S E C T I O N S

Rights List Page One

PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO

Our entire rights list is contained on these two pages. The top section, organized by author, is a collection of text links to more information about each title. The additional info is offered below, along with the book’s cover. Click the cover to go to the listing at Amazon.com, read the reviews, and buy the book!

Maury Allen
All Roads Lead to October: Boss Steinbrenner’s 25 - Year Reign Over The New York Yankees
Memories of the Mick

Sandra Bark and Alexis Kanfer
Cheap and Easy: Fast Food for Fast Girls

Barbara Bartlein
Why Did I Marry You Anyway?

Hamilton Beazley
Continuity Management
No Regrets

Dianna Booher
From Contact to Contract: 359 Proven Sales Tips to Generate More Leads, Close More Deals, Exceed Your Goals, and Make More Money
E-Writing: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication

Voice of Authority

Verbal Tea

Lana McGraw Boldt
Rhubarb Summer

JoAllen Bradham
Some Personal Papers

Lenor Madruga Chappell
One Step at a Time
The Next Leg of My Journey

Deborah Davis
You Look Too Young to be a Mom

Hans Deuel
Investing in Internet Stocks: How to Select the High Performers

Patricia Duffy
Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds

Maddy Dychtwald
Cycles: How We’ll Live, Work, and Buy

Joseph H. Ellis

Ahead of the Curve

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan

The Power of Unreasonable People

Matt Eversmann
Battle of Mogadishu: First-hand Accounts from Operation Gothic Serpent

Liza Featherstone
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart

Jeffrey Fox
How to Become CEO
How to Become A Rainmaker
How to Land Your Dream Job
How to Become a Great Boss
How to Become a Marketing Superstar

How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business

Secrets of the Great Rainmakers

How to Get to the Top

Jeffrey Fox and Richard Gregory

The Dollarization Discipline

Shayne Gilbert
90 Days To Launch: Internet Projects On Time and On Budget

Nance Guilmartin
Healing Conversations: What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say

Patricia Henley
In the River Sweet

Dutch Holland
Change is the Rule
Red Zone Management: Changing the Rules for Pivotal Times

Todd Hopkins and Ray Hilbert

The Janitor

Lynne Hugo and Anna Tuttle Villegas
Swimming Lessons

Jason Kelly
The Neatest Little Guide to Do-It-Yourself Investing
The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online
The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Fund Investing
The Neatest Little Guide to Personal Finance
The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing

The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, 3rd Edition

Warner Burke and William Trahant, with Richard Koonce
Business Climate Shifts

Dick Smith and Jerry Blakeslee with Richard Koonce
Strategic Six Sigma

Jaclyn Kostner

Bionic E-Teamwork: How to Build Collaborative Virtual Teams at Hyperspeed

Nancy Liebler and Sandra Moss

Depression

Stuart Lucas

Strategic Wealth Management

Gary MacDougal
Make a Difference: How One Man Helped To Solve America’s Poverty Problem

Vickie Nam
Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American

Lynn Peril
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
College Girls: A Social History

Sophie Powell
The Mushroom Man

Joe Robinson
Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life

Peter Roy and James Autry
The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect

Dan Seidman

Sales Autopsy

Jeffrey Shuman
Collaborative Communities
Everyone is a Customer
The Rhythm of Business

Jeffrey Shuman and Janice Twombly with David Rottenberg
Collaborative Communities
Everyone is a Customer

Kathleen Sindell
Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet
Loyalty Marketing For the Internet Age: How to Identify, Attract, Serve, and Retain Customers in an E-commerce Environment
The Unofficial Guide to Buying a Home Online

Barbara Stoker

Positive Risk

A Woman with a Minute

John Strelecky

The Why are You Here Cafe

The Big Five For Life

Anna Tuttle Villegas
All We Know of Heaven
Swimming Lessons

Jean Walker
The Age Advantage

Cynthia Whitcomb
Selling Your Screenplay
Writing Your Screenplay

Stacy Whitman with Wynne Whitman
Shacking Up: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned

Wynne Whitman and Shawn Glisson

Wishes, Wants and Wills

Chris Widener

The Angel Inside

Irene Zabytko
When Luba Leaves Home: A Portrait in Stories

Susan Zimmermann
Writing to Heal the Soul: Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing

F I C T I O N

Author and Title

Publishers

 Lana McGraw Boldt

RHUBARB SUMMER

A compelling coming of age story destined to become a classic as both a novel and a film. Revolving around Jo Anderson’s wise and humorous remembrance of her twelfth birthday during an idyllic summer, the story explores Jo’s relationship with her friend, Polly, and with those from her hometown of Pine Point: Miss Congreve, a reputed witch; Albert, her pale and gaunt nephew; Aunt Neffie; Mr. Nestor, a fanatic leader of a fire-breathing church; his teenage daughter Anne-Marie; and Elrod Sutter, a high school dropout and part of a backwoods clan known to be both violent and entirely too familiar with their cousins.

Rhubarb Summer has a unique, double climax sure to be remembered long after the last page is read. Lana McGraw Boldt is the author of two Bantam Books novels: Flower of the Pacific (1984) and Fionna’s Will (1987), with an international sale in Norway. 

Ruetten & Loening/ Aufbau Verlag (German)

JoAllen Bradham

SOME PERSONAL PAPERS

JoAllen Bradham’s thought provoking Some Personal Papers won the 1994 Novelists Breakthrough Award in Southern and Southwestern Fiction, and was originally published by the Texas Review Press.

