Kavita Daswani, author of For Matrimonial
Purposes, Village Bride In Beverly Hills, Salaam Paris, Indy Girl, and
Lovetorn, has now written a trilogy with a working title of LOVE and POWER
acquired by Karthika VK, publisher of HarperCollins India, who described it as
having "all the elements of bestselling fiction: drama,
passion, glamour,a great plot and a hugely likeable central
character" and is publishing the first book in the trilogy
on Jan/Feb 2012 with an initial printing of 10,000 copies by Jodie Rhodes who
has kept all world rights. jrhodes1@san.rr.com French rights to Kavita Daswani's newest work,
a trilogy currently titled LOVE AND POWER that's already been sold to
HarperColllins India now picked up by publisher Bernard de Fallois for Editions
de Falloise who plans to publish the first book in the trilogy on Feb. 2012
with the author going to Paris to participate in the major publicity planned
for it by Jodie Rhodes. Author of INTERNAL AFFAIRS and THE BROKEN BLUE
LINE Connie Dial, an LAPD 27-year veteran cop who rose through the ranks
from patrol officer to Area Commanding Officer of the LAPD's Hollywood Division
and recently retired to write about her career has just finished her third book
FALLEN ANGELS which opens with the shooting of Hollywood starlet Hillary
Dennis, followed by the murder of her agent and the discovery of an appointment
book that not only reveals the names of the most powerful and influential men in
LA, along with corrupt cops, but the name of newly promoted LAPD Captain Josie
Corsomi's husband, putting not only her entire career on the line but her
marriage as well to Martin Shepard at The Permanent Press by Jodie Rhodes. jrhodes1@san.rr.com High school English teacher Janet Lynch, who
launched her writing career with a short story bought by The New Yorker
Magazine and is the author of MESSED UP, ADDICTED TO HER and RACING CALIFORNIA
just finished her fourth novel MY BEAUTIFUL HIPPIE, inspired by her
students' fascination with the sixties in which they wear sixties
styles and T-shirts with sixties rock stars, and listen to sixties music,
is set in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, with a 15 year
old female protagonist who's an aspiring pianist that falls in love with
a hippie, and represents themes that echo today with traditional values vs the
counterculture, the morality of wars in general and the Vietnam War in
particular and the effects of the women's movement on American society to Mary
Cash at Holiday House by Jodie Rhodes. jrhodes1@san.rr.com THE UNSPOKEN VARIABLE by Dr. Constance
Hilliard, author of Does Israel Have A Future, which reveals how stereotypes
about African American masculinity drive research on racial difference in
intelligence to Hilary Claggett at Potomac by Jodie Rhodes. Physicist James Mahaffey, who was one of the
experts selected to appear on PBS's program about Japan's nuclear crisis, has
written a new book THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR POWER which explains in detail
readers can comprehend exactly how Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami
affected their nuclear plants, the history which has led up to nuclear plants
around the world and what, if any, is their future to Frank Darmstadt at Facts
On File by Jodie Rhodes. GENE THERAPY: Treating Disease by Repairing
Genes by molecular biologist Joseph Panno to Frank Darmstadt at Facts On File
by Jodie Rhodes. BIOSPHERE: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Loss by
science writer Dana Desonie, whose doctorate is in oceanography, to Chelsea
House Publishers by Jodie Rhodes. THE EARTH AND THE MOON, which pays significant
attention to the impact of climate change, by Dr. Linda T Elkins-Tanton to
Frank Darmstadt at Facts On File by Jodie Rhodes. REDUCING GLOBAL WASTE by microbiologist Anne
Maczulak to Frank Darmstadt at Facts On File to Jodie Rhodes. A SURGEON'S GUIDE TO NECK AND BACK PAIN by
Aaron Filler, one of the world's leading authorities on nerve and spinal
surgery and Medical Director at the Center for Advanced Spinal Neurology at
Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, to Joan Bossert at Oxford
University Press by Jodie Rhodes. Chair
of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and director of the Forensic
and Investigative Sciences program at Purdue University Jay Siegel's FORENSIC
SCIENCE AT WORK, to Rosen,
by Jodie Rhodes,
on behalf of Sheila Swapp at Oneworld. Chair
of the Department of Communications at Wake Forest University Ananda Mitra's
DIGITAL MUSIC: Computers That Make Music, to Chelsea House,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Microbiologist
Anne Maczulak's INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR ORIGINS, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Earth
Scientist for the Bureau of Land Management's GREENHOUSE GASES: The Worldwide
Impacts, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Neuroscientist
Kyle Kirkland's MARINE SCIENCES: Notable Research and Discoveries, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Molecular
biologist Joseph Panno's STEM CELL RESEARCH: Medical Applications and Ethical
Controversies, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes. Specialist
in patent protection for computer technology and author of THE GENIE IN
THE MACHINE patent attorney Robert Plotkin's COMPUTERS IN THE WORKPLACE, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Author
of ATOMIC AWAKENING and senior research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research
Institute physicist James Mahaffey's FUSION AND THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER, to
Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
jrhodes1@san.rr.com Dr.
