Lipsey, Rick
GOLFING ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: In Search of Gross National Happiness
World English: Bloomsbury
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

A category-defying book blending travel memoir, golf, humor and history by Sports Illustrated writer Rick Lipsey. This book -- based on the time that Rick spent teaching golf in Bhutan, the last and only Buddhist kingdom -- is driven by a search to understand this tantalizing notion of Gross National Happiness, the measure by which Bhutan seeks to measure its prosperity.

Rick Lipsey has been writing for Sports Illustrated for 10 years, and prior to that was at Golf Illustrated and Golf Pro magazines. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Wall Street Journal.

World English: Bloomsbury
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

Malkin, Nina
AN UNLIKELY CAT LADY: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle

• "Delightfully sassy…. This sprightly tale will please cat lovers everywhere, and maybe even convert a few dog lovers along the way." -- Publishers Weekly

A Brooklyn woman gets a lot more than she bargained for when a family of wild cats moves into her backyard. This hilarious and heartwarming memoir follows author Nina Malkin's obsessive attempts to serve, protect and befriend the feral colony, as she reluctantly comes to terms with being a "crazy cat lady."

Packed with insights on feline behavior and information about cat caretaking, this book brings the feral cat epidemic home in all-too-human terms.

Nina Malkin has been a magazine writer and editor for 20 years. She's the author of the 6X series and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lyons Press, 2007

Mlynowski, Sarah, and Farrin Jacobs
SEE JANE WRITE: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit

For everyone who has ever had a great idea for a chick lit novel but just did not know how to go about turning it into a bestselling book, SEE JANE WRITE by acclaimed chick-lit author Sarah Mlynowski and former chick-lit editor Farrin Jacobs is the perfect tool. They take you, step-by-step, through the entire process in a fun and entertaining way. Mlynowski and Jacobs make writing a chick-lit novel as enjoyable as reading one.

Sarah Mlynowski started her publishing career at Harlequin Enterprises. Her first chick-lit novel, Milkrun, has sold more than 600,000 copies worldwide. She is the author of Bras & Broomsticks, and Frogs & French Kisses, and coeditor of the bestselling chick-lit anthologies Girls' Night In and its sequel Girls Night Out. She lives in New York City.

Farrin Jacobs is a former chick lit editor for Red Dress Ink and is currently Executive Editor at Harper Collin's Children's Books. Her articles have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Blende, Time Out New York, Men's Journal, and Teen People. She lives in New York City.

Quirk Books, September 2006 (World English)
Taiwan: Wu-Nan Book Inc
UK: Short Books

Joanne Redmond

Redmond, Joanne
SAY A LITTLE PRAYER: 101 Everyday Ways to Pray

A book that changes the whole idea of praying
101 simple, creative, down-to-earth ways to make prayer a part of one's daily life.

Millions of people would like to incorporate prayer into their daily lives, but either don't think they're doing it "right," find it too boring, can't concentrate when they're supposed to be focused on prayer, or just aren't sure where to begin.

Author Joanne Redmond felt the same way -- until she realized that she could incorporate prayer even at moments not typically associated with praying. Here's one:


"While brushing your teeth in the morning, pray for three things you need help with during the day"                   

and

"Any time you pull out a credit card, ask God for discernment in spending your money."

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER picks up where other books on prayer end, offering readers a broad approach to prayer and various ways to talk to God.

Recent best-selling books on prayer demonstrate the perennial strength of the genre -- and this book offers charming, inspiring and ingenious new ways to pray.

Marlowe & Company, February 2004
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

Ridgeway, Andrei
INTUITIVE LIVING: 7 Steps to Developing Your Intuition. (237 pages).

Improve your intuition on the job, in the bedroom, and with your kids. Ridgeway makes it clear and simple.

"INTUITIVE LIVING is an intelligent, compassionate look into the world of instinct and deep primal forces, a realm in which Ridgeway feels most at home."
              -- Judith Orloff, M.D., bestselling author of DR. JUDITH ORLOFF'S GUIDE TO INTUITIVE HEALING and SECOND SIGHT.

Kensington/Citadel, June 2003
Translation rights: LDLA

Everyone has psychic potential. The power is in knowing how to access it. Andrei Ridgeway, an internationally renowned psychic, helps you unleash your innate psychic talents with easy-to-follow exercises. By the last page of this astonishing book, you will have opened your psychic channels and will be on your way to find your soul's true path.

Kensington, July, '99, Citadel reissue, January '03
Brazil: Distribuidora Record
Japan: PHP Institute
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

Wachtell, Diane
PAT THE MONEY

A parody of the beloved children's book, and multimillion copy selling PAT THE BUNNY. Faithfully following the original it parodies, PAT THE MONEY features Paul and Judy. In the original, you can "do lots of things." In the parody, you can do lots of things, too - you just can't afford to do them quite the way Paul and Judy can.

The ultimate take-off of a classic, PAT THE MONEY should be the perfect gift book for parents with a sense of humor. Diane Wachtell is the Executive Director of The New Press.

World English: Andrews McMeel, May, 2003.
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.