http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/ Rights news, rights offerings, and book proposals posted by members of Publishers Marketplace en-us 2009-11-06T22:53:07+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Publishers Marketplace hourly 1 2004-11-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6658 Bestselling author, trainer, and prolific Blanchard keynote speaker Vicki Halsey ("The Hamster Revolution") offers readers a tried and tested model for designing teaching experiences that bring out learners' natural brilliance and make learning stick. Maria Jesus Aguilo, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2009-11-06T22:53:07+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6657 To help leaders, managers, and front-line workers build greater trust within the organization, trainer, speaker, and performance expert Karen Hough guides readers through practice of radical collaboration based on the tenets of improvisation. Maria Jesus Aguilo, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2009-11-06T22:48:45+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6656 108 techniques used around the world since ancient times to achieve peace and understanding. (In Indian tradition, 108 is an auspicious number for spiritual fulfillment.) These practices will enrich the reader's spirit no matter what her faith and give more meaning to her life by transforming it into a walk with the divine. Krista Goering, The Krista Goering Literary Agency LLC 2009-11-06T21:29:30+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6655 This volume spotlights the thinking of millions of successful people who excel in other ways, but remain powerless against and under the control of alcohol. The book includes a look at celebrity alcoholics like singer Eric Clapton and actor/comedian Robin Williams, as well as alcoholics in high positions including Chris Albrecht, former Chairman and CEO of HBO. Other high-profile people included in this book are Miss USA 2007 Tara Conner and football legend Joe Namath. Brien McDonald, ABC-CLIO 2009-11-06T16:18:53+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6654 In the early 1950's, Vinnie Colletta, fresh out of art school, began illustrating all types of comic books. It wasn't long before he started working on romance books exclusively. His exquisitely beautiful women and creative drawing techniques elevated comics from cartoons to art. After the comic book "implosion" of the late 1950's, Vince connected with many of the surviving publishers including Connecticut's Charlton Publications. Employing many out of work ... Franklin Colletta 2009-11-06T00:51:44+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6653 (81,000 words) The Price of Innocence is Vicki Hopkins' debut fiction novel, penned to tug at the hearts of many. Insightful, but delicately written, the author draws a picture of life, but allows the reader to paint the canvas of intimacies in their own imagination. It is the tender story of Suzette Camille Rousseau, a young woman in late 19th century Paris, who makes a difficult journey from innocence to maturity. After losing a sheltered life with her father, Suzette is thrown into ... Vicki Hopkins 2009-11-05T21:06:45+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6652 (67,360 words). Young-adult novel set in the late 1930s at a Hudson's Bay fur-trading post, in the area of the famed Northwest Passage expeditions. Working in the desolate Arctic is not what seventeen-year-old David Jansson planned to do. But when his dad sends for him, he agrees to go. David hasn't seen his father for five years, and the hot-tempered man he finds is not the gentle father he remembers -- he has become a domineering, abusive alcoholic. And when David falls for an ... Bonnie Turner 2009-11-05T02:23:41+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6651 (93,400 words) Commercial/Historical In which Daniel Tomelin, a veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, abandons his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road in search of work and relief from his nightmares . . . Back home, Daniel's wife, LaDaisy, provides for their children with domestic work and by wet-nursing another woman's baby. Then one day, her landlord rapes her for the rent. When Daniel does decide to come home, it may be too late to save his ... Bonnie Turner 2009-11-05T02:05:47+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6650 The Lake, by Banana Yoshimoto, a novel to be translated by Michael Emmerich about a young woman's relationship with a man trying to overcome childhood involvement with a cult, by Jennifer Lyons of the Lyons Agency on behalf of the Zipango Agency, to Dennis Johnson of Melville House, in a nice deal for publication in 2011. World English. Dennis Johnson, Melville House Publishing 2009-11-04T23:12:43+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6649 Abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8996229 Sharlene Martin, Martin Literary Management 2009-11-04T19:21:36+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6648 This inspirational training guide will give women the knowledge, skills, and motivation needed to try their first triathlon or take their training to the next level. Through a mix of unique insights, encouragement, and support, readers will gain a "can do" attitude that will help them overcome any obstacles along the journey. Krista Goering, The Krista Goering Literary Agency LLC 2009-11-04T19:02:21+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6647 Forty-eight life-changing sonnets by classic and modern poets. Hidden meanings are unveiled by anthologist John Wareham, who also distills and dissects sonnets from the emailed missives from the e-mailed love missives from the Mark Sanford Appalachian Trail affair, transcripts from the John and Elizabeth Edwards media meltdown, the infamous Charles and Camilla cell phone conversation, and the BBC interview of Diana Spencer. Bill and Hilary Clinton also make cameo appearances. Margaret King, The Flatiron Literary Agency 2009-11-04T17:06:27+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6646 Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man -- the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Her goal is to ID a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that. After a week of ghosts, near-drownings, surly elderly tourists, and stampeding ponies, Ella finds in Mitch the answer to a question she has never dared ask herself: Do I need anyone in my life? But before they make that connection, the ... Michael Jasper (author) 2009-11-03T15:55:32+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6645 In a near future filled with violence from terrorists and suicide cultists, the Wannoshay aliens crash-land on the Great Plains of America and Canada. When Father Joshua McDowell enters one of the twenty-nine landing sites guarded by the Army, the slow process of integration of aliens into human society. Later, on one of her trips to Winnipeg to buy more of the new drug Blur, Alissa Trang uses her ever-present camera to film the first wave of "Wantas" moving into Winnipeg. She ... Michael Jasper (author) 2009-11-03T15:52:58+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6644 Publishers Weekly Review MAID IN THE SHADE "A children's book author (Egg Drop Blues, 1995, is the third in a series about twin African American middle-school boys) tries her hand at adult fiction in this mystery debut. Ruby Gordon is a college-educated cleaning woman in Petite, Tenn. Ruby, a woman of substance (who also has a distinctive, appealing voice) is proud of her independence and her own home, which she shares with her sister Emerald. Upon learning that her best ... Kim Nunez, Banks Communications Literary Agency 2009-11-03T00:39:54+00:00