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From Publishers' Lunch Weekly:

FICTION...GENERAL/OTHER:

Author of THE GODFATHER RETURNS Mark Winegardner's second authorized sequel THE GODFATHER'S REVENGE, with a storyline that explores the role organized crime may have had in the assassination of a charismatic young President, moving to Dan Conaway at Putnam (Puzo's original publisher), for publication in fall 2006, by Neil Olson at Donadio & Olson for the Puzo estate and Amy Williams at Collins McCormick for Winegardner (NA).

CBA bestseller Lauraine Snelling's BREAKING FREE, the story of a broken woman who finds new life in rescuing a condemned thoroughbred horse and the handicapped little boy who loves it, to Chip MacGregor at Center Street, for publication in September 2007, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world).

Former HarperCollins editor Bridie Clark's BECAUSE SHE CAN, a roman a clef about a young woman in publishing who juggles 18 hour days, outrageous manuscripts, and a rapidly approaching wedding date, all while slaving under a famously tyrannical female boss, to Jamie Raab at Warner, in a pre-empt, with Karen Kosztolnyik editing, by Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT:

Johanna Edwards's CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE SPY, about a high school girl whose world is turned upside down when her FBI Agent dad brings his work -- protecting a very cute 17-year-old boy -- home with him, to Michelle Nagler of Simon Pulse, at auction, in a two-book deal, in a nice deal, by Jenny Bent at Trident Media Group (world).mailto:.jbent@tridentmediagroup.com

TELEVISION:

Rights to Steffan Postaer's THE LAST GENERATION, asking if people could not have babies anymore, just what would the last generation do?, to NBC with Mike Medavoy, Phoenix Films, and Touchstone Television as executive producers of the series, by Janet Carol Norton of Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann Agency, in advance of Mary Hall Mayer at The Hall Agency selling literary rights.mailto:rights.maryhallmayer@aol.com

FOREIGN:

German and Spanish rights to Gloria Goldreich's DINNER WITH ANNA KARENINA, to Paul List Verlag and Ediciones Maeva, respectively, by Daniel Schnurrenberger at the Liepman Agency and Isabel Monteagudo at Internatio