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Joan Walsh Anglund

THE JEWELS OF THE SPIRIT (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

A PATCHWORK OF LOVE (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

YOU ARE LOVED (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

BABY DEAR (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

CHRISTMAS ALPHABET MINI BOOK (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

BETWEEN FRIENDS (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A CHILD MINI BOOK (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

THE BRAVE COWBOY (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

COWBOY’S SECRET LIFE (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

COWBOY & HIS FRIEND (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

MY SISTER, MY FRIEND (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

LOVE IS THE BEST TEACHER (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

THE CHRISTMAS CANDY BOOK (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE BOOK (Andrews McMeel (Publishing)

FAITH IS A FLOWER (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

 

Garnette Arledge

ON ANGEL’S EVE: Making the Most of Your Final Time Together (Square One Publishers)

 

Jeff Ayers

VOYAGES OF IMAGINATION: The Star Trek Fiction Companion  (Pocket Books)

 

John Franklin Bardin

THE DEADLY PERCHERON (Poisoned Pen Press/MillipedePress)

 

Janelle Barlow

A COMPLAINT IS A GIFT: Using Customer Feedback as a Strategic Tool (and Claus Moller) (Berrett-Koehler)

Revised edition A COMPLAINT IS A GIFT: Recovering Customer Loyalty When Things Go Wrong

EMOTIONAL VALUE: Creating Strong Bonds with Your Customers (and Diana Maul) (Berrett-Koehler)

SMART VIDEOCONFERENCING (Peta Peter and Lewis Barlow) (Berrett-Koehler)

BRANDED CUSTOMER SERVICE (and Paul Stewart) (Berrett-Koehler)

 

Tom Bass and Bruce Curtis

GREAT FOOTBALL DRILLS: Baffled Parent’s Guide (Ragged Mountain Press)

 

Larry Berger, et al.

UP YOUR SCORE: The Underground Guide to the SAT (Workman)

 

Jason Blume

SIX STEPS TO SONGWRITING SUCCESS (Billboard Books)

INSIDE SONGWRITING (Billboard Books)

THIS BUSINESS OF SONGWRITING (Billboard Books)

 

Sherry Brosnahan (with BruceCurtis)

THE WISDOM OF IGGY (Andrews McMeel)

THE WISDOM OF IGGY CALENDAR (Andrews McMeel)

 

Lynne Bundesen

CLICK!: 101 Computer Activities and Art Projects for Kids and Grown-Ups (Fireside/S&S)

THE FEMININE SPIRIT: Recapturing the Heart of Scripture (Jossey-Bass)            

 

Wendy Burt-Thomas

HOW TO WRITE A QUERY LETTER (Writer’s Digest Books/forthcoming)

 

Julianne Chase

INSIDE PASSAGE WALKING TOURS: Exploring Major Ports of Call in Southeast Alaska (Sasquatch Books)


Lisa Chavis

THE FAMILY PHARMACIST: An A-Z Guide to Children’s Illnesses and Medications (Perigee)

 

Darren Cohen and Michael Perilstein

THE COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL AUDITION (Backstage Books)

 

Matthew Culligan (and Peter Cherici)

WANDERING IRISH IN EUROPE (Clearfield/Barnes & Noble)

 

Bruce Curtis

THE ART OF GOLF ANTIQUES (Running Press)

THE ART OF FLY FISHING (Running Press)

GUNS OF THE WILD WEST (Running Press)

 

George M. Dallam and Steven Jonas

CHAMPIONSHIP TRIATHLON TRAINING (Human Kinetics)

 

Margot Datz

A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR LANDLOCKED MERMAIDS (Beyond Words/Atria)

 

Rick Davis

TOTALLY USELESS SKILLS (Willowisp Press)

 

David Dempsey

LEGALLY SPEAKING: 40 Powerful Presentation Principles Lawyers Need to Know (Woongin.com/Korea)

 

Betty DeRamus

FORBIDDEN FRUIT: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad (Atria Books)

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: Love, Lawsuits, Con Artists and Voodoo Queens on the Underground Railroad (Atria Books, 2009)

 

Kate Devore and Starr Cookman

LOVE YOUR VOICE (Chicago Review Press, forthcoming)

 

Dianne Durante

MANHATTAN’S OUTDOOR STATUES AND MONUMENTS (New York University Press)

 

Sherrie Eldridge

TWENTY STRENGTHS ADOPTIVE PARENTS MUST DISCOVER (Bantam Dell, 2009)

FOREVER FINGERPRINTS (EMK Press)

 
 

Edward Robb Ellis

A DIARY OF THE CENTURY: Tales from America’s Greatest Diarist (Kodansha; Union Square Books)

THE EPIC OF NEW YORK CITY: A Narrative History (Kodansha; Carroll & Graf)