Katherine Cullen's PIONEERS IN SCIENCE, which profiles notable scientists in
the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, marine science, earth science,
weather and climate, technology, space and astronomy, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Dr.
William Gough's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE, which focuses on the
impact of acid rain and the trosposphere, which is the lowest layer of the
atmosphere, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Dr.
Peter Faguy's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMISTRY, which explains the importance of
catalysis as an integral part of our lives from specific chemical conversions
in our bodies and low levels of hydrocarbon tailpipe emissions in automobiles
to complexes found in laundry detergent that help form a strong bleaching
agent, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Regular
guest on Martha Stewart Living Radio and author of both THE FIVE SECOND RULE
and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MICROBIOLOGY, as well as GREEN TECHNOLOGY Anne
Maczulak's ALLIES AND ENEMIES: How The World Depends on Bacteria, to Tim Moore
at FT Press,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Neuroscientist
Kyle Kirkland's FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE, which includes information on dark matter
and dark energy, extrasolar planets, galaxy formation and evolution,
intersteller travel and space colonization, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes.
University
of California, San Diego, mathematical statistician Tucker McElroy's THE A TO Z
OF MATHEMATICIANS, which features an international selection of scientists
whose work has contributed to mathematics and impacted society in lasting ways,
with a comprehensive biographical collection of 150 specialists from antiquity
to the present, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes. Dana
Desonie PhD's BIOSPHERE, that reveals how human activity is decimating the
earth with species extinction occurring at a rate 10 to 100 times faster than
in the planet's recent history, to Chelsea House,
by Jodie Rhodes.
Microbiologist
Anne Maczulak's GREEN TECHNOLOGY, which includes information on animal and
plant diversiy, environmental ethics, native versus invasive species and human
decisions that endanger wildllife, to Frank
Darmstadt at Facts on File,
by Jodie Rhodes. Technology
commentator for the media, including Time Magazine, Dr. Ananda Mitra's CYBER
TERROR AND CYBER SECURITY, revealing how continued technological growth only
empowers hackers, hate groups and spam and explores methods that both the
government and ordinary citizens are taking to protect themselves, to Chelsea House
byJodie Rhodes
From agent Jodie Rhodes:
Smart Guide to Practical Math by Jim Stein
Smart Guide to High School Math by Jim Stein
Smart Guide to Evolution by Stanley Rice
Smart Guide to Backpacking and Hiking by Brian Nordstrom
Smart Guide to Chemistry by Brian Nordstrom
Smart Guide to The Periodic Table by Brian Nordstrom and Monica Halka
Smart Guide to Energy by Alvin Saperstein
Smart Guide to Nutrition by Anne Maczulak
Smart Guide to Biology by Anne Maczulak
Smart Guide to Fighting Infections by Anne Maczulak
Smart Guide to Forensic Science by Max Houck
Smart Guide to Forensic Careers by Max Houck
PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE
New deals for July 12 , 2010
Professor of chemistry and director of forensic and investigative sciences at West Virginia University Suzanne Bell's DRUGS, POISONS AND CHEMISTRY, offering insider information on arsenic, drugs as evidence, forensic drug analysis, history and pioneers, the Marsh test and toxicology, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Criminalist, firearms examiner and laboratory manager for 23 years in government crime laboratories in Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma Edward Hueske's FIREARMS AND FINGERPRINTS, revealing that the science of using fingerprints in human identification goes back several thousand years, with information on the development of crime scene reconstruction and the significance of the crime lab, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Projects Director of the Forensic Science Initiative Max Houck's SCIENCE VS. CRIME, covering early pioneers of forensics Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others, the first uses of forensics, the rise of DNA, science in the courtroom and highlights of pivotal cases, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes Literary Agency.
