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December 2006
New and Noteworthy Member Happenings
Susan Isaacs was honored on October 14 by the Port Washington (N.Y.) Library Foundation with the Community Leadership Award. Her 10th and most recent novel, Anyplace I Hang My Hat, was named as one of The Washington Post's and Seattle Times' "Best Books of the Year"
Gerry and Janet Souter's new book, The Founding of the United States Experience (Random House) was released in October. This slip-cased oversize volume recounts U.S. history 1763-1815. The unique volume contains removable reproductions of historic documents
Liz Holzemer's Curveball: When Life Throws You a Brain Tumor is scheduled for release on April 1, 2007. She is currently profiled on the Tug McGraw Foundation (www.tugmcgraw.com/community/heroes.asp)
Back from a 16-month honeymoon around the world, Joshua Berman is promoting his new title with Avalon Travel Publishing, Living Abroad In Nicaragua (co-authored with Randy Wood), and updating his Lowell Thomas Award-winning guidebook, Moon Handbooks
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Vanessa Barrington has been named San Francisco food editor of "The Kitchen" at ApartmentTherapy.com. The Kitchen connects people, especially those in cities, to the resources and inspiration they need in order to use their kitchens more
Annie Logue's new book, Hedge Funds for Dummies, was released by Wiley in November. It explains the ins and outs of hedge funds to individual investors
Nancy Christie's book, The Gifts of Change (Beyond Words) is now available in two foreign editions: Turkish from Truva Publishing of Istanbul and Korean from Gamoonbee Publishing Co., Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea
Reverse Heart Disease Now is veteran health writer Martin Zucker's latest collaboration, to be released by Wiley in November. Zucker wrote the book with Stephen Sinatra and James Roberts, two integrative cardiologists who shred the current cholesterol obsession and present powerful strategies for preventing and reversing heart disease using the best of conventional medicine and natural healing
Anne Hart's most recent October titles are How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls: A Pop-Culture Course in Reminiscing for Pay and 101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients: A Step-by-Step Guide
Jane Mersky Leder's most recent book, Thanks For The Memories: Love, Sex, and World War II (Praeger) was released on September 30. Pre-publication reviewers included William Chafe, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University, who touted the book as "lively, moving, evocative, and memorable."
Take Out: Family Faith on the Go is a new Catholic parenting magazine with Vicki Caruana as editor
This fall, Jo Kadlecek became associate professor of creative writing and communication arts at Gordon College in Massachusetts. Two new books include: A Mile From Sunday, novel #1 in The Lightfoot Trilogy (NavPress); and Desperate Women of the Bible: Lessons on Passion from the Gospels (Baker Books)
Alma Bond's novel, Camille Claudel, has just been selected as the Editor's Choice for October by the Computer Times. Her newest book, Old Age is a Terminal Illness: How I Learned to Age Gracefully and Conquer My Fear of Dying has just been published by Universal Publishers
Harvard Medical School instructor Jean Fain is publishing her transformative relaxation strategies on a new audio CD, "Float To Health & Wellbeing." Relaxation training has been shown to ease, if not alleviate, what commonly ails people, including insomnia, anxiety and pain
Suzanne Havala Hobbs' new book, Get the Trans Fat Out: 601 Simple Ways to Cut the Trans Fat Out of Any Diet, was released in October 2006 by Three Rivers Press. Library Journal wrote, "... the Food Guide and Fat Gram Counter section is so useful that public libraries of any size should make a point of purchasing a copy".
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