A NATION IN TORMENT: The Great American Depression, 1929-1939 (Kodansha)

ECHOES OF DISTANT THUNDER: Life in the United States 1914-1918 (Kodansha)

 

Joel Engel

GENE RODDENBERRY: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek (Hyperion)

SCREENWRITERS ON SCREENWRITING (Hyperion)

 

Liane Enkelis

ON BEING 100: 31 Centenarians Share Their Extraordinary Lies and Wisdom (Prima)

 

Sanna Feirstein

NAMING NEW YORK: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names (New York University Press)

 

Kitty Ferguson

FIRE IN THE EQUATIONS (reissue/Templeton Foundation Press)

MEASURING THE UNIVERSE (Walker)

TYCHO & KEPLER: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens (Walker)

THE MUSIC OF PYTHAGORAS: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Outer Space (Walker)

 

Billy Finegan with Courtney Clark (photos by Bruce Curtis)

GET FIT WITH BOXING (F&W Publications, forthcoming)

 

Laura Fisher

QUILT CALENDAR (Ziga Designs)

 

Aaron Foeste (with Bruce Curtis, photographer)

POWER PLAY HOCKEY BOOK (McGraw-Hill/forthcoming)

 

Sandi Fox

SMALL ENDEARMENTS: 19th Century Quilts for Children (Rutledge Hill Press)

FOR PURPOSE AND PLEASURE: Quilting Together in 19th-Century America (Rutledge Hill Press)

CATS ON QUILTS (Abrams)

 

Sally Freeman

EVERYWOMAN’S GUIDE TO NATURAL AGING BEAUTY (Doubleday Direct/Barnes & Noble)

 

Marv Fremerman

BASS PRO HUNTING AND FISHING DIRECTORY (Derrydale)

 

Cynthia C. Froggatt

WORK NAKED: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance in the Virtual Workplace (Jossey-Bass)

 

Christine Gallagher

WOMAN’S BOOK OF DIVORCE (Kensington Publishing)

 

Darrin Gee

SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF GOLF: Mastering the Mental Game on and Off the Golf Course (Stewart, Tabori & Chang)

 

Joel Goodman

LAFFIRMATIONS: 1,001 Ways to Add Humor to Your Life and Work (Health Communications)

 

Patty Hall

JOHNNY GRUELLE: Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (Pelican Publishing)

RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY POSTCARD BOOK (Pelican Publishing)

RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY: A Bibiliography (Pelican Publishing)

RAGGEDY ANN AND MORE: Johnny Gruelle’s Dolls and Merchandise (Pelican)

THE REAL-FOR-SURE STORY OF RAGGEDY ANN (Pelican)

THE HONEST-TO-GOODNESS STORY OF RAGGEDY ANDY (Pelican)

RAGGEDY ANN & ANDY: A Retrospective (Simon & Schuster)

RAGGEDY READY-TO-READ BOOKS (Simon & Schuster)

RAGGEDY BOARD BOOKS (Simon & Schuster)

RAGGEDY STICKER BOOK (Simon & Schuster)

 

Ken Hanes

THE GAY GUY’S GUIDE TO LOVE (Crown)

SPEAKING OUT: 425 Gay Men Explain It All for You (Crown)

 

Lynn Harris

TRAY GOURMET: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria (Lake Isle Press)

HE LOVED ME, HE LOVES ME NOT: A Guide to Fudge, Fury, Free Time, and Life Beyond the Breakup (Avon)

BREAKUP GIRL TO THE RESCUE: A Superhero’s Guide to Love and Lack Thereof (Little, Brown)

 

Lewis Harrison

30-DAY BODY PURIFICATION (Prentice Hall)

 

Sylvia Hatchell (with Bruce Curtis, photographer)
COACHING GIRL’S BASKETBALL: A Baffled Parent’s Guide (Ragged Mountain Press)

 

Askhari Hodari

JINA (Health Communications, 2/09)

 

Askhari Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers

LIFELINES: The Black Book of Proverbs (Doubleday, 10/09)

 

Drayson Hounsome (with Bruce Curtis, photographer)

COACHING GIRL’S SOCCER: A Baffled Parent’s Guide (Ragged Mountain Press)

 

Robert Hoyk and Paul Hersey

WHERE ARE THE TRAPS?: The Ethical Executive (Stanford University Press/forthcoming)

 

Chioma Isiadinso, M.Ed.

