FOR RELEASE January 11, 2009

            Moving Forward: Taking the Lead in Your Life by Dave Pelzer shows how you can move beyond the obstacles and challenges in your life and how to maintain the dignity, esteem, and beliefs that define who you really are.

            Try Darkness by James Bell finds lawyer Ty Buchanan defending a woman with a six-year-old daughter in a case of illegal eviction that turns to murder, calling upon skills he never needed in the employ of a civil law firm.

            Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree About Kids, Carreers, and Casseroles (And What to Do About It) by Julie Halpert explores a wide range of communication issues between generations and explains how to resolve them so that mothers and daughters can reclaim their loving relationships.

            Being Elizabeth by Barbara Taylor Bradford takes a twist on the sixteenth-century Queen of England in a modern tale of a powerful woman who is head of a corporate empire, totally in control, marriage-phobic, yet deeply drawn to experience love on her own terms.

            The Family Handyman Home Improvement 2008, published by Readerʼs Digest, offers a wealth of profusely illustrated, expert how-to-do-it information that will help you with projects and repairs all around your home and yard.

            The Road to Ruin by Donald Westlake centers on an infamous gang of thieves who dress as a personal secretary, a driver, and a butler in order to work for a very rich and very crooked man, and take their revenge by robbing him blind.

            The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong by John Lloyd challenges the misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts behind what most of us assume to be verifiable truths and rights the record on things we think we know but donʼt.