EquiChord, a professional music studio that provides creative musical arrangements and choreography for amateur and professional dressage riders alike, has authored Rhythm Riding - a book that provides a proven step-by-step process that makes learning to ride with music an enjoyable and achievable goal.

Posted: November 19th, 2008 under Books, Entertainment, Events, Multimedia, Music, Musicians, Publishing.
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White Lies Dark Truth is a revolutionary guide to finding your inner voice, beyond the conditioning imposed on your thought processes since birth. The questions posed by White Lies Dark Truth are simple, but profound: Who are you? What are you living for? If you spend your life living for the good opinion of society, you will end up angry, and disillusioned: you must find a way to release yourself from these false goals and judgments. With this self-help guide, you can explore methods of healing and understanding that will contribute to your overall well-being. By utilizing the wisdom the book carries, you will attain a profound sense of contentment and freedom, thereby loosening the psychological chains that society tightens around you. Open your mind to the truth of who you are with White Lies Dark Truth, and you will see everything differently – especially yourself.

Mony Singh, the author of White Lies Dark Truth says that when you heal yourself, you can help to heal society, which is infected by anger, hate, and negative emotions. Peace in this world can only be achieved by reprogramming our minds and souls; removing the social viruses we carry with us from childhood. White Lies Dark Truth allows you to troubleshoot your own life, to find your spirituality once more, and to move forward into peace and enlightenment.

The impact of the book is widespread: recently showcased at the 2008 ALAA Expo, a growing readership is proof of the book’s powerful message. Critical acclaim for this unique self-help guide is growing stronger every day.

White Lies Dark Truth was selected for Honorable Mention list at the 2008 New York Book Festival (newyorkbookfestival.com) This book is the urgent needed of the society, especially our youth (teenagers and/or growing adults), where it is needed most.

To know more about the book, visit the books website at whiteliesdarktruth.com

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Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Awards, Books, Entertainment, Publishing, Society.
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When Liana Bialik’s mother takes her from the predictable confines of Westchester County, New York, to Israel in the middle of the 1960s’ conflicts, Liana’s worldview and her sense of self are transformed. Heat; dust; the mingled scents of food, flowers, people, spice markets; simmering tensions between Israelis and Palestinians; and in the middle, a 14-year-old on the cusp of womanhood. Leora Skolkin-Smith has written a passionate, richly atmospheric novel whose intimacy reads like a memoir. Tovah Feldshuh narrates with such authenticity that listeners may be moved to talk back to the book. The mother’s longing for the Palestine of old; Liana’s edgy girl-woman voice; the mistrustful bargaining of a Palestinian shopkeeper. It’s all here, and it’s terrific. A.C.S. — AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine.

Edges was first published in 2005, by Glad Day Books, a publishing house, founded by Grace Paley and her husband Robert Nichols.

Edges is a coming of age story about an adolescent girl visiting her maternal relatives in the Jerusalem of 1963.

“Edges (is) about the adventures of an adolescent girl in Israel in the early 1960s. Her character’s mother had grown up in British Mandate Palestine, one of several factors making the memory bank of this book so rich - appropriate for a place with almost too much history to bear and retain one’s sanity at the same time Perhaps above all, the novel, told with restraint and poetic precision, is about how we shoulder on (and wing it) under the weight of history, family and public.” — Robert Whitcomb, critic for the Providence Journal.

