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NEW YORK OFFICE
RLR Associates, Ltd.
7 West 51st Street - 4th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Main Phone: 212.541.8641
General Fax: 212.262.7084
Literary Fax: 212.541.6052
CALIFORNIA OFFICE
RLR Associates, Ltd.
142 Chalaka Place
Palm Desert, CA 92260
Main Phone: 760.341.6307
General Fax: 760.341.5748
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| THE LONG GONE LONESOME HISTORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC by Bret Bertholf (Little Brown Young Readers, April 2007) is a magnificent illustrated book for young music fans. Progressing chronologically from pre-radio barn dances to the early recording industry, to Depression soup lines and gospel singing, on to celluloid singing cowboys and hillbilly jazz into WWII and the emergence of Nashville and honky-tonk, rock-a-billy and bluegrass, right up to the current country-music craze, Bertholf unearths country music's myriad roots. Amusing, interactive introductions to popular country instruments, apparel, pets, vehicles, dances, nicknames, hairstyles and foods, as well as a glossary of common country words, yodeling instructions, cameo biographies of country music all-stars and caricatures of every famous country singer from 1920 to 1999, complete this wonderful book. |
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A RATHER LOVELY INHERITANCE by C.A. Belmond (New American Library, January 2007) is a debut novel of family, secrets, and the romantic adventure of one woman's lifetime. Penny Nichols is a historical researcher working on a big-budget film in the south of France when she gets an urgent call. Her aunt Penelope has just died, and Penny's presence is required in London for the reading of the will. With only a slim recollection of her eccentric aunt, Penny is astonished to learn that not only is she a bona fide heiress--but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work. This time, the history she's researching happens to be her very own. What she discovers about Aunt Penelope, a pair of wills, double lives, secret histories, and a family tree of "vultures" is about to sweep Penny and a long-lost relative across France, over the hills of Italy, and through half of Europe on the adventure of several lifetimes. This is her life, her past, her chance at love--and Penny's going to live it with the kind of passion she's always dreamed of. |
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FALLING by Christopher Pike (Tor/Forge, February 2007) is a gripping psychological thriller about Kelly Fienman, an ambitious female FBI agent on the hunt for the Acid Man, a brutal serial killer, who outsmarts her and sets her up as his next victim. A struggle ensues and Kelly is mutilated by the killer's trademark acid, barely escaping with her life before shooting him and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Months later a feeble Kelly, physically mutilated from the acid and emotionally rocked by the subsequent destruction of her marriage, is assigned to a kidnapping case that she can only solve by conferring with the mad mind of the man who almost destroyed her. They develop a pact--he will lead her to the kidnapper if she promises to euthanize him once he's found, to finish what she started and end his now undignified life as an invalid. Thus the intertwining of the story of the kidnapper, Matt Connor, who has faked his own death to enact revenge on the love of his life who walked out on him. As Kelly is led to the kidnapper, she finds herself falling in love with him, and when she risks it all to try to protect him, there is a resurgence of murders eerily similar to the Acid Man's, who himself cannot physically perform them. |
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THE AFTER LIFE by Dan Ehrenhaft (Razorbill/Penguin Putnam October 2006) is a novel of excess, a coming-of-age story with grit and edge. It's the story of a smart, troubled teen who gets kicked out of boarding school and somehow miraculously gets accepted into the swankest private school on the Upper East Side of New York City. There he meets his obscenely privileged half-brother and half-sister for the first time, and their mutual father, who he hasn't seen in over 15 years. When dad suddenly dies, the kids head down to Florida for his funeral. There they learn that for any of them to receive their inheritance, they must drive together back to NY--a road trip that tests them, provokes them and teaches them all at once. |
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WINE MISCELLANY: A Journey Through the Whimsical World of Wine by Graham Harding (Clarkson Potter, November 2006) is a must-have for any wine lover. From the history of the drink, to the influence of oak, to the wine/sex combination, all the way to the most expensive bottle, Harding lets us know the real deal, in a very readable fashion. Did you know that the four trickiest foods to match with wine are asparagus, artichokes, tomatoes and eggs? And that women are better wine tasters than men? You'll also discover the complete listing of all the wines James Bond enjoys in his books, and other obscure but interesting facts that can make you the toast of any party! |
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