Houston, TX – A
forty-year career in technology, providing geospatial solutions using
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and satellite imagery, definitely
gave Carlos Viola the ‘edge’ when writing realistic accounts of the part
technology plays in the deadly and secretive world of terrorism. His
debut novel, Black Lion (Harris & Johanssen Publishers, Inc.), tells
the story of Mike Harris, a fearless U.S. Army major and member of the
dreaded Desert Lions, an elite group within the Special Forces and
feared by the enemy.
When America declares war on terrorism after
the cowardly attacks of September 11, 2001, the president issues an
order that makes every resource and top technology available to Mike
Harris and his Desert Lions, assigning them the job of traveling the
world with the purpose of eliminating all the terrorist elements of
Al-Qaeda that threaten to disrupt world peace. Mike knows that his
skills and expertise, and that of his band of courageous men, will be
tested to the max once they are thrust into the shadowy world of covert
operations.
What Mike doesn’t anticipate is falling in love at
first sight with Marcie Johanssen, a rich and beautiful Danish heiress,
who unwittingly gets dragged into the deadly struggle that is about to
be unleashed in every corner of the globe.
In Black Lion,
readers are alongside these brave heroes as they are plunged into the
vivid and real world of deceit, secrecy and clandestine operations;
sharing the ride with this elite group as they navigate their way
through many deadly circumstances in a pulse-pounding, explosive plot
that keeps readers anxiously turning pages! Please visit: www.carlosviola.com for more information on this talented new writer and his thrilling debut novel.
For
over twenty years, Carlos Viola served as president and CEO of
Aeroterra SA; a technology company dedicated to providing geospatial
solutions using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and satellite
imagery, actively participating in all of the many projects undertaken
by the company. A passionate reader and writer, Carlos began writing
Black Lion, his first action novel, at age fifty-six.
New York, NY – Whether it’s Woody Allen’s
latest movie, Blue Jasmine, or looking at the recent cover of The New
Yorker magazine showing Anthony Weiner on top of the Empire State
Building, one has to wonder has anything changed since Nora slammed the
door over a hundred years ago in Ibsen’s iconic play A Doll’s House?
Deborah Schwartz made sure that they did in her timely novel, Woman on
Top (Laudan Press). The juxtaposition of Jasmine sitting on a bench
jabbering aimlessly at the end of Woody’s movie, and Kate, the heroine
in Deborah’s novel, sitting on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, is striking!
Deborah
Schwartz makes her literary debut with a story that captures the
essence and excesses of New York City and is a gem of a read. Woman on
Top is a captivating, sexy and romantic tale of the seduction of
enormous money, heady excitement and luxurious glamour.
Falling
prey to Len, a very wealthy Wall Street banker who is hell-bent on
acquiring her as his next deal, Kate struggles after the death of her
husband to keep control amidst the detours of a tempestuous New York
romance. As witness to a world of power and greed that life in New York
offers to a vulnerable woman, can Kate ultimately rescue herself from
the lure that is Len’s world?
Throughout this compelling story,
which is inspired by actual events from the author’s own life, Schwartz
cleverly weaves self-empowering thoughts into her heroine’s exploits,
making it less the ‘damsel in distress’ and more the infinitely
successful ‘woman on top!’ In this amazing look at a woman’s journey to
finding herself, readers will both laugh and cry as they relate to Kate
and her decisions, emotions and experiences.
While following her
quest for a reaffirmation of life and love, including a surprising
adventure, Kate’s story touches on the unexpected pleasures and
decisions we face throughout our lives. Readers who have dreamed of, or
survived, a “Len” in their lives, will recognize themselves in Kate as
she searches to find what matters most in her new life. What does a 35
year-old woman who seems to have it all do when the rug is pulled out
from under her? Kate’s struggle to find inner strength on her journey
down a slippery slope with a Wall Street man leaves readers wondering
and rooting for her to land as the ‘woman on top.’ For more information,
please visit: www.deborahschwartz.net .
Born
and raised in New York, Deborah Schwartz graduated from Tufts
University and then obtained her Masters in History at Columbia
University where she wrote a thesis on “Feminism in Eighteenth Century
England.” She received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
Today, Deborah’s passion is writing and she incorporated her achievement
of having reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2011 into her
debut novel. A New Yorker to the core, Deborah is most grateful to be
the mother of her two grown children.
