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PRESS RELEASES

JOBLESS RECOVERY IS SOMETHING TO LAUGH ABOUT!

FORT LAUDERDALE, APRIL 2005:   L.C. Evans’ new novel, Jobless Recovery, like all good satire, strips the newsworthy butt-naked, allowing us to see beyond the cellulite and into the guts of the matter.  Exposing the consequences of the trend to eliminate American jobs, Evans shines a humorous spotlight on some very ugly wrinkles of corporate America.  A morbidly ugly clown, grotesque to look at, but funny as hell.  

Dave Griffin thinks he has it made--beautiful girlfriend, computer programming job, and all the benefits that come with middle class life in America. Then Dave's employer callously decides to replace American computer programmers with a combination of offshore and imported labor in order to increase company profits. Now Dave is out on the street and can't find even a minimum wage job. But Dave still believes in the system. All he has to do is bring the problem to the attention of the media and the people in Washington to get results. But his agitating only deepens his trouble.  

Meanwhile, Dave's friend Joe Tremaine, a former FBI agent who lost his job after suffering a devastating head injury, is struggling to pay for his medicine and help his daughter. Cynical Joe knows better than to trust anyone in Washington or in corporate America. He embroils Dave in his fraudulent money-making schemes, and when Joe decides to educate the powerful senator who has been the driving factor in eliminating American jobs, his plan goes terribly wrong. Dave is the only one who can help, but helping will force him to choose who and what he cares for. Can an unemployed computer jockey manage to keep Joe-and himself--out of jail? Or will the oddly-shaped bundle in the back of Joe's truck spell tragedy for both of them?  

Jobless Recovery is a humorous, yet gripping satirical account of the desperation of people betrayed by their own country. It illumines greed and nobility, the fundamental choice between self and selflessness that makes us human. 

About the author:   

L. C. Evans currently lives in the United States.   

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New Edition of Evangeline Breathes New Life into Classic Work

FORT LAUDERDALE, March, 2005:  “This is the forest primeval.”  So Longfellow begins Evangeline, his first great work.  It is a tribute to the memory of the Acadians, who were forcibly removed from their peaceful home in Nova Scotia three centuries ago. 

Françoise Paradis, Ed.D.s’ new edition of Evangeline integrates the history of the Acadians, the history of Longfellow, her own connection and emotions tied to the work, reprints of lithographs of the period, and reprints of paintings by an Acadian artist to flesh out his work and breathe new life into a classic work.

Praise for Evangeline:

“It is a story we recognize today, and one which offers hope in the face of loss.”

                                                  Rhea Côté Robbins, Author of Wednesday’s Child                                                      Founder and Director, Franco-American Women’s Institute

“François Paradis has done a great service to the world of literature by reprinting Longfellow’s epic masterpiece…”

                               Dr. Roger Paradis, Acadian History Professor, University of Maine at Fort Kent

Dr. Françoise Paradis is the seventh child in a French-speaking family of fourteen children in Frenchville, the heart of French-Canadian and Acadian culture in Maine.  She currently lives in Buxton, Maine, where she has established Hidden Springs Psychological Services and Retreat Center and volunteers at the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and the Maine Historical Society’s library.  Dr. Layne Longfellow, author of the Foreword, is a member of the Board of Directors, Friends of the Longfellow House, Longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His great-great-grandfather, Michael, was Henry W. Longfellow’s cousin.

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Majority Rule, A Bad Idea?

Fort Lauderdale, March 2005:   “The promotion of majoritarian democracy has been one of the West’s greatest blunders of the 20^th Century.”  This view of a former member of the Zimbabwe Liberation Movement, Dr. Sondlo Leonard Mhlaba, is supported in his new book, Incentive-Based Franchise/A New Model for Global Governance. “Combined with forced integration of formerly separate communities into Western-style states,” the author asserts, “majoritarian democracy and its system of political parties created conditions for much of the political instability and violence seen in so many developing countries.”

To get to his proposal for a new definition and application of democracy, Mhlaba goes back to the basics; to the origins of modern ideas about the purpose of life itself and of government. The result is a fascinating, and some would say controversial, take on Abraham, Jesus, Mohamed, Confucius, and the Bhudda.  From this foundation, the author presents a practical, universal, results-oriented democratic ideal that he calls the Incentive-Based Franchise (IBF) Model.

Dr. W. Andy Knight, Professor of International Relations at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Editor of “Global Governance Journal” writes: “Students and observers of global governance will find this book a most intriguing read and will be drawn to this alternative vision of how the world ought to work.”