“The reader is challenged, faced with deciding if Miss Genie, respected director of children’s services in a large Georgia city, is a clear-minded benefactor or a madwoman and victim of her own circumstances, or some of each…Although Bradham’s prose is much tighter than Faulkner’s, the complexity of her protagonist’s character approaches the multifaceted personalities in Faulkner’s best work. Eugenia Putman is a figure who would be at home in Light in August, for example.”
— Vanderbilt Magazine

Black Belt Press

IN THE RIVER SWEET  

IN THE RIVER SWEET is Patricia’s second novel, following HUMMINGBIRD HOUSE, which was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and The New Yorker Award for Best Fiction 1999.  IN THE RIVER SWEET tells the story of the Bond family, contemporary mid-western Catholics – Eddie, Ruth Anne, and their grown daughter, Laurel -- who reach an emotional critical mass when secrets long suppressed can no longer be concealed. 

In 1967, at the age of nineteen, Ruth Anne left Michigan for Vietnam in order to be near Eddie Bond while he was in the Army.  While there, Ruth Anne experiences an improbable and unsustainable love affair with a Vietnamese man and bears his child, relinquishing her son to her lover and his mother.  Ruth Anne has kept her son a secret and 33 years later, he contacts her for the first time and wants to meet her.  Irrevocable changes are destined to occur. 

Patricia Henley is the author of three short-story collections, Friday Night at the Silver Star (Graywolf Press (1986), The Secret of Cartwheels (Graywolf Press 1992), and Worship of the Common Heart (MacMurray & Beck 2000) and Hummingbird House (MacMurray & Beck, 1999), a novel.  She teaches the MFA Creative Writing Program at Purdue University.

Praise for The Secret of Cartwheels:

“A wonderful book by a significant writer whose prose dances and paints and sings, and shines a beautiful light on the human heart.  Her delight in the physical world of the earth and the flesh is a spiritual celebration of being alive.”
                  --Andre Dubus

Praise for Worship of the Common Heart:

“These stories, by a marvelous writer who speaks from both the heart and the head, are as comfortable as well-worn denim.”                          --Publishers Weekly, starred review

“It is in these stories that Henley is in her glory:…she can tear open the chests of her characters and hang their insides out to dry in the wind.  In the simplest places, populated by people with simple lifestyles, Henley can expose the tumult and complexity within.  When Henley completes a story, a scene, even a paragraph, she leaves her reader slightly stung, but grateful at the gift of an unvarnished truth.”
                    --Salon.com

Praise for Hummingbird House:

“Deeply felt…A heartbreaking book.”
                    --John Sayles

“Hummingbird House is obsidian, a dark blade, a stone, a mirror.  It begins with a birth and ends with a death, driving home the hard truth of human vulnerability and cruelty…Henley guides her readers through this tale one graceful and slicing sentence at a time.”
       --Hungry Mind Review

Knopf (retained all translation rights)

Todd Hopkins and

Ray Hilbert

THE JANITOR

Too often we find ourselves losing sight of the important things in life, as work and stress take over. This is the situation in which CEO Roger Kimbrough finds himself in THE JANITOR, a Christian business parable with mass appeal. Title character Bob Tidwell helps Roger to reevaluate how he is leading his business and his life, and ultimately how to become more fulfilled. Bob passes on six directives from his late wife:

1. Recharge vs. Discharge
2. View Family as a Blessing, Not a Responsibility
3. Pray, Don’t Pout
4. Pass it Around
5. Don’t Spend, Invest!
6. Leave a Legacy

Thomas Nelson (World English, Latin American Spanish, Latin American Portuguese)

Wisdomhouse (Korea)

Kodansha

(Japan)

Lynne Hugo and Anna Tuttle Villegas

SWIMMING LESSONS

Lynne Hugo and Anna Tuttle Villegas have created a unique and deeply touching novel about an unlikely friendship between two women.

When Marna, an Olympic hopeful who abandons her swimming career for love, first sees savvy, professional Laurel, friendship is the furthest thing from her mind. But Laurel reveals that she’s not quite as perfect as her intimidating appearance indicates – she’s absolutely terrified of the water. She asks Marna for swimming lessons, and slowly these two women become friends. As they learn to trust their friendship, the secrets of their lives spill out, and a shocking discovery threatens to undo their personal lives. And their connection, one that so many women will recognize and celebrate, is sorely tested.

“Swimming Lessons is moving and absolutely beautiful. Lynne Hugo and Anna Tuttle Villegas write with a freshness and generosity of heart that surprises and pulls you in close to the characters. They are a literary match made in heaven. This story of fragility, courage, and redemption is a triumph.”
— Linda Raymond
author, Rocking the Babies

“At a glance, this novel is merely separate stories about two unacquainted and seemingly dissimilar women, told in alternating chapters, and initially, it is. But then, slowly and effortlessly (and even a bit unexpectedly), the paths of the characters begin to cross. The novel takes on a whole new dimension to become a superb tale about the empowerment these women find through their burgeoning friendship…Engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable, Swimming Lessons will leave women either wishing they were blessed with such a beautiful friendship or thanking their lucky stars they are.”
— Booklist

“…the main story – of two people learning to exist in, then enjoy, what each had thought of as an alien element – is bittersweet and rewarding.”
— Publisher’s Weekly

• Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Featured Alternate
• First Serial rights sold to Good Housekeeping
• Film rights sold to Hearst Entertainment. Aired as a Lifetime Original movie titled “Another Woman’s Husband.”

Euromedia (Czech)

Jason Kelly

Y2K:

It’s Already Too Late

The Year 2000 computer problem, known in the industry as Y2K, is real. Operating on its own diesel electricity and private satellite network, Solvang Solutions is the only company still operable after New Year’s Eve 1999. Mark Solvang frantically directs his Year 2000 repair firm to restore the world. He discovers powerful forces exploiting the meltdown and finds himself in a race to save his life.