Deerfield Beach, FL – In her newest book,
My Kitchen Cure: How I Cooked My Way Out of Chronic Autoimmune Disease
and Prevented Cancer with Whole Foods and Healing Recipes (MeeLee
Publishing – June 2013), Mee Tracy McCormick chronicles her journey from
near death to a vital, healthy woman with two children, husband and a
career that includes going into communities and teaching what she
learned about turning around a health crisis.
Her story starts
with hereditary Crohn’s disease, an intestinal ulceration, a diagnosis
of cancer waiting to be confirmed, and debilitating daily pain that
knocked her down and left her teetering at a painfully thin 96 pounds.
Medical tests, treatments and medicines that threatened to kill her
before they cured her had backed Mee into a health crisis corner.
Not
knowing how to proceed or even how to cook, Mee took it upon herself to
transform her kitchen into her personal healing “laboratory.” She
didn’t know it then, but she understands now that by learning about the
healing power of food, she was creating something bigger than a cure for
a personal ailment. She was creating a lifestyle… a new way of being… a
movement…. A REAL FOOD LIFE that could benefit everyone and, most
notably, the 55 million people in the United States alone who suffer
from an auto-immune disease, of which Crohn’s Disease is one.
More
than just “preaching” about this REAL FOOD LIFE, Mee has taken it upon
herself to teach what she knows in public schools to private homes. She
has set up Real Food Makeover Community Kitchens in Nashville and Los
Angeles, sometimes working with card tables and butane burners, cooking
with small groups or upwards of 150 people at a time. More importantly,
she includes the less privileged in her mission.
“I know now that
going through such challenging health issues that I still have to pay
attention to, that there was something more I needed to do,” says Mee
Tracy McCormick. “And, when I hear someone say that they were able to
cut down on their diabetes medication or how they lost 40 pounds by just
giving up foods that come in a box or can, it makes my heart sing.”
Written in three parts, My Kitchen Cure recounts:
•
The Who: Raised in Appalachia on a diet of chipped ham and ketchup
sandwiches by a single mom who died young of hereditary Crohn’s Disease;
suffered herself for 10 years or more from debilitating abdominal pain
and weight loss; married and started a family, but almost lost one
daughter in pregnancy due to complications caused by her condition;
eventually found herself doubled up in pain on the floor for 48 hours
alone with her two young girls in the Mexican jungle; moved with her
husband and family back to their ranch in Tennessee to get medical help;
made the rounds to doctor after doctor whose solutions entailed
dangerously invasive tests and mounds of daily drugs; finally found her
answer in her kitchen; then created The Real Food Makeovers, going into
her Nashville Community and shifting food deserts to food oases. •
The What and Why: Part two covers topics like, “What is autoimmune
disease,” ”Everything you need to know about sugar,” “Dairy, to eat it
or not eat it,” What’s real & what’s fake in the food world,” and
“Feeding our kids real food every day,” to name a few. • The How:
The kitchen staples and equipment that a REAL FOOD kitchen should stock,
along with 162 pages of recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert,
and everything in between.
Mee Tracy McCormick is a Real Food and
Autoimmune Cooking Expert, TV cooking personality, a Food Makeover
Consultant, a Community Food Advocate and the author of My Kitchen Cure:
How I cooked My Way Out of Chronic Autoimmune Disease and Prevented
Cancer with Whole Foods and Healing Recipes.
For more information on Mee, her REAL FOOD LIFE, her REAL FOOD MAKEOVERS and her book, visit www.MeeTracy.com . Her book is currently available on amazon.com where it is fast being lauded as the go-to book for autoimmune disease.
One in every five kids suffers from a diagnosable anxiety disorder
Deerfield
Beach, FL – With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious
Kids, Anxious Parents (HCI Books — $14.95 – ISBN: 9780757317260 –
September 2013) offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help
children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to
ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy.
How do
you manage a child who gets stomachaches every school morning, who
refuses after-school activities, or who is trapped in the bathroom with
compulsive washing? Children like these put a palpable strain on
frustrated, helpless parents and teachers. And there is no escaping the
problem: One in every five kids suffers from a diagnosable anxiety
disorder.
