Deals

William Poy Lee’s THE EIGHTH PROMISE, a mother and son memoir, about a mother who brought from China the wisdom of her Clan Sisterhood and the promise to transmit the ancient ways of Toisan people.

German rights to AND SHE WAS, Cindy Dyson’s debut novel in which a loose, blond cocktail waitress whose life is mired in a trail of easy men and endless parties…

Italian rights to Stephen Lanzalotta’s THE BAKER’S CODE: Weight Loss Secrets of DaVinci’s Golden Proportion, at auction, to Sperling & Kupfer.

German rights to Anthony Romano’s WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG, which introduces Agostino Peccatori who runs an Italian-American neighborhood social club…

Dutch rights to Elif Shafak’s two novels BIT PALAS and MAHREM initially published in Turkey by Metis.

Spanish rights to GODS OF ABERDEEN by Micah Nathan about four students of medieval history at an elite Connecticut college in a search for the alchemists “Philosophers Stone”…

German rights to Masha Hamilton’s THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, in which an American journalist working in Lebanon and Israel loses her British colleague and lover in a desert…

WORDSMITH’S BOOK OF STORIES BEHIND WORDS by Anu Garg, founder of the popular A Word A Day website with 600,000 daily subscribers (wordsmith.org), offers a lively assortment of words and their biographies, the stories of where they were born, and where they have traveled, to Viking’s David Cashion, in a nice deal, by Judith Hansen of Marly Rusoff & Associates (world)

German rights to Stephen Lanzalotta’s THE BAKER’S CODE: Weight Loss Secrets of DaVinci’s Golden Proportion which blends science and Renaissance lore with the mathematical principles that govern life and beauty, at auction, to Andrea Kunstmann of Heyne by Jacqueline LeDonne for Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc.

Psychoanalyst, consultant, and author of Fast Company’s “Corporate Shrink” column Dr. Kerry Sulkowicz’s SHRINK INC: Self-Awareness as the Ultimate Business Strategy, advice on how to deal with the irrational, emotional side of corporate life, looking at how the insights of psychoanalysis can revitalize corporate culture, make management more effective, and lead to personal success — and sanity — in the workplace, to Will Murphy and Daniel Menaker at Random House, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world).