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Stress Down & Lift Up with Renee Wiggins

Have you ever wondered why some people are always full of life, even when things all around them are falling apart? “Stress Down & Lift Up” is perfect for you. Renee offers practical tools that will help you stay on the right track.”Stress Down & Lift Up” is a thirty-day healthy lifestyle plan to help you reduce the stressors in your life.

Certified Massage Therapist Renee Wiggins provides you with techniques and other steps to help restore your mind and bring you peace.

Read the affirmations that “Stress Down & Lift Up” has to offer, and you will stop beating up on, and criticizing, yourself.

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Coinage of Commitment with Rob Costelloe

R. Costelloe
Saga Books (2007)
ISBN 9781894936835
 

Synopsis: Wayne and Nancy have separate adolescent experiences that both inspire and confuse the romantic ambitions they feel drawn to. During the turbulent 1960 s, they meet while he is attending blue-collar Drexel, and she is at neighboring Ivy League Penn.

Though irresistibly drawn to each other, they must overcome obstacles posed by the class, financial, and religious differences that separate them, as well as opposition from both families, and later, a twist of fate that will be the cruelest test of all.

Can they reach the goal they seek? Can they overcome time s downward pulling inertia? Soaring and poignant, Coinage of Commitment is dedicated to all those readers who ever wondered, perhaps with whimsy, perhaps with hope, just what is the level that love can possibly reach?

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The Sex Ed Chronicles with Stuart Hachbar

Set in 1980, in Central New Jersey, “The Sex Ed Chronicle” recounts a young journalist’s brave efforts to stand up for a teacher’s beliefs in the emotionally charged arenas of sex education and student free press rights in the public schools.In January of 1980, the U.S. economy is in shambles, Ronald Reagan is beginning his quest to become the country’s fortieth president, and New Jersey is about to become the first state to require sex education in all public schools.

New Jersey native Greg Mandell, a rookie reporter for the Ocean Republic, accepts an assignment to cover the Parent’s Alliance for Schools and Teachers (PAST) and the state’s public hearings on sex education. Formed to stop sex education, PAST has influenced the election of three hundred like-minded candidates to school boards across the Garden State .

While on assignment, Mandell falls for Andi Gilardi, a popular history teacher up for tenure at Mandell’s alma mater, Averdell High School . PAST has accused Gilardi of manipulating her students to fight for sex education through the school newspaper and has labeled her a “morally unacceptable” teacher who must be denied tenure. Mandell’s respect and affection for Gilardi forces him to make a choice between his professional objectivity and his personal integrity.

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No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You! with Louise Lewis

Losing a job always delivers a hard blow, but it was  especially hard for forty-something author Louise Lewis, one of many victims of  the technology industry’s dotcom implosion. “No Experts Needed: The  Meaning of Life According to You!” tells the story of how she pulled  herself together and discovered a new life of meaning.Just minutes after being “set free”, Lewis, a single woman with a  mortgage to pay, sits in the San Jose, California, airport panicking over  her future. While toying with the option of giving into depression, she  receives a powerful message from God that instantly releases the weight  of her worries. “This is just a new chapter in your life. You hold the  pen,  I’ll guide your hand, and together we’ll write one hell of a  chapter.”

Through Spirit’s continued involvement, Lewis is inspired to ask  normal, everyday people to answer Spirit’s question: what is the  meaning of life?  ” No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You!” weaves through  a vast collection of spontaneous, thought-provoking answers and  inspirational stories that demonstrate how the simple act of listening to  Spirit can add meaning to every moment of your life.

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Fishing with Love on the Net with Myles Reed

Inside Scoop Live is pleased to present Myles Reed, Author of ” Fishing for Love on the Net.” This is a book that sheds light on the new cultural phenomena of Internet dating.  After spending more than six years searching for love and learning how it can be done online, Myles has firmly established himself as The Internet Dating Expert. The book proves that Internet dating works.  It addresses head on some of the misconceptions.  More importantly, Fishing for Love on the Net leaves readers better equipped to make their Internet dating experience more successful.

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Frugal Book Promotion with Carolyn Howard-Johnson

On November 15th, 2007 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson, creative force behind the HowToDoItFrugally Series of Books for writers. She has just released  second book in the series, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Carolyn shared her best tips and strategies for low-cost/zero-cost marketing campaigns and also talked about what NOT to do to market your books.  She also talks about the value of editing and how it directly controls how your proposals, books, and marketing are peceived in the marketplace.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t was named USA Book News’ “Best Professional Book 2004,” and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader’s Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers’ Society of America’s Silver Award of Excellence. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community’s Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of 14 “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen.”

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You’ve Gotta Fight Back!: Winning with Serious Illness, Injury or Disability

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Dirk Chase Eldredge
Loving Healing Press (2007)
ISBN 9781932690347
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (11/07)

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Synopsis: The heart of this book consists of thirteen, riveting, in-depth stories of people who fought back with courage, humor, and a positive attitude. In doing so, they have provided valuable guidance for you, the readers of this inspiring work.

The seriously ill, their friends and family will gain priceless advice on coping, dealing with depression, how to partner with the medical profession, the tremendous value of self-help groups and the vital importance of attitude. Those with disabilities will learn how others have successfully played the hand they were dealt and managed to live successful, fulfilling lives. The disabled and those with serious illnesses can learn from each other.

There are no silver bullets buried in these pages, just the sound, useable experience of others. Caregivers, be they family, friends, or health professionals will gain great insight from the in-depth stories of survivors, the bereaved, and those who died with grace and even style.

My Journey to Peace with PTSD with Lady Cerelli

What do abusers see when they look at a victim walking across the street that tells them they can abuse the individual? Why do people commit suicide? Why do people have road rage? What does childhood abuse look like in adulthood? How does a PTSD victim describe what is going on inside of them? What is the human element that would turn a trauma into a life experience? My name is Lady and I have been diagnosed PTSD. I had a flashback in 2003 of a violent military rape that I had suppressed for over 40 years. I was also sexually abused as a child. Counseling for over 40 years, I never dreamed I would have to walk the same path I led my clients on. If I could have had something in my hand to act as a lifeline, it would have gone a long way toward giving me hope. My strength, my therapist and my friends were what helped me to go back to the original pain and connect the dots in my life to the present. To have a lifeline for others is the reason I wrote about the pain of my dysfunctional life. “My Journey to Peace with PTSD” describes how anger quietly sets in at any age and creates a trauma victim who becomes a candidate for PTSD; road rage; failed and successful suicides; how and why some people become abuse victims and why others become abusers; and more. As a PTSD victim, the one element that affected me the most was the feeling of isolation, which can be as terrifying as the trauma. The Foreword to the book is written by Ruth Crawford, LCSW, VAMC, with additional praises from other health care professionals.

My Journey to Peace with PTSD  - Listen to interview on Inside Scoop Live

Lady Cerelli
Peace Publishers (2007)
ISBN 9780979888304
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (10/07)