WorldBoston’s Executive Director, Brandie Elizabeth Conforti writes: “Perhaps one of Mhlaba’s most salient points is his proposal to reform the United Nations while, at the same time, fostering a performance-based form of democracy.”

Dr. Emma Zevik, Research Associate, Harvard University Asia Center writes:  “Insightful, informative, thought-provoking—Dr. Mhlaba addresses crucial concerns for today’s world with clear and concise writing . . . ”

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THE LAST CALL TO WITNESS PROVES THAT CHRIST HAS RETURNED TO WALK ON GLOBAL STAGE EXACTLY AS PROPHESIZED

Fort Lauderdale, April 2005:  The Last Call to Witness by Rod Ennis-Smith offers indefensible proof

which cannot be disputed or dismissed of Christ’s return.  This is accomplished by presenting names,

physical evidence, His own testimony, and a pattern of operation. Christ is here now with two of His old friends.  Just exactly as He said, and He is knocking on doors. Your door. This is shocking.  You will cry and cry.  Stop, look, and listen, and collectively think, Why?

That time as prophesied is now upon us for all God's plans to be revealed and Man’s schemes to be exposed.  God has commanded us to seek, watch and remain sober.  He, therefore, has challenged us to understand and continuously witness this plan, His plan.  His story (Man’s history) is meant to be personal.  Are you cosmic waste? Are you worth saving?  Why was Christ revealed to us like this?

If you sent Two Witnesses instead of Weapons Inspectors into Iraq, what do you think their destinies would be?  Could the medium be the message?  Could you follow that narrow path in the Two Witnesses footsteps?  Do you have their constitution?  If you did follow them, would they know you?  Can you assemble a complicated puzzle without first knowing or having the appropriate understanding of that picture or that outcome?

Now our time has come. There are things to realize. These questions must and will be answered.  The Last Call to Witness is an invitation (one of their many) to “come and see.”    To witness it.

In author Rod Ennis-Smith’s own words:

“David slew Goliath equipped with only a great heart and a sling-shot. If David could attempt to think it and do it, then I believe, so could I.  David was not a trained warrior, neither am I.  Knowing something and proving it are many worlds apart. I have carried the heavy weight of knowing and proving these events for over five years.  I have always been interested in science and cosmology.  This exploring led to a Biblical Prophesy and the discovery of many interesting mysteries.  After a year of investigation, just in a twinkling of an eye, out of nowhere, some puzzle pieces connected.  The more I understood, the more was revealed and then, additional pieces snapped into place.  Slowly watching and searching uncovered these here -- in fourteen puzzle pieces.  Adopting them, I assembled God’s plan to teach and redeem Man."

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Voice to a Generation Muted by its Own Insecurity, Scaccia’s Song Rings with Bittersweet with Clarity

Fort Lauderdale, March  2005: Self-proclaimed “existential punk-rock goddess with a heart of soul,” Annamaria Scaccia’s belts out her poetry in a powerful and insightful voice that belies her youth.  Born in the back roads of Brooklyn, New York, Scaccia’s poems have a distinctive Brooklyn accent tinged with the dialect of disenfranchised youth.  A talented goddess, she is a staff writer to the Brooklyn College Kingsman.  And her work has appeared on www.fictionpress.com, www.poetry.com, as well as in the short-lived music-zine, PicPockit, which Scaccia founded in 2002. Scaccia also paints expressionistic, post-impressionist rock star portraits and nudes.  Her free time is spent contemplating the battle between logic and desire and writing it down in her Moleskin notebook. And Scaccia loves Jeff Buckley.

Youth is just a distraction. Time is non-existent. Everything is questionable. Everything is lost. These are the basic thoughts that penetrate through the heels of Destiny for a Tragedy. A collection of poems, prose, songs, mistakes, regrets, boredom, and persistence, Destiny for a Tragedy tells of a tale of a young girl racing through the red lights of youth, side-stepping wilted lovers, estranged fathers, distorted friends and self-destruction in the form of one-liner notes and tangents. Split into five different chapters, Destiny for a Tragedy takes you down a road of tragic love, brewing hate, silent observation, frustration, cultural activism and political disgust. From words praising the perfect man to the memory of a murdered friend, Destiny for a Tragedy recounts the days of being in love, depression, loneliness, and youth, all while trying to find one’s self. Scaccia tosses together phrases and metaphors that enunciate what it means to be a teenager and what it is like growing up, stepping away from it all. With an epilogue to explain how she is now, content and ready to move on, Destiny for a Tragedy is a sensitive and provocative reflection of change.

