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FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005: There is a little Miss Cleo in all of us, and because of that we have the ability to prepare for what we already know will happen. We know that there will be a hurricane threat this summer. This winter we can predict a blizzard. And guess what? I’m seeing an election coming near the end of 2008 that will bring forth a new President for the USA.

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LLUMINA AUTHOR FINALIST IN 2005 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARDS

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Llumina Press is proud to announce that Gerald A. Strand has been selected as a finalist in the 2005 IP Awards for his military fiction book, The Red Caduceus. The "IPPY"Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving, but often unsung, titles published by independent authors and publishers.

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TRAIL TO TRANQUILITY IS THE CURE FOR STRESS! 

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Stress is a killer. We all know this; it’s been drummed into us for years – Type A Personality Versus The World. Stress has become so prevalent and significant in all reaches of society that this week a British Member of Parliament, often considered the most taciturn and stiff-upper-lipped people in the world, admitted to suffering under the pressure and has gone on “Stress Leave.” It’s a shame he hasn’t read The Trail to Tranquility, a self-help masterpiece by “Rabbi Rambo” Lazer Brody, on dealing with the demands of the world.

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New Political Theory Stuns Academics: Harmonic Federalism and Fractal Constitutions at center of heated debate

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Rarely does a book shake the academic world.  The release of America on Trial surely has. Using a clever format, its author, M. C. Williams, an attorney turned philosopher, posits stunning new political maxims and weaves them into a breathtaking political theory of "fractal harmonic federalism." 

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IN ANNA'S TRINITY

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Nuns are born and not made. It may take some potential nuns a long time to hear their Calling, as is the case of one 70 year-old widow, mother, and grandmother in Wisconsin, who is taking her final vows of poverty, chastity and obedience this week. With other women the Call comes early on, but now and then it does not last….

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VOICE OF A GENERATION MUTED BY ITS OWN INSECURITY

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 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.  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.

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HOMBRECITO’S WAR STILL RAGES!

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005: As amazing as it seems in these days of cellular phones, Global Positioning Systems, and the brand-new sub-dermal PLDs (Personal Location Device), the unforgiving deserts of the world are still claiming victims. The search for a missing man in the Mojave Desert, near Daggett, California, was sadly called off on June 7, 2005, after many days of intensive air and land searches failed to locate him. In the late 1800’s there were no helicopters to call on, no ATVs to employ, and no PLD to track, only the sharp eyes of expert trackers and the experience of men who knew the land.  

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Everyone has heard there is a Heaven, but few know what's going on there 

FORT LAUDERDALE,  AUGUST 2005:  Everyone has heard there is a Heaven, but who knows what goes on there?  Heavenly Interviews has the scoop!  Exclusive interviews with three of Heaven's upper-echelon residents will give you a glimpse into that divine destination.  Revelations include what is offered for The Faithful, those lucky souls who have been admitted through those Pearly portals.  

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Treasured Flashbacks Captured for Posterity in Print

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Robert Bongardt had decided to put his memories down on paper for his children, grandchildren, and friends.  The result, Flashbacks of Youth, began with Bongardt’s brilliant capture of his growing up days in Baltimore in the thirties and forties.

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A FAMILY THAT DIVES TOGETHER, THRIVES TOGETHER

Fort Lauderdale, AUGUST 2005: In these days of fragmented families, author Edwin English did something to cement his brood together.  He took up scuba diving!  English, father, author, businessman, was watching a documentary about scuba diving with his family.  Mentioning that he’d always wanted to try diving, English’s children expressed their interest in doing it with him.  Thus, a new family hobby—and his book, Scuba diving:  A Newcomer’s Point of View— evolved! 

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LET'S NOT LET THE VICTIMS BE TRAMPLED BY OUR LIBERALISM

Fort Lauderdale, AUGUST 2005:  When Karen and Sharon Sanders were abducted and brutally raped on a Louisiana May night in1977, they were only fourteen years old.  The twins and their twenty-one year old cousin were petrified that their attacker would come back to continue their torment.  He had promised to, if they told what happened, and their ravaged innocence gave them every reason to believe he would.  More than a week passed before Karen cracked and the secret was out. 

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THE REALITY OF IRISH FICTION

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 2005:  Baghdad, Palestine, Chechnya, Belfast... places that conjure unspeakable images of destruction and death. These are areas of the world where citizens are victims of terrorists: political and religious extremist minorities who act beyond the fringes of sanity to force their will on others. People have endured the ravages of terrorism for centuries; and the world has always reacted in much the same way as it does today. Like Iraq, Palestine and Chechnya, Northern Ireland is populated with 99% loving people and 1% radical extremist... yet we seem to focus on the 1%. 

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ANOTHER SMALL TOWN IMMORTALIZED

FORT LAUDERDALE, AUGUST 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.

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LEFT BEHIND VS. UNDISCOVERED: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Fort Lauderdale, AUGUST 2005:  A big difference, a difference big and important enough for Wayne Arnold to write a book about.  A book that advocates excavating the gifts within us at any age is what you’ll find in his radical, yet simple thesis, No Child Undiscovered.  Not some new mix on edu-babble that advances the lock-step cattle march toward promotion that the No Child Left Behind bureaucrats offer as an educational panacea but one that empowers each individual to maximize their potential, by mining their gifts, so they can renegotiate their positions in a more global playground, as contributors as well as consumers.  A plan that replenishes individuals so that they can make a difference in their own lives, as well as in the greater, global world.

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PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY BUILDS COMMUNICATIVE BRIDGE

 Fort Lauderdale, AUGUST 2005:  In these days of TV, X-Box, Game Cube, Playstation, and the portable Game Boy taking the role of teacher, parent and babysitter, today’s children simply do not have the skills to interact with one another or, Heaven forbid, an adult.  Ebonics has replaced English, Jail-House Droopy Drawers have appeared on every phat male under the age of twenty, and “bling-bling” is all the rage.

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a Legacy of Love within a Slice of Modern History

FORT LAUDERDALE,  AUGUST 2005:  It’s 1960, and the outwardly charming Larry Edwards is on a downward emotional spiral. He’s trapped in a suffocating marriage and disillusioned by a corporate system that fails to see beyond the color of his skin. Then, what should have been a moment of short-lived frustration renders Larry savagely dangerous.

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