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It’s Gonna Take More Than One Night Of Wine And Honesty To Fix The Baggage These Friends Bring To A Wedding

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It’s Gonna Take More Than One Night Of Wine And Honesty To Fix The Baggage These Friends Bring To A Wedding

Los Angeles, CA – Most women will agree that it’s pretty much a necessity to have at least a few loyal and trustworthy friends in their life – friends who sometimes know them better than they know themselves. Such is the scenario when four friends come together for one of their weddings in Rebecca Bloom’s Eat, Drink and Be Married (Self/iuniverse), only to discover each of them is hiding a piece of themselves from each other.

When college girlfriends on opposite sides of the country leave busy schedules behind to join their former roommate for her wedding in Lake Tahoe, they not only bring suitcases packed with ‘what-not-to-wear’ bridesmaid dresses, but baggage of a more emotional kind.

Supported by a variety of diverse characters determined to wreak havoc on their carefully organized lives, each woman is forced to come to terms with her past before she walks down the aisle. A bottle of booze, a multitude of laughs, a hankie or two worth of tears, and seventy-two hours in the presence of those who know and love them the most produces the perfect recipe for four women to Eat, Drink, and Be Married.

Already receiving great reviews on Amazon.com, Eat, Drink and Be Married immediately draws the reader into the entertaining world that surrounds Bloom’s endearing, eclectic characters – making readers a little envious of such close-knit friendships. The writer’s rich telling of the dialogue that occurs when best friends get together for a special event makes for a page-turner that every modern woman can enjoy!

Eat, Drink and Be Married is ‘chick lit’ at its absolute finest and funniest and needs to be made available at every bridal salon in the country – where brides and their best friends can have an opportunity to identify with its characters, their situations, or both!

Rebecca Bloom’s previous novels, Girl Anatomy and Tangled up in Daydreams were featured in numerous national and regional publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, In Style and others, in addition to various electronic outlets including EXTRA, Good Day Live and Dallas Morning News. In addition, Bloom also served as the executive editor then editor at large for Los Angeles Confidential Magazine.  

For more information on this talented writer, please visit: www.rebeccabloom.com.

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Winning the Lottery: Blessing or Curse?

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Winning the Lottery: Blessing or Curse?

Ridgewood, NJ – Life would be so perfect and carefree with immeasurable wealth…right? You Never Know (Wheatmark, Inc.) is an extraordinary novel by Lilian Duval that questions our assumptions about money and power. The story contrasts two families that are friends; one suffers great tragedy and struggles financially, while the other has enjoyed an affluent lifestyle. Everything changes when one decides to buy a lottery ticket.

Having struggled through his young life with a condescending father, alcoholic mother, and an artistically gifted younger brother, Tobias Hillyer’s life changes forever during a Christmas visit home when a tragic automobile accident leaves both of his parents dead and his younger brother Simeon seriously injured. Tobias, always one to do the right thing, abandons his dreams of finishing college to take care of his brain-damaged sibling. He works a low-paying job, marries his brother’s psychiatric nurse, and tries to settle into the middle class.

On the other hand, Martin, his college roommate, seems to have everything going his way. He finishes college, marries well, and lands a high-paying job with Lehman Brothers in New York.  In spite of their differences in incomes, the two families stay in touch.
 
When Tobias buys a lottery ticket on a whim – and wins – he believes his problems are finally over.  Strangely, as the roles are reversed, Tobias and his wife now get to live out their fantasies and Martin now faces bankruptcy. 

As problems arise and life gets more difficult and less predictable for Tobias, who nearly loses everything he holds most dear while trying to get his head around this staggering amount of money, it is Simeon who surfaces as the unexpected hero by realizing his own happiness and success as a result of his own efforts. As “Simmy” sets out on his own personal life journey, he leaves the family with a gift that brings them full circle and grants Tobias inner peace.

You Never Know is more a story of triumph than defeat, and what stems from one winning ticket makes for an exciting and surprising read filled with unexpected twists and turns to the very end, proving that while chance can change lives in a split second, results can last a lifetime.

While Lilian Duval implies in her novel that her characters may have been affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers in 2001, she and her husband are actual survivors of this attack and know first-hand how this experience forever changed their lives.

For more information on Lilian Duval and her extraordinary novel, please visit her website at: www.lilianduval.com.

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Avoiding Regrets and Bad Choices: Missed Ops is a Guide to a More Successful Life

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Avoiding Regrets and Bad Choices: Missed Ops is a Guide to a More Successful Life

New York, NY – As DEA and FBI Special Agents, Keith Nelson and Anthony Rienzi witnessed first-hand the consequences of bad choices. They’ve turned that knowledge upside-down to write Missed Ops: When Opportunity Knocks Know What NOT To Do (Health Communications, Inc.). The result is a straightforward and practical look at using other people’s missed opportunities as a guide to leaving regret behind and building a better future.

