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Landau
Landau by Landau Eugene Murphy Jr with Rick Robinson
ISBN 9780938467670
Reserve Your Copy Today - release scheduled for Spring 2013
Retail Price $19.95
America's Got Talent Winner
Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. To Pen Memoir
In the summer of 2011, more than 14 million viewers each week watched with awe as a gifted vocalist from the coalfields of West Virginia rose to the top spot on NBC TV's "America's Got Talent." Soon, they will be able to read the amazing story behind Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.'s journey from washing cars to Hollywood star.
Murphy has signed an exclusive contract with Headline Books Inc. of Terra Alta, W.Va., to publish his forthcoming memoir. "I'm so happy that a publisher from my home state of West Virginia will help me to tell my story, my way. I am definitely no saint, and I'm going to put it all out there in this book in hopes that it inspires readers to dream big, and never give up," said Murphy who won a million dollars and a headlining spot at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas as the top vote getter on "America's Got Talent." His debut CD on Columbia Records "That's Life" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz charts and Landau's tour has sold out all over America.
"Landau Murphy is an exceptional talent with a personality to match," said Headline Books President Cathy Teets. "The world was glued to their TV sets during Season 6 of "America's Got Talent" and watched Landau win week after week, finally taking home the grand prize. Landau and his wife, Jennifer, have an amazing story to tell and we are very excited about this new project. Award-winning novelist, Rick Robinson, will be helping Landau with his first book.
"The story of Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. is more than a rags-to-riches story of some singer who won a reality show - it's a story of faith, hope, destiny, and dreams. To many people, Landau is the young man with dreadlocks who sings like Sinatra, but the story to be told is that of someone I've discovered to be a hard-working man of enduring faith. When you're finished reading this book, you'll discover that, along with having a great voice, Landau is a world-class human being."
Burke Allen, Landau's manager and head of Washington, D.C.-based Allen Media Strategies, says that Murphy's story is "cinematic in scope, almost like a Rocky Balboa come-from-behind against impossible odds type life. It truly is the American dream; a young man who has seen it all, from abject poverty to broken relationships, vicious inner-city violence, even homelessness to gradually turning his life around and through his hard work, determination, faith and undeniable talent Landau has succeeded beyond everyone's wildest expectations."
News media interviews are available upon request. Updates are available on www.HeadlineBooks.com and Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr.
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A Sense of Betrayal: Recollections of Vietnam
A Sense of Betrayal: Recollections of Vietnam by David Ritchey, editor Harper Schantz, 5.5 x 8.5, 148 pages, paperback, ISBN 9780938467519, Retail Price $14.95
David Ritchey's narrative about the Kafkaesque nature of his own experiences as a young naval officer in Vietnam vividly illustrate how the dynamics of war can shake anyone's faith in civilization and civilized man. Even now, forty years later, he struggles with the conclusions he then drew to the effect that the world is a dangerous place, and the men who inhabit that world are dangerous as well.
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Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer
Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer by Kevin L. Murphy
ISBN 9780938467403, 6 x 9, paperback, 128 pages, Foreword by Bernie Siegel, M.D., Retail Price $19.95
"You have cancer." Every day, over three thousand people hear these words, and their lives and relationshipschange forever. With each passing year, we learn more about prevention and treatment of cancer. A cancer diagnosis is no longer tantamount to a death sentence. With treatment, people are living longer, and better, even after the cruel hand of cancer clamps their shoulders.
But what about after treatment? For many couples and families, even after successful treatment of cancer, the end of one battle signals the beginning of another, when a clean bill of physical health comes with a hefty price tag, and ends up costing the end of a marriage or relationship.
Kevin Murphy's searing and devastatingly honest story, Surviving Cancer after Surviving Cancer, offers a unique perspective on this all too common phenomenon, when cancer (or any life-threatening illness) erodes the foundation of a once happy, thriving relationship. It offers the hard won wisdom of a husband who stood by his cancer stricken wife as she endured immense physical and emotional suffering, and beat the cancer that threatened her life and their unborn child, only to succumb to a painful divorce less than a decade later. Part memoir, part self-help primer, Surviving Cancer after Surviving Cancer is a wakeup call to couples and families whose lives have been decimated by disease. It seeks to bridge the emotional gap that too often isolates citizens of sickness from their spouses, families, and friends.
