THE MARRIAGE ARTIST autorstwa Andrew Winer A novel of haunting beauty and unflinching honesty that strips away notions of commitment, passion and fidelity to reveal an essential truth: there is a love that is greater than the words that bind it, one that cannot be described, but only illuminated. Daniel Lichtmann, a successful art critic, is absorbing devastating news. His wife Aleksandra has committed suicide along with her lover, the celebrated artist Benjamin Wind. Daniel is left to grapple with a double tragedy. Half a century earlier i...
MUHAMMADA: Story of the Last Prophet autorstwa Deepak Chopra The New York Times bestselling author of BUDDHA and JESUS captures the life of Muhammad in this page-turning and soul-stirring story of the man who inspired the world’s fastest-growing religion.“Without guides who reached higher consciousness, the world would be bereft of its greatest visionaries – fatally bereft, in fact. Muhammad sensed this aching gap in the world around him. He appeals to me most because he remade the world by going inward. That’s the kind of achievement only available on t...
OTHER WORDS FOR LOVE (previously titled LIMERENCE) autorstwa Lorraine Zago Rosenthal Ari Mitchell feels invisible at her Brooklyn high school. Her hair is too flat, her style too preppy, and her personality too quiet. And outside school, Ari feels outshined by her beautiful, confident best friend, Summer. Their friendship is as complex and confusing as Ari’s relationship with her troubled older sister, Evelyn, a former teenage mom whose handsome firefighter husband fills Ari’s head with guilty fantasies.When an unexpected inheritance enables Ari to transfer to an el...
Stephanie Dolgoff – MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE: Dispatches from just the Other Side of Young Only one week after publication, Stephanie Dolgoff’s MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE hit the New York Times Bestseller Extended List! Rocked by the realization that she's no longer considered young--no longer ogled, marketed cool things, nor "in the know"--a fabulously funny 40-something examines her "adult tween" years (30-45) and discovers that they are even better than being 21! When men stop making lecherous cat-calls and Spanx finds a home in your lingerie drawer, when marke...
THE SWEET RELIEF OF MISSING CHILDREN autorstwa Sarah Braunstein They were going to forgive her. It was decided. It had always been decided, even before the girl ran, even before she was born. You forgive your child. You are always forgiving them, always, every moment, every breath. It’s the work of parenthood. They scream, you forgive. They embarrass you publicly, you forgive. They break the heirloom, they pull you away from yourself, they obliterate your freedom, they run away, they take off in the night—and what do you do? You forgive. You pray for their return, p...
THE INTIMATES autorstwa Ralph Sassone To view the manuscript, please click on the following link: http://web.wma.com/openpackages/o.aspx?P=73BAFF11145647 Ralph Sassone's debut novel.Robbie and Maize are like Sonny and Cher (without the singing or the tragedy), Ross and Rachel (but out of the closet and not nearly as grating), or Alvy Singer and Annie Hall (except it all does – sort of – work out in the end). They are a pair, confidantes and intimates, building their lives and discovering themselves by the reflection they see in one another.&nbs...
THE HANGING TREE autorstwa Bryan Gruley AWARD NOMINATIONS: Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel, Anthony Award (Bouchercon) Nominee for Best First Novel and Best Paperback Original (will be announced in October), Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original, Strand Magazine Critics Award Winner (with Josh Bazell) for Best First Novel “Gruley’s second has it all—suspense, mystery, romance, detection, clear-eyed hometown nostalgia, professional dangers along with the other kind—even if it seems that not a single citizen of Starvation L...
CAKEWALK autorstwa Kate Moses, a mouth-watering memoir of the sweet and the bittersweet. Filled with delectable recipes, Moses shares in CAKEWALK how being a self-taught baker whose love of baking—and stories—were the key ingredients to surviving a turbulent childhood. At the tender age of three, she gorged on a mysterious dessert left untended in a neighbor’s kitchen, devouring it whole. Despite the inevitable spanking that followed, “whatever that voluptuous thing was,” she decided afterward, still rubbing her sore bottom, “suck...