Y2K — It’s Already Too Late is based on evidence from congressional testimony, military documents, and reports from computing experts. It’s a chilling look at what’s just around the corner.

“With dizzying action...it carries you through a worldwide power outage, runs on banks, bloody raids on suburban grocery stores, plane crashes, massacres on the streets of Los Angeles. The second half of the book even takes a turn into international espionage.
— Denver Post

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but that didn’t stop Los Angeleno Jason Kelly from turning a real-life technology nightmare into a novel. Kelly’s Y2K — It’s Already Too Late — apparently the first novel inspired by the year 2000 computer glitch — envisions massive failures of banks, phones and power plants that ultimately make the U.S. vulnerable to an attack by the Chinese military.
— Los Angeles Times

“If you're interested in learning more about the Y2K bug and the geek-speak used in more technical non-fiction books doesn't appeal to you, Y2K — It’s Already Too Late may be a good choice. It features a lot of factual information and is a good example of fiction being cleverly wrapped into a scenario that’s frighteningly plausible.”
— USA Today Online

• 60,000 copies sold in the US
• Shueisha (Japanese publisher) sold 30,000 copies in the first month of publication and has gone back for a 10,000 copy reprint; author invited to the Tokyo Book Fair ’99 for major media events. Total sold in Japan as of September: 150,000.
• Featured as First Fiction in Publisher’s Weekly
• Consistently made top 50 of Amazon.com
• Dramatic rights optioned to Triad Ray
• Audio rights sold to Sunset Productions
• Book site at www.y2kbook.com
• Author site at www.jasonkelly.com

JK Press

Shueisha (Japanese)

Antet (Romanian)

SanSung Media (Korean)

BB/art (Czech)

Mondadori (Italian)

Sophie Powell

THE MUSHROOM MAN

Laced with whimsy and fairy tale, THE MUSHROOM MAN is the story of two sisters, Charlotte and Beth.  Charlotte, snobbish, discontent and fastidious, lives in London with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Lily.  Unbeknownst to her, Richard is dabbling in extracurriculars with the Estonian au pair Charlotte so painstakingly selected.  And Beth, a widow of two years, lives on a small farm in Wales with her three triplet daughters and teenage son.  After years of pleading, Beth finally convinces Charlotte to bring Lily for a visit.  But when Lily mysteriously disappears into the forest that borders the farm, relationships are strained and facades so carefully constructed come crumbling down.

Sophie Powell is from London, and is currently getting her MFA in creative writing at NYU.  She had a story published in The May Anthologies 2001, edited by Zadie Smith.

Penguin Group (retained World English rights)

In Books Publishing House (Korean)

DHC Corporation (Japan)

Barbera Editore (Italy)

Anna Tuttle Villegas

ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN

Anna Tuttle Villegas has, with this, her first novel, achieved a small miracle: She has written a story that will be remembered as one of the most moving and memorable love stories ever.

Though Austin Barclay is tall, handsome, smart, and kind, and Delores Meredith is pretty, vivacious, and brave, these two lovers feel to us totally believable and human.

“Emily Dickinson stanzas, which begin each chapter and foreshadow the plot, are appropriately selected (often tearfully so) in this promising first novel.”
— Booklist

“If Emily Dickinson were alive and living in California, she might write a book like this one – a bittersweet tale full of pleasure and pain, where nothing is quite as simple as it should be, yet good will prevails.”
— Mary Morris
author, House Arrest and Nothing to Declare

“Anna Tuttle Villegas has written a tender, lyrical story all about the texture of ordinary life and the mysterious way that love and loss make the ordinary suddenly extraordinary. Villegas tells a heartbreaking story in a way that leaves the reader with a sense of hopefulness and even triumph.”
— Joyce Maynard
author, To Die For and Where Does
Love Go?

• First serial rights sold to Good Housekeeping
• Audio rights sold to Brilliance
• Movie option sold to Starzaan Productions, Ltd.

St. Martin’s Press

Goldmann/ Bertelsmann (German)

Hyundae Munwha (Korean)

Ediciones del Bronce/Columna (Spanish/Spain)

Atlantida (Spanish/Latin America)

Editions Ramsay (French)

Nea Synora (Greek)

Sperling & Kupfer (Italian)

Pisgat Idit (Hebrew)

Shueisha (Japanese)

DeProm (Dutch)

Chris Widener

The Angel Inside

Published Book Available Spring 2007

Set in the other-worldly city of Florence , Italy , the reader finds a lost and frustrated young man struggling to find himself, his purpose, and inner peace. So far, his journey in Europe has gotten him nowhere. This young man, Tom, meets a teacher whose classroom includes Michaelangelo’s David and an Italian artisan’s workshop. On his last day in Europe , Tom finally begins to find what he was looking for. With the direction of his elderly teacher, Tom and the reader learn the following lessons that contain the power to change lives:

• Finding the Angel Inside of You
• The Power of Following Your Own Passion
• Being Confident in Your Strength
• Beauty Through Details
• Your Hand Creates What Your Mind Conceives
• The Importance of Planning and Preparation
• All Accomplishment Starts with One Swift Action
• Embracing the Stages of Chipping, Sculpting, Sanding and Polishing
• Being Content: Sometimes Success Takes Years
• No One Starts with the Sistine Chapel

 This self-published novel from Chris Widener moves readers to the next step in fulfilling their lives, and finding the lives they are supposed to lead.

