Former minor leaguer Matthew McCarthy's ODD MAN OUT, a fish-out-of-water memoir about getting drafted in the 21st round out of Yale to play in Provo, Utah for the 2002 season, alongside future stars such as Prince Fielder, Bobby Jenks, Casey Kotchman and others, never truly thinking he'd make it in the majors but eager for the experience before attending Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated this Spring, to Viking.

All-Pro Dallas Cowboy and NY Giant Everson Walls's FOURTH AND FOREVER: Football, Friendship and a Gift for Life, a chronicle of Everson's friendship with teammate Ron Springs who was saved from the ravaging effects of diabetes by a kidney donation from Walls, written with journalist Kevin Blackistone, to Lyons Press.

Lisa Patton's WHISTLIN' DIXIE IN A NOR'EASTER, in which a Southern belle, her ancient Yorkie, and her two young daughters leave their Memphis home to run an inn in Vermont, only to discover that there's a truckload of things nobody told these Dixie girls about life up North, to Thomas Dunne Books.

DIXIELAND DELIGHT author and CBSSports.com columnist Clay Travis's ON ROCKY TOP, in which the author follows every stop of the 2008 University of Tennessee football season to create an in-depth look at one of college football's most storied programs, to Harper Entertainment.

Writer Elvis Mitchell and photographer Timothy Greenfield Sanders's THE BLACK LIST, a book of portraits and interviews, in which twenty-five prominent African Americans of various professions, disciplines and backgrounds, including Toni Morrison, Chris Rock, Slash and Zane, offer their own stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in this country and manage to re-define "blacklist" for a new century, to be released with the film from HBO in fall 2008, to Atria.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Brian Biegel and author Peter Thomas Fornatale's MIRACLE BALL: My Hunt for the Shot Heard Around the World, the story of Biegel's search for the lost Bobby Thomson 1951 home-run ball and how the discoveries he made along the way would change his life forever, to Crown.

Member of the Memphis Mafia and DJ George Klein's ELVIS: MY BEST MAN, an intimate portrait of Elvis Presley, who stood as best man at Klein's wedding, chronicling decades of friendship that began in the 8th grade, candidly sharing the many highs and lows, culminating in Presley's comeback album from American Studios in which Klein was instrumental, to Crown.

CONQUISTADOR author Buddy Levy's RIVER OF DARKNESS: Francisco Orellana's Historic Descent of the Amazon, chronicling the extraordinary navigation of the world's largest river, from its origins in the Andes foothills to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, considered among the greatest expeditions of exploration, adventure, and discovery in history, to Bantam Dell.

Sports Illustrated writer and author of RUNNING THE TABLE, STROKES OF GENIUS, L. Jon Wertheim's look into the world, mind, and game of tennis great Roger Federer, through the rubric of a single tennis match to be played this year, as Federer approaches Pete Sampras' record of 14 grand slam victories, in the tradition of John McPhee's 1960s tennis classic, LEVELS OF THE GAME, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

This American Life contributor Rosie Schaap's collection DRINKING WITH MEN, an honest and irreverent account of a woman's experiences forging her identity in an an almost exclusively male world: her favorite bars, where she has enjoyed the company of artists and ironworkers, tugboat captains and taxi drivers, poets and businessmen, lawyers and soccer hooligans, to Riverhead.

The primary source of Senator George Mitchell's Report Kirk Radomski's memoir of the steroid era in Major League Baseball, in which the author will detail his experiences as the most prolific and widely connected supplier of steroids in professional baseball and shine a colorful light on the twenty plus years of this dark period in America's pastime, from the time he served as a locker room attendant for the Mets during their World Series run in 1986 to the era of juiced up home run hitters in the 1990's to the Balco case, congressional hearings and beyond, to Hudson Street Press.

Alexandra Cousteau's THE BLUE BOOK, honoring the legacy of her grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, an exploration of water ecosystems around the world and how they are interconnected and interdependent, as well as a poetic meditation on what it means to live on a beautiful, but threatened, blue planet, to Dutton.

