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Getting Ready…

Fort Lauderdale, July 2009: From time immemorial people have awaited the long-prophesied coming of a massive Change. Whether they call it the Ascension, the Rapture, the Apocalypse, or the beginning of the Golden Age, it all boils down to one thing. The mindful awakening of the earth’s people to their individual experiences and the need to raise one’s perception from ‘lower’ or ‘simple human,’ to ‘higher’ or ‘superconsciousness.’ In her new book, Bejeweled Heart, author Gia Marie shows us the way to understand ourselves and to prepare for the greatest Change of all.

Bejeweled Heart is a daily companion housing a concise collection of writings and affirmations designed to transform the frequency of its readers in preparation for the Great Shift, which has already begun on planet earth.

Lots to Like!

Fort Lauderdale, July 2009: It’s not easy growing up ‘different’ in a world that reveres the norm. According to a study by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the incidence of overweight children―between 6-11 years old―has tripled from 6.5% in the mid-1970s to 18.8% today, and for those children between 12–19, the figures span 5% to 17.4%. In her new book, I Like Lots!, author Mary Isaacsen-Bright addresses this major problem in a charming way. Instead of pointing out the negatives of peer pressure and ridicule an overweight child faces daily, Isaacsen-Bright has shown how positive actions can help a child make important decisions that will affect the rest of his life.

Our hero, a nice, normal boy, has an easy, good life going for him. He doesn't realize that, because of what and how he eats, plays and just lives, he's gaining weight―way too much weight. When his doctor tells him he can have more pep, feel better and have more fun if he gets rid of those unwanted pounds, he figures it'll be a 'no-problem' job. So he decides to give it the best try he can.

Innocent Until Proven Guilty…

Fort Lauderdale, November 2009: With tales of Madoff, Sanford and Rothstein ringing in our ears we have become sadly aware of men who strive to cheat their clients with criminal schemes and plain old theft. Such is the story line of Ken and Tammy Brown’s new book, Falling Apart. Set in today’s world of financial disintegration, this timely book depicts the horrors one man faces as his life crumbles to dust and ashes. The one thing that differentiates the authors’ hero from those named above is his innocence….

Tyler Holte, a successful sales executive, is at the top of his game. Suddenly his entire world falls apart. He finds himself at the center of a financial collapse not seen since the 1930s. He watches as his family, career, and country fall apart. He is pursued by the police, FBI, government, and mobs of people after he is framed for depleting personal and business bank accounts all over the United States. His family turns against him and his teenage daughter defies him and his value system. So begins a forty-eight hour ride for his life.... Read More...

Hope Springs Eternal

Fort Lauderdale, September 2009: Two ships sailing through a storm-tossed, midnight sea. One surrenders to the huge, crashing waves and silently sinks below the surface, never to be seen again. The second, tough, wiry, and resolute, resists the ocean’s fury and fights with all it has to give. Eventually, it is graced with a fresh, new morning on a calm, iridescent sea. In his new book, Through the Dark Waters, author Robert Simpson gives us the heroic story of a lion-hearted woman who possesses uncommon valor, unwavering spirit, and an indomitable will to survive. May she forever sail on.

In the prime of life, Bernice, a vivacious wife and mother is stunned when she is diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Despite all efforts, it moves from leg to groin to lungs to spine, Stage IV, average life expectancy: 16 months. Then her spine, riddled by the cancer, collapses, paralyzing her from the chest down. The cancer appears to be going to her brain. Her doctor gives her two months to live.

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Divine Mysteries

Fort Lauderdale, September 2009: Was the Universe, and our own Earth, created in just seven days? Did man evolve, or spring to life fully grown and sentient? Questions abound, and it depends only on the character of your life as to the answers you embrace. In his new book, The Divine Theory of Everything, author Robert D. Berger takes a third view. One that unites both sides of the issue into a new, uncharted question with an unexpected answer.

Creation or evolution: this is the question defining our generation. What if the answer was simple, but it was obscured by generations of both religious and scientific dogma. Consider an existence where the two possibilities are one―a reality built on balance. Sin introduces change, breaking that balance. Eating from the tree of knowledge opens humanity’s mind to the concepts of good and evil and reveals creation through a mixture of both science and magic. Yet the knowledge of science and magic cannot coexist. A divide forms and two separate worlds evolve―one based on the physics of science and the other shrouded in the mysteries of magic. Read More...

Family Feud…For Real!