Random House (World English)

Magellan (Korea)

Irene Zabytko

WHEN LUBA LEAVES HOME:
A Portrait in Stories

As a follow up to her stunning debut novel, The Sky Unwashed, Irene Zabytko has written a story collection that explores the core of emotion that links Ukrainian immigrants in 1960s Chicago.  Narrated by Luba, the college age daughter of two Ukrainian scientists, the people who live on Wheat Street struggle with the values and pressures of a new world, but cannot break the common tie that binds them.

Irene Zabytko is a first generation Ukranian-American who was born and raised in Chicago.  She received her MFA from Vermont College and her debut novel, The Sky Unwashed, was published by Algonquin Books in 2000.  The Sky Unwashed was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and was chosen by the New England Booksellers Association as one of the best books of 2000.

Praise for The Sky Unwashed:

“Though Zabytko makes the horror of Chernobyl clear enough -- faces wither, teeth and hair fall out… -- the greater and more grinding catastrophe seems to be the crumbling Soviet state…”
                      --The New York Times Book Review

“One of the joys of reading is coming across a novel in which the author’s voice is so perfectly wedded to an important subject that the blending becomes art…Zabytko’s voice becomes the voice of the forgotten in a moving and memorable book.”
                  --W.D. Wetherell, author of Chekhov’s Sister

“…a wrenching novel…The Sky Unwashed tells its harrowing story with quiet compassion and moving empathy.”
                 --Kirkus Reviews

Algonquin Books (retained all translation rights)

N O N F I C T I O N  

Author and Title

Publishers

Maury Allen

ALL ROADS LEAD TO OCTOBER:
Boss Steinbrenner’s 25 - Year Reign Over The New York Yankees

All Roads Lead To October is the intimate story spanning from 1975 through 2000 of the people and events around the most celebrated sports team in history, the New York Yankees. Set into motion by the arrival of George Steinbrenner, the past 25 years have seen enormous triumphs, devastating losses, and everything in between for America’s favorite team. All Roads Lead To October is wonderfully unique because of the remarkable anecdotes throughout the book that only Maury Allen knows – his intimate knowledge of the Yankees comes from having lived with the players, traveled with them, and having documented their doings over the last quarter of a century. He writes of details never before revealed.

• Film option to HorsePower Entertainment

St. Martin’s Press 

Maury Allen

MEMORIES OF THE MICK

Photography by Bob Olen

Foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning David Halberstam

In this gracefully written memoir, veteran New York sportswriter Maury Allen shows us that the magic of Mickey Mantle is eternal. While giving Mantle’s achievements proper due, Allen goes beyond the numbers to reveal glimpses of the man that only an eyewitness like himself could share.

Maury Allen began covering the Yankees in 1959 for Sports Illustrated and The New York Post. He is the author of more than 30 books, including the bestselling biography Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Bob Olen served as the Yankees official team photographer from 1947 to 1966, and he covered Mantle from his first year with the Yankees until 1995, the year of his death. Olen is currently a sports photographer for The New York Post.

Taylor Publishing

Sandra Bark and Alexis Kanfer

CHEAP AND EASY:
Fast Food for Fast Girls

It's time for the on-the-go girl to learn the joy of cooking-made-easy with Cheap and Easy: Fast Food for Fast Girls by Sandra Bark and Alexis Kanfer.  Finally, a cookbook for the girl who will just as often eat at Babbo as crack the spine of a Batali cookbook; the girl who knows and loves good food but may not yet have found her tried and true recipes; the girl who's never seen the inside of her kitchen but is a little curious what it looks like; and the girl who is looking for the ultimate guide to delicious and simple meals that she'll actually want to make.

As alluring as the recipes in the book are Sandra and Alexis themselves.  Sandra is an editor at Warner Books and has worked on many cookbooks, including The Sopranos Family Cookbook, and Alexis, now at a literary agency, has worked as a line cook, a freelance food writer, and a home chef for the wealthy and crotchety.

Simon & Schuster/ Touchstone

Barbara Bartlein

We are told that if you meet the right person and fall in love, your marriage will thrive and you will be happy. However, while love is important, marriage is not based on love alone. Barbara Bartlein reminds us that a happy, successful marriage almost always is the result of hard work and commitment.

This is a helpful, humorous, and easy-to-read book that will result in positive changes in the lives of those who read it.

Barbara Bartlein is a therapist, professional speaker, successful businesswoman, and writer.

Cumberland House

(retained all translation rights)

Hamilton Beazley

CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT

This book addresses a crisis that will inevitably hit our nation.  We are in danger of losing critical knowledge that will disrupt corporate performance and governmental services, and will have profound negative effects on the United States economy.  This loss of knowledge occurs when there are job transfers and will occur as the baby boomers begin to retire.  CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT seeks to analyze and publicize this crisis, analyze the chronic threat to both the public and private sectors posed by the loss of critical knowledge, and offers a solution that the authors have termed "continuity management" which is an effective and practical response to this looming crisis.

Dr. Hamilton Beazley has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, NBC, CNN, CNBC, and a variety of radio programs.  He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Newsweek and numerous other newspapers and periodicals.  He has also testified before committees of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate as an expert witness.

John Wiley & Sons (retained World English rights)

IBL (Hebrew)

Hamilton Beazley

NO REGRETS:
A Ten-Step Program for Living in the Present and Leaving the Past Behind

NO REGRETS focuses on making the present more productive and offers a practical solution to those whose lives are negatively impacted by the past.  The book's ten step program includes a set of specific actions and an orderly way to determine progress that provides structure and encouragement for readers.

Dr. Beazley is former president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. and is a current member of the Executive Committee of the Division on Addictions of the Harvard Medical School. With several other recovery book titles to his credit, Dr. Beazley is often consulted as an expert on addiction recovery.

