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From Publishers Lunch...my selections...

FICTION:
Toni McGee-Causey's BOBBIE FAYE'S VERY (very very very very) BAD DAY, the misadventures of one extremely pissed off trailer trash Cajun beauty queen who has to outwit former boyfriends, her "hostage" and organized crime in order to rescue her no-good pain-in-the-ass brother from kidnappers run amok in the Louisiana swamps, to Nichole Argyres at St. Martin's, for three books, in a pre-empt, by Lucienne Diver at Spectrum Literary Agency. Film rights are with Vince Gerardis of Created By.lucienne@spectrumliteraryagency.com

NON-FICTION:
Mark Kurzem's THE MASCOT -- tied in to the award-winning documentary of the same name, about a Jewish orphan who was made into a mascot by the Nazis, as years later the mascot and his son set out on a quest that takes them through Minsk, Moscow, Riga, New York, and Stockholm to uncover his past and find a chamber of horrors, past and present, to Hilary Redmon at Viking, by Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).hilary.redmon@Us.penguingroup.com

BIOGRAPHY:
Classics professor Philip Mitchell Freeman's JULIUS CAESAR: A Biography, showing him as a multi-faceted man, at once a great military leader, a master politician, gifted poet and devoted family man, and using Caesar's life as an opportunity to explore Rome's extraordinary transition from a small village to a world power, to Robert Bender at Simon & Schuster, by Joelle Delbourgo at Joelle Delbourgo Associates (world English).joelle@delbourgo.com

BUSINESS:
J. Walter Thompson Greater China CEO Tom Doctoroff's BILLIONS: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer, based on eleven years working with closely with leading international and domestic companies to explain the Chinese consumer, and presenting on-the-ground stories of companies that we are winning and losing in China, to Toby Wahl at Palgrave, at auction, by James Levine of Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (world).jlevine@levinegreenberg.com

HISTORY:
Douglas Egerton's DEATH OR LIBERTY: African Americans in the American Revolution, the story of the black founders of the American republic, both enslaved and free, and of how white Americans responded to the contradictions between Revolutionary ideals and the reality of mass bondage, to Peter Ginna at Oxford University Press, by POM (world).sara.leopold@oup.com

MEMOIR:
Washington Post correspondent Jackie Spinner with commentary by Jenny Spinner's TELL THEM I DIDN'T CRY, a young journalist's story of joy, loss and survival in Iraq, complemented by brief vignettes from her twin sister, who waited and worried on the home front, to Lisa Drew at Lisa Drew Books, by Jeff Kleinman at Graybill & English (world).samantha.martin@simonandschuster.com

NARRATIVE:
Marmot design consultant/spokesperson and contributing editor to Rock and Ice Magazine Pete Takeda's ONCE A SACRED MOUNTAIN: Unlocking the Mystery of Nanda Devi, a mix of adventure narrative and environmental mystery, exploring what happened to India's most sacred mountain (the glacier of which feeds the headwaters of the Ganges) after Americans deployed a plutonium-powered surveillance device aimed down at China during the Cold War, to John Oakes at Thunder's Mouth, in a nice deal, by Rob McQuilkin at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin (NA).rob@lmqlit.com

However...the ones I really am impatient to read are TJ Waters' "Class 11" and Colby Buzzell's "My War". Not gonna be satisfied until I have them either.
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