Contributor to Ladies' Home Journal's Can This Marriage Be Saved? Stephen Betchen's MAGNETIC PARTNERS: Revealing the Master Conflicts That Draw Us Together and Pull Us Apart, a guide to healing difficult relationships by recognizing that people seek out partners who share their core master conflict and therefore must identify and manage this mutual master conflict to find happiness, to Free Press.

Lori Devoti's AMAZON INK, about a modern-day family of Amazon women who've left their tribe to live among normal humans and run a tattoo parlor, until a murdered teenage Amazon left on their doorstep forces them to once again make contact with the Amazon tribe they left behind, to Juno.

Serena Robar's GIVING UP THE V, about one sixteen-year-old who swears she's nowhere near ready to "give up the V" despite being surrounded by a forward thinking mother and sex-obsessed friends, to Simon Pulse.

Libby Sternberg's FIRE ME, in which a young woman spends a day at the office trying to convince her boss that she should be the employee chosen to be laid off, with film rights previously optioned to Landscape Entertainment, to Sourcebooks.

Kate Perry's MARKED, in which a free-spirited artist inherits her estranged father's position as Guardian to a powerful ancient Chinese scroll and with the help of an unexpectedly hot fellow Guardian has to learn to control her newfound powers and protect the scroll, to Grand Central.

Carrie Tucker's I LOVE GEEKS, a humorous guide for women who want to get further inside the nerd subculture, breaking down different geeky obsessions and providing tips to make them more female-friendly, to Adams Media.

Richard Bitner's CONFESSIONS OF A SUB PRIME LENDER: How Greed, Fraud & Ignorance Caused the Greatest Business Debacle in US History, recently self-published book about the mortgage crisis, to Wiley.

Investigative reporter Dan Olmsted and science writer Mark Blaxill's MERCURY RISING, the first historical survey of the effects of environmental mercury which reveals previously unacknowledged links between exposure to mercury and the incidence of various disorders; from crippling bouts of syphilis which left sufferers raving mad, to the first children diagnosed with autism in the 1930s, to Karyn Marcus, in her first acquisition to Thomas Dunne Books.

Salon.com contributor Peter Birkenhead's GONVILLE, about the author's tumultuous relationship with his eccentric, charismatic, and sometimes violent father, to Free Press.

Jason Zinoman's SHOCK VALUE, based on his recent Vanity Fair article, offering a definitive look at the golden age of the modern horror movie by examining the infamous directors who revolutionized the business, exploded taboos, and brought a new brand of intellectualism and politics to the genre, to Penguin Press.

John Parker, Jr.'s ONCE A RUNNER, the story of a college senior who gives up everything in his life and submits to a brutal training regimen in a quest to become a world champion, originally published in 1978 and Bookfinder's most in demand out of print book last year, to Scribner.

NBC golf broadcaster Jimmy Roberts's BREAKING THE SLUMP: How Great Players Survived their Darkest Moments in Golf -- and What You Can Learn from Them, interviews with successful golfers (including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Johnny Miller, John Daly, and Dottie Pepper, plus such celebrity players as Michael Jordan and Bill Murray) on how they overcame the worst slump in their careers, in hopes of ultimately overcoming his own interminable funk and possibly learning a life lesson or two in the process, to Collins.

Founder of zenhabits.net Leo Babauta's THE POWER OF LESS: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential, to Hyperion.

Maureen Lipinski's WAS IT PLANNED?, the humorous story of a young newlywed couple whose lives are turned upside down by an unplanned pregnancy, to Thomas Dunne Books.

Sports Illustrated editor Mark Bechtel's untitled book on NASCAR in the 1970s -- a seminal time in the history of the sport -- featuring the Allison brothers, the Pettys, Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Benny Parsons, and Dale Earnhardt, to Little, Brown.

Author of the award-wining BICYCLE: The History, David Herlihy's THE LOST CYCLIST: The Untold Story of Frank Lenz's Ill-Fated Around the World Journey, the tragic yet inspiring tale of a 19th century adventurer's solo circumnavigation of the globe via bicycle, traveling west from New York City across America, through Asia, and ending in Turkey where he disappears and is presumably murdered, featuring Lenz's stunning photographs which survived the journey, to Houghton Mifflin.