John Wiley & Sons (retained World English

rights)

Red Edizioni/Boroli Editore (Italian)

Dianna Booher

THE VOICE OF AUTHORITY: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know

Fortune 500 consultant Dianna Booher is one of the world's foremost authorities on public speaking and business communication. She has trained and consulted for some of the top executives in leading companies-and she has heard all the grumbling between departments about “the lack of communication” today. Using 10 clear-cut strategies, she will show you exactly what to say, how to say it, when to say it, and even how to present yourself credibly-all crucial elements in business today.

Be Complete. Be Consistent. Be Concerned. These rules-and the seven others Booher outlines in this book-sound simple enough. But these essentials of good communication mark the difference between failure and success for any business, career, or relationship. Even if your communication technology changes-from e-mail and voice mail to teleconferencing and blogging-the rules remain the same. You have to be credible as a communicator.

The Voice of Authority is loaded with practical tips to help you

Sell your ideas and expand your influence
Inspire and motivate others to be part of a winning team
Handle crises in a way that builds rather than destroys trust
Identify critical characteristics that increase your credibility
From the most routine messages to more sensitive “bad news” subjects, you'll be able to manage reactions, communicate with clout, and lead others with success.

McGraw Hill (World Rights)

Dianna Booher

VERBAL TEA

Published book available February 2008.

Scientists say that it is our language, our ability to communicate, that separates us from the animals. It is extremely important in this age of high speed communications that people communicate correctly. This is twofold. First, grammar is hardly taught in school anymore, and commonly misused words and phrases sprinkle correspondence and speech. Everyone is susceptible to these kinds of mistakes, from CEOs to high school students. VERBAL TEA attacks the most commonly confused rules of grammar and syntax through a light and easy to understand approach that any of grammar offender can follow.

Dianna Booher is one of the top 20 speakers in the country and has a proven sales record of over 40 published works. She founded Booher Consultants in 1980 and has since spread her valuable techniques around the world.

McGraw Hill (World Rights)

Dianna Booher

E-WRITING:
21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication

This book is an essential tool for all office professionals.  Dianna Booher offers clear, succinct advice on how to improve the basic areas of communication in business by fusing traditional grammar with modern electronic applications.  In an age full of technological advances in the field of communications, even top CEOs and the best administrative assistants often forget the most basic things.  This book reinforces the importance of the elements of clear communication.

 Dianna Booher is the CEO of Booher Consultants, a communications training firm, and has sold her products and services to executives in 25 of the largest 50 corporations in America.  She is the author of 38 books, and she speaks nationally and internationally at conventions for the National Speakers Association and The American Society of Training and Development.  She was named one of the top 21 speakers of the 21st century by Successful Meetings magazine.  Dianna appears on a Yahoo site under their browser topics of “career” and “education/training” as one of their “Top 20” speakers/authors.  The other speakers include:  Steven Covey, Tom Peters, Faith Popcorn, among others.  Dianna also received the industry award, “1997 Consummate Speaker of the Year,” an honor she shares with Margaret Thatcher.

Simon & Schuster/ Pocket Books

Dianna Booher

FROM CONTACT TO CONTRACT:
350 Proven Sales Tips to Generate More Leads, Close More Deals, Exceed Your Goals, and Make More Money

According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, more than 16 million Americans work as sales professionals. Add in the vast number of small business owners, consultants, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who must sell their services and promote their credibility in order to succeed, and it’s clear that there’s a huge need for practical, easy-to-apply information on the art of sales.

FROM CONTACT TO CONTRACT fills this need in a way no other book does. It offers broad coverage of each facet of sales in one easy-to-skim reference. From prospecting and presenting to consultative conversations and closing, the book provides a comprehensive collection of tips and best practices without getting bogged down in long explanations of sales theory and models. Dianna Booher has pulled together insights gained during her highly successful 21-year career as a sales and communication consultant to help readers understand how to:

• Gain commitments from customers and prospects.
• Manage their pipeline.
• Generate leads.
• Use strategic persuasion techniques to turn information into real communication.
• Deal with difficult buyers.
• Negotiate to maintain profit margins.
• Sell across gender lines.
• Stay motivated during a competitive upsurge or economic downturn.

FROM CONTACT TO CONTRACT is a sales primer professionals will use again and again. It is filled with practical techniques and advice they can learn quickly and put to use immediately.

Dearborn (retained World English rights)

Lenor Madruga Chappell

ONE STEP AT A TIME

Lenor Madruga had stunning beauty, vibrant health, a handsome, loving husband, two wonderful young children, and a successful modeling career when, on the morning of her 32^nd birthday, she discovered the small hard lump on her thigh.  Within a few nightmare months, she had barely saved her life – and lost her entire left leg to cancer. 

First published in 1979 by McGraw-Hill and then translated into six languages, ONE STEP AT A TIME TELLS THE STORY OF Lenor’s struggle to return from the abyss of pain, drug addiction, self-torment, and depression that threatened to swallow up her entire life.  Internationally embraced as the inspirational story of the 1980s, it is a triumphant story of her determination to dance, swim, water-ski, ride horses, make love – and do almost everything she used to do before her operation.  It is a story that will make you realize how great the power of love and faith and courage can be – the revelation of a woman who overcame all the odds to become whole again.

iUniverse

Lenor Madruga Chappell

THE NEXT LEG OF MY JOURNEY

Award winning author and international speaker, Lenor Madruga Chappell continues to move readers with her latest book, THE NEXT LEG OF MY JOURNEY.  Lenor engages the reader with the intimate and heart wrenching details of the painful demise of her marriage, more painful she says than losing her leg.

