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Kim Campbell Thornton

Kim Campbell Thornton recently edited From Fearful To Fear Free with coauthors Dr. Marty Becker, Dr. Lisa Radosta, Dr. Wailani Sung, and Mikkel Becker. The guide to understanding and dealing with canine fear, anxiety and stress is the No. 1 New Release on Amazon.com in the animal psychology, science and zoology category. Associated website

Jane Leder

The 2nd edition of the award-winning Dead Serious: Breaking The Cycle of Teen Suicide (first published 30 years ago!) includes new chapters on bullying, LGBTQ teens, and suicide prevention programs that work. Written for teens but an important book for parents and educators as well, Dead Serious comes at an opportune time (sadly), as the number of teen suicides has mushroomed. Through stories, statistics, and strategies, the book provides tools to help break the cycle of young people taking their own lives. Associated website

Eugene Meyer

FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army (Chicago Review Press, June 2018) Associated website

Janice Arenofsky

My new book from Greenwood/ABC-CLIO: Infertility Treatments Published June 30, 2018 Associated website

Helen Studley

In my long writing career, none pleases me more than my present blog: Hidden Treasures combined with Culinary Pleasures. Tackling Scandinavia House, Bohemian National Hall, or Sotheby’s, requires research and becomes a learning experience which, thanks to the computer, beats going back to school. In addition, my blog has come to the attention of long lost family members and friends, from Dresden to Johannesburg. Herewith the link Not By Art Alone

Arthur Sharp

Arthur G. Sharp co-authored Joey: The Street Fox of Newark (Outskirts Publishing), the true story of an obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, inveterate liar and sociopath who was born out of wedlock, sexually abused by his alcoholic father, consigned (voluntarily) to the streets of Newark, NJ before he was ten years old, and remanded to a Catholic protectory at age 14—where he was once again sexually abused and invited to leave when he disclosed it. Yet, he became a successful international management consultant. As the book suggests, if the Street Fox of Newark can succeed anyone can.

Arthur Sharp

Arthur G. Sharp’s Atomic Cannons and Nuclear Weapons: A Mystery of the Korean War (History Publishing Company LLC) details the role of nuclear weapons in the Korean War. It explains how political and military leaders used such weapons, including an atomic cannon, as a psychological weapon. The mystery is whether the atomic cannon was ever deployed during the war. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. In any event, the book fills a gap in Korean War history that has long been ignored.

Candy Harrington

Candy B. Harrington recently released her latest national park access guide, Barrier-Free Travel; Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks for Wheelers and Slow Walkers. The guidebook includes detailed information about wheelchair-accessible trails, sites, lodging options and attractions in these three favorite national parks. Associated website

Aleigh Acerni

In March 2018, Aleigh Acerni's recent piece about "mean moms" for Charlotte Parent magazine won a Silver Award from the Parenting Media Association. Associated website

Tami Kamin Meyer

Tami Kamin Meyer, chair of the ASJA's Marketing Committee, has launched her first website. The site, found at www.tamikaminmeyer.com, features Kamin Meyer's various articles about law, business, health, travel and more. (PLEASE NOTE...I tried to type my URL, below, but the form wouldn't let me. That's why I answered "no" to the question "is there an associated URL." Thank you).

Richard C. Levy

Richard C. Levy, co-author of The Toy and Game Inventor’s Handbook, will see his electronic Cat Paw invention, licensed to Wicked Cool Toys, in Books-a-Million nationwide this fall. The “friendly but feisty” impulse novelty toy includes two fun cat sounds. It can be used to creep out co-workers, amuse cat lovers and stupefy cats themselves.

Lisa Iannucci

Lisa Iannucci lastest book, On Location: A Film and TV Lover’s Travel Guide (Globe Pequot Press), was released on March 1, 2018. The book focuses on locations and history behind your favorite films or television series and favorite actors in the United States. Enjoy over a hundred profiles on famous movie and television locations from John Wayne’s westerns to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sit in the diners used in Top Gun and Breaking Bad. Visit museums on your favorite celebrities, such as Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart, or television and movies such as The Christmas Story Museum, From New York to California. There are also statue alerts throughout the book where you can take selfies with your favorite celebs, such as Elizabeth Montgomery as Bewitched. Lisa also started a podcast, Reel Travels, based off of her book, on BlogTalkRadio.com Associated website

Nonnie Thompson

Nonnie Thompson's book, Time It Was: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer, has been published by Bay Tree Publishing. This is her first book, after sixty published articles and photos in national, and regional, magazines. It's now available on her website and on Amazon. Synopsis: On an icy Rocky Mountain highway, the winter sun was setting on a teenaged girl hitchhiking alone. Nonnie Thompson had run away from her parents' home yearning for the freedom and wildness of a pioneer wagon train. Fortunately for her, she was coming of age in the 1970s amidst a cultural revolution. By that evening she found the new life she was looking for in a Colorado commune, surrounded by a group of people who shared her ideals. Time It Was captures the youthful enthusiasm of those years while tracing the joys and sorrows of a woman who lived them deeply. "Nonnie Thompson's voice rings true. Her story is just about as genuine as they come." Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead "Nonnie Thompson is such a natural writer, reading this tome will make you feel as though she is sitting beside you, describing her adventures from up close. I found myself absorbed, entertained, and also gently thrown back to that expansive era, when everything good seemed possible, and living itself seemed infinite." Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook "This sweet book takes you, dear reader, far far out and off the grid, where concrete crumbles into wilderness. Here log cabins and tipis hold pioneering hippie folk to rock 'n' roll among the hard times and rainbows of their lives." Wavy Gravy, co-founder of the SEVA Foundation, counter-culture peace activist Associated website

Candy Harrington

Candy B. Harrington recently released her fifth national park access guide, Barrier-Free Travel; Washington National Parks for Wheelers and Slow Walkers. The guidebook includes detailed information about wheelchair-accessible trails, sites, lodging options and attractions in Olympic, Mount Rainier and North Cascades national parks. Associated website

Nancy Del Pizzo

Nancy has been named a Super Lawyer in Intellectual Property Litigation for the second year in a row. See https://www.superlawyers.com/about.html for methodology used.

Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith's website, BuildBookBuzz.com, recently received global recognition. Feedspot ranked it number 7 among thousands of book marketing blogs while Booksie named it a "Top 100 Writing Site." It has been named a top website for authors and writers three other times in the past, as well. Associated website

Harvey Rachlin

Harvey Rachlin's fourteenth book, written with his brother Steven M. Rachlin, M.D., was published on February 4th by Amsterdam Publishers. Entitled Color War: Dinshah P. Ghadiali's Battle With the Medical Establishment over his Revolutionary Light-Healing Science, it tells the story of a Parsee Indian who in 1920 introduced to the world a new healing science that he spent decades meticulously researching. It was based on color therapy, and hundreds of medical doctors, surgeons, dentists and other health professionals subsequently used it in their practices with astonishingly successful results—often on patients that conventional medicine could not help. Associated website

Patricia Kutza

Patricia Kutza's The Don't Get Me Started! Toolkit Workbook (co-authored with Connie Payne) is now part of the class curriculum in several public and private K-12 schools in Northern California's Contra Costa County. Associated website

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