MONSTERS EAT WHINY CHILDREN autorstwa Bruce Eric Kaplan MONSTERS EAT WHINY CHILDREN is a cautionary tale for children (and indecisive monsters), branded with Bruce Eric Kaplan’s signature style. It features kidnapped siblings Henry and Eve, and a cast of hilarious, loveable, and neurotic monsters who just cannot make up their minds about how to prepare the deliciously whiny pair. O Autorze: Kaplan, known for his distinctive, off-beat single-panel cartoons, has been a New Yorker cartoonist for over ten years. He is also a television writer, and wa...
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IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini, is being made into a film by Focus Features and Wayfare Entertainment that will be a limited released in the US on September 24th, starring Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Keir Gilchrist. Hyperion is planning to publish a tie-in edition of the book on August 31st. Please check out the funny trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ZEq3coRvE Craig Gilner is a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who’s come down with a nasty case of clinical depression since he started his ultra-competitive high school, ...
Pierwsza książka z serii "Order of the Sicari Series" - ASSASSIN'S HONOR autorstwa Monica Burns. Archeologist Emma Zale sees the past when she touches relics. It's how she uncovered evidence of an ancient order of assassins- the Sicari. When a sinfully dark stranger shows up on her Chicago doorstep demanding an artifact she doesn't have, he drags her into a world where telekinesis and empaths-someone who can sense the emotions of others- are the norm. Now someone wants her dead, and her only hope of survival is an assassin, who's every bit ...
YOU: RAISING YOUR CHILD: The Owner’s Manual from First Breath to First Grade autorstwa Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz’s YOU: RAISING YOUR CHILD, wherein the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the YOU health series present the ultimate parents’ guide to raising a happy, healthy child. Dr. Mehmet Oz—host of television’s The Dr. Oz Show and a daily Sirius/XM radio program for Oprah Radio—and Dr. Michael Roizen—chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland C...
BURIAL FOR A KING: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation autorstwa Rebecca Burns From an award-winning journalist, this is a riveting account of the landmark week between Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and his funeral—and a defining moment in America’s history. On April 9, 1968, a seven-and-a-half hour series of funeral rituals took place in Atlanta, honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, five days earlier. In the aftermath of King’s...
GIRLS TO THE FRONT: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution autorstwa Sara Marcus The 1990s were a hard time to be a young woman, growing up on the promise of equal rights that didn’t square with reality. The right wing was comparing feminists to Nazis; sexual assault rates were soaring and harassment was rife in schools; boys still would be boys, and girls had to watch what they wore and where they walked. It was enough to make a girl want to scream. Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an uncompromising movement of pissed-off girls in their t...
THE NATURAL NAVIGATOR autorstwa Tristan Gooley There was a great piece in the New York Times on Saturday about Tristan Gooley's book, THE NATURAL NAVIGATOR. Here is the link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/23/opinion/20100724_OPART.html?scp=1&sq=navigating%20the%20urban%20jungle&st=cse Virgin's UK edition of THE NATURAL NAVIGATOR is still selling very well. It was published just 4 months ago and has already been reprinted three times. The US edition will be published in January 2011 by The Experiment (a new&nb...
WHEN MONEY DIES: The Nightmare Of Weiman Hyper-Inflation autorstwa Adam Fergusson. This book (which featured in the non-fiction section of our LBF rights guide) was originally published in the 1970s and is being re-published next month in the UK by Old Street Publishing with a new introduction. You will see that the subject matter still resonates very strongly in today's economic climate. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 m...
A DOG'S PURPOSE autorstwa W. Bruce Cameron A DOG'S PURPOSE hit #20 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction list and is also an L.A. Times and So Cal Indiebestseller! This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog’s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-hai...
ROLE MODELS autorstwa John Waters A series of richly evocative homages to personal icons from John Waters, who to many is a filmmaking demigod in his own right . . . John Waters’ ROLE MODELS is a self-portrait told through intimate literary profiles of the author’s favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Miss Esther, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the French auteur Marguerite Duras; from the atheist leader ...
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST. CLOUD by Ben Sherwood. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHARLIE ST. CLOUD has been on The New York Times Bestseller List (twice). The SEQUEL to The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood will be published in the US by Random House, and edited by Jennifer Hershey. We have also just closed a pre-emptive deal with Paul Baggaley at Picador, Macmillan for UK/Commonwealth rights. In The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, Charlie tends the lawns and monuments of a...
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