Baum’s Yellow Brick Road Deanne Urmy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bested four other bidders for Evan I. Schwartz’s Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story; Lane Zachary and Todd Shuster at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth negotiated the six-figure North American rights deal, which was made before HMH’s acquisitions freeze.

Money Savvy Adrian Zackheim and Adrienne Schultz at Portfolio beat several other bidders in an auction for Zac Bissonette’s first book via David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects. The author, a college sophomore and co-editor of AOL’s WalletPop.com, will argue that American parents and their high school children need to rethink their approach to choosing and paying for college.

Baum’s Yellow Brick Road Deanne Urmy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bested four other bidders for Evan I. Schwartz’s Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story; Lane Zachary and Todd Shuster at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth negotiated the six-figure North American rights deal, which was made before HMH’s acquisitions freeze.

Money Savvy Adrian Zackheim and Adrienne Schultz at Portfolio beat several other bidders in an auction for Zac Bissonette’s first book via David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects. The author, a college sophomore and co-editor of AOL’s WalletPop.com, will argue that American parents and their high school children need to rethink their approach to choosing and paying for college.

Another Buffett John Glusman at Harmony beat four other bidders in an auction for Peter Buffett’s Life Is What You Make It; Richard Pine at InkWell sold North American rights. Buffett, who forsook the chance to join his father’s business to pursue his own passion for music, will write about values, identity and growing up as one of Warren Buffett’s sons; as a young man, he wa…

Another Buffett John Glusman at Harmony beat four other bidders in an auction for Peter Buffett’s Life Is What You Make It; Richard Pine at InkWell sold North American rights. Buffett, who forsook the chance to join his father’s business to pursue his own passion for music, will write about values, identity and growing up as one of Warren Buffett’s sons; as a young man, he wa…