What People Say
"A must read for individuals and family members who are touched by cancer. It will be an eye opener for healthcare providers, such as nurses, doctors and allied professionals." - Jame Abraham, M.D. FACP Bonnie Wells Wilson Distinguished Professor and Eminent Scholar Chief, Section of Hematology-Oncology Medical Director, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center West Virginia University
"Kevin wrote this book to help couples cope with the emotional side of this dreaded disease called cancer. But men—take heed. Read this book and learn that when cancer comes to you, your wife, or a family member, it is okay to pray, weep, and most important of all, seek help from others. This book will make a difference in your life." - Dick Vitale, College Basketball Announcer
"Kevin Murphy turns his own painful experience into deeply faith-based, inspirational lessons learned, in hopes that others are spared the suffering this hateful disease leaves in its wake." - Judith G. Clabes, Editor and Publisher KyForward.com, President and CEO, Scripps Howard Foundation
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Why Wait? - Fulfilling Dreams from Tragedy
Why Wait? - Fulfilling Dreams from Tragedy, ISBN 978-0- 938467-23-6, 6 x 9, Retail price $16.95
Pre-order now, release date late August.
A chance meeting on Sept. 10, 2001 started a quest to help others by author Rob Quillen that would change his life forever. Ten years later his personal 9/11 story of fulfilling a young boy's dream from tragedy will be released by Headline Books in the new book, Why Wait?.
On a flight from Denver to Newark, N.J, author Rob Quillen made the acquaintance of Captain Jason Dahl, who the next day would be piloting United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa., during the infamous 9/11 terror attacks. During the flight, without an inkling of the tragedy that was to come, the two men became close friends, talking about dreams and what the future might hold. Quillen was wearing a Jeff Gordon polo shirt that sparked a conversation about NASCAR.
Dahl and his son, Matt, dreamed of going to a NASCAR race and meeting their hero, driver Jeff Gordon. Quillen had two extra tickets for the race at Kansas Speedway later that month. He couldn't arrange a meeting with Gordon, but promised to get the Dahls in to see that race.
When Captain Dahl died the next day, Quillen resolved to make good on his promise and take Matt to that race. With the help of many people, including NASCAR, ESPN and NBC television, he got Matt Dahl to the race as Gordon's special guest.
Quillen tells the story in Why Wait?. "The book is about a simple life lesson for everyone: Why do we wait to help dreams for other people come true before it is too late?" Quillen said. "All of us have the amazing power to help dreams come true for someone else - you just have to make the decision to do it. It's never too late for an act of kindness.
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Escape From Dubai
Indie Book Award Finalist Best General Non-Fiction
Indie Book Award Finalist Best Multicultural Non-Fiction
USA News Best Book Award Finalist Best Multicultural Non-Fiction
Honorable Mention San Francisco Book Festival Best Non-Fiction
Escape from Dubai by Herve Jaubert
ISBN 978-0-929915-94-4, 6 x 9, hard cover, color insert, full color dust jacket, Retail Price $29.95
Former French spy Herve Jaubert Pierre writes a shocking book on how he fled the UAE on a sailboat to Mumbai, without his passport. ...This is a story which will make fiction thrillers pale in comparison... an escape from Dubai by this former French intelligence officer... who claims he was wrongly indicted for embezzlement, fraud and sexual harassment there. But a report in Dubai states that Herve Jaubert Pierre is on the run and the police are trying to track him. - excerpted from article, Escape from Dubai, Sunday Mid Day, by Hemal Ashar, August 23, 2009, Mumbai
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The Best Years of Flying: A Memoir of Howard Hughes & TWA
USA News Best Book Award Finalist--Best Non-Fiction Narrative
The Best Years of Flying, ISBN 978-0-929915- 82-1, 304 pages illustrated, 6 x 9, hard cover, Retail price $24.95
Working for Howard Hughes and TWA was a job to be envied in the 1950's. Dee Merian tells of her high flying adventures during the reign of this airline and its famous owner. From the best hotels in Europe to The Plaza in New York, Hughes treated his crew first class as they flew passengers to major cities around the world.
In the 1940's and 1950's career choices were slim for women. Author Dee Merian, influenced by Hollywood movies of airplanes stories as a young girl, grabbed her brass ring to see the world aboard a Trans World Airlines airplane. Thousands applied for this new job and few were chosen; follow the adventures of one such young woman who met movie stars and famous entertainers as she pursued her dreams.
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