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O'Connell,
Tyne
TRUE LOVE, THE SPHINX, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE RIDDLES: A Comedy
in Four Voices
American teenagers Sam and Salah lead uncomplicated lives. They
breeze through classes at their prestigious Manhattan high school,
their friends all look up to them, and they’ve never had to put
much effort into attracting girls. But when their class embarks
on a field trip to Egypt, complications arise in the forms of
Rosie and Octavia, two British beauties, from the boys’ sister
school in London. Neither Rosie nor Octavia will easily charmed.
Amid luscious scenes of Egyptian culture and history, these four
star-crossed lovers have to endure plenty of misunderstandings
before they can achieve their hearts’ desires.
Told in four alternating points of view, Tyne O’Connell’s latest
novel is a fast-paced comedy-of-errors, and a heartfelt romance
that proves that sometimes, the greatest complication of all is
love.
Tyne O’Connell is the author of the winning and hilarious
Calypso Chronicles (see below). She lives in London with her teenage
daughter.
Bloomsbury, September 2007
Translation Rights with LDLA
O'Connell,
Tyne
STEALING PRINCES
Volume
II in the hilarious chronicles of Calypso, a high schooler from
L.A. who is sent to a British all-girls boarding school where
she fences with royalty and finds a genuine prince all her own
…
Calypso is making a run for the Olympic games, heading the literary
salon she and her friends founded, navigating school rules, and
trying to decide between fit boys.
"Outrageously
funny and a serious contender for the teen chick-lit throne."
-- The Bookseller, London
Tyne O'Connell lives in London. She has written six published
adult comic novels and articles for Marie Claire, Vogue, Elle,
and others.
Bloomsbury Children's, USA
June 2005
Germany: Arena
Holland: De Fontein
Indonesia: Pt. Gramedia
Portugal: Presenca
UK: Piccadilly
France: Gallimard
LDLA
has world rights for STEALING PRINCES, DUELING PRINCES,
and DUMPING PRINCES.
Piccadilly Press, in London, has world rights in Volume I
of this Calypso Chronicles series, PULLING PRINCES.
PULLING PRINCES (An ALA Quick Pick) international publishers:
France: Gallimard
Germany: Arena
Holland: De Fontein
Indonesia: Pt. Gramedia
Portugal: Presenca
Russia: AST Publishers
Spain: Ediciones B.
Thailand: Namnee Books
O'Connell,
Tyne.
DUELING PRINCES
Volume III in the Calypso Chronicles of Calypso
In STEALING PRINCES, American Calypso is fencing the British
heir to the throne, Prince Freddie; in DUELING PRINCES,
it's Game Off with Prince Freddie, then on again.
Bloomsbury Children's, USA
December 2005
France: Gallimard
Indonesia: PT Gramedia
Holland: De Fontein
Portugal: Presenca
www.calypsochronicles.com
Schaenen,
Inda
RAINY DAY RIDES
13-year
old April Helmbach is not a horse girl. Ever since her parents
were killed in a freak horsing accident, April has stayed far
away from anything equine. That is until a horse involved in a
terrible accident seems to need her. April immediately connects
to this wounded Morgan, and when the Humane Society puts the horse
up for adoption, April and her Aunt (with whom she has lived since
her parents passed away) take him in and April names him Rainy
Day. April and Rainy Day grow closer and closer, and when the
rains in their town don't stop, and the river begins to rise and
flood, April and Rainy Day become heroes by rescuing those whom
vehicles can't (or won't) reach.
RAINY
DAY RIDES by Inda Schaenen, the first in a series for kids ages
8-12, is a magical book about a girl horse whisperer.
INDA
SCHAENEN is the author of All the Cats of Cairo. She is a writing
teacher in the St. Louis Public Schools and mother of three children
who, like their mom, take books seriously. Inda has written columns
and essays for Salon, The New York Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
and several other magazines and newspapers.
Running
Press Kids, Spring, 2009
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Schaenen, Inda 
ALL THE CATS OF CAIRO
The fury of an ancient Egyptian goddess is released. Industrialization
has mired current-day Egyptians in overpopulation, poverty and
pollution. The cat-goddess Bastet, dormant for centuries, will
rise against these extreme imbalances. But she must find the right
human to help.
13-year-old Maggie Underwood has just moved from Washington, D.C.
to Cairo. Her mother has been assigned the difficult negotiation
between an American corporation and a local manufacturer in Zagazig,
a small town in the Nile delta. But the Zagazig site is also the
seat of Bastet, whose spirit of balance and abundance made her
one of the most important immortals in the ancient pantheon. This
is sacred land.
Bastet is enraged that her sacred home is about to be defiled.
It's been bad enough watching Cairo's population swell to unmanageable
numbers, causing poverty and crowding. Bastet, who once kept all
of life in balance, has been cast aside. Using all her powers,
which she channels through the stray and feral cats of Cairo,
Bastet locates a kindred spirit in Maggie.
Maggie's efforts lead to an earthshaking confrontation that pits
her against the Egyptian authorities, the American businessmen,
and her own mother. Hundreds of thousands of cats appear at the
site to stand with Maggie at this dramatic moment.