Physicist Thomas Bohan's CRASHES AND COLLAPSES, analyzing building collapses, explosions, fires and motor vehicle crashes for their potential criminal acts and predicting the future of universal incorporation of "black boxes" into motor vehicles, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Director of Forensic and Investigative Sciences at West Virginia University Suzanne Bell's FAKES AND FORGERIES, explaining how physical evidence suspected of being faked, forged or fraudulent is examined forensically, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Director of the Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University Max Houck's HAIRS AND FIBERS, explaining one of the central concepts in forensic science - the Locard exchange principle which states that whenever two objects or persons come into contact, evidence is exchanged, with a focus on crimes of violent contact, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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New deals for July 7 , 2010
Professor and director of graduate studies for forensic science in the Dept. of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago R.E. Gaensslen's BLOOD, BUGS AND PLANTS, exploring how these three disciplines within biological science relate to forensic science through blood spatter patterns, the study of insects whose life cycles inform autopsies and a field used to analyze plants as evidentiary material, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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New deals for July 6, 2010
Author of Combat Chaplain: A Thirty-Year Vietnam Battle Jim Johnson's COMBAT TRAUMA, the true story of l6 soldiers whose war experiences left them with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, revealing it is incurable, a lifetime sentence, which caused Terri Julian, clinical director of the VA Jack Wisby, Jr. PTSD Treatment Center in upstate New York, to state this was the first-person account of veterans living with PTSD ever written as far as she knew, to Suzanne Stasza-Silva at Rowman & Littlefield, by Jodie Rhodes. The author is donating all his advance and royalties to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Author of The Critical Companion to Dante Jay Ruud's THE CRITICAL COMPANION TO J.R.R. TOLKIEN, which reveals that Tolkien was not only famous for his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but his essay on "The Monster and the Critics" revolutionized Beowulf criticism, to Jeff Soloway at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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New deals for May 21, 2010
Senior intelligence officer and author of THE INTELLIGENCE WARS Steven Ohern's IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD, in which he states that no organization or country -- not al Qaeda, North Korea, Russia, or China -- poses a greater threat to the United States and they will soon possess the ability to send Americans back to the nineteenth century by a single Iranian nuclear weapon exploded high above a Midwestern city, whose resulting electromagnetic pulse emitted by a high altitude nuclear detonation could destroy computers, consumer electronics, and, most critically, hundreds of large transformers that distribute the country's electricity, wiping out America's lights, refrigerators, water pumping stations, and televisions, leaving 300 million Americans without food or water, to Hilary Claggett at Potomac Books, by Jodie Rhodes.
Science
Dr. Edward Griffor's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, explaining both the biological neural network which stimulates the way the brain processes information and the artificial neural network used in components of models for human thought and consciousness in artificial information, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Earth scientist for the Bureau of Land Management Julie Casper's CLIMATE MANAGEMENT: Solving The Problem, which explores public and government involvement in combating global warming and reviews conservation programs developed by other countries, international institutions, private organizations and individuals, to Chelsea House, by Jodie Rhodes.
Professor at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Mark Moldwin's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACE AND ASTRONOMY, which covers in detail Astrobiology, the Astronomical Unit and the Ganymede Moon, the largest moon in the solar system, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Dr. Marc Menetrez's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, which covers both the indoor and outdoor environment and its effects on both science and legal social justice, reviewing how Homeland Security issues have caused environmental repercussions, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE
New deals for April 23, 2010
Molecular biologist Joseph Panno's AGING, which explores the history of gerontology, the quest for immortality, the search for longevity genes and current anti-aging medicine, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Director of the Forensic Science Initiative, trace evidence expert and forensic anthropologist assigned to the FBI Laboratory from l992 to 2001 Max Houck's FORENSIC SCIENCE: Modern Methods of Solving Crime, which debunks TV forensic shows and treats the reader to an insider's overview of the realities of forensic science from how the science is conducted to its actual benefits and limits, along with the new techniques to catch 21st century criminals, to Praeger, by Jodie Rhodes.
