Deals

Stephen Lanzalotta’s THE BAKERS CODE: Weight Loss Secrets of DaVinci’s Golden Proportion blends science and Renaissance lore with the mathematical principles that govern life and beauty in a book that presents the benefits of a healthful Mediterranean diet that honors carbs, to Warner’s VP Diana Baroni for her new Warner Wellness imprint in a significant preempt by agent Marly Rusoff (World English)

Anthony Romano’s debut novel, WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG, set in 1957 Chicago, introduces Agostino Peccatori, who runs an Italian-American neighborhood social club and tavern and his wife Rosa, as they struggle with the death of their infant son, while their eldest son falls in love with father’s pregnant lover, preempted by Claire Wachtel at Wm Morrow in a good deal, by agent Marly Rusoff (World but German)

Roland Merullo’s GOLFING WITH GOD, a novel that blends philosophy, mysticism, and enchantment with golf instruction to Chuck Adams at Algonquin Books, in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff (World English)

German rights to ALL THE NUMBERS a debut novel by Judy Merrill Larsen in which a recently divorced teacher and mother of two adored sons is just learning to make her way through the uncharted territory of single motherhood when the unthinkable shatters her carefully reconstructed life, sold at auction to Britta Hansen and Julia Bauer at Diana by Jacqueline LeDonne for Marly Rusoff & Associates

Italian rights to CROSSING CALIFORNIA, Adam Langer’s hilarious first novel, set in a primarily Jewish neighborhood of Chicago where classes are separated by California Avenue, telling the stories of three families with teenage children to Cinzia Cerrato at Giulio Einaudi in a nice deal by Michael Radulescu on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

In THE ANATOMY OF A SECRET LIFE psychoanalyst Gail Saltz delivers an examination of how a secret life is formed, lived, justified, and exposed and by contrasting healthy secrecy with pathological instances, Saltz uses historical figures as well as contemporary case studies to explain what pushes a person to deviate so far from the norm that they end up wreaking havoc on their own lives and the lives of those around them, to Amy Hertz publisher of Morgan Road Books, a new division of Doubleday Broadway, in a significant deal, by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. (World)

Judy Merrill Larsen’s first novel ALL THE NUMBERS in which a recently divorced teacher and mother of two adored sons makes her way through the uncharted territory of single motherhood when the unthinkable happens one summer’s day while vacationing at her best friend’s lake house and in a single instant this mother’s carefully reconstructed life shatters, to Alison Dickens at Ballantine, in a nice deal, by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. (NA)

In DESERVING SUCCESS college educator and former Great Books Foundation president Peter Temes says that the fast track to having a happy life and achieving truly meaningful success is learning to think of others before ourselves, to Shaye Areheart, publisher and Kim Meisner, editor of Harmony/Crown Books, in a very nice deal, by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. (NA)

THE QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS by Cassandra King, in which a divorce therapist’s orderly life is shattered by the suicide of her estranged husband, with a second as yet untitled novel, sold in a major seven-figure deal to Hyperion Books publisher Ellen Archer and Senior editor Leslie Wells by agent Marly Rusoff. (World English and audio)

THE NEW WOMAN, a novel by Jon Hassler in which Agatha McGee, Staggerford, Minnesota’s 87 year-old retired school teacher and most revered citizen, finds new purpose in life after moving into Sunset Senior Apartments, to Viking VP Clare Ferraro and Julie Saltman in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff. (World English)