http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/ Rights news, rights offerings, and book proposals posted by members of Publishers Marketplace en-us 2012-05-16T19:14:27+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Publishers Marketplace hourly 1 2004-11-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8318 Three Army veteran misfits, a college dropout, an unmotivated high school graduate accused of murder, a controversial warden of a women's prison, and a little girl with the gift of prophesy - these are the people 31-year-old Lara Kruger invites into her life after suffering a miscarriage, a divorce, and the loss of her job. Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T19:14:27+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8317 On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written in an unknown language left to her by her birth mother. After years of research she travels to Italy on a mission to find the truth about her past. Carolina is accompanied by three extremely gifted but mischievous students--the FIGs--from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. In an effort to help their favorite teacher, the FIGs will have to use their special abilities to decipher the ... Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T19:06:45+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8316 Thirty-five-year-old Hallie Marsh all in one day wrecks her car, and loses her lover, her home, and her job. She retreats to her parents' home in the northern part of the state to be consoled and to decide what to do with the rest of her life only to find out that her mother is planning to leave her father for another man. Embittered, filled with anger, and wanting revenge, Hallie decides to take a year's sabbatical and write a novel that would reveal the unethical, if not ... Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T19:04:04+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8315 The Cinderella Coyotes of State University are in the Final Four, poised to win the NCAA National Championship in basketball--the culmination of March Madness. For Marla Conners, she's proud of her husband Neal, and his achievement of coaching a collegiate team to the pinnacle of his career and the ultimate victory for his team. Yet Marla's idyllic life is about to be viciously attacked and torn apart by a different madness--her husband's reputation ruined, a university ... Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T18:58:36+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8314 Thirty-five-year-old novelist, Shyla Wishon, fears that her life is spinning out of control. When she becomes entangled in soul transference and animal sacrifice through the ancient Santerian beliefs of Regla de Ocha, a remarkable series of events ultimately allows her to escape her present life and become a new and fulfilled woman. Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T18:46:06+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8313 Enter the world of bestselling publishing, filled with intrigue, power, betrayal, ambition and greed. Yet for Aislinn Marchant it represents the attainment of a life's dream, a point of destiny, as she is caught up in the storm that is the House of Kane. Barbara Casey 2012-05-16T18:40:11+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8312 Visitors to Chicago are thrilled by the beauty, vitality, generosity, and bountiful offerings of thriving arts, culture and business activity. Chicago is a destination city, and largely due to Millennium Park, a $475 million urban playground of beauty and culture. And the man who orchestrated the best in Chicago during his 22-year reign is the newly-retired Mayor Richard M. Daley. He is considered one of the most prominent of 21st century urban leaders. His future as a private citizen is ... Diane Nine, Nine Speakers, Inc. 2012-05-16T16:27:20+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8311 Thirteen Tears - Written in the form of a fictional novel for animal lovers from children to adult. This is the heart wrenching true story of a little horse in a big city; and a teen aged girl who learns to count life's hardships as experience. Sadder than Black Beauty. Truer than the Horse Whisperer. Featuring the author's own historical case study, which is now taught as a unit in veterinary science, this is the first fully documented case in history that shows how the deadly ... Anita Bell, Anita Bell 2012-05-15T23:49:08+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8310 Loosely based on a true story, and with a similar tone to Tuesdays with Morrie, but with all the rich and compelling arguments in Richard Dawkins The God Delusion and Sam Harris' Letter To A Christian Nation, The Weight of God is the story of Lily Merton, a writer and single mom who loses her son Paul in a fatal car accident. Just before the crash Paul and another gifted high school student, Jonathan, engaged in a well attended debate: Jonathan argued that love is no more than a ... Diane Nine, Nine Speakers, Inc. 2012-05-15T21:05:07+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8309 1994 bio of Holocaust hero Jan Karski, posthumous winner of a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom, has been out of print since 2002. Rights reverted to authors from Wiley. Reviews: "A riveting as well as a harrowing read." -- The Times (London) "Engrossing." -- Publishers Weekly "An honest, objective, and eminently readable appraisal.... An extremely interesting and valuable study." -- Slavonic and East European Review E. Thomas Wood 2012-05-15T19:32:34+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8308 In DISTANCE BETWEEN LOVERS, NICHOLAS GIOVANNI has spent his life working in menial jobs around Boston and jumping from one woman to the next. At thirty six, he has only loved one woman, his feisty neighbor Ina, who married his brother. After fifteen years of marriage, Ina returns from California, newly divorced. Just as Nicholas and Ina are about to get a second chance, KATHLEEN LEHANNE gets into Nicholas' taxi. Unable to forget the beautiful red head, Nicholas begins an affair with ... Diane Nine, Nine Speakers, Inc. 2012-05-15T19:26:53+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8307 Virgin Books acquire Confessions of a Fashionista Virgin Books are delighted to announce the acquisition of a memoir from the author of the cult Daily Mail online column, Confessions of a Fashionista. Written anonymously, the insider column has regularly supplied snippets of a life in the glittering yet deranged world of fashion. Tracking the author's journey from a complete outsider in the fashion world to starting on the Harrods Graduate Scheme and finding herself in a whirlwind of ... Diana Beaumont, Rupert Heath Literary Agency 2012-05-15T11:46:02+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8306 The Street Singer follows a subway singer, who through a small run of luck, becomes entangled in the $5 billion controversy to bring Brooklyn a professional basketball team as he tries to get a song to a rapper based on Jay-Z, who's one of the investers. Stephen Witt, Never Sink Media 2012-05-12T14:32:18+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8305 The spectacular follies of a writer, the shallowness of editors, a vast range of publishing and literary issues (who gets to be heard and read, and why?) entangled in a web of personal tragedy: this memoir/critique/publishing thriller is redeemed by its humor and its towering humanity. Now FREE on Smashwords as an e-book, and shortly to be free on Apple and Nook, this book, which has moved so many individuals (none of them powerful, with the exception of Kuldip Nayar), will give the lie to ... Richard Crasta 2012-05-11T02:40:43+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=8304 Moonshine-era Georgia is the setting for Janice Daugharty's 1994 novel of backwoods romance, suspense and family drama; now being re-issued by Bell Bridge Books for ebook, audio and trade paperback. Midwife and aspiring country-western signer Merdie Lee endures a hard life as the young wife of a brutal moonshiner named Hamp. When Hamp kidnaps an FBI agent working undercover as a revenuer, Merdie Lee is put in charge of feeding and guarding him. An unlikely but dynamic romance grows ... Deborah Smith, Bell Bridge Books 2012-05-11T00:23:42+00:00