June 2008— MIT professor and YouTube star Walter Lewin's FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS, written with Warren Goldstein, which will tell how the author grew up during and after World War II, how he became a scientist, and how he fell in love -- first with physics and then with the craft of teaching physics to students, to Emily Loose at Free Press, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World).

May 2008—World Spanish rights to George Zarkadakis’ a post-modern “philosophical thriller,” THE ISLAND SURVIVAL GUIDE, to Ediciones B, by Maribel Luque at Carmen Balcells, on behalf of Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency, LLC.

April 2008—Chris White's "Skipjack: Tracking the Last Sailing Oystermen" a book that explores the last days of the Chesapeake Bay's oyster industry and the men who ply the waters in a boat known as a "skipjack" to Michael Flamini in a nice deal for World by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency.

March 2008—Film Rights to Thomas Rogers's JERRY ENGELS and AT THE SHORES, to John Meckler at JMM Film, in a nice deal, by Liza Wachter at Rabineau, Wachter, Sanford and Harris, on behalf of Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency.

February 2008—An early six-figure figure offer jumpstarted the bidding on University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock's CHOKE: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Success and Failure at Work and Play, which reveals astonishing new scientific research that turns on its head what we know about body-brain intelligence and performance, specifically what makes us flub and freeze. After two days of intense jockeying the young rising star's first book went to Leslie Meredith at Free Press for publication in 2010. The sale was handled by Dan O'Connell of The Strothman Agency.

January 2008—Peter Ginna at Bloomsbury Press bought world rights for The Sound of Freedom by historian Ray Arsenault  (Freedom Riders), about internationally acclaimed contralto Marion Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, given after she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race.  Sold by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency for publication in 2008.

January 2008—Bob Bender at Simon and Schuster bought Yale historian  (A Slave No More, Harcourt 2007)  David Blight's biography of the life and times of Frederick Douglass in an auction involving six houses the week before Christmas.  Blight's 2001 Race and Reunion received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize. World rights sold by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency for publication in 2011 . 

January 2008—Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger and the Experience of Germans and Jews in the 20th Century by  scholar of criminal justice and human rights Daniel Maier-Katkin, an examination of the relationship between the two icons and what it tells us about their philosophies and their times. World Rights to Alane Mason at Norton for publication in 2009 by Dan O’Connell at The Strothman Agency.

January 2008—Author of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, Christopher Lane’s Failing Gods: A Century of Doubt examines how the great 19th century scientific discoveries – by Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, among others -- affected faith and changed the Western world. Lane describes how successfully those earlier doubters were able to adapt basic beliefs to accommodate both science and faith. A look at today’s extremes (biblical literalists versus adamant atheists like Richard Dawkins) shows how far less successful in this we are than the Victorians. World Rights to Jean Thompson Black at Yale University for publication in 2010 by Dan O’Connell at The Strothman Agency.

December 2007—Robin Dennis at Holt/Times Books has preempted Mind over Manners: Etiquette for a Diverse Society, the first book by psychologist and Boston Globe Sunday Magazine “Miss Conduct” columnist Robin Abrahams. Dan O’Connell at the Strothman Agency sold North American rights. This compendium of advice will combine psychological insight, evolutionary theory and humor to tell readers how to “think” their way through the slippery rules about food, children, pets, religion, money, sex and health. Pub date is spring 2009.

November 2007—William G. Thomas’ Jupiter's Bow: Railroads, the Civil War and the Roots of Modern America was bought by Chris Rogers at Yale University Press. World rights by Wendy Strothman of the Strothman Agency, LLC. For publication in 2010 or 2011.

October 2007—Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio bought world rights for influential Silicon Valley lawyer Gary Reback’s Free The Market, a provocative argument—based on first-hand accounts of famous high technology antitrust trials—for greater government intervention in the free market. Sold by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency LLC for publication in early 2009, with editorial director Jeffrey Krames editing.

September 2007—George Gibson at Walker bought long-time minister of All Souls Church in Manhattan, Forrest Church’s,  In God We Trust,  which traces the faith—or religious political agenda—of the nation’s most influential presidents and the shifting line of separation between church and state. Sold by Wendy Strothman of the Strothman Agency, for publication in 2010.

August 2007— Fiction editor Roland Pease at Steerforth Press bought world rights to Benjamin Taylor’s next novel, The Book of Getting Even, called by Philip Roth “exuberant and charming and heartbroken by turns.”  Steerforth will also reissue in paperback Taylor’s award-winning Tales Out of School.  Both for May, 2008.

