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Hint. It's the Everlasting Gobstopper of Marketing

A book.
It can last forever.

According to Raintoday.com, publishing a business book can help you improve your brand, generate more clients and charge higher fees.

Excellent segue.....

"The military textbook entitled “Care of the       Combat Amputee” will help healthcare providers better understand the needs of soldiers who have lost a limb in combat.  Scheduled for publication in 2008, the military textbook will give doctors, prosthetists, and occupational therapists the knowledge they need to serve this growing patient population..."

Who's writing it?  CLICK HERE.

Breast Cancer Exposed!

Just got an email from Meg Wolff. 

She has a new book out and if you provide mastectomy services, you need to let your patients/customers know - via your email newsletter of course, that it's available.

Breast Cancer Exposed: The Connection Between Food and                       Survival

"My second book shows, through Joyce Tenneson's poignant and sensitive photos, the results of my mastectomy. It  also describes, in my words, the all-important connection between the food choices we make and our health and well being.

I want to raise awareness that there are costs for putting overly processed and chemically treated food into our bodies – and often we pay with our health or our lives. I firmly believe that changing my diet dramatically changed – and ultimately saved – my life.

The inspiration for this book came to me one night in April 2003 when I was just starting to write Becoming Whole.  Asking for guidance led to this realization: For people to truly understand my message, I had to be willing to expose my body and show what I had experienced.                  

It was terrifying to consider having these photos taken. But I trusted my instincts and my friend and photography  mentor, Joyce Tenneson ... and took a leap of faith. I hope you’ll order a copy for yourself, a relative or friend facing a mastectomy, or for anyone facing a serious illness or other obstacles. And I hope you’ll find it reassuring and helpful."

“The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California,”

New York Times Sunday Book Review
By GABRIELLE ZEVIN

Published: August 12, 2007

“ 'The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California,' by Mary Hershey, has a title that works as a pretty nifty plot summary, too: Alastair, a 13-year-old amputee who calls himself Stump, spends the summer with his estranged father in California. Five years before the start of the story, Stump’s leg was amputated following a premature jump from a ski lift. The mystery here, of course, is why did he do it? And why does he hate his father so much? And oh yes, why has his father up and married a double leg amputee? If you’ve ever read a coming-of-age novel, you can probably imagine how these stories resolve themselves, and that’s not a criticism so much as a function of the genre: kid moves from inexperience to experience, kid achieves personal growth, etc.

There is much to admire, though. For one, there aren’t easy villains. With Stump’s parents, Hershey takes what appear to be types — the absentee father, the evil stepmother — and gradually reveals them to be characters of nuance and satisfying complexity. The author also has a convincing, lively 'boy' voice and even better, a sense of humor. After Stump has met and argued with his stepmother for the first time, his father comments, “I don’t want to see you and Sky get off on the wrong foot together.” Of course, the joke here is that Stump and Skyla have only one foot between them..."

"Poster Child" a book by Emily Rapp

From Newsday.com

POSTER CHILD, by Emily Rapp.

"Writing about pain always entails a leap of faith. Can one communicate one's experience to the reader? Can anyone possibly identify with someone else's pain? Will the reader care?
Emily Rapp, who had her foot and eventually her entire leg amputated starting in 1978, at age 4, brilliantly succeeds at communicating the pain, shame and profound strangeness she experienced as a young amputee in her memoir "Poster Child." Rapp, who was literally a poster child for the March of Dimes at age 6, writes breathtakingly, almost magically, of the world of wooden legs, silicone feet and metal knee hinges that are made in a filthy workshop by a man who has no soap in his bathroom and dying plants in his waiting room..."