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Another Small Town, U.S.A., Immortalized in Becoming Ruby by Marci Henna

Fort Lauderdale, March 2005:  Fireside, Texas circa 1967 is the next small Southern town immortalized in literature in Marci Henna’s Becoming Ruby.  In the tradition of Fannie Flagg’s Whistle Stop, Alabama, and Rebecca Wells’ Thornton City, Louisiana, Marci Henna’s Fireside, Texas is populated by quirky characters, hot gossip, Elvis, and cozy down-home Southern cooking. The local Fireside flavor combines with nostalgic details from those Flower Power years, as two sisters come of age with Ruby and Walt, grandparents who don’t act their age and whose love is legendary.

 Juliet Cranbourne remains in Fireside as a shopkeeper and editor of The Fireside Telegraph long after her grandparent’s deaths and her sister Evangeline’s moving on to big city life.  When Evangeline returns to help Juliet choose a headstone for Walt and Ruby’s graves, the rift between the sisters dissolves within their shared memories of growing up on the ranch with their doting grandparents, eccentric neighbors, farm animals, and each other during simpler times. 

 Fireside’s allure is in its simplicity as a backdrop to Southern cooking and superbly vivid characters.  In Fireside, people are loved because of their idiosyncrasies, not in spite of them.  Interwoven threads of the past surface in the tapestry of the present, as the sisters find that the legacy their grandparents left to them is one of love and acceptance, of the past, of the here-and-now, and of each other.  Becoming Ruby will take its place alongside Fried Green Tomatoes and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Fireside and its inhabitants will live on in readers’ memories long after the last page is turned.

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 Fort Lauderdale, March 2005:  Forget those anonymous newspaper headlines about medical miracles and accompany Dr. Craig Collison, his family, colleagues, and friends, on an incredible journey through his death-defying ordeal with flesh-eating bacteria.  When a medical disaster ripped this young doctor’s body and world to shreds, the steadfast faith of his family circle made it whole again.

Collison was completing his residency and awaiting the birth of his third child, when a routine surgery turned into the kind of unique catastrophe that makes medical headlines.  The flesh-eating bacteria that was consuming his healthy body could not obliterate Craig’s belief in God, nor shake the faith of his family.  Collison’s wife Michelle put a journal at his bedside for well-wishers, and herself, to write their thoughts in.  Entries from that journal punctuate the gripping and dramatic account of how a fluke bacteria transformed Craig from healthy young doctor to critically-ill patient and how his friends and family kept the faith.

Tattered Flesh, Resilient Spirit is the incredible story of the Collison family’s struggle with “flesh-eating” bacteria, a spontaneous and horrible illness that caused massive tissue destruction with deadly and never-ending complications.  Raw emotion, both incredible joy and overwhelming sadness, as Michelle’s journal entries take you to the heat of the moment, inject you right into this real-life drama.  Their astounding faith in the verses used to try to understand why this happened gives witness to the Spirit at work in our lives, allowing Craig to persevere where so few survive.

 Fort Lauderdale, March 2005:  A real-life canine role model is immortalized with words and in pictures in Sari Mitchell and Greg Raische’s new children’s book, Ollie the Trolley.  Ollie, the real-life hero dog, lost his hind legs to an infection.  Ollie wears a trolley-like device to wheel around.  Despite the unimaginable pain this true-life puppy has gone through, his spirit and resolve made him the perfect role model for children of all ages and inspired this beautifully-illustrated children’s book, the first of the Patty-the-Petsitter series.  

Follow Ollie and Patty on their sunny afternoon adventure in this fanciful portrayal of the real life Ollie.  This brave, happy, and loving, handicapped wiener dog will unlock even the hardest of hearts.  Ollie is inspiration and example for everyone who has faced hardship and disability, and an education for those on the outside looking in.  The matter-of-fact approach to Ollie’s handicap makes Ollie the Trolley the perfect vehicle for introducing the concept of disabilities to young audiences.  Raische’s rhymes make Ollie an easy-read for beginning readers and Mitchell’s detailed crayon renderings are delightful.  There is even a little quiz at the end of the book to make certain the reader has paid attention to the tiny details! 

 Visit our website,  www.mostunique.com/ollietrolley.htm, to hear Ollie’s touching story, see where Ollie lives, meet his parents, his pals and experience a day in Ollie’s life. WEBSITE BONUS—Preview the next two companion books in the Patty the Pet Sitter Series: It’s a Ducky Day and The Curious Case of Mr. Banana Face.  A portion of the proceeds from sales of Ollie the Trolley are earmarked for The Special Olympics and The Humane Society.