Publishers Marketplace: Sally Wofford-Girand

FORTHCOMING

*MY LIFE ON A SHOESTRING (World English, Collins)
Author of Three Black Skirts and The Yummy Mummy Manifesto Anna Johson's MY LIFE ON A SHOESTRING, a memoir with how-to advice on living elegantly on the cheap, including entertaining, decorating, and dressing, centered around Johnson's philosophy that a sense of abundance, generosity, and fun come from re-inventing the rules and milking spare change.
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*Jane Berentson's ANOMALIES OF WAR (NA to Viking)
An irreverent and buoyant chronicle of Annie Harper's life on the home front while her boyfriend is deployed to Iraq.
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* A COUNTRY CALLED HOME, by Kim Barnes (NA to Knopf)
Novel about a young couple trying to create a utopia in Idaho.
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* FALSE MERMAID, by Erin Hart (NA to Scribner)
From the author of LAKE OF SORROWS and HAUNTED GROUND, a crime novel, mining forensic anthropology, Irish history and myth.
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* THE WHOLE FIVE FEET: MY YEAR WITH THE HARVARD CLASSICS, by Christopher Beha (WE to Grove/Atlantic)
Non-fiction. Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Beha proposes to read one volume of the Harvard Classics per week starting on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2007 and finishing December 31, 2007.
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* LOVE AND MONEY: SMART WOMEN EXPLORE LOVE, LUST AND THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, edited by Hilary Black (World to William Morrow)
An anthology of original essays exploring the fraught and powerful connection between love and money.
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* DIRTY WORDS: THE UNABRIDGED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX, edited by Ellen Sussman (NA to Bloomsbury)
A clever list of eighty sexual terms, including a traditional definition of each along with a riff, story or essay inspired by the term by writers including Daphne Merkin, Erica Jong, Phillip Lopate, Martha McPhee, Stephen McCauley and Elissa Schappell.
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* THE KING OF SWINGS, by Michael Blaine (NA to Houghton Mifflin)
The story of working class caddy Johnny Goodman's journey to victory over the legendary Bobby Jones in the nation's first national golf tournament in Pebble Beach, California in 1929, and his escape from poverty and pursuit of excellence in golf that provided ordinary Americans "with the same kind of inspiration as the legendary Seabiscuit."
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* THE BLUE BECKHAM BOMBER: HOW MY YEAR FROM HELL HELPED ME CHANGE MY LIFE, SAVE MY MARRIAGE AND BUY THE HOLY GRAIL ON EBAY, by Mark Millhone (WE to Modern Times/Rodale)
Memoir from Men's Health writer who humorously deals with a year full of tragedies by buying his dream car and enjoying heart-to-heart conversations with his father on the ride back from picking up the car.
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED

* THE YUMMY MUMMY MANIFESTO, by Anna Johnson (NA to Ballantine)
From the author of THREE BLACK SKIRTS and HANDBAGS, a joyous and saucy illustrated book to help mothers develop or rediscover their own flair and style -- in fashion and in life -- during the all-consuming years of pregnancy and motherhood.
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* DIRTY WORDS: THE UNABRIDGED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX, edited by Ellen Sussman (NA to Bloomsbury)
From the editor of BAD GIRLS, this book takes on the time-honored discussion of the birds and the bees with 80-some entries by contemporary writers, on everything from celibacy to sex toy.
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* HERE IF YOU NEED ME, by Kate Braestrup (NA to Little, Brown)
After the unexpected death of her husband, Braestrup took up his dream of becoming a minister, and this book recounts her experiences serving as the chaplain on search-and-rescue missions for the Maine State Warden Service. Along the way, she will address questions large and small about God, grief and grace.
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* THE UPPER CLASS, by Hobson Brown, Jardine Libaire and Taylor Materne (NA to Harper)
The first in a four part series set in the privileged but fraught world of an elite East Coast boarding school (by authors who met while attending Hotchkiss together in the nineties).

* BAD GIRLS: 26 WRITERS MISBEHAVE, edited by Ellen Sussman (WE to Norton)
Anthology of essays exploring the power of being bad. Contributors include Ann Hood, Mary Roach, Maggie Estep and Lolly Winston.
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* THE HONEYMOON’S OVER: TRUE STORIES OF LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND DIVORCE, by Andrea Chapin & Sally Wofford-Girand (World to Warner)
An anthology of essays by writers including Terry McMillan, Joyce Maynard, Alice Randall, Laura Fraser, and Isabel Rose, writing about difficult times in their own marriages and why and how they decided to stay or to divorce.
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* ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, by Rene Denfeld (NA to Public Affairs)
A social portrait of homeless teenagers in America a la RANDOM FAMILY.
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* THE INHABITED WORLD, by David Long (NA to Houghton Mifflin)
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* THE LAST VAN GOGH, by Alyson Richman (World to Berkley)
Spanning the last seventy days of Vincent Van Gogh's life in a French village, under the care of a homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet.
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* THE BOOK OF TROUBLE: A ROMANCE, by Ann Marlowe (NA to Harcourt, 2006)
From the author of HOW TO STOP TIME, the story of an unlikely romance between Jewish New Yorker and a devout Muslim makes for a defense of romance and an ode to sexual passion.
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* HUNGER AND THIRST, by Daniela Kuper (NA to St. Martin's, 2005)
A debut novel that recreates a world by affirming eternal virtues-humor, pain, and the joy of daily life.
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* DISH & TELL, by The Miami Bombshells (WE & Spanish to William Morrow, 2005)
Honest tales from six accomplished women (who get together frequently for wine, chocolate and sharing stories) reaching out to their overworked, under-appreciated, guilt-ridden, stressed out sisters.
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* THE FRIEND WHO GOT AWAY, by Elissa Schappell and Jenny Offill (NA to Doubleday/Broadway, 2005)
An anthology of essays by well-known women writers recalling the experience everyone has of losing a friend—the stories of rivalry, love and betrayal that turn an intense relationship into a source of regret—from contributors including Francine Prose, Jennifer Egan, Elizabeth McCracken, Heidi Julavits and A.M. Homes.
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* THE J.A.P. CHRONICLES, by Isabel Rose (NA to Doubleday/Broadway, 2005)
The story of six women who met as girls at an elite Jewish summer camp, called a "fusion of Candace Bushnell and Jane Austen."
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* LAKE OF SORROWS, by Erin Hart (NA to Scribner, 2004)
Follow up to award-winning HAUNTED GROUND, a tale of death and destiny in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth and mystery.