“We have demonstrated strategies for breaking generational cycles of dissatisfaction and failure,” Keith Nelson says. “Our book can have a positive impact on the lives of those who have regrets about not taking advantage of past opportunities, while also proactively helping those who have not yet made major life decisions, ensuring they make the best ones.” The book shows how to recognize opportunity when it knocks and how to objectively appraise and critique the advice and counsel of others before making an informed choice.

Based on candid interviews from a wide variety of people, Missed Ops is highly readable and informative. “We wanted to outline what readers should not do when faced with a personal, educational or financial opportunity.  Experience is the best teacher, but only if it’s someone else’s experience,” adds Anthony Rienzi, co-author. Throughout the book, readers develop an ability to view the outcome of other people’s mistakes and gain knowledge as if they experienced it personally.

In their careers as DEA and FBI Special Agents, the authors received in-depth training in using fact-based interviewing techniques and investigative analyzing skills. They applied these same skills to break down missed opportunities to identify what went wrong and how it could have been corrected. Through analyzing their personal experiences and interviewing other people, the authors determined common facts of failure and created an outline of skills and techniques for seizing opportunity.

“Missed Ops is not a one-size-fits-all solution,” Nelson says. “Instead it is designed to be a roadmap to help the reader make successful choices when faced with opportunity during his or her own unique journey.”

MISSED OPS offers an uncommon perspective on how to get off the treadmill to nowhere that is characterized by struggle, disappointment, and failure. Readers will learn practical strategies for successfully climbing the socio-economic ladder, attaining personal goals, fulfilling lifelong dreams, and passing along valuable guidance and wisdom to future generations.

Please see: www.missed-ops.com

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JUMPSTART YOUR WEIGHT LOSS RESOLUTION IN 21 DAYS

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JUMPSTART YOUR WEIGHT LOSS RESOLUTION  IN 21 DAYS

Hinsdale, IL – Thousands of people will resolve to lose weight in 2012. Unfortunately, many will fail because of a tragic misconception that they are overweight due to  overeating. Instead, the cause of lifelong weight problems and fatigue may be hypothyroidism, a disease easily treated by the step-by-step sensible plan of diet and exercise presented by Dr. Kevin Dobrzynski in his groundbreaking book The Hypothyroid Diet (Morgan and James, publisher).

January is Thyroid Awareness Month. Hypothyroidism is a devastating epidemic affecting 10 to 27 million Americans, often caused by an autoimmune disorder, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Most sufferers are women, and many are misdiagnosed, undiagnosed, or mistreated. When she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and subsequently thyroid cancer, Dr. Dobrzynski’s wife Amy did not get better despite medication and surgery. Her husband was determined to help her lose weight, fight fatigue and feel normal again, and their success is documented in The Hypothyroid Diet.

A licensed practitioner of natural medicine, Dr. Kevin Dobrzyski has a thriving practice helping people use exercise and nutrition for a happier, healthier life. “Combining alternative medicine with exercise creates a healthy option and balance to give you the freedom while staying in control of your own healthcare,” he explains. Driven by a desire to help his wife, he studied the effects of the immune system, thyroid function and the interplay of nutrition and exercise.

Medication is often not helpful. For many women, it simply masks the cause of the problem without addressing the crippling symptoms of weight gain, fatigue, cold hands and feet, depression, hair loss, brain fog, short term memory loss, insomnia, low libido, heavy menses and body aches and pains. After she struggled for months, Dr. Dobrzynski developed a program for his wife to follow.

“It was a small change in diet with a couple of added nutritional supplements, and in a matter of weeks she lost eight pounds, got an energy boost and started to feel normal and hopeful.” His research showed that when the patient’s immune system is supported, results are swift. Through the simple plan outlined in The Hypothyroid Diet, Dobrzynski shows people what to eat and drink and what to avoid, and how to work a program that beats the disease.  “It also helps hypothyroid patients determine if they have a food allergy or sensitivity, which is a common theme among thyroid patients and can cause their symptoms to get worse.” he continues. “The program helps them stabilize their blood sugar so they can lose weight and also helps eliminate food cravings.”

With the introduction of this new book, Dr. Kevin Dobrzynski offers thousands of women new hope for the treatment of obesity, fatigue and other overwhelming symptoms of hypothyroidism. The Hypothyroid Diet may be the key to a healthier, happier life in 2012.

Please visit Dr. Dobrzynski’s website at: http://thehypothyroiddiet.com

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The First Book Of Its Kind On One Of The Greatest Sources Of Religious Inspiration Of All Time

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The First Book Of Its Kind On One Of The Greatest Sources Of Religious Inspiration Of All Time

Torrance, CA – A Buddha is one who has attained the highest level of enlightenment in the Cosmos and Buddhism teaches that the Cosmos contains innumerable worlds similar to ours, with countless number of Buddhas. Buddhism also teaches that there are fifty-two levels of enlightenment, the highest of which is called the “enlightenment of a Buddha.” 

The Story Of Buddha: A Graphic Biography (Ichimannendo Publishing) by Hisashi Ota is believed to be the first book on the life story of Buddha and his teachings in Manga – a revered practice by the Japanese of using comics for explanation and illustration.