Member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Natural Resources Defense Council's International Nuclear Program physicist Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald's BEGINNING LIFE, which examines bold medical innovations that have both created new lives and saved many others, to Chelsea House, by Jodie Rhodes.
Neuroscientist and scholar of the visual system and properties of neural networks Kyle Kirkland's EARTH SCIENCES, which presents a staggering array of phenomena that affect the planet in ways that may still be unknown, including the interior of the earth, volcanoes, earth's magnetic field, earthquakes and geothermal energy, to Chelsea House, by Jodie Rhodes.
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New deals for March 8, 2010
Science
Professor and director of graduate studies of forensic science in the Dept. of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Illinois R.E. Gaensslen's BLOOD, GUTS AND MORE, which explores how biology relates to forensic science in three principal areas: the identification of blood and other physiological fluids; DNA typing and interpretation of blood-spatter patterns; and entomology, the study of insects whose life cycles inform autopsies, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Founder and director of The Institute of Mathematics at St. Marks School and author of Solve This: Mathematical Activities for Students and Clubs James Stanton's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCES, which is notable for its clarity on binary and prime numbers, especially the Mersenne prime, and the highly readable biographies of famous scholars, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
Author of LIES, DAMNED LIES AND SCIENCE and director of education outreach at UCSD and science columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune Sherry Seethaler's CURIOUS FOLKS ASK, based on her newspaper column in which she answers reader questions ranging from How did the ancient Egyptians build the Giza Pyramids? to Why do we get skin cancer from sun-damaged skin when damaged cells are continually sloughing off and being replaced?, again to Tim Moore at Pearson, by Jodie Rhodes.
Author of FORENSIC CHEMISTRY and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FORENSICS Suzanne Bell's A DICTIONARY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE, which is illustrated throughout with major case examples and covers everything from firearms, toolmarks, trace evidence, crime scene investigation and forensic computing, to Vicki Donald at Oxford University Press, byJodie Rhodes.
Deals: 2/22/2010
By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 2/22/2010 12:00:00 AM
T.J. Kelleher at Perseus bought, at auction, James Stein's Cosmic Numbers. Agent Jodie Rhodes brokered the deal—Kelleher bought world rights, save Japanese and Korean translation rights, which Rhodes held onto—for a book that explores the special power of certain numerical combinations that represent the history of the sciences of physics, chemistry, astronomy, and actually define our universe. Stein teaches math at the University of California, Long Beach, and has written three other books, the last being 2009's How Math Can Save Your Life.
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New deals for February 22, 2010
Date: February 22, 2010 3:02:20 AM PST
Science: University of California professor of mathematics James Stein's COSMIC NUMBERS, revealing the power of special numbers like the Chandrasekhar limit which represent landmarks in the history of physics, chemistry and astronomy and actually define our universe, to T.J. Kelleher at Basic, at auction, by Jodie Rhodes (world, excl. Japan and Korean).
From : Laura Czaja
Date : February 09, 2010
To : Sherry Seethaler
Subject : curious folks ask--kindle daily blog on Friday
Just wanted to give you a heads-up on this- your book was nominated and accepted for the Kindle blog on Amazon. And great sales news as well! See below.
Laura
We nominated Seethaler / Curious Folks Ask for kindle daily blog in Feb and it ran on Friday: check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A1F8Z0JAEIDVRY/ref=cm_blog_open
You’ll need to scroll down to the Feb 5 entry.
Just received the sellthru report and Amazon sold 110 copies last week, making this title our #2 topseller last week for all of PTG! Presently ranked #361 across all Kindle.
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Date: September 28, 2009
To: Jodie
Subject: Today's deals from PublishersMarketplace.com
FICTION: YA/TEEN
SAVING SARAH, a debut novel by author Bob Raubaugh preempted by Phoebe Yeh at HarperCollins from agent Jodie Rhodes, is the story of 14 year old Jimmy whose father's been sexually abusing him but now threatens to go after his 5 year old sister Sarah and when Jimmy can find no help from his school's counselors, Child Protective Services or the foster care system that would keep them together, he decides the only solution is to kill his father. The end of the book is startling. Rhodes has kept UK and translation rights, along with performance rights.
