Take your pick of all these books...and a film!

Note: March is fast approaching...and that means that T.J. Waters' book on the first class of CIA trainees after 9/11 will soon be available! That's "Class 11" I'm talking about. Hot damn!

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION/DEBUT:

Liz Moore's THE WORDS OF EVERY SONG, A novel in linked stories set in New York's music industry, to Kendra Harpster for Broadway, in a nice deal, by Nina Collins at Collins Literary (NA).

Jon Clinch's first novel FINN, the dark story of Huck Finn's father, to Will Murphy at Random House, at auction, by Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management (NA). Film rights are with Howard Sanders at UTA.jkleinman@foliolit.com

MYSTERY/CRIME:

Edgar-nominee Anna Salter's TRUTH CATCHER, the first in a series featuring a forensic psychologist, who uses her psychic ability to pursue violent sex offenders, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus, by Helen Zimmerman at The Helen Zimmermann Literary Agency (world).

SCI-FI/FANTASY:

Jon Armstrong's GREY, a debut set in a future where every single move of the rich and famous is reported by the media and plastic surgery is as common and easy as getting a haircut, to Jason Williams at Night Shade Books, in a nice deal, by Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown (NA). clindsay@nightshadebooks.com

THRILLER:

Chris Kuzneski's SWORD OF THE CRESCENT, the follow-up to SIGN OF THE CROSS, about a potential attack on Mecca and the furious plans to stop it, along with the previously self-published THE PLANTATION, to Natalee Rosenstein at Berkley, by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group (NA).

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT:

Ellen Emerson White's LONG MAY SHE REIGN, for teens and beyond, imagining a woman president's daughter in her first year of college -- having recently and barely survived a terrorist kidnapping, to Jean Feiwel at Holtzbrinck, by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House (world English).heifetz@writershouse.com

FILM:

Film rights to A.M. Homes' THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE, optioned to Scott Steindorff at Stone Village Pictures, with Type A's Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Simpson co-producing, reportedly for "mid-six figures," against a seven-figure pickup, by Sarah Chalfant at The Wylie Agency.

BUSINESS/INVESTING/FINANCE:

Business Week senior writer Stephen Baker's THE AGE OF NUMBERS: In Which They'll Get My Number - and Yours, discussing how mathematicians are starting to map individual human behavior -- what we do, who we are, how we work, chat, play and shop -- and in so doing, will change every aspect of our lives, from the kind of medical advice we get, to the ads we see, to the performance reviews we receive, to the way politicians try to win our votes and protect us from terrorist attacks, to Amanda Cook at Houghton Mifflin, in a pre-empt, by James Levine of Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (NA).efisher@levinegreenberg.com

HEALTH:

Director and choreographer Jamie King's THE ROCK YOUR BODY WORKOUT, a fitness program based on dance moves, to Heidi Rodale and Zachary Schisgal at Rodale, by Eileen Cope at Trident Media Group.

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Pulitzer Prize-winner Elliot Jaspin's BURIED IN THE BITTER WATERS: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America, presenting extensive evidence of ethnic cleansings throughout the US in the period between Reconstruction and the Great Depression, in towns and counties both North and South, in which blacks were run out by white mobs in episodes of extreme violence, to Lara Heimert at Basic, for publication in fall 2006, by Amy Rennert at Amy Rennert Agency (world).isabelle.bleecker@perseusbooks.com

THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE author Chris Mooney's STORM WORLD, about the connection between hurricanes and global warming, and the scientific, cultural, political, and highly personal debate that is swirling around it, to Tim Bent at Harcourt, by Sydelle Kramer at Susan Rabiner Literary Agency (world).andrea_schulz@harcourt.com

Author of Collision and Collusion, Janine Wedel's THE SHADOW ELITE: How the New Corruption Is Remaking the World, an expose of the evolving nature of government corruption, to William Frucht at Basic, by Michael Carlisle of Inkwell Management (NA).

MEMOIR:

Jeff Henderson's FROM COCAINE TO FOIE GRAS, the story of his journey from teenaged crack dealer (and prison inmate for 10 years) to world-class chef at a resort in Las Vegas, to Harriet Bell at William Morrow, at auction, for publication in 2007, by Michael Psaltis of The Culinary Cooperative, a division of Regal Literary (world).

Filmmaker Sadia Shepard's FOOTPATHS IN THE PAINTED CITY: A Young Woman's Search for Identity in Jewish India, a look at the author's grandmother's secret history as a descendant of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, which landed in India in the 14th century, to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press, with Jane Fleming editing, by Fredericka Friedman of Fredericka Friedman and Company (NA).

REFERENCE:

Filmmaker Sadia Shepard's FOOTPATHS IN THE PAINTED CITY: A Young Woman's Search for Identity in Jewish India, a look at the author's grandmother's secret history as a descendant of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, which landed in India in the 14th century, to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press, with Jane Fleming editing, by Fredericka Friedman of Fredericka Friedman and Company (NA).

UK:

UK rights to guitarist Andy Summer's autobiography, ONE TRAIN LATER, going from his early days on the Bournemouth and London music scenes to the height of world-wide superstardom with The Police, to Albert DePetrillo at Portrait/Piatkus, for publication in fall 2006, by Susan Schulman at Susan Schulman Literary Agency.

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