When the Buddha was a young man he was called Siddhartha and he dealt with similar struggles that we have today. He was born as a crown prince and was blessed by having an extremely beautiful wife. He had it all – money, fame, position, wealth – there was nothing he needed yet even with all of his possessions he was not totally happy. He felt there was something missing in his life and he wondered how there could be meaning in the same routine day after day.

That is when he went in search of happiness…and a search for answers to the age-old question, “what is the meaning of life?” began. Little did this dissatisfied prince from the foothills of the Himalayas know that 2,600 years later he would be considered one of the world’s greatest sources of religious inspiration!

Hisashi Ota, the author of this remarkable book, was born in Japan and graduated from Nagoya University’s School of Science. 

For more information, please visit: www.i-ipi.com.

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Boost Your Physical and Emotional Healing Abilities

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Boost Your Physical and Emotional Healing Abilities

Minneapolis, MN – Dr. David Knighton has some remarkable insights about wounds and our ability to heal ourselves. “We’ve all been wounded,” he writes. “But, paradoxically, wounding is probably our greatest stimulus for health. As we heal, we grow.”

A leading expert on wound healing, Dr. Knighton delves even deeper into the mystery of human nature with his new book The Wisdom of the Healing Wound: A New View on Why We Hurt and How We Can Cure Even the Deepest Physical and Emotional Wounds. (Health Communications, Inc.)

“The goal in working with wounds of any kind — from the physical to the emotional to the spiritual — is to restore structure and function,” Dr. Knighton says. “That is the healer’s role. Ultimately, The Wisdom of the Healing Wound is about being human — about living fully as body, mind, and spirit. More importantly, it is about the powerful, transformative, and often surprising ways we can heal and thrive in the face of our wounds.”

“Life is full of wounds–physical, emotional, and spiritual. The wounded psyche and spirit heal in much the same manner as physical wounds,” Dr. Knighton explains. “It’s what gives the book a universal appeal.” People in 12-step recovery groups, people facing surgery or who have physical wounds that are slow to heal, people with emotional trauma or PTSD, military and abuse victims and the healing professionals who work with all these types of wounds are sure to see the usefulness of The Wisdom of the Healing Wound.

Dr. David Knighton has achieved the highest standards in his several careers as a doctor, researcher and academic. While at medical school at the University of Illinois, he worked on cancer research at Harvard Medical School. His subsequent work in general surgery, trauma surgery and vascular surgery formed a foundation for his groundbreaking advances in wound care. He founded the Wound Healing Clinic at the University of Minnesota in 1987 which became a prototype for such clinics across the country. His research successes encompass many patents and hundreds of papers and articles for scholarly journals.

“I hope this book will help people understand how wounds serve, support, and teach people,” Dr. Knighton concludes. “I want readers to see wounds, healing, and health in a new and life-affirming way.”

Please visit: www.wisdomofthehealingwound.com.

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Former Government Consultant Reinvents Himself And Becomes Award-winning Author

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Former Government Consultant Reinvents Himself And Becomes Award-winning Author

Asheville, NC – Former Latin American government consultant and prolific author, David Pereda, has released his mainstream novel However Long the Night, published by Eternal Press. Winner of the Lighthouse Book Award for fiction and the Royal Palm Award for fiction, However Long the Night is a romantic tale with a major dose of suspense, a tense love triangle, buried family secrets, corporate shenanigans and a historical background.

The main character, Cid Milan, is a successful award-winning Miami Architect and real estate developer who suddenly finds out that his success has been built on lies told by his dying father twenty-five years ago that have done irreparable damage to the lives of people once dear to him. His dilemma is: what should he do? So he does the elegant thing to do: he returns to the land he abandoned in search of the woman he left behind and the son he never knew. In the process, he learns an invaluable lesson about love, forgiveness and redemption.

“The work is indeed a masterpiece of entertainment…” — Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

“The suspense grabs the reader from the beginning and holds it to the end…If you like a good romantic mystery, you will enjoy this book.” —Readers Favorite

“David Pereda has done it again… ” — The Laurel of Asheville

David Pereda enjoys writing thrillers and mainstream novels. Before devoting his time solely to writing and teaching, David had a successful international career with Booz-Allen and Hamilton, where he worked with the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Qatar. “What I learned then,” says David, “has helped me enrich my novels with exotic places and distinctive characters.”

A member of MENSA, David is the regional director of Florida Writers Association’s Western North Carolina division and the founder of AWE (Asheville Writing Enthusiasts). He lives with his family in Asheville, North Carolina, and teaches creative writing and ESL at the A-B Tech Community College. Havana: Twin Powers — the third novel in his mystery-thriller Havana series — is scheduled for publication next year.

For more information, please visit David’s website at: www.davidpereda.com.

However Long the Night is available through Eternal Press, www.eternalpress.biz,
www.amazon.com, www.fictionwise.com, Ingram and Taylor, LSI and in selected bookstores.

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