“Edges is an elegantly written, quite moving novel that has a lot to say about love, identity, history and the meaning of nationality. The book is worth reading alone for its superb language, but it is gripping and unforgettable as well in its storytelling and evocation of place and emotions. It is a wonderful novel by an author with a quite accomplished voice and style, one well deserving a wide and receptive audience.” — Oscar Hijuelos, author of Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo King Sings Songs of Love

“Edges” is a dark and penetrating look at pre-1967 Israel and Palestine through the eyes of a 14 year old Liana Bialik. After her American father’s suicide, Liana’s Jerusalem-born mother decides to take Liana and her sister back to her homeland, where her family had lived for four generations. Once they get to Israel Liana, who feels overwhelmed and suffocated by her mother, begins to detach herself from her. She embarks on a mission of self-discovery to learn why her mother does not speak about her father and why he took his own life. Edges is well-written, powerful in both imagery and subject matter” –Jewish Book World, Spring 2006

Vol. 24, Number 1

“Where, and how and to whom do we really belong Skolkin’s brilliant debut novel is a hypnotic meditation on the ever-changing boundaries of love and need. A coming of age story of the bond between a young American and her powerful mother, etched in a wartime Mideast as shifting and dangerous and mysterious as the Israeli desert.” –Caroline Leavitt, columnist, Reviewer, Boston Globe, People Magazine, author of “Girls in Trouble”

“With Edges, Leora Skolkin-Smith earns her place among the most gifted of contemporary American authors. The novel is a reminder that works of fiction can offer the depth, color, texture, passion of a fine painting and a great symphony. This is more than a coming-of-age story; it is a powerful and beautifully wrought account of passion and hopefor a girl and for a country.” –Victoria Zackheim, Author, “The Boneweaver” Editor, Anthology “The Other Woman”, “For Keeps”

“A feverish, sensual, remarkable book.” –Meredith Sue Willis

Edges was nominated for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award by Grace Paley.

Awarded a Stipend from the Pen/Faulkner Foundation

A National Women Studies Association Conference Selection

“Bloomsbury Review” Pick, 2006: “Favorite Books of the Last 25 Years”

A Jewish Book Council Selection, 2005

Panelist, “Israel in Fiction” The Miami International Book Fair, 2066

Panelist, “War in Writing” , The Virginia Festival of the Book, 2006.

You can enjoy listening to Tovah Feldshuh, accomplished actress of stage and screen, bring Edges, to life in an audiobook produced by Midsummer Sound Company — a new audio publisher dedicated to the production and promotion of the spoken word and audio arts.

A recipient of numerous awards, Tovah starred in Golda’s Balcony, which became the longest running one woman show in the history of Broadway, in October of 2004. She also appears in soon to be released films Mount of Olives and O Jerusalem.

Edges was directed by three-time Grammy nominated and multi Audie award winner Charles Potter. Edges was produced by Peabody Award winner Marjorie Van Halteren — who for ten years produced WNYC’s The Radio Stage and was the original producer of Selected Shorts at Symphony Space in New York City.

 More information on www.leoraskolkinsmith.com

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Posted: August 1st, 2008 under Books, Entertainment, Novel, Publishing, Writers.
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The Truth About Queens challenges conventional form with poems that depart from verse and move toward prosaic arrangement. Reveles employs devices such as lists, vignettes, and lyrics to convey stories about girlhood and womanhood threaded together by memories, both real and imagined.

“Everything is deliberate in my writing, from the specific language employed in a given poem, to line breaks, syntax, punctuation or lack thereof, to overall presentation,” said Reveles. “Each of these components works toward constructing new memory, new experience through the reader’s engagement with a poem.”

Link to Publication: http://www.lulu.com/content/397842

ABOUT AUTHOR
Jessica Joy Reveles studied Creative Writing at the University of Southern California, and has lectured and presented her work in a variety of forums at USC and Brown University. The Truth About Queens is her first published volume of poetry. Reveles is involved in the editing and publication process of her next book to be released in the winter of 2008 and made available on Lulu. Reveles also works full time with children to build reading, writing, and math skills; writes from home; and conducts local readings and book discussion groups.

ABOUT LULU
Founded in 2002, Lulu is the world’s fastest-growing print-on-demand marketplace for digital do-it-yourselfers. Please see www.lulu.com for more information.

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Posted: July 21st, 2008 under Books, Entertainment, Poetry, Publishing, Writers.
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