Fort Lauderdale, October 2009: Feuds have been a part of life for some families throughout the ages. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was not just a fanciful tale, but a slice of fact dramatized by the exceptional poet and playwright. Here in the United States, our most famous feuding families have always been the Hatfields and McCoys, but it won’t be long before the Bailey brothers, and the bad-blood dispute with the deadly White clan, takes precedence. Dr. James Bailey’s new book, Bailey’s Blood: Moonshine, Murder and Wild Women, will take your breath away with its fierce realism.

Based on actual events, the book is a fictionalization of violent lives of three Bailey brothers in southeast Kentucky between 1907 and 1931. Read more...

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can also offer you the opportunity to do

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So try one of our POD programs along

with a distribution and marketing/

promotion package that is second to

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printing in quantity.

There are so many reasons to publish

your book with Llumina Press. We

offer a reputation for publishing quality

books, personal service, the best

author discounts in the industry and the

highest royalties (ours are based on list

price). In addition, we offer bookstore

returnability through Ingram (and no

loss in royalties) as well as bookstore

representation.

Worth Living For

Fort Lauderdale, August 2009: In this astounding world of high-tech medical miracles, increasing numbers of once-fatal diseases are being cured daily. Some illnesses, however, have no known cure and although the medical magicians can treat the symptoms for comfort’s sake, the prognosis is nevertheless grim. What do you do in such an instance? In her new book, Jake, author Sara Richardson examines this extraordinary question and presents us with a wonderful story of friendship, love and hope.

What do you do when you are faced with a terminal illness? Do you take whatever treatments they offer and hope one works, or do you live every last moment to its fullest? Do you spend time with the people you love? Do you try to fulfill your deepest desires? In this heartfelt drama, Liz is faced with the end of her life. She decides she wants to fulfill her number one heart's desire, with her best friend, Alan, to have a baby. Read More...

Phantom

by Susan Kay

-- Follow the lonely struggle of the Phantom of the Opera from birth to love to madness and death. Read the reviews. A bestselling novel that keeps on going...

A TREASURE FOUND

Fort Lauderdale, September 2009: How often has a dream come true? More than we know, or can guess. Mostly, such visions are relegated to imagination, hallucination and pure fantasy. However, fantasy is an integral part of life today and when a tale comes along that flawlessly combines fact and fancy…it, too, is a dream come true. In his new book, Lafitte’s Black Box, author Jake Webber presents a story that catches the imagination and holds us in its grip until the very last page.

When he can no longer control what is real and what is imagined, Deveraux Parker realizes that his dream has become reality.

Discovering a box that has been buried for two centuries, he finds himself on a quest for Lafitte's treasure through modern day New Orleans. Read More...

MODERN-DAY HEROES

Fort Lauderdale, September 2009: Heroes come in all shapes, sizes and age groups. From the 5-year-old child who dials 911 and saves his parent’s life, to the pre-teen who jumps into a near-frozen lake and rescues a trapped friend, the existence of young heroes is more widespread than we know. In her new book, The Magical Feline and the White Haven, author Pat Hurtado shows us how three children, and a faithful pet, can make a heroic difference in another child’s life.

The Magical Feline and the White Haven is a heart-warming story about Justin, a gifted, mildly autistic boy and his two friends, Jonathan and Jolene. Each child deals with personal challenges of their own, but through the power of friendship and the help of a little magic, they discover the strength to confront and overcome the unforgettable plight that changes their lives. Read more...

Searching for the Future…

Fort Lauderdale, July 2009: Should the past hold its secrets forever? Would we be better off unaware of the sometimes obscure history that shaped the life we find ourselves living? A life of shadows with no explanations, no answers…only questions. In her new book, Waters of the Dancing Sky, author Janet Kay shows us how hard-won answers, no matter how agonizing, can finally lay unbearable issues to rest and ultimately enhance one’s reality.

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love - the only survival, the only meaning.” Thornton Wilder

Sometimes you must tiptoe across that bridge linking this world with the next. Sometimes, it is the only way to put the twisted pieces of one’s life back together again. Read more..

The Sins

of the Son…

Fort Lauderdale, November 2009: Parental abuse comes in many forms in our occasionally unforgiving world. No longer is it just an older, bullying ‘child’ leading his elderly and weaker parents around by a string, but the mistreatment has progressed to the ‘child’ stealing his aged parents’ life assets, taking their home, their peace-of-mind, and what’s left of their future. In his new book, Corruption and Complicity, author Ignacio Acevedo tells his own story about the unspeakable act his son perpetrated upon his parents, and the casual disinterest of the major franchise corporation from whom they had purchased their business. Read More...

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