Deals

John Pipkin’s THE BLIND ASTRONOMER’S NOTEBOOK, is set in 1798, against the background of Romanic scientific discoveries, with a young woman’s return to Ireland from England and her discovery of a notebook left by her late father, a blind astronomer who spent his life futilely searching for a new planet, and who becomes determined to complete her father’s work, caught in a race against astronomers throughout Europe, looking for the same planet, while contending with a violent rebellion at home that threatens to destroy her father’s observatory to Nan Tales in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Kwei Quartey’s CHILDREN OF THE STREET, the second Detective Inspector Darko Dawson mystery set in Ghana, in which the discovery of a corpse plunges Darko into the brutal environment of Accra’s largest slum, a dog-eat-dog underground economy in where street children fight for survival, and a series of shocking murders begin to resemble ritual killings, to Jennifer Smith at Random House in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

AUDIO — Simon Tolkien’s THE INHERITANCE, in which an aging police inspector decides to travel from England to France to delve into a possible World War II theft and crime hoping to save an upper-class student set to hang for murdering his father, an Oxford historian to Eileen Hutton of Brilliance Audio by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Bob Harris’s FIRST INTERNATIONAL BANK OF BOB in which this son of a blue-collar autoworker takes money her earned reporting on the most opulent, over-the-top, billionaire-friendly accommodations on earth for a luxury web site and through microlending and the power of the internet, loans that money to others using Kiva.org a site that makes it is possible for an ordinary guy to connect with a Kyrgyz farmer or a Rwandan dressmaker, and then follow the money to Bloomsbury’s George Gibson in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Robert Newcomb writing as Robert J Barclay, IF WISHES WERE HORSES in which a grieving Florida horse rancher decides to reinstate his late wife’s equine therapy program for troubled teens but when the widow of the drunk driver who killed his family unexpectedly begs him to admit her young son to the program, he is forced to examine the true natures of love and forgiveness in ways he could have never imagined to Lucia Macro at Wm. Morrow in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Dr. Robert L. Kane’s THE GOOD CAREGIVER: Straight-Up Advice for Caregivers of Aging Parents and Spouses in a Broken System is a survival guide by frequent media commentator and chair of the Center for Aging at the University of Minnesota who tackles the problems and indignities of aging and care giving for the millions of unprepared baby boomers who will likely soon face the brunt of a healthcare system in crisis to Megan Newman at Avery Penguin in a very nice deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Korean rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL to Thinking Tree Publishing by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

German rights to Michael Stanley’s Detective Kubu series A CARRION DEATH and the upcoming THE SECOND DEATH OF GOODLUCK TINUBU to Karsten Kredel of Eichborn Publisher by Jacqueline LeDonne in a five figure deal for Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Japanese rights to Bob Harris’ WHO HATES WHOM to Chikuma Shobo Publishing Co., Ltd. by Junzo Sawa of The English Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Thrity Umrigar’s THE CLARIFYING PRINCIPLE, the story of four 50- year-old Indian women and what happens when one of them, now married and living in America, learns she is dying and comes to feel deeply how much she missed by leaving behind her three best women friends from college, and their decision to travel from India to be with her one last time to Harper’s Claire Wachtel in a good deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World except Germany)