ADMISSIONS SECRETS OF THE BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS: A Former Harvard Business School Admissions Board Member Reveals the Insider Keys to Getting In (Sourcebooks)

 

Steven Jonas

A GUIDE TO THE WELLNESS PATHWAY TO HEALTHY LIVING (Springer/forthcoming)

PACE WALKING (Springer/forthcoming)

TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR WEIGHT (Springer/forthcoming)

31 DAYS TO BECOMING FIT FOREVER (Springer/forthcoming)

 

Chris Kalb (illustrator)

TRAY GOURMET: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria (Lake Isle Press)

’SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY: And Other Misheard Lyrics (Fireside)

HE LOVED ME, HE LOVES ME NOT (Avon)

BREAKUP GIRL TO THE RESCUE (Little, Brown)

 

Jim Kane

WESTERN MOVIE WIT AND WISDOM  (Bright Sky Press)

 

Catherine Kanner

BEAUTY FROM A COUNTRY GARDEN (Ten Speed Press)

 

Arie Kaplan

MASTERS OF THE COMIC BOOK UNIVERSE—REVEALED! (Chicago Review Press)

JEWS IN COMICS (Jewish Publication Society/October 2008)

 

Larina Kase

THE CONFIDENT LEADER: How the Most Successful People Go from Effective to Exceptional (McGraw-Hill)

 

Christina Katz       

WRITER MAMA: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Writer’s Digest Books)

GET KNOWN BEFORE THE BOOK DEAL: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform (Writer’s Digest Books/forthcoming)

 

Phil Keith

HAMPTONS SURVIVAL GUIDE (City & Co.)

 

Ellen Kessner and Vicki Crompton

SAVING BEAUTY FROM THE BEAST: How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship (Little, Brown)

Books for a Better Life winner, 2003

 

Jeff Kitchen

WRITING A GREAT MOVIE: Key Tools for Successful Screenwriting (Billboard Books)

 

P.F. Kozak

Bound to Ecstasy (novella) (Kensington)

Take Me There (choose your own adventure novel) (Kensington)

Mirrors Within Mirrors (Kensington, novella/forthcoming)

Hot Pepper (Kensington, novella in Trio anthology)

 

Jeffrey Kroessler

NEW YORK, Year by Year (New York University Press)

GREATER NEW YORK SPORTS CHRONOLOGY (Columbia University Press,  forthcoming)

 

Jennifer Lauck

BLACKBIRD: A Memoir (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster)

 

Connie Leas

THE ART OF THANK YOU (Beyond Words Publishing)

 

Tera Leigh

FAUX MOSAICS: Make 20 Stylish Paper Mosaics in 3 Simple Steps (North Light)

 

Duane Lindsay and Ray White

HOW I GOT PUBLISHED: Famous Authors Tell You in Their Own Words (Writers Digest Books)

 

Reagan Louie

TOWARD A TRUER LIFE (Aperture)

 

Dianne Luby

WORDS OF WOMEN: Monologues (Samuel French)

 

Gil Marks

OLIVE TREES AND HONEY: A Treasury of Jewish Vegetarian Recipes from Around the World (Wiley)

James Beard Award winner, 2005

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWISH FOOD (Wiley, 2010)

 

Paul Raymond Martin

WRITER’S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK: Getting Published

WRITER’S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK: Craft & Technique

WRITER’S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK: Inspiration & Motivation (F&W Publications)

 

Elisa Medhus

HEARING IS BELIEVING: Remarks that Can Make or Break Our Children (New World Library)

 

Joyce Mendelsohn

THE LOWER EAST SIDE REMEMBERED & REVISITED: History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood (updated and revised (with Lower East Side Conservancy) (Columbia University Press, 2009)

 

Art Meyer and Mick Vann

APPETIZER ATLAS (Wiley)


Carolyn Michael

ENCHANTED COMPANIONS: Stories of Dolls in Our Lives (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

 

Jeffrey Mishlove

THINKING ALLOWED: Conversations with Leading Thinkers of Our Time (Council Oak Books)

THE PK MAN: A True Story of Mind Over Matter (Hampton Roads)

 

Mary S. Mittelman and Cynthia Epstein

THE ALZHEIMER’S HEALTHCARE HANDBOOK: How to Get the Best Medical Care for Your Relative with Alzheimer’s Disease, in and out of the Hospital (Marlowe & Co.)

 

Harrison Monarth and Larina Kase

THE CONFIDENT SPEAKER: Tap into Your Hidden Power to Communicate at Your Best (McGraw-Hill)


Jay Morelli and Bruce Curtis

AGE IS NOT A HANDICAP (McGraw-Hill)

SHORT GAME SECRETS OF THE  PROS (McGraw-Hill)

 

John Newport

THE WELLNESS-RECOVERY CONNECTION: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Chemical Dependency (Health Communications)

 

Kathleen Oldford

MY MOTHER’S CHARMS (Harper San Francisco)

 

Brian Padol and Alan Simon

THE YOUNG PERFORMER'S GUIDE: How to Break into Show Business (Betterway Publications)

 

Jeanette Pavini (co-author with Dr. Alan Greene and Theresa DiGeronimo)

RAISING BABY GREEN (Jossey-Bass)