Unfortunately, when parents or professionals offer help
in traditional ways, they unknowingly reinforce a child’s worry and
avoidance. From their success with hundreds of organizations, schools,
and families, Reid Wilson, PhD, and Lynn Lyons, LICSW, share their
unconventional approach of stepping into uncertainty in a way that is
currently unfamiliar but infinitely successful.
Using current
research and contemporary examples, the book exposes the most common
anxiety-enhancing patterns—including reassurance, accommodation,
avoidance, and poor problem solving—and offers a concrete plan with 7
key principles that foster change. And, since new research reveals how
anxious parents typically make for anxious children, the book offers
exercises and techniques to change both the children’s and the parental
patterns of thinking and behaving.
This book challenges our basic
instincts about how to help fearful kids and will serve as the antidote
for an anxious nation of kids and their parents. Readers will learn the
difference between healthy worrying and debilitating anxiety and gain
concrete skills to parent children and teens. Action, not avoidance, is
the key to success. By following this powerful program, children will
gain the encouragement to realize their independence and courage.
For
an interview with the author(s), an excerpt, or to discuss the book
further, contact: Kim Weiss, (800) 851-9100 ext. 212 or [email protected] .
Free E-Book! Inside every copy are
instructions for downloading Casey’s Guide, which puts the key
principles in language that resonates with kids.
Brick, NJ —
WestBow Press There Are No McDonald’s in Heaven: Waiting On God, by R.
L. Keller, discusses how the average person in this day and age of
speed, has lost their patience to wait on even the smallest need.
Fast
food restaurants, instant dinners, banking “quick-pay”, microwave
ovens, Email – the list can go on and on. In his book, There Are No
McDonald’s In Heaven, Keller agrees that waiting in general can be a
chore at best and waiting for an answer to a prayer from a God you
cannot see can be excruciating.
If the wait is longer than
we anticipated we just may end up questioning His very existence if we
aren’t careful. This book is designed to make believers aware what the
Bible says about waiting. It is a characteristic that must be
cultivated just like our own relationship with God Himself. It shines a
light on the attributes necessary to more effectively wait for God’s
answers. They can take more time to come than we may like, but since
time is irrelevant to the creator of all things, in the end we find that
our answers have come just exactly when they were needed the most.
There
Are No McDonald’s In Heaven starts with the basics; faith and trust.
Without them we won’t get very far in our quest to wait more
effectively. The Christian belief system asks us to place our unyielding
faith in an unseen deity who claims to have created us. Since we were
made with a free will to choose our own path, we must decide whether or
not we will place our faith and trust in this deity. The book delves
into whether God is worthy of our trust. Next it tackles the biggest
problem most folks have in life; having patience. In addition to
patience we must have perseverance, for if we don’t have the
perseverance to push through to the end we will rob ourselves of many a
blessing.
In waiting we must develop a sense of consistency. We
mustn’t waver in our resolve to hold on until God reveals that which He
wants us to know. In the midst of all the character building, there is a
portion that looks at the price that was paid for our sins. The
crucifixion is described by a medical doctor so we know clearly and
concisely just what Jesus physically endured for us all.
In the
end, There Are No McDonald’s In Heaven is an excellent handbook to help
the believer understand all that is entailed in waiting. It is a book
that will encourage, edify and instruct any follower of Christ so that
while the wait may not be any shorter, you will not lose your mind in
the process.
R. L. Keller is an author, speaker and founder of Bread of Life Ministries in Brick, NJ.
There Are No McDonald’s in Heaven: Waiting on God By R.L. Keller Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1449756689 ASIN: B008LW0M7K
Paula Abdul: “Scott-Vincent Borba’s philosophy about treating your inner-health as much as your outer-health is paramount to healthy living.”
Mila Kunis: “Scott-Vincent Borba is so inspirational. I am very impressed with him!”
Nancy O’Dell: “I absolutely love Scott-Vincent Borba!”
Deerfield Beach, FL – You are what you eat. It’s an expression everyone has heard in relation to one’s waistline, but it also holds true for the complexion. In Cooking Your Way to Gorgeous: Skin-Friendly Superfoods, Age-Reversing Recipes, and Fabulous Homemade Facials (HCI – July– $14.95), skin-care expert to the stars Scott-Vincent Borba shares his philosophy that outer beauty often begins on the inside: When you feed your skin what it needs on the inside, you banish problem areas and regenerate healthier, younger-looking skin. In the quest for a radiant, lit-from-within-glow, skin is often overwhelmed with endless creams and serums; however, what we put in our body is an integral part of skin health and maintenance.