Brown Barn Books, May, 2007
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Rorby,
Ginny
HURT GO HAPPY
A
heartbreaking novel for young readers about the friendship between
a deaf girl named Joey (J-Y) and a chimp called Sukari.
 The
story begins as Joey awakens in the hospital and learns that she
is deaf. From their little house among the redwoods of northern
California, Joey accidentally trespasses on the property of Charles
Mansell, a doctor who came home from Africa with a baby chimpanzee.
Charlie, whose parents were both deaf, befriends Joey and begins
to teach her to sign, a language the two-year old Sukari can also
use.
What
happens to nearly all chimpanzees is Sukari's destiny, too. When
Charlie dies, Sukari ends up in A pesticide-testing program at
a notorious research facility. When Joey discovers that Charlie
not only left her enough money to send her to the California School
for the Deaf, but also made her Sukari¹s guardian, Joey travels
to the Coulston Lab in New Mexico to reclaim Sukari. It is a soaring,
moving triumph.
HURT
GO HAPPY is the culmination of ten years of research. Jane
Goodall was a source, as was an instructor from Fremont's California
School for the Deaf.
Ginny
Rorby holds an undergraduate degree in biology from the University
of Miami and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International
University. Her young-adult novel DOLPHIN SKY (Putnam)
was nominated for the Keystone Reading Award. She is co-director
of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference.
Tor
Kids, August, 2006
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Japan: Take Shobo
Sweden: Bonnier Carlsen
Korea: Tin Drum Books
Turkey: Encore Publishing
Rorby, Ginny.
DOLPHIN SKY
12-year old Buddy is dyslexic and often confused for "dumb." But
she's not dumb; she's paying attention to different things: the
birds, the alligators and the sea life around the Florida Everglades
where she lives.
When Buddy meets the dolphins who perform at a squalid tourist
trap near her house, the bond she feels with them is effortless
and natural. Like her, they are trapped and treated as if they¹re
dumb. Against the wishes of her father, but aided by her ailing
grandfather, Buddy undertakes the 10-mile boat trip to visit the
dolphins as often as she can.
Around the same time, Buddy meets a visiting scientist who warns
her of the dangers and abuse the dolphins face and also takes
her to Miami where her dsylexia is finally diagnosed. As she learns
to overcome her own disability, she finds the courage to take
action to save the dolphins.
"a
real winner," -- starred PW review
"the
boating adventures bring suspense and the theme of our inhumane
treatment of other mammals adds substance and tenderness." --Booklist
Putnam,
1996
Italy: Sperling
Turkey: Encore Publishing
Rourke,
Mary
ISAIAH AND THE PROPHETESS
• Mary Rourke's gorgeous novel about the most important and
beloved prophet and his wife, also a prophetess.
First and foremost: a portrait of a marriage. This is the story
of Jael Isaiah's formidable wife as much as Isaiah's. Jael
illuminates Isaiah, shows us what it was like to live in a family
with this brilliant prophet, this extremist, and shows us how
they survived invasions, assassination attempts, war, plague,
breakdown, death.
World English: Crown
Rourke,
Mary
TWO WOMEN OF GALILEE.
An exquisite historical novel of Mary of Nazareth, told through
the eyes of her cousin Joanna. Joanna has married high into Herod's
court, but she is consumptive and therefore very much drawn to
Mary's son, the healer that everyone is talking about. Her only
way to him is through her friendship Mary.
World English: Mira Books
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Spain: Planeta
Portugal: Bertrand
Brazil: Record
Scott,
Inara
DELCROIX ACADEMY: The Choice
Dancia Lewis never thought the fate of the world would be in her
hands. She never thought she would have to choose between two
boys either.
When 14-year old Dancia Lewis gets upset, whatever she pictures
happening, happens. She has no control over this special power
so she has never told anyone about it.
But then Dancia is recruited to Delcroix Academy, a strange and
exclusive high school. Why exactly was she recruited to Delcroix?
Was it because they know out about her power? Do others have some
sort of power as well?
DELCROIX ACADEMY: The Choice follows Dancia, in the first of at
least two books of fantasy for young adults, as she learns to
appreciate her power for the good it can do and makes a heart-wrenching
decision between two different boys and the two different lives
they offer.
Inara Scott is a first time author who lives in Portland, Oregon
with her husband and two children.
Hyperion, 2009
UK and translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Shors,
John
BESIDE A BURNING SEA
Toward
the end of World War II, in the South Pacific, near the Solomon
Islands, the U.S. hospital ship, Benevolence, is torpedoed and
sunk. Nine survivors -- including three navy nurses, the ship's
captain, a Japanese patient, a young stowaway, and the traitor
responsible for the destruction of Benevolence -- manage to swim
to a nearby island.
Fraught
with the kind of tension you see on “Lost,” the nine survivors
face betrayal, hurricanes, and the imminent arrival of the Japanese
navy in this novel that covers 21 days in 1943.
The
author of BENEATH A MARBLE SKY, which has been translated into
10 languages, John Shors made a commitment to book clubs
that was covered by Newsweek and on the CBS Evening News. Shors
has spoken to 550 book clubs as of today.
N.A.L.
(a division of Penguin), Fall, 2008
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
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