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Almost immediately after finishing his novel about confronting death, former NYC radio DJ Mark Nechoda was given two to three years to live by his doctor. For several years, Nechoda was a popular radio personality known as "World Famous Mark Kelley." His novel, "The Old Homestead," (www.amazon.com), is about a radio producer who finally learns how to live and love after he has an epiphany during a brush with death. Just after he finished the book in 2010, Nechoda, who had lived with hepatitis C for decades, learned from his doctor the disease had progressed beyond treatment. "I look at death differently since I wrote my book. I'm not afraid of it. It's just a trip to another place, another point on the map," he says. "Ironically, that summarizes my book perfectly." Places like New York City and The Old Homestead, a 150-year-old restaurant in the city, have been some of the main characters in his life, he says. "Now, I spend more time Appreciating those memories than worrying about insignificant 'problems.' " Mark Nechoda was known to his New York fans as on-air radio personality "World Famous Mark Kelley" for many years. He has also appeared professionally on stage and TV and in film. He attended Ithaca College, where he studied with award-winning film and television writer, Rod Serling. Mark, a native Chicagoan, lived abroad in South Africa and New Zealand for nearly 10 years before returning to the United States in 2002. - www.amazon.com/old-homestead-Mark-Nechoda

SheaNetics - Shea Vaughn is a national mind-body expert, wellness author and coach and a recognized spokeswoman for creating well-being at any age. Ms. Vaughn is also the founder and CEO of SheaNetics®, a doctor endorsed revolutionary East-meets-West wellness and exercise lifestyle practice that delivers a powerful mind-body experience and ignites your potential to look and feel your best on the inside and out. Shea has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Marilyn Denis Show, is a regularly featured health and fitness expert on Chicago's Windy City LIVE and The Best Ever You Network and is a frequent wellness commentator for other TV, radio, and print media and corporate events. Her SheaNetics DVD/CD Mind-Body Collection offers dynamic one-of-a-kind full body workouts and along with her new book, Shea Vaughn's Breakthrough - The 5 Living Principles to Defeat Stress, Look Great and Find Total Well-Being, invite you to live the life you deserve!

Len Saputo, MD, a 1965 graduate of Duke University Medical School, is board certified in internal medicine and was in private practice in affiliation with John Muir Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. After his awakening to the deep flaws in conventional medicine which culminated in the early 1990s, Saputo began a quest to develop a new approach to healing now known as integral-health medicine-the emergent medical care model that is integrative, holistic, person-centered, and preventive. In order to further this mission, Dr. Saputo founded the Health Medicine Forum in 1994 and was its director until 2008. In 2001, Saputo co-founded what is now called the Health Medicine Center, in Walnut Creek, California-one of the first clinics to bring the new model of integral-health medicine into practice. Dr. Saputo is the author of A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine (Origin Press, 2009), coauthor of Boosting Immunity: Creating Wellness Naturally (New World Library, 2002); and is the host of the Prescriptions for Health show on KEST-AM, aired in the San Francisco Bay Area every weekday morning. - www.areturntohealing.com

Dr. Joe Lockavitch - Help For Kids Who Can't Read

The Summer of Superheroes and the Making of Iron Boy - Mary Webb is a former newspaper reporter and current high school English teacher, who lives in Patterson, LA. Mary Webb has written for The San Antonio Express-News, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, The (Monroe, LA) News-Star, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal, The Associated Press' Denver Bureau, The (Houma, LA) Courier, and The Denton Record-Chronicle. Currently, she teaches English and Speech at Westgate High School in Iberia Parish. Previously, she also taught English I at Patterson High School in St. Mary Parish, as well as in Morgan City, LA and in Dallas, TX. She lives in Patterson, LA with her husband Corwin and their two children, Quentin and Jory, the subjects of The Summer of Superheroes and the Making of Iron Boy. This is her first published novel. Mary is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana where she received a bachelor of arts in Mass Communication with a concentration in print journalism. - www.createspace.com/3458326

Parents, Are You Listening or Lecturing? - We want to know that our children are safe and that they are happy. The only way we can ever truly know that everything is as it should be in their lives is through talking with them and hearing what they say. But are we tuning out what our kids are really telling us? Or worse still, are we creating an environment in which they feel unable to come to us for help? Teacher and author Julie Scandora says that parents need to treat children with respect to ensure a trusting relationship.

Leslie Rule - Where Angels Tread

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987

Oprah went on a 3 week vegan crash diet this month. Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barymore and Cameron Diaz admit to smoking to keep their appetites down. Beyonce Knowles confesses to living on water, cayenne pepper and maple syrup to drop 20 pounds. Popular TV shows like The Biggest Loser and Celebrity Fit Club push overweight reality stars to risk injury in order to drop pounds. "Don't look at these celebrities and think you need to do something dangerous or hire an expensive personal trainer to loose weight," advises Dr. Marc Paulsen, M.D. and author of the new book, "Dump Your Trainer." Paulsen is on a mission to empower Americans to be their own personal trainer and eat smart enough to reach realistic fitness goals.

Don Mordsani - Princes and Ogres