Committed to living life, no matter what it brings, this remarkable story of learning to love again is just as uplifting and honest as its predecessor.  Beginning when she is forty years old, single and an amputee, fighting to rebuild her life to secure the future of her daughters as well as herself, this is a story of unbelievable will power and triumph.

iUniverse

Deborah Davis

YOU LOOK TOO YOUNG TO BE A MOM:
Teen Mothers Speak Out on Love, Learning, and Success

Published book available 2004

YOU LOOK TOO YOUNG TO BE A MOM is an anthology of writing by women who became mothers as teens.  The contributors have written about subjects ranging from love to education, sleep deprivation to stereotypes.

Overwhelmingly, advice to teen mothers stems from the assumption that these young women have made a mistake and are a liability, but the contributors to this anthology write unapologetically and at times defiantly about the real joys and challenges of being young mothers.

Ariel Gore, teenage mother, founding editor of Hip Mama, and author of several books, is writing a foreword and Deborah Davis is the author of two YA novels published by Crown and Atheneum.  She has worked for six years with "at risk" teenagers, and as a doula, a birth assistant, for pregnant teenagers.

Penguin Group/ Perigee

Hans Deuel

INVESTING IN INTERNET STOCKS:
How to Select the High Performers

Investing in Internet technology stocks is exploding for both institutions and small investors in the US and the UK. Traditional businesses as well as younger businesses have prospects that depend on successful Internet implementations. The US is the first adopter of Internet technology, but the EU is following quickly. What are the business models that succeed, which have failed or will fail, and how can one get it right from an investment perspective? This book provides an overview of US past performance and prediction of UK future prospects of the Internet industry and all its different sectors.

Hans P. Deuel has been a successful technology investor for 12 years. He has a BS in Chemistry, a BA in Mathematics, and a  Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from UC San Diego. He began investing in computer companies in the mid 1980’s, when he first started using them. He began investing in computer companies when he first started using them.  He began investing in optics companies when he built and used lasers in the early 1990’s. Hans is an atmospheric consultant, writing large-scale programs for computational modeling of the atmosphere and air pollution and  works at UC San Francisco in computational molecular biology, specifically the protein folding problem.

Kogan Page (UK)

Patricia Duffy

BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS:
How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds

For most people, sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are experienced singularly and are not often (without the help of hallucinogenic drugs) experienced at the same time in the same context: Chicken doesn’t taste pointy, the letter R is not orange, and the month of January isn’t garnet red. One in 2,000 people, however, has reported having synesthetic experiences – where the customary boundaries between the senses seem to break down and sight and sound, or taste and touch, become interwoven.

Patricia Duffy has synesthesia. She only realized it when she turned 16 and was reminiscing with her father about when she learned to write the alphabet. She told her father that she was shocked and delighted to discover that to make the letter ”R,” all she had to do was add a line to the ”P,” thereby changing it from a yellow letter into an orange letter by merely adding a line.

BLUE CATS AND CHARTREUSE KITTENS is an exploration of a condition that modern science has largely ignored. Pat’s personal story is augmented by her portraits of other synesthetes, and by the writings of many of the most famous synesthetes: Nabokov, Rimbaud, Richard Feynman, and many others. With an introduction by Peter Grossenbacher, the scientist at the National Institute of Health leading the studies about synesthesia, the project is a balance of both the scientific and the personal side of this fascinating neurological phenomenon.

Patricia Duffy is a language instructor at the United Nations and has had articles published in Ms. Magazine, The Boston Globe, New York Newsday, and The Village Voice, among other publications.

• First serial rights sold to Vogue Magazine, October 2001 issue

Henry Holt

Goldmann (German)

Hayakawa
(Japanese)

Maddy Dychtwald

CYCLES:
How We’ll Live, Work, and Buy

CYCLES will show that we are at the dawn of a “lifecycle revolution.”  Spurred by increasing longevity, the speed of technologic change and the aging of boomers, this lifecycle revolution offers a release from a set of oppressive values, attitudes, and expectations that have defined our lives, how we’ve lived, and the kinds of products and services we buy -- and when we buy them. 

The new cyclic model that is emerging is more flexible in nature, offering each of us the chance to break free of the age-old assembly line of prescribed life passages and repeatedly reinvent ourselves so that we can, for example, go back to school at 25, 45, or 65, start a new career at 30, 50, or 70, or retire more than once in a lifetime. 

This lifecycle revolution is hanging the very essence of who we are, what we do, when we do it, and how we’ll buy products and services -- everything from insurance to adventure travel, from cosmetics to real estate.  For business, the book offers a unique snapshot of the new empowered consumer and a new model for segmenting the marketplace.

Maddy Dychtwald is a nationally recognized public speaker, marketing executive, and entrepreneur.  Ms. Dychtwald is considered an authority on demographically-driven trends.  She co-founded Age Wave, Inc., the nation's premier consulting firm focused on the mature market.  She has been frequently featured in newspapers, magazines, and trade publications nationwide, has delivered speeches to more than 50,000 people worldwide over the last few years, and is an award winning producer of numerous communications programs including a PBS special depicting a positive image of aging.

The Free Press

Sunbright (Chinese/ complex)

Citic (Chinese/simple)

Kobunsha (Japanese)

Joseph H. Ellis

AHEAD OF THE CURVE

This is a practical guide vital for managers, amateur investors and economists alike. In this work, Joseph H. Ellis teaches readers how to predict the stock market and economic cycles, offering them an easy, hands-on, insider’s approach. AHEAD OF THE CURVE is a must-read for anyone who wants to be successful in investing.

