A slim selection of up-coming books....

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

NON-FICTION: COOKING:

Canadian freelance magazine writer, Mark Schatzker's STEAK: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef, to Rick Kot at Viking, by Richard Morris at Janklow & Nesbit (NA).

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Jim Hightower's SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT: Even and Dead Fish can Go with the Flow, with Susan DeMarco, using humorous stories about people who changed their lives and their world to inspire a new generation of activists, to Eric Nelson at Wiley, for publication in 2008, by Rafe Sagalyn at The Sagalyn Agency (NA).

1989 National Book Award finalist William Pfaff's MANIFEST DESTINY: The American Crisis and the Enlightenment Era, examining the deep forces behind the new American militarism that will likely continue unchecked long after President Bush leaves office, to George Gibson at Walker, by Steve Wasserman at Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson (NA).

MEMOIR:

THE FIRST EMANCIPATOR: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter author Andrew Levy's A BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY: A Migraine Diary, a cultural, historical, medical, and personal memoir of migraines and their transformative power and pain, to Sarah Hochman at Simon & Schuster, by Lydia Wills at Paradigm (world).

Prince of Asturias Awards for International Cooperation recipient Somaly Mam's THE ROAD TO LOST INNOCENCE, the story of being sold into sexual slavery in Cambodia at a young age by her family only to emerge years later as a spokesperson for and rescuer of women and children tortured in the brothels of Southeast Asia, to Julie Grau at Spiegel & Grau, for publication in September 2008, by Susanna Lea at Susanna Lea Associates (US).

GENERAL/OTHER:

Amanda Robb's THE WAR ON SEX, a look inside the hidden culture of the abstinence movement, its surprising influence on public policy, and its impact on our health, our families and our relationships, to Nan Graham at Scribner, by Stuart Krichevsky at the Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).
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UK:

Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen's THE WOLF ODYSSEY: An Epic Tale of Chivalry and Destruction in World War I, about a lone, audacious German naval raider which, disguised as a civilian vessel, made an 15-month journey around the world, destroying dozens of Allied ships and taking prisoner four hundred men, women, and children, to Bill Scott Kerr at Transworld, for publication in October 2009, by Mark Lucas of Lucas Alexander Whitely, on behalf of the Mary Cunnane Agency.
Australian rights to Tim Whiting at Random House Australia, for publication in October 2009.

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