New and Upcoming Releases Souvenir Crack the Fat-loss Code Feed the Hungry Falling Under Pelican Road Souvenir by Therese Fowler In this powerful fiction debut, Therese Fowler combines the emotional resonance of Nicholas Spark with the intense, true-to-life richness of Jodi Picoult to create a stunning and dramatic novel all her own. Meg Powell and Carson McKay were raised side by side on their families' farms, bonded by a love that only deepened as they grew. Everyone thought that they would always be together. But, at twenty-one, Meg was presented with a marriage proposal she could not refuse, forever changing the course of her life. Seventeen years later, Meg's marriage has become routine and she struggles to balance the demands of her medical practice, the needs of her widowed father and the whims of her rebellious teenage daughter. Then, after a long absence, Carson returns home to prepare for his own wedding to a younger woman. As Carson struggles to determine where his heart and future lie, Meg makes a shocking discovery that will upset the balance of everyone around her. A searing yet redemptive novel, Souvenir, is an unforgettable tale about the transforming power of love. Crack the Fat-loss Code by Wendy Chant The human body evolved to resist starvation by holding on to fat. No wonder it's hard to lose weight! Now a revolutionary lifestyle plan finally cracks the code for efficient fat loss. Developed by leading nutrition specialist Wendy Chant, the plan is scientifically designed to help you "outsmart" your body's natural cycles for storing and burning calories. The plan teaches you to boost your metabolism through "macro-patterning" - a simple routine of alternating carb-up, carb-down, and baseline days. There are even built-in cheat days, so you can enjoy the foods you love. Once you get your eating habits on schedule, you'll find that even you can lose weight…for good! Feed the Hungry: A Memoir, With Recipes by Nani Power In Feed the Hungry, Power turns her incredible storytelling talents to memoir, crafting a sublime work of nonfiction centered around a life of travel, eclectic dining and dealing with her decidedly eccentric Southern bohemian family. From her childhood on a rambling farm in Virginia - during which she witnessed a saga of fighting, disowning, silencing and other regrettable acts - to stints as a nanny in a trailer home, a sandwich seller in Rio, and a chef in a Japanese restaurant, Power keeps the reader surprised, enthralled and entertained. This is a supple, evocative memoir, anchored to the theme of our national mania for consumption, written with all the creativity, tenderness and grit for which this accomplished novelist has been justly praised. Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman After growing up as the only child of bitterly divorced parents, Mara Foster has finally gained independence and is embarking on a promising career as an artist. But despite her success, she is fragile. Burdened by a host of fears and anxieties, Mara finds it difficult even to leave her house on most days. When Mara meets Hugo, the walls she has built around herself begin to crumble, and as she struggles to find a breakthrough both in her art and in life, she must come to terms with her own dark secrets in order to get a second chance at happiness. Written in spare, crisp prose and marked by wry humor, Falling Under is a gripping contemporary urban tale of human weakness, friendship and hard-earned redemption. This emotionally resonant story of unexpected love marks the debut of a striking new voice in fiction. Pelican Road by Howard Bahr From the acclaimed author of The Judas Field comes a beautiful and haunting portrait of the men who served on the great American railroads. Christmas Eve, 1940. On an isolated stretch of railway between Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana, two locomotives travel toward one another through the gray winter landscape. A.P. Dunn, engineer aboard the 4512, a southbound freight, can remember every detail of the last trip he made through the snow, in 1923. What he can't recall are the events of a few hours ago--where he ate his breakfast, how he got the gash on his forehead, what he said or did to make his crew regard him so strangely. On the northbound Silver Star, a luxury passenger train packed with returning college students and gift-bearing families, brakeman Artemus Kane has his own memories to contend with-memories of French foxholes and German snipers; of a failed marriage; of a too-short layover spent with Anna Rose Dangerfield, the brilliant and lonely woman he has just left behind in the Crescent City. As the two trains draw closer together, catastrophe is never more than a distracted moment away. In his first novel set away from the Civil War, Howard Bahr returns to his greatest theme-the tragic nobility of men and women attempting to overcome difficult situations through love, honor, and sacrifice. Jeffrey Lent calls it "American storytelling at its finest." Recent Awards and Accolades The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado, awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature The Judas Field by Howard Bahr, awarded the 2007 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction New Deals Living Large, by Sarah Z. Wexler to St. Martin's Press Oysters and Chocolate, by Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade to NAL The Faux Thoreau: A City Boy Battles Blizzards, Wrestles Raccoons and Cuts Cable in A Quest for His Modern-Day Walden Pond, by Wade Rouse to Harmony The Hard Work of Love, by Catherine McCall to Seal Press Breathers, by Scott Browne to Broadway Books What I Would Tell Her, by Andrea Richesin to Mira Your Child's Special Diet, by Judy Converse to Perigee Cooking and Screaming, by Adrienne Kane to Simon Spotlight Entertainment Kockroach by Tyler Knox, optioned to Safari Films As Luck Would Have It and Tempting Fate, by Alissa Johnson to Dorchester What's Left of Us, by Richard Farrell to Kensington Slanted and Enchanted, by Kaya Oakes to Henry Holt