Joseph H. Ellis is a top retail analyst and a former general partner at Goldman Sachs. Institutional Investor Magazine ranked him as the #1 analyst for the retailing industry for 18 consecutive years. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Ellis was the principal author of the firm’s publication, Retail Economic Indicators , which was widely hailed for its forecasting of major turning points in consumer spending and general economic activity.

AHEAD OF THE CURVE Reviews

Harvard Business School Press (retained World English rights)

TIEM ( Turkey );

Leaders Book Publisher (Korea );

China Machine Press ( China )

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan

THE POWER OF UNREASONABLE PEOPLE

John Elkington is the world’s leading authority on corporate social responsibility, a field that has recently attracted the attention of influential leaders like Al Gore and David Blood, former CEO at Goldman Sachs. John has authored of over 15 books on the topic, including GREEN CONSUMER GUIDE that sold one million copies. Pamela Hartigan is the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, started by Klaus and Hilde Schwab in 2000, founders of the famous World Economic Forum which takes place in Davos each year. As the media partner for the US, Fast Company helps decide the top social entrepreneur in the country to be honored ahead of Davos 2006. Both authors are working together to nurture the growing global community of social entrepreneurs.

This highly qualified team explores the inner workings of the world’s top social entrepreneurs through interviews, stories, and lessons. Global sustainable capitalism has developed in waves, with the next wave right around the corner. The leaders in social entrepreneurship share developing opportunities and what to expect in the future.

Critical Reviews

Harvard Business School Press (World Rights)

Matt Eversmann

BATTLE OF MOGADISHU: First-hand Accounts from Operation Gothic Serpent

"At liftoff, Matt Eversmann said a Hail Mary."

So begins Mark Bowden's New York Times Bestseller, Black Hawk Down.  It tells the story of the US offensive in Somalia in 1993 and is one of the most riveting and frightening accounts of warfare ever recorded.  Bowden's portrayal of the brave men of the Ranger and Delta forces immortalized them as heroes.

Matt Eversmann is one of those heroes.  His acts of bravery in battle made it to the big screen when Black Hawk Down was released nationwide.

After leading his men through the bloody streets of Mogadishu, Somalia -- the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War -- Matt Eversmann emerged physically intact but emotionally transformed. With a foreword by Mark Bowden, MODERN WAR is an anthology of first person narratives by the men who fought this battle, then men of the 75th Ranger Battalion.  The closest one can get to knowing what life is like in battle, MODERN WAR is as chilling as it is moving.

Random House/ Presidio Press (retained all translation rights)

Liza Featherstone

SELLING WOMEN SHORT: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart

SELLING WOMEN SHORT, written by journalist Liza Featherstone, explores the groundbreaking lawsuit brought against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., with more than one million current and former female employees seeking class-action status -- making it the biggest employment discrimination lawsuit ever.  The battle will be public and it will be brutal, and it could potentially change the way women everywhere are treated in the workplace.  Liza uses the case less as a narrative and more as a springboard from which to look at Wal-Mart, sexism, low-wage work, and poverty.

Liza Featherstone writes on both feminism and labor issues.  She is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The Nation, and Newsday.  Her work has also been published in The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Ms., Nerve, Salon, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, among many other publications.  She is the author of STUDENTS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS which was published by Verso in Spring 2002.

Basic Books

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO BECOME CEO:
The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization

• New York Times bestseller
• Wall Street Journal bestseller
• # 3 Business Week bestseller

Employees and recent graduates everywhere are asking, How do I get ahead? How can I become CEO? This book has the answers. In How to Become CEO , consultant Jeffrey Fox has written an insightful handbook of traits to develop for all generations of CEO aspirants – or for anyone who wants to get ahead in today’s business world. Open it to any page and find a short, provocative piece of brutally honest advice written in a conversational tone.

This is a book of hard-headed idealism that will empower you to develop the qualities that are required of leaders.

Jeffrey Fox earned his MBA at Harvard Business School, and is the founder of Fox & Co., a premier marketing consulting company.

“Marketing executive Jeffrey Fox uses a brief, one-theme-per-chapter format to inform us How to Become CEO. He advises handwritten notes for congratulations, thank-yous, etc…and he lists 16 books to study, from the Bible to Shakespeare, without a traditional management book in sight…if you do benefit from this book and one day make it to CEO, do the right thing and send Fox a thank-you note. Handwritten, of course.”
— USA Today

“Fox heads his own marketing consulting company, and he demonstrates here that he knows how to package an idea. Fox’s guide is filled with 75 tips that are short, sweet, and to the point. Moreover, the ideas themselves are fresh…Refreshing!”
— Booklist

• Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Money Book Club
• First serial rights sold to Mademoiselle
• Audio rights sold to Audio Renaissance

Fox Reviews

Hyperion

Econ (German)

GoldenBough/ Minumsa (Korean)

Campus (Portuguese)

China Times (Chinese/complex)

Achiasaf (Hebrew)

Uniboek (Dutch)

Norma (Spanish/Latin America)

Accari FCB Banraiska (Japanese)

Gestion 2000 (Spanish/Spain)

Tangram (Slovenian)

Random House, U.K. (British)

Kritiki (Greek)

Teora (Romanian)

WSOY (Finnish)

Egmont Wangel (Danish)

Editions De L’Archipel (French)

Sperling & Kupfer (Italian)

ISL (Swedish)

Liaoning Education Press (Chinese/simple)

Sinisukk (Estonia)

Penerbit Erlangga (Indonesian)

Sviesa Publishers (Lithuanian)

Pragma (Czech)

Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin (Arabic)

Barka (Croatia)

Alpina (Russian)

SE-Education (Thai)

Alteo Ltd. (Turkish)

Vocatio (Polish)

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO BECOME A RAINMAKER:
The People Who Get and Keep Customers and Clients

In the vein of his bestselling How to Become CEO, Jeff Fox has created what will be another mega-seller. With solid advice in a remarkably accessible format, How to Become a Rainmaker will follow in the tremendous footsteps of CEO. Only Jeff Fox has the expertise and the style to give readers applicable advice on how to be the best sales person possible, no matter what the industry or position.

