Publishers Marketplace: Sally Wofford-Girand

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THE CHICAGO CHEF'S TABLE by Amelia Levin (World to Lyons Press)
100 signature dishes from more than fifty of the city's best chefs -- from Charlie Trotter, Rick Bayless, and Greg Achatz, to the burgeoning street food scene.
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*OTHER PEOPLE WE MARRIED by Emma Straub (North American to FiveChapters Books).
A debut story collection about the surprising and often funny ways love develops and disintegrates over time, by a writer Dan Chaon calls “wry, witty, incisively observant” and Kevin Brockmeier says has “the smarts and humor of a Lorrie Moore or a Laurie Colwin or a Laurie Anderson—any number of Lauries”.
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* GLUTEN-FREE CUPCAKES by Kelli Bronski and Pete Bronski (World to the Experiment)
Dozens of flavorful and good-looking gluten-free cupcakes and other sweet but healthy indulgences.
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* THE NAPTIME CHEF, Fitting Great Food into Family Life, by Kelsey Banfield (North American to Running Press)
A cookbook by blogger of TheNaptimeChef.com and Babble columnist, featuring 150 recipes to prepare during your child’s naptime, plus smart tips, stories, and the encouraging and empowering message that you don’t have to give up being a foodie just because you are a parent or have limited time in the kitchen.
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*THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, a novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (North American to Ballantine)
The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to come to terms with her own troubled past as a foster child.
***UK – Pan Macmillan; ANZ – Picador; Italy – Garzanti; Spain – Salamandra; Catalan – 62; Holland – Unieboek; Brazil – Sextante; Israel – Kinneret; Germany – Droemer; France – Presses de la Cite; Portugal – Objectiva; Denmark – Lindhardt + Ringhof; Finland - WSOY; Russia - Ripol Classic; Poland - Swiat Ksiazki; Norway - Aschehoug; Taiwan – Linking; Korea – Woongjin; Sweden – Bazar
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*THE GONG-MAN: A Business Adventure in Darkest Africa, by Max Alexander (World to Hyperion)
Recounting Alexander and his brother Whit's attempt to start a viable business in Ghana with a mission to employ local workers.
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*WHAT CHEFS FEED THEIR KIDS: RECIPES AND TECHNIQUES FOR CULTIVATING A LOVE OF GOOD FOOD by Fanae Aaron (World to Globe Pequot)
A cookbook and parenting resource featuring 100 varied and easy recipes, strategies, tips, and stories, from top chefs who are parents.
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*GAMES TO PLAY AFTER DARK, a debut novel by Sarah Gardner Borden, (North American to Vintage)
The story of a modern marriage from the electric meet-cute at a party in the West Village to the messy tumult of suburban parenthood.
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*FRENCH LESSONS, a novel by Ellen Sussman (World English to Ballantine)
The story of how a single day in Paris changes the lives of three different Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning not just about language, but also love and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.
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*RIPE: SATISFY YOUR LUST FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WITH 75 FRESH RECIPES AND HUNDREDS OF SIMPLE COMBINATIONS by Cheryl Sternman Rule and photographer Paulette Phlipot (World to Running Press)
A photocentric vegetarian cookbook, with stories and recipes, organized by color.
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*MAMALITA, by Jessica O'Dwyer (North American to Seal Press)
A gripping and inspiring memoir of an ordinary American woman’s quest to adopt a baby girl against almost insurmountable odds in Guatemala.
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*CAMPFIRE COOKERY: ADVENTURESOME RECIPES & OTHER CURIOSITIES FOR THE GREAT OUTDOORS, by Sarah Huck and Jaimee Young (World to Stewart, Tabori, & Chang)
Cookbook featuring 120 fanciful yet simple recipes for nature enthusiasts who crave more than beans and s’mores, and home cooks who want to bring the spirit of camping home, with a foreword by Melissa Clark.
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*ANCIENT GRAINS FOR MODERN MEALS, by Maria Speck (World to Ten Speed Press)
100 delicious and easy Mediterranean whole grain recipes, inspired by the author's Greek mother.
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*THE WIKKELING, by Steven Arntson (World English to Running Press)
A middle-grade adventure set in a near-future dystopia and told in the smart and playful style of The Mysterious Benedict Society, in which three friends unravel the mystery of their life-threatening migraines, overcome a frightening enemy, and discover that the world is more complicated, and more magical, than they’ve been taught. A debut by a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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*PLANTING DANDELIONS: FIELD NOTES FROM MY SEMI-DOMESTICATED LIFE by Kyran Pittman (World to Riverhead)