“What we ingest, what we use on our skin and what ingredients are in our products must work in synergy to have the optimum effects,” Scott-Vincent explains. “When you eat nourishing foods and then apply products with those same key nutrients, you’re boosting the ingredients’ power and therefore the results are seen twice as fast!”
A pioneer in the super food arena, Scott-Vincent recognizes the healing power of ingredients and their benefits, both internally and externally. From years battling cystic acne and helping Hollywood’s elite red-carpet ready, Borba reveals the most powerful anti-aging foods for glowing skin, serving up a wealth of delicious skin-friendly recipes plus make-it-yourself facials and scrubs from items you probably already have in your fridge or pantry. Whether your skin problem is wrinkles, pimples, brown spots, or blackheads, Scott-Vincent Borba reveals hundreds of simple and effective techniques plus natural home remedies that are just as effective as an overpriced cream or lotion. His natural-ingredients recipe for exfoliating is wonderful for stimulating cellular turnover and smoothing skin’s texture. To create a natural face scrub, he suggests heading to the fridge and picking up some greens:
“Take a handful of kale and mince it finely. Mix this in a bowl with mint extract and plain gelatin or pectin,” Scott-Vincent advises. “Kale will gently slough off the dull, dead skin, while the mint opens the pores and the pectin helps the mixture to adhere. Skin will be left smooth and radiant!”
With Cooking Your Way to Gorgeous, you can become a “beauty foodie,” indulging in amazing cuisine that makes you look truly amazing. Who knew that turning heads could be as simple as turning on your oven, blender, or stove top? Almond-Oat Shortcakes with Strawberries anyone? How about some Vanilla-Pumpkin Pudding, Sinful Skin-ful Nachos, or a Berry Blast Pizza? Or how about using the food for
Skincare never tasted so good! Call or email me to discuss a review, a cooking demo, an excerpt, author interview or to just learn more about the book at: (800) 851-9100 ex. 212 or [email protected] .
Alameda, CA – “This time it’ll be different…I’ve changed…Let’s give it one more try.” Most women are suspicious when they hear these promises but they often still can’t get him out of their system. X That Ex: Making a Clean Break When It’s Over (Hunter House) by Kristin Carmichael, LISW, is the long-awaited answer for women who have left a bad relationship and don’t want to go back.
It is incredibly common for women to leave partners who are emotionally unavailable, immature, disrespectful, selfish or even abusive, but then struggle to stay away. Women might be tripped up by their Exes’ schemes to get them back, their own self-sabotaging ways or even by our society, which seems to glorify a “give him one more chance” philosophy. To the dismay of family and friends, huge numbers of women go back to toxic relationships, wasting years and the possibility of happier lives on men who can’t give them what they deserve.
If the post-breakup world for most people were logical, fair, regulated and well-defined, there would be no need for X That Ex. However, the time after a breakup is emotionally messy, sometimes chaotic and filled with conflicting feelings, motivations, hopes, temptations and realities that must be dealt with.
X That Ex focuses on this confusing time, demystifying why it is difficult to stay away from a problematic Ex, and making personalized predictions for readers about what to expect from their Exes and themselves right after a relationship ends. A chapter entitled The Ex’s Playbook details the numerous ways an Ex may try to manipulate a woman who has left. It also includes the common traps that women can set for themselves – calling him ‘just one more time,’ negative thinking such as ‘I’ll never find anyone else’ or ‘He wasn’t that bad’ – and how to avoid falling into them.
Recently named a 2013 Catholic Healthcare Association Leader of Tomorrow, a distinction given only to ten people annually, Kristin Carmichael is a domestic violence specialist who writes with the goal of empowering women and helping them maintain healthy relationships. Her book is a unique roadmap that guides readers through the always tumultuous, sometimes perilous time when a woman’s Ex might try time-tested tactics to tempt her back, when self-doubt may make a woman her own worst enemy, and when even our culture gets in on the action by making reunification seem reasonable. For more information, please visit xthatex.com/ .
Available at fine bookstores, online outlets, or at 1-800-266-5592 X That Ex: Making a Clean Break When It’s Over By Kristin Carmichael, LISW Hunter House ISBN: 978-0-89793-8 / Paperback $15.95 … also available as an e-book