• Business Week bestseller
• Audio rights sold to Audio Renaissance
• Committed high five-figure marketing plan from Hyperion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Fox Reviews

Hyperion

China Times (Chinese/complex)

Econ (German)

Teora (Romanian)

Kritiki (Greek)

Random House (UK)

Sinisukk (Estonia)

Penerbit Erlangga (Indonesian)

Editorial Diana S.A. (Spanish/Mexico)

Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin (Arabic)

The Nan (Korea)

Svenska Forlaget (Swedish)

Ediciones Martinez Roca (Spanish/Spain and Latin America)

Accari FCB Banraisha (Japanese)

Achiasaf (Hebrew)

IBL (Hebrew/condensed version)

L’Archipel (French)

Century (Chinese/simple)

Alpina (Russian)

Vocatio (Polish)

SE-Education (Thai)

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO LAND YOUR DREAM JOB:
No Resume! And Other Secrets to Get You in the Door

Formerly DON'T SEND A RESUME.

DON’T SEND A RESUME has been relaunched as HOW TO LAND YOUR DREAM JOB. Jeff explains the intricacies of landing a job by comparing the interview to a sales call.  He teaches the reader to think in terms of using a resume as sales literature, that the potential employer is actually your customer, and that you are both the salesman and the product being sold.  He uses fun and interesting examples such as chapter one, which is called "You Are A Box Of Cereal."  Perfect for recent graduates or people making career changes at any point in their lives, DON’T SEND A RESUME plays it straight.  Jeff offers some tried and true advice, but in the tradition of How to Become CEO, has ideas and strategies most of us have never heard of, let alone thought of.  He has interviewed thousands of people and has compiled his advice in this remarkable book that not only makes sense but is fun to read as well.

• Audio rights sold to Audio Renaissance

Fox Reviews

Hyperion

Penerbit Erlangga (Indonesian)

Centro Atlantico (Portuguese)

Random House (UK)

China Times (Chinese/complex)

L’Archipel (French)

MVG (German)

Jinmyong (Korean)

Norma (Spanish)

Century (Chinese/simple)

Alpina (Russian)

Vocatio (Polish)

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO BECOME A GREAT BOSS:
The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees

In HOW TO BECOME A GREAT BOSS, Jeff Fox strikes again with his candid and creative advice, this time for employers who want to maximize their employees’ potential. This book lays out new, direct and pertinent rules for interacting with employees, including how to determine the cause of poor performance and alleviate it, and how to reward workers in simple but important ways. With humorous and heartening examples, Fox provides essential yet easy to follow advice for grooming hard-working, trustworthy, and happy employees—the key to success in any type of business.

• Audio rights sold to Hyperion Audio
  

Fox Reviews

Hyperion

China Times (Chinese/complex)

Random House (UK)

Estonia (Sinisuuk)

MVG (German)

The Nan (Korean)

Sperling & Kupfer (Italian)

Editora Ciencia Moderna (Portuguese/Brazil)

Norma (Spanish/Latin America)

Century (Chinese/simple)

Kritiki (Greek)

Alpina (Russian)

SE-Education (Thai)

Vocatio (Polish)

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO BECOME

A MARKETING

SUPERSTAR:

Unexpected Rules that Ring the Cash Register

Jeff Fox turns his contrarian eye to marketing through brand building and innovation. His advice is delivered in snappy, to-the-point chapters that zero in on his creative and often counterintuitive advice and features such unforgettable fundamentals as:

• Make a big splash, instead of a lot of little ripples
• Always have a pipeline to the president
• Own a market, not a mill
• The long and short definitions of marketing

There are also provocative “Instant Marketing Superstar” challenges throughout the book, offering the reader a chance to solve real business problems. In a time of corporate budget cuts, it’s more important than ever for all employees to be creative marketers. HOW TO BECOME A MARKETING SUPERSTAR is certain to find a place on the shelves of anyone who wants to increase sales in a competitive marketplace.

• Audio rights sold to Hyperion Audio

Fox Reviews

Hyperion

China Times (Chinese/complex)

Century (Chinese/simple)

Vermillion (UK)

Alpina (Russian)

Thenan Publishing Company (Korean)

Sinisukk (Estonian)

Vocatio (Polish)

Jeffrey Fox

HOW TO MAKE BIG MONEY IN YOUR OWN SMALL BUSINESS:

Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know

Ever dream of starting your own business? According to USA Today , more than 47 million people want to own their own businesses and over 20 million actually do. In How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business , bestselling business author Jeffrey Fox offers sound rules to succeeding in small business, whether you're running a bookstore, consulting business, or restaurant.

This book will flood you with ideas for your own small business (or even your big one).

Hyperion

Vermillion (UK)

Alpina (Russian)

Sperling & Kupfer (Italian)

Vocatio (Polish)

Jeffrey Fox

SECRETS OF GREAT RAINMAKERS:

Keys to Success and Wealth

What’s better than getting business advice from Jeffrey J. Fox, a proven rainmaker and bestselling author? Getting tips, tricks and potent stories from famous and soon-to-be discovered rainmakers from around the world with proven track-records and new ideas in selling, customer service, innovation and business strategy.

Jeffrey J. Fox’s books are pub