Former flight attendant pens book about Dubai

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Northern Empress

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http://www.amazon.com/dp/b01ekpnqug

Most people see Dubai as the fantastic, elegant country of the Middle East with resplendent apartments, homes and dazzling night life. 

This is only one side.

Northern Empress and her husband lived in Dubai for approximately three and a half years.  During this time, she saw both the good and the bad sides of the human condition.

“All people see of Dubai is the luxury and glamour. What people do not see is the horror and squalor of the people who live and work in the U.A.E.,” said Empress.

Stories such as the housewife who routinely beat her housekeepers, fed them bleach and forced them into closets for hours at a time. The Moroccan expat who lost a child because her husband beat her so badly she had a miscarriage. A roommate who threw hot cooking oil on another roommate over a disagreement on the air conditioning.

“It is quite a shock to anyone. There is certainly a romantic side to Dubai, but there is an equally dark and harsh side – the side no one talks about,” said Empress.

A large number of the stories deal with women and immigrants who come to the country to work.

Stories such as the bus driver who sexually assaults a special needs person; a Filipina woman who spent a year in prison, with a baby, because she could not produce a marriage license.

Empress expects the stories to shock most of the readers.

“Most of what I saw was alarming. I am a girl originally from Minnesota, and I never expected to see anything like what I saw in Dubai. It was only after a few months that I realized there was more to the city than what we see on television. This was the reason for the book,” said Empress.

Dubai, 1 City 2 Different Tales: Chilling true short story collections set in the Middle East tell the dazzling city's beastly wicked side is available at Amazon.com.

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Love and Compassion is My Religion: Life-Changing New “Beginners Book into Spirituality" Proves God’s Love Can Change Even the Most Tormented Souls

Deerfield, Illinois (PR Buzz) – When most young people plan what they’ll do when “all grown up”, most imagine status, power and enough money to afford them true freedom. Illinois’ Jane Zarse lived that dream but, like millions of Americans, rapidly destroyed it all through the lure and fierce grip of alcoholism.

Thankfully, Zarse is still here today to tell her story, thanks to a unique spiritual awakening that saw her accept God and His word into her life for the first time. In ‘Love and Compassion is My Religion (A Beginner's Book into Spirituality)’, Zarse tells her raw and uninhibited story in a way that will ultimately change lives.

Synopsis:

Jane Zarse was rich and privileged. From prep school to Boston University to a prime spot at the Chicago's Options Exchange trading, she'd found the recipe for success.

But wrapped up in the excess of alcoholism, she felt nothing.

Zarse shares the most personal details of her descent into alcoholism and her eventual crawl back in 'Love and Compassion is My Religion', an inspirational memoir dedicated to showing others how the power of God's love can change you. Struggling through in an alcohol-induced daze, she lost it all - including her marriage, her mother, and even more, before she finally decided to seek help.

“I can tell you now – when I was young, I didn’t just think I had it all, I knew I did,” explains Zarse. “I carried that same success into my early adult years after graduating from University. I suppose I became complacent and fell into a culture of excess, because to say I crashed down and hit rock-bottom is an understatement.”

Continuing, “The worse thing is that, when you’re caught in addiction’s vicious circle, you just can’t see a way out. But when I found God, I quickly came to realize that there was an exit door, if I was willing to embrace His love and compassion. I wasn’t a heavily spiritual person before, but now credit it with the only thing that saved me.”

Zarse believes that her memoir will change the lives of millions of readers around the world.

“There is nobody that this book can’t influence. From those caught in their own addiction cycles to those exploring their spirituality for the first time, and even people with no spiritual leanings who just want to briefly experience life from another person’s point of view. God’s love knows no boundaries and, after reading my book, every reader will understand this boldly.”

‘Love and Compassion is My Religion (A Beginner's Book into Spirituality)’ is due for imminent release.

About the Author:

Zarse grew up in the prestigious community of Lake Forest, Illinois. She attended Boston University before acting in New York City and trading in Chicago. After hitting bottom, she learned to love herself.

For more information, visit www.loveandcompassionismyreligion.com

New book arrives just in time to help this year’s college freshman girls get ahead of the curve and stay there

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INFORMATION CONTACT: (Indigo Klabanoff 435-668-2391 Varda Klabanoff  435-772-2549)

     Indigo Klabanoff learned a lot her first year in college. Since then she has spent a lot of time thinking, “If only I had known then what I know now”. That inspired her to write a book about her first-year experience. “Every Girl’s Guide to College” has just been released to help the freshman class become accustomed to new schools, new dorms, new habits and new friends. It is available in paperback at Amazon Books, Barnes and Noble and through the website www.everygirlsguidetocollege.com. 

      Indigo says she had no guidance her first year in college and a book like the one she has just written would have been a big help. The book transitions students into the college atmosphere with easy to read tips which encourage the new student not to be afraid to learn from obstacles and mistakes.  It is not written anywhere that anyone is perfect, and the author insists that, “Doing things that make you happy and being yourself is what is perfect”. The tips in the book are a combination of things Indigo learned personally her first year in college and others that were passed along by some of the friends she made that year.

     “Every Girl’s Guide to College” begins with a little unsolicited advice which Indigo is convinced never hurt anyone and proceeds through a list of subjects which are sometimes mystifying. There are chapters on how to find one’s classes and the most productive class behavior, dorm essentials, the good and bad in roommates and how to deal with both, how to solve immediate problems such as not having enough money, and how to navigate partying, dating and relationship in a safe and fun way.

     Most freshmen manage to muddle through somehow, but Indigo Klabanoff has written “Every Girl’s Guide to College” to help smooth the way. For more information about the new book, visit www.everygirlsguidetocollege.com.

2015 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS ANNOUNCED

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Local Author receives national recognition from the 8th Annual 2014 National Indie Excellence® Awards!

Los Angeles -- The 9th Annual 2015 National Indie Excellence® Awards recognized Leaving Montana, by Thomas Whaley, in the category of Literary Fiction as a winner in this year's competition.

This prestigious national award, based in Beverly Hills, California is open to all English language books in print from small, medium, university, self and independent publishers.

The National Indie Excellence® Awards exist to help establish independent publishing as a strong and proud facet of the publishing industry. Recognizing authors that put their heart and soul into their work, the National Indie Excellence® Awards is proud to be a champion of self-publishers and small and independent presses that go the extra mile to produce books of excellence in every aspect. Awarded since 2007, the National Indie Excellence® Awards competition is judged by independent experts from all aspects of the indie book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters.

Winners and finalists are determined based on overall excellence of presentation in addition to the writing. Leaving Montana is a literary fiction book about the discovery of a 40-year-old secret discovered by a man who must now confront his past… and more than a few dysfunctional family secrets.

“We are proud to announce the winners & finalists whose books truly embody the excellence that this award was created to celebrate, and we salute you all for your fine work”, said National Indie Excellence® Awards Award President & CEO, Ellen Reid.

For more information please visit: www.indieexcellence.com

Contact: Derek Vasconi, Sakura Publishing, (330) 360-5131, skpublishing124@gmail.com