xKGlD2zSDdai0a7FoavQW_YcVXYcB56TWWji490sMG9LPpAdNAg0I/s320/Little+Stranger.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367225585991313010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-waters-little-stranger-nominated.html">Man Booker nominated</a>!!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">A </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">New York Times</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> bestseller</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">A </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Publishers Weekly</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"> Pick of the Week, Summer Reads Pick</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Perfectly calibrated</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> . . . a ghost story as </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">intelligent</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> as it is </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">stylish</span>." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Washington Post</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br />"<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Waters is an </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">excellent, evocative</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> writer</span> . . . an <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">incredibly gripping and readable</span> novel." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The New York Times</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"<span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">An</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">astonishing</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">performance</span>, right down to the book's <span style="font-weight: bold;">mournful</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">devastating</span> final sentence." --</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">S</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">alon.com</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Riverhead May 2009<br /><br />-----<br /></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMObSZ1MZOPpUN4AaE7XgdccDBwTKjU1l2HqFrwFZGhT2TaHKAprrbOdy3ZBn7dA8MHJ9XDdY5moL7v9s8o0QX0I9NFyz3HQM7mBApOVuSsyp6pY1KTckJR8mIzmxCqK-Ru12p_IUZU3K/s1600-h/SLOBcomp2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMObSZ1MZOPpUN4AaE7XgdccDBwTKjU1l2HqFrwFZGhT2TaHKAprrbOdy3ZBn7dA8MHJ9XDdY5moL7v9s8o0QX0I9NFyz3HQM7mBApOVuSsyp6pY1KTckJR8mIzmxCqK-Ru12p_IUZU3K/s320/SLOBcomp2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367229059073277234" border="0" /></a> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; 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-moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Junior Library Guild Selection, Spring 2009</span></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">ALAN Pick, July 2009 (<span style="font-style: italic;">Association on Literature for Adolescents</span>)</span><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">“</span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Intriguingly offbe</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">at</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> . . . </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">humorous, suspenseful and poignant</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> . . . fans of Jerry Spinelli and others of his ilk may especially enjoy it and </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">will be held </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">rapt</span></b></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">.” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">--Kirkus</span></span></i></span></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"A<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">sensitive, touching, and sometimes heartbreakingly funny</span> </span>picture of middle school life." --<span style="font-style: italic;">School Library Journal</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">starred</span> review</p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Philomel</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >May 2009</span><br /></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">-----</p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNF0L3AVaYpkXEA9Lr5DOmaRqts7c4mOEiM12fYMLkJvVZq570Q39m11Ok9hERi_wIWiYI_JE53J0lAIDzZdlyYD2ZAILIkZIjtl_3kJ1w-gwMcV7_7vuDwdrlqY15Cv67LR8FxGtl-Fur/s1600-h/Cryptic+Crinoline+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNF0L3AVaYpkXEA9Lr5DOmaRqts7c4mOEiM12fYMLkJvVZq570Q39m11Ok9hERi_wIWiYI_JE53J0lAIDzZdlyYD2ZAILIkZIjtl_3kJ1w-gwMcV7_7vuDwdrlqY15Cv67LR8FxGtl-Fur/s320/Cryptic+Crinoline+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367247010439801154" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Fifth title in the Edgar-nominated series</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">!!</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">"<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sweet God, how I love these books</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> . . . </span>the best Sherlock Holmes series for kids I've ever been lucky enough to read</span>." --<span style="font-style: italic;">School Library Journal</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">"From the <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">riveting</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> prologue</span> to the <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">satisfying</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> conclusion</span> . . . The atmospheric setting and the voice of the heroine are so <span style="font-weight: bold;">compelling</span> . . . <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Well done</span>!" --<span style="font-style: italic;">School Library Journal</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-right: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:85%;" >Philomel May 2009</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p>Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0