LAT contributor and author of blog Zulkey.com, Claire Zulkey's AN OFF YEAR, about a girl who has always done everything as she was supposed to, until she surprises everyone by arriving at her dorm room for her freshman year of college and turning around, leading her into a humorous year of observed self-doubt and self-discovery, to Dutton.

Visual expert for the PGA Tour Craig Farnsworth's THE PUTTING PRESCRIPTION: The Putt Doctor's Proven Method for a Better Stroke, a step-by-step approach for alignment, green reading and judging distance, to Wiley.

David Lovelace's memoir SCATTERSHOT, about growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family of five, four of whom suffer from bipolar disorder (including both parents and David himself), and his adventures learning to deal with the extreme highs and bottomless lows brought on by the madness implanted in his genes, to Dutton.

Jason Kersten’s biography of Art Williams, Jr., THE ART OF MAKING MONEY: My Adventures in a Counterfeit Life, based on an article in Rolling Stone about the rise and fall of this counterfeiter, to Gotham Books.

Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim's ULTIMATE GLADIATORS, an inside look at the colorful champions of the rapidly emerging sport of mixed martial arts and the explosion of the Ultimate Fighting Championships league (UFC), to Houghton Mifflin.

Amie Stuart's next two works of erotic romance, about blue-collar Texas women and the men they love, to Audrey LaFehr at Kensington.

Six-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion Mark Allen and shaman and healer Brant Secunda's SPORT AND SPIRIT, showing the importance of both physical and spiritual fitness - and how to achieve them, to BenBella Books.

Boxing journalist George Kimball's FOUR KINGS: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing, the story of an unlikely quartet of fighters who met nine times over a decade to produce some of the most memorable events in the sport's history, with an introduction by Pete Hamill, to McBooks Press in the US and Mainstream Publishing in the UK, simultaneously.

Screenwriter and journalist Heidi Schnakenberg's KID CAROLINA: RJ Reynolds, Jr., A Tobacco Fortune, and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon, a look at the privileged, decadent and exclusive world inhabited by one of the 20th century's most conspicuous and influential individuals, to Center Street.

Sportswriter Howard Megdal's THE BASEBALL TALMUD: Koufax, Greenberg, and the Quest for Baseball's All-Jewish Team - a detailed and humorous historical baseball abstract that ranks the league's 153 Jewish players, position by position, over the history of the game, to Collins.

Matthew Biberman's BIG SID'S VINCATI: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Bike of a Lifetime, about the son of a renowned bike mechanic who promised his father after a near fatal heart attack that they would build a Vincati (a legendary melding of two great bikes, the Vincent and the Ducati) in his garage, to Hudson Street Press.

Michelle Maisto's EATING TOGETHER: The Gastronomy of a Marriage, in which the author uses that most revealing of questions within a new relationship, "What should we do about dinner?" to tell the story of the year of her engagement through the meals they made together, to Random House.

Sports Illustrated staff writer and author of Carlisle vs. Army Lars Anderson's THE FIRST STAR: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF HOW RED GRANGE SAVED THE NFL, a close-up look at how legendary running back Red Grange left college football to join the fledgling NFL and the resulting and unprecedented barnstorming tour that launched pro football, to Random House.

Journalist and author of THE SEVENTH AT ST. ANDREWS, Scott Gummer's HOMER KELLEY'S ODYSSEY, the untold story of Homer Kelley, a genius in engineering and an advocate for a scientifically perfect golf swing, showing the impact of his book The Golfing Machine on the game of golf, and relating the story of Ben Doyle, the teacher whom Kelley selected to translate and teach his methods to golfers, to Bill Shinker and Brett Valley at Gotham, by Scott Waxman at the Waxman Literary Agency.

NY Times columnist Pete Bodo’s WHITETAIL NATION: A Year of Deer Hunting in America, delving into this subculture to discover what makes people hunt, while also following the author’s own exciting quest for the big buck, to Houghton Mifflin.

Popular Nation and SLAM Magazine sports columnist Dave Zirin's SPIKE THIS: The Battle for the Soul of American Sports, looking at the way the commercialization and big business domination of contemporary sport results in a raw deal for the fans and shows how far we've come from the days when it really was just a game, to Scribner.