Essays on love, family, sex after children, money, foreclosure, in which Pittman, a native of Newfoundland, will reveal what it’s like to be a wife, mother and foreigner living in white-picket-fence suburban Arkansas.
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*SAVVY CHIC: THE ART OF MORE FOR LESS, by Anna Johnson (WE to Collins)
Author of Three Black Skirts and The Yummy Mummy Manifesto, Anna Johnson's 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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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
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* THE LANGUAGE OF TREES, a novel by Ilie Ruby (North American to Avon)
A love story with a family secret at the heart.
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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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* AS IT WAS WRITTEN, a novel by Sujatha Hampton (WE to Thomas Dunne Books)
The saga of a sprawling Indian-American family and the dizzying journey that unfolds when men and women, Hindus and Catholics, histories and curses, collide.
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* MARRIAGE AND OTHER ACTS OF CHARITY, by best-selling, award-winning Kate Braestrup (NA to Little, Brown)
From helping newlywed couples make amends after their first fight to preparing herself for her second marriage, Braestrup offers her experience and insights into what it truly means to share your life with someone, from the first kiss to the last straw, for better or for worse.
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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.
-- Winner of 2009 PEN USA Award
-- Longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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*IT’S NOT YOU IT’S ME: The Poetry of Breakup and Divorce, by Jerry Williams (World to Overlook)
Anthology of living American poets on heartbreak, ranging in emotion from melancholy to fury to funny. Contributors include Tony Hoagland, Maxine Kumin, Ed Hirsch, Kim Addonizio, Denis Johnson, and Mark Strand.
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*THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AFTER 50: The Experts' Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money & More, by Barbara Grufferman (World to Running Press)
Barbara Hannah Grufferman combines the real-world questions of a 51-year-old New Yorker with professional expertise from the top specialists in the city (Diane Von Furstenberg on style, Frederic Fekkai on hair, etc).
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*ARTISANAL GLUTEN-FREE COOKING: MORE THAN 175 GREAT-TASTING, FROM-SCRATCH RECIPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, PERFECT FOR EVERY MEAL AND FOR ANYONE ON A GLUTEN-FREE DIET— AND EVEN THOSE WHO AREN’T, by Kelli Bronski and Peter Bronski (World to The Experiment)
A unique author team made up of a passionate cook and a professional writer with celiac disease. Features fresh and simple cooking and their signature flour blend.
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*HOW TO DRINK, by Victoria Moore (NA to Andrews McMeel)
A charming voice-driven handbook to better drinking of all kinds—both alcoholic and teetotal—at all times of day and throughout the seasons.
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*THE PATRON SAINT OF USED CARS AND SECOND CHANCES by Mark Millhone (WE to Modern Times/Rodale)
Memoir from Men's Health writer who survives 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. Painfully honest, painfully funny.

- “AN IMPRESSING DISPLAY OF MISERY TINGED WITH RUEFUL HUMOR - LIKE WOODY ALLEN WADING INTO INGMAR BERGMAN." - Kirkus Reviews
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_5aIXaExQ&feature=channel_page
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*JUST LIKE FAMILY: INSIDE THE LIVES OF NANNIES, THE PARENTS THEY WORK FOR, AND THE CHILDREN THEY LOVE (North American to Harcourt)
Narrative non-fiction illuminating the lives of nannies and their complicated position within American families.
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*WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW by Alice Eve Cohen (WE to Viking)
Written with the suspense of a thriller and the intimacy of a diary, Alice Eve Cohen's memoir describes her unexpected journey through doubt, a broken medical system, and the hotly contested terrain of faith and values in today’s society, upon finding out that she is pregnant at age 44 and not in fact dying of a mysterious illness.

- O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE has chosen WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW as one of the 25 books of summer in the July/August 2009 issue!
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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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*MISS HARPER CAN DO IT, by Jane Berenston (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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* THE SECRET CURRENCY OF LOVE: THE UNABASHED TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN, MONEY, AND RELATIONSHIPS 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 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.
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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."