August 2007—World rights for the final book in Yale historian David Brion Davis's landmark examination of slavery, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, went to Knopf for publication in 2013. The first volume in Davis's trilogy, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, was published in 1966 and won the Pulitzer Prize. The second volume, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1770-1823, published in 1975, won the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize and the Beveridge Award. This final volume considers the antislavery movement's interaction with emerging social reform movements in both Britain and America, and its effects on the boundaries of social protest.

June 2007—HarperCollins  preempted North American rights to Seattle Times reporter and 2006-07 Nieman Fellow Craig Welch’s Shell Games. Welch’s thrilling tale of environmental poaching follows the exploits of an informant-turned rogue smuggler and uncovers the little-known black market for flora and fauna that ranks just behind illicit drugs in profitability. 

May 2007—Vanderbilt University Law School professor, Daniel Sharfstein’s Sun & Shade: Three American Families Journey from Black to White, a sweeping history of race in America told through the stories of three families -- the Gibsons (a pre-Revolutionary War free black family that rose through the white Southern aristocracy), the Spencers (black Appalachian farmers who became, over decades, white Kentucky coal miners), and the Walls (a black abolitionist family whose fall from prominence is most tragic) was sold to Penguin at auction.

May 2007—Sue Resnick's Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, about one of the most deadly coal mine disasters in U.S. history, was bought by University of Nebraska Press.

May 2007—Ann Fabian's Dr. Morton's Cabinet of Crania, abouta respected Philadelphia scientist pursuing live specimens in the hope of harvesting their skulls, was aquired by University of Chicago Press.

March 2007— The acclaimed Jamaica-born historian of slavery Anne Bailey’s elegiac account of the largest slave auction in American history (known as “the weeping time for the devastation to the families separated) that took place at Savannah in 1859 on the eve of the Civil War. The Weeping Time: Anatomy of a Slave Auction, which will track the families post-auction including interviews with living descendents was bought by HarperCollins.

March 2007— Award-winning historian Laurent Dubois' The Banjo: A Cultural History tells the fascinating story of the most American of all instruments, from its roots in Africa to its embrace by plantation slaves in the Caribbean and the U.S. South, to its ever-expanding appeal in minstrelsy, jazz, bluegrass, folk and other American musical idioms. The Banjo was bought by Harvard University Press.

January 2007—Simon and Schuster bought James Scott’s Attack on the Liberty in a pre-empt.  In his riveting tale of the shocking, deadly attack on the U.S. Navy ship by Israel during the Six Day War, Scott, son of a Liberty survivor and an award-winning journalist, tracks a cover-up that leads all the way to the Oval Office, detailing how the U.S. government chose to protect an ally rather than seek answers in an attack that left thirty-four American sailors dead.

January 2007—Ronald Florence's next book is the story of Joel Brand who was invited by Himmler and Eichmann to barter for the lives of one million Hungarian Jews, and the story of their attempts to use him to open peace negotiations with the Allies in 1944--offers wholly rejected by the highest levels of Allied leadership (Churchill and Roosevelt.) A chilling counterpoint to Schindler that casts cold light on the continuing Allied hesitation to intervene in the Final Solution. This as yet untitled book was bought by Viking Press which is also publishing  Florence's Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, to be published in 2007.

January 2007—Yale University Press bought Ruth Butler’s nonfiction work, Model-Wives:  Madame Cezanne, Madame Monet, Madame Rodin. Butler , a highly acclaimed biographer of Rodin, has chosen to resurrect the women who made such significant contributions to the work of three of the giants of late nineteenth-century French art.  Their importance was certainly not recognized in their own time and their existences were more or less forgotten after their deaths.

January 2007—James McGregor, Professor and Associate Head of the department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, adds to his popular “From the Ground Up” series with two new works, Athens: From the Ground Up and The Mediterranean: From the Ground Up, to Harvard University Press.

January 2007—Kenn Kaufman, the originator of the  Kaufman Field Guide Series, sold his new untitled memoir which continues the story begun in his classic “Kingbird Highway” to Houghton Mifflin.

January 2007—Freada Klein, business guru and founder of The Level Playing Field Institute sold Tilt: What A Level Playing Field in Business Might Really Look Like, which takes the first-ever, eye-opening look at the true nature of hidden barriers by destroying the myth of the modern meritocracy and revealing the root causes and subtle dynamics of bias in the workplace, was bought by Jossey-Bass.

January 2007—Reprint Rights for John Kenneth Galbraith’s New Industrial State, which resonates just as much today as it did when it was first published in 1967, were sold to Princeton University, on behalf of the Galbraith Estate.