Vestal Review editor Mark Budman's MY LIFE AT FIRST TRY, an autobiographical debut novel that details the Russian Jewish immigrant experience, to Counterpoint.

Humorist Bob Powers' first two books in the JUST MAKE A CHOICE! series, a contemporary choose-your-own-adventure format in which the protagonist is an ambivalent thirty-year old is terrified to make the choices that would add focus to his career and his love life for fear that he'll never be able to go back and start over again if he's wrong, to Thomas Dunne Books.

Amit Chatwani's DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A BANKER: A Fact-Based Approach to the World of Finance, a guide to the world of Wall Street in the voice of the "consummate banker caricature" that the author, labeled the "Borat of Wall Street" by BusinessWeek, popularized on his website LeveragedSellout.com, to Hyperion.

Sam MacDonald's THE URBAN HERMIT: A Savage Escape from Beast of the American Belly, a retelling of the author's head-on collision with our culture of rampant consumerism, in which he limited himself to a budget of $8 a week and 800 calories a day (mostly in the form of lentils), in an attempt to regain control of his life, to St. Martin's.

Author of EMPIRE OF BLUE WATER, Stephan Talty's narrative THE EMPEROR AND THE MICROBE, a look at the epidemic that defeated Napoleon and his magnificent army, mixing conquest and megalomania with a medical detective story, to Crown.

Former Golf Digest editor-in-chief Kevin Cook's EVOLVING THE GAME, showing a year behind the scenes at the Leadbetter Golf Academy, where teenaged golfers study and play full time for a shot at the pro tour, looking at how renowned instructor David Leadbetter and his school have perfected the art of teaching the golf swing (seen in the successes of Michelle Wie and Ernie Els) and changed the game of golf, to Gotham.

John Eisenberg's THAT FIRST SEASON: How Vince Lombardi Took a Team of Sad Sack Losers and Started them on the Path to Glory, the untold story of Lombardi's first season of 1959 in which he took a 1-10 team, and coaching largely the same players, was able to instill confidence and a passion for winning, planting the seeds for a future dynasty, to Houghton Mifflin.

Co-founders of the UC Davis Sports Performance Center, five-time Olympic gold medalist Dr. Eric Heiden and Dr. Max Testa's TRUE FITNESS: A Customized, Scientific Approach, No Matter Your Starting Level, offering the philosophy, secrets, and medical expertise the authors have shared with world-class athletes from Lance Armstrong to Apolo Anton Ohno on how exercise actually works and provide a customized, day-by-day fitness routine for the rest of us, with co-writer DeAnne Musolf, to Collins.

PHILADELPHIA LAWYER: A Decade of Cheating, Stealing, & Screwing in the Circus of Modern Law, based on the author's anonymous website, www.philalawyer.net, in which he posts brutally honest stories about his life and career that expose the legal profession's "absurd insistence that lawyers are agents of truth," to Regan Books.

Senior Editor of Atlanta Jewish Life Benyamin Cohen's MOSES IN A MEGACHURCH: One Orthodox Jew's Search for Spiritual Meaning in Bible Belt America, in which the author seeks to reconcile his frustrations with Judaism by immersing himself in a variety of popular Christian traditions, from the conventional to the "inspired," to Harper San Francisco.

Author of THE PERFECT MILE and the forthcoming RED MUTINY, Neal Bascomb's ANGELS OF JUSTICE: The Hunt for Adolph Eichmann, Death's Architect. The story of the fifteen year manhunt for the engineer of The Final Solution, who lived alone in the forests of Germany for five years before finding safe passage to Argentina via the Nazi "rat lines" in 1950, and was eventually seized by Mossad agents in one of their very first missions in 1960, featuring newly declassified documents and first-person accounts to Houghton Mifflin.

William Van Meter's BLUEGRASS, the story of the brutal 2003 murder of a Western Kentucky University freshman and its implications for the town of Bowling Green, to Free Press.

A.J. Baime's A RACE TO THE DEATH, the story of Henry Ford Jr. and Enzo Ferrari's epic and often fatal battle for motor-racing supremacy culminating in Ford's victory at Le Mans in 1966, to Houghton Mifflin.