MEMOIR
Margaret Hawkins' memoir The Girl Who Turned Into A Ghost, about her sister, a brilliant, beautiful young woman who returned from Iraq totally unrecognizable after 3 years there with her husband, a victim of schizophrenia, whose father refused to get her treatment and spent 33 years isolated in her bedroom until her parents died, at which time her much younger sister, author of this memoir, stepped in and miraculously in just the past two years found a path to curing her schizophrenia that created multiple publishing interest won by Caroline Pincus at Red Wheel Weiser/Conari Press by Jodie Rhodes who kept UK, translation and performance rights.
FICTION: YA/TEEN
Author of MESSED UP Janet Lynch’s new noved Addicted to Her, tells the story of Rafa, a star on the school’s wrestling team who’s head over heels with a girl who’s leading him down dangerous paths while he ignores Andy, the girl who adores him and is perfect for him, again to Mary Cash at Holiday House by agent Jodie Rhodes.
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Date: September 28, 2009
To: publishersmarketplace.com
Subject: YA/TEEN FICTION
FICTION: YATEEN
THE PRICE OF LOYALTY, a debut novel by schoolteacher Michael Castan, is the story of a 13 year Mexican boy who finds it hard to fight the peer pressure from boyhood friends he's had since kindergarten to join their gang, and in an environment where his parents are absent (sent back to Mexico as illegals) and he's living in a neighbor's house, he's pulled along a wave of uncontrollable calamity that leads to drugs and deadly violence where he must decide to keep silent or break the code of loyalty and reveal the truth to Mary Cash at Holiday House by Jodie Rhodes who has kept UK and translation rights along with performance rights.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deals
by
Rachel Deahl – Sept 28, 2009
Agent Jodie Rhodes sold North American rights to debut novelist Bob Rambaugh's Saving Sarah to Phoebe Yeh at HarperCollins Books for Children. In the YA work, a 14-year-old boy tormented by his father looks to murder as a solution after the “system” fails him and the father sets his sights on the boy's younger sister..
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Date: July 14, 2009
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NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of THE GREEN PLANET and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EVOLUTION Stanley Rice's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIODIVERSITY, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of NATURAL RESOURCES and GLOBAL WARMING Julie Casper's SCIENCE THROUGH THE AGES, again to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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Date: July 13, 2009
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NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of THE FIVE SECOND RULE and BACTERIA: RULERS OF THE WORLD Anne Maczulak's GREEN TECHNOLOGY and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MICROBIOLOGY, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of PICTURES OF THE MIND Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald's CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SCIENCE, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of THE GENIE INSIDE THE MACHINE Robert Plotkin's COMPUTERS, INTERNET AND SOCIETY, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of LIES, DAMNED LIES AND SCIENCE Sherry Seethaler's CURIOUS FOLKS, again to Tim Moore at Prentice Hall, in a two-book deal, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of ATOMIC AWAKENING Jim Mahaffey's THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
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Date: May 6, 2009
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FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER
Author of THE DIAGNOSIS OF LOVE Maggie Leffler's THE GOODBYE COUSINS, about an up-and-coming news anchorwoman as her carefully ordered life begins to unravel when a cousin she hasn't seen in years begins to dig into their family history to find truths she thought she'd put out of her life forever, to Caitlin Alexander at Bantam Dell Discovery, by Jodie Rhodes.
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FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER
Author of A YEAR WITH CATS AND DOGS Margaret Hawkins's HOW TO SURVIVE A NATURAL DISASTER, a story of family betrayal, violence and forgiveness told in six voices including those of the strange, silent Peruvian orphan who is adopted and brought to Chicago at six months old to mend the lives of an already troubled family, again to Judith Shepard and Martin Shepard at The Permanent Press, by Jodie Rhodes.
FICTION: DEBUT
Brian Walker's BLACK BOY - WHITE SCHOOL, revealing what a well-meaning society does when it takes a bright kid out of the ghetto, away from family and friends, and puts him in an elite white prep school -- where he gets his education but he never really fits in, never is truly accepted and then he goes home to discover he no longer fits in where he grew up either, to Phoebe Yeh at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Jodie Rhodes.