 

Dr. Arthur Perry

STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT COSMETIC SURGERY: A Comprehensive Guide for Making Informed Decisions and Avoiding Fraud and Useless Treatments with a foreword by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. (Yale University Press)

Gold Award winner for Best Health Book of 2007 by Foreword Magazine

 

Martin Polizzotto

SALTWATER FISHING MADE EASY (McGraw-Hill)

 

Bruce Pollock

HIPPER THAN OUR KIDS: A Rock & Roll Journal of the Baby Boom Generation (Schirmer/S&S)

THE ROCK SONG INDEX (Schirmer/S&S)

 

Julie Ross

NOW WHAT DO I DO?: A Guide to Parenting Elementary-Aged Children (St. Martin’s Press)

 

Barbara Rothstein and Gloria Sklerov

HOW TO SET YOUR WEDDING TO MUSIC (book & music CD) (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

 

Tom Ryan  (with Julie Sampson; photos by Bruce Curtis)
ELITE WRESTLING (McGraw-Hill)

 

Dom Scala (with Bruce Curtis)

SECRETS OF THE BASEBALL PROS (McGraw-Hill, 2008)

 

Phil Schaap

UNTITLED BOOK ON JAZZ (Oxford University Press/forthcoming)

 

Marlene Schiwy

WHAT MATTERS MOST: A Personal Story on Simple Living (Sorin Books)

 

Carol Simontacchi

THE CRAZYMAKERS: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children (Tarcher/Penguin Putnam)

 

Barry Singer

BLACK AND BLUE: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf (Schirmer/S&S)

 

Donna Campbell Smith (with Bruce Curtis, photographer)

MINIATURE HORSES (The Lyons Press)

DRAFT HORSES (The Lyons Press)

THE BOOK OF MULES (The Lyons Press/ 2008)

 

Jeremy Smith

FANNY PACKS AND BUM BAGS: An American-British—British-American Dictionary (Carrroll & Graf)

 

Steven T. Smith

THE RESCUE: A True Story of Courage & Survival in WW II (Wiley); History Channel segment

WOLF PACK (Wiley)

 

Pat Solley

AN EXALTATION OF SOUPS: The Soul-Satisfying Story of Soup, as Told in More than 100 Recipes (Three Rivers Press)


Allen Sperry

NEW YORK’S 60 BEST WONDERFUL LITTLE HOTELS (City & Co./Rizzoli)

 

Ray Strobel

HOW TO RAISE A SUPERCHILD! (Humor) (Health Communications, 2008)

 

Jane Taylor Starwood and Bruce Curtis

THE WINES AND WINERIES OF THE NORTH FORK AND THE HAMPTONS (Globe Pequot Press/May 2009)

 

Bert Sugar and Bruce Curtis

NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM (Running Press, spring 2009)

 

Peggy O. Swager

TRAINING STUBBORN, WILLFUL, AND HIGH-DRIVE DOGS (TFH, spring 2009)

 

Jonathan Swiller

QUESTIONABLES (St. Martin’s Press)

 

Ellen Talmage and Bruce Curtis

UNEARTHING GARDEN MYSTERIES: Experiments for Kids (Fulcrum)

 

John Tauranac

NEW YORK FROM THE AIR (Abrams)

 

Dottie Temple and Stan Finegold

FLOWERS, WHITE HOUSE STYLE (Simon & Schuster)

 

Randy Thomas and Peter Rofe

Voice for Hire (Billboard Books, October 2008)

 

John Wagman

TRUE ROMANCE CALENDAR (Abbeville)

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICA (W. H. Smith)

 

Chris Ann Waters

SEASONS OF GOODBYE: Working Your Way Through Loss (Sorin Books)

 

Dvora Waysman

ESTHER: A Jerusalem Love Story (Simcha Press/Health Communications)

 

Pat Woodbridge

DESIGNER DRAFTING FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD (Butterworth Heinemann)

 

Michele Wright

DEAR SUCCESS SEEKER: Success Advice from Outstanding Women Achievers
(Atria Books, 2009)

 

Allia Zobel-Nolan

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT THE RAT RACE I LEARNED FROM MY CAT (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

THE JOY OF BEING 50 PLUS (Workman)

THE WORRYWART’S PRAYER BOOK (Health Communications)

PURR MORE, HISS LESS (with Erika Oller) (Health Communications)

ONE SPECIAL ME (Tommy Nelson, 2008)

NOAH’S NOTEBOOK (Harvest House/forthcoming)

DANIEL’S DIARY (Harvest House/forthcoming)

MOSES’S MEMOIR (Harvest House/forthcoming)

BIBLE ACCORDING TO KIDS (Harvest House/forthcoming)

NOISY, JUMPY, SCARY BIBLE STORIES (Zonderkidz, forthcoming)





 

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