Deals

Lisa Tucker’s two untitled novels, to Greer Hendricks at Atria, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (World).

Beverly Swerling’s BRISTOL HOUSE, a novel of intrigue set in London in the sixteenth century and today, in which a thirty-something American architectural historian rents a flat she comes to believe is haunted by a monk from Tudor times fleeing the rage of Thomas Cromwell, their duel stories told with flashbacks between 1536 and a present-day search for ancient Judaica lost during Cromwell’s day, further complicated by her meeting a modern Englishman who is the monk’s exact double, in a drama involving betrayal and atonement that spans the centuries, to Clare Ferraro for Viking, with Carole DeSanti editing, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).

Jessica Jackley, co founder of Kiva.org and now US-focused ProFounder.com, discusses in EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS I LEARNED FROM GOAT HERDERS her journey from philosophy undergrad to Stanford Business School, from Silicon Valley to the Great Rift Valley and back, to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams with the support of family, friends and a global community to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau in a significant deal in a preempt by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English)

Meg Waite Clayton’s THE WEDNESDAY DAUGHTERS a sequel of sorts to the national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters, in which three of the Sister’s now-grown daughters travel to the English Lake country to scatter Ally’s ashes, and to clear out the cottage where she’s been writing a Beatrix Potter biography to Caitlin Alexander at Ballantine in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA, audio)

Jonathan Odell’s THE HEALING opens in 1930s Mississippi when a young girl traumatized by her mother’s death is abandoned to the care of Gran Gran, an ancient midwife and plantation healer whose mixtures of roots, herbs, and potions fail to help the mother but whose tales of her life on a Mississippi plantation as a reluctant apprentice to a brilliant slave doctor teach them both the power of story to heal the body, spirit and ultimately an entire community, to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese, with Ronit Feldman editing, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Peter Troy’s THE ODYSSEY OF ETHAN MCOWEN opens in mid-nineteenth century Ireland during the Famine when Ethan sails to America, later joins the famous Fighting 69th Civil War brigade, and falls in love with a Spanish society girl turned abolitionist, before their stories entwine with the perilous journeys of two slaves, Mary, a seamstress in Virginia, and Micah, a freedom-seeking carpenter and poet from South Carolina, and all four lives come together in upstate New York at the war’s end, to Doubleday’s Alison Callahan in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Robert J. Barclay’s MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY the story of a schoolteacher who inherits her grandmother’s lakeside cabin and unexpectedly finds love with the solitary man healing from family tragedy who lives nearby only to discover their families are linked and he’s harboring a secret that could destroy their newfound happiness to Morrow’s Lucia Macro in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Theresa Weir’s THE ORCHARD, part Mary Karr, part Rachel Carson, is the story of a city girl’s attempt to escape her troubled past by moving to rural America where she marries a handsome young farmer only to find that her new home in his family’s idyllic orchard is actually a dangerous and toxic trap to Grand Central’s Deb Futter in a very nice deal preempt by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Evelyn Toynton’s THE ORIENTAL WIFE tells the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who escape Hitler’s Germany, meet again in New York, and fall in love both with each other and with America but after the war the stress of their lives as immigrants takes a toll on them and the family they form, to Other Press’ Judith Gurevich in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world)

John Kralik’s UNTITLED inspiring true story that follows a year in his life when at a personal nadir he decided that he would never get what he wanted out of life unless he learned to be grateful for what he had, in a significant deal to Barbara Jones at Hyperion by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)