Just released: Tiki Barber's Pure Hard Workout (Penguin Group, November 2008), co-authored by Scott Hays. This is Hays' fourth book in the men's health market. He is author of Built for Sex (Rodale Press, 2006), and co-author of The Action Hero Body (Rodale Press, 2005).

Katy Butler's personal essay on caregiving, “The Good Daughter,” (More magazine) just earned a Meredith Corporation Award for Creative Excellence. She recently won an Elizabeth George award, taught “The Alchemy of Memoir” at Esalen Institute, and spent two months at Hedgebrook, a colony in Washington for women writers of diverse backgrounds.

Sally Moore's Backroads & Byways of New Mexico is the winner of the Travel Division of the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards. The publisher is The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. Inc..

Alisa Bowman, along with fitness trainer Pete Cerqua, co-authored The 90-Second Fitness Solution (Atria, December 2008), which includes a revolutionary strength training plan that requires only 15 minutes a week.

Mary Beth Klatt, who specializes in writing about fashion, design and historic preservation, will teach seamstresses at Vogue Fabrics in Evanston, Ill., how to make 1950s-era skirts, aprons from the same era, 1940s hats and 1960s ties. The best outfits win prizes and pictures in the next Vogue Fabrics newsletter.

Sally Wendkos Olds' Super Granny: Great Stuff to Do with Your Grandkids will be published in March by Sterling Publishing. Grandparenting expert Dr. Arthur Kornhaber said about it: “Sally Wendkos Olds' excellent book is a must-read for all grandparents, especially those that ever wondered what to do with their grandchildren on a rainy day.”

University Press Florida announces the publication of Mary L. Peachin's latest book Scuba Caribbean.

Chrystle Fiedler, who writes the Good Nature column for Remedy magazine, is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Natural Remedies (Alpha/Penguin, January 2009).

Mary-Ellen Siegel, MSW, has co-authored three new books. The revised Beyond Companionship: Dogs with a Purpose, originally published by Walker, is now an ASJA-iUniverse book. Behind the 8-Ball: A Recovery Guide for Families of Gamblers, originally published by Simon and Schuster and one of iUniverse's first books, is now in its third edition and continues to yield regular royalties. An updated edition of Shingles: New Hope For An Old Disease has been published by M. Evans.

A collection of quizzes for various national magazines is brought together in Robin Westen's The Big Book of Personality Tests for Women: 100 Fun-to-Take, Easy-to-Score Quizzes that Reveal Your Hidden Potential in Life, Love and Work ((Black Dog & Leventhal). A second collection The Big Book of Relationship Quizzes is slated for January 2009.

With the release of Paul and Sarah Edwards' 17th nonfiction book, Middle Class Lifeboat, they are enlarging their focus from home business to dealing with middle class issues at a personal, economic and political level. They will release most of their books as eBooks and launch the www.MiddleclassLibrary.com

Bill & Mary Burnhams' Florida Keys Paddling Atlas (Falcon Guides) has earned first place in the National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA), Outdoor Adventure Guidebook category.

Anne Hart's latest paperbacks are Growing Up in Coney Island During World War Two and Beyond: the Novel and Traveling Poems and Short Stories, both available on lulu.com.

Diane Daniel won a third-place award in the 2008 SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for “Best Newspaper Article on U.S. Travel” for her story on short-term/regional home exchanges in The New York Times Escapes section.

The Star-Ledger (the largest paper in NJ) just did a long interview with Janice Harayda about her book-review site, One-Minute Book Reviews, www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com.

Jodi Helmer's first book, The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference (Alpha) hits bookstores this month. The tip-a-day guide features practical and inexpensive suggestions for a more eco-friendly lifestyle, one day at a time.

Brenda Lange has recently published her sixth young adult book with Chelsea House Publishers. Nefertiti is part of the Ancient World Leaders series, and joins her other biographies and historical events titles. Her seventh book, Caricom, about the Caribbean Community and Common Market will be out in the spring.

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