FICTION: THRILLER
27-year LAPD veteran and author of INTERNAL AFFAIRS Constance Dial's THE BROKEN BLUE LINE, in which a rogue group of corrupt cops are terrorizing the community and the only one to stand up to them is a lone Internal Affairs officer who's put his life on the line to bring them down, again to Martin Shepard and Judith Shepard at The Permanent Press, by Jodie Rhodes.
CHILDREN'S: YOUNG ADULT
Author of FREAKED Jeanne Dutton's STRANDED, which reveals someone in the small town of Heaven, Iowa is keeping a terrible secret when a farmer discovers an abandoned newborn wrapped in a sweatshirt in a cornfield on the edge of town and a 15 year old must decide whether to tell the police all she knows, or protect her family from the scandal that will surely follow, again to Phoebe Yeh at Harper, by Jodie Rhodes.
Kirkus Review April 1, 2009 issue
(STARRED) Smithson, Ryan
GHOSTS OF WAR: My Tour of Duty
Ryan Smithson was a typical 16-year-old high-school student until 9/11. “I’d thought about joining the military the moment I saw the towers fall,” he writes in this profoundly moving memoir. Smithson enlisted in the Army Reserve the following year and, a year into the Iraq war, was deployed to an Army engineer unit as a heavy-equipment operator. His poignant, often harrowing account, especially vivid in sensory details, chronicles his experiences in basic training and in Iraq. “Only after we have been completely destroyed can we begin to find ourselves,” Smithson writes of basic training, offering an unflinchingly honest portrait of the physical and psychological brutality of that experience. His account of his tour of duty in Iraq is no less compelling. He lucidly recounts the intensity of battle and the pain of losing comrades. For Smithson, the war is a source of personal enlightenment, and this memoir is a remarkable, deeply penetrating read that will compel teens to reflect on their own thoughts about duty, patriotism and sacrifice. (Memoir. YA)
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NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Molecular biologist and author of THE NEW BIOLOGY Joseph Panno's follow-up book which covers today's groundbreaking discoveries in genome research, viruses, the immune system and modern medical therapies, again to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Fellow of the World Economic Forum and physicist Robert Ayres and former Editorial Director at the Worldwatch Institute Ed Ayres's THE MAKE-OR-BREAK MOMENT: Physical Science vs the Economists, revealing that it's not only possible to generate cost free electricity but it is actually being produced right now, and explaining how economists have ignored these important discoveries, providing the government with wrong information and rejecting the pleas from scientists to see what's really going on, to Amanda Moran at Prentice Hall, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Author of THE FIVE SECOND RULE microbiologist Anne Maczulak's BACTERIA: RULERS OF THE WORLD, to Amanda Moran at Prentice Hall, by Jodie Rhodes.
NON-FICTION: SCIENCE
Earth Scientist for the Bureau of Land Management Julie Casper's SCIENCE THROUGH THE AGES, which takes the reader from 499 C.E. through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution and The Age of New Science up to the grounding breaking world of science today, to Frank Darmstadt at Facts on File, in a very nice deal, by Jodie Rhodes.
Fiction Reviews
-- Publishers Weekly, 7/28/2009
Three Minutes on Love Roccie Hill. Permanent, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57962-169-8
In Hill's wonderful debut, young Rosie Kettle departs her quaint desert town to chase her dreams in 1960s San Francisco. Attending art college, Rosie has a chance encounter with an illegal immigrant named Peter who publishes a music magazine. Peter gives Rosie her first job, photographing a once legendary blues guitarist and his talented young partner, David Wilderspin. That assignment catapults Rosie into a hot career on the rock scene, an addictive lifestyle and a troubled affair with David. The two become inseparable, settling into a dream home and having a baby. But when David sets out on tour to support his disappointing new album, the road takes more out of him than he anticipated, and soon memories of his perfect life are drowned in booze. Hill's characters are believably flawed, and her powerful romance about the intersection of love, art and independence features compelling plot developments and a strong climax while deftly avoiding artists-in-love stereotypes. (Oct.)
Agent Jodie Rhodes