DEAL OF THE DAY – Pat Conroy’s MY LIFE IN BOOKS, in which one of America’s bestselling storytellers, revisits a life of passionate reading, and discusses the books that helped him find a place in the world, with personal ruminations on the people, writers, and books that made him into the reader and writer he is today, from Tolstoy to Thomas Wolfe and beyond in a major deal to Nan Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)