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Love is a Many

Splendored Thing

Fort Lauderdale, December 2009: What is love? Some say it’s the most potent sensation in the world. They’re right. Some say it destroys more people than anything else could. They’re also right. Some think love overcomes all trials and tribulations. They’re right, too. Some say a person can live a full and happy life without it. They’re dead wrong. Love is all-powerful, wonderful yet terrifying, and the human race cannot survive without it. As Jean and Mike Conley prove in their new book, Celibate Lovers, love is something which can cause dedicated people to break promises, heedlessly hurt others and change various lives in the beat of a heart, and yet be the answer to many fervent prayers. Don’t miss this real-life story of one couple’s amazing journey into love. Read More...

Life on the Streets

Fort Lauderdale, January 2010: There’s a rhythm to the streets of the ghetto. One cadence says, “We’re in this together,” no matter what. Another asserts that anyone who knows something, keeps quiet, no matter what. In his new book, Breed, author J. L. Billie presents a ghetto-world in which one brave soul breaks the code of silence in order to keep a sacred promise, and permeates his life with even more violence and chaos.

Paul Williams, a.k.a. Halfbreed, grew up in the ghetto. Violence and drugs were second nature and funerals routine. Raised in church, but drafted by the streets, he came to know the criminal element first hand. Facing his mother on her deathbed, he vows to change his destructive lifestyle.

As visions of a peaceful, united community fill his mind, he finds himself a witness to yet another brutal murder. But this time he doesn’t stay silent. Befriending an abandoned kid who may have the evidence to bring the killers to justice, Breed violates the codes of the streets, plunging his life into mayhem. Read More

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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with a distribution and marketing/

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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.

Leading the Way to

Hope

Fort Lauderdale, January 2010: What do we do when the world becomes too much for us? How can we learn to deal with the myriad troubles that plague our everyday lives, and those on a global scale as well? In this world of instant communication, it isn’t unusual to be bombarded with constant ill news, as diverse countries struggle to maintain a grip on their own status quo. In her new book, Proverbs, author Halina-M. Wrona Ikeuchi gives rational guidance to those who seek answers and reassurance regarding the madness around them.

Proverbs are often referred to as the “wisdom of the country.” Proverbs is a collection of quotations and, of course, proverbs, about everyday life, reflecting beliefs around the world. In the book, the author shows that we should always be helpful and understanding in all situations as we never know where life will take us or what life will bring. 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...

A Questionable Friendship…

Fort Lauderdale, December 2009: During the innocent 1950s, a child was told that certain people could be trusted when trouble reared its ugly head. If a child found themselves alone and frightened, they could find a policeman, stay with their principal or teacher, or run to a responsible neighbor for assistance. Then things changed. Adults were no longer safe. In his new book, Li’l Yellow School Bus, author Bruce Beryl Fisher probes the story of a female teacher, her young male student, and their special friendship. Was it an alliance above suspicion or the sordid affair some claimed it to be? 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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