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Press Releases:
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- February 13, 2009: Mama's Home Remedies Wins
2009 Mom's Choice Gold Award (You may also view the HTML version)
- June 15, 2008: Mama's Home Remedies Garners Two Indie Book Nominations (You may also view the HTML page version)
- April 1, 2008: Colds and Flu Flee from Old Eastern European Herbal Remedies (You may also view the HTML page version)
- July 27, 2007: Grape Facts and Lore Lead to Books for 4 - 94
- Initial Press Release for Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away:
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Latest News:
Grapette, The Runaway... Is Recommended by Southern Early Childhood Association for Reading in Schools
In the 2008 edition of What’s New in Children’s Books, Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away is recommended by the Southern Early Childhood Association to the teachers of elementary schools to be included in their daily curriculum as one of the many wonderful new books that come out each year. Click here for excerpts and images.
Mama's Home Remedies Wins Mom's Choice Gold
Award
On January 30th, 2009, the Mom's Choice Awards announced their Best Products of
2009. Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the
Pleasures of Natural Living by Svetlana Konnikova MA, AN is named by Mom's
Choice Awards as 2009 Gold Recipient: Adult - Health, Nutrition, Fitness &
Safety. Click here for the official announcement (PDF).
The Mom's Choice Awards (MCA) is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services.
Mama's Home Remedies Nominated for Two 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
We're proud and delighted to report that Mama's Home Remedies was one of the finalists for the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in both the Health/Wellness and the Multicultural Non-Fiction categories! Read the official list of winners/finalists (opens in a new window).
Author/Publisher Svetlana Konnikova
profiled in May/June 2008 Boca Raton magazine!
In the late spring/early summer edition of Boca Raton magazine, Svetlana Konnikova was profiled by Julie O'Hara. Read/download the article (PDF format) here.
Aurora Publishers supports public television
and the PBS Auctions and Sweepstakes 2008!
We donated copies of our nonfiction book Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasure of Natural Living and children's picture book Grapette, the Runaway Who Rolled Away: A Timeless Tale of Love and Family, A Child Discovering the World to thirty-six PBS Television stations around the country for this year's Auctions. We are proud to be able to help PBS to raise money to improve their educational, parenting and children's programs, and also inspire and motivate other public television supporters. View the charming thank-you postcard we received from WVIZ/PBS in Cleveland.
Aurora Publishers Invites Story Submissions
for The Fine Art of Hosting House Guests
For our upcoming release, The Fine Art of Hosting House Guests, we invite readers to submit stories - both good and bad - relating their experiences with house guests. Visit this page for details on this release and the contest.
Praise for Mama's Home Remedies:
Herald Gazette Village Soup Applauds Mama's Home Remedies: "A Book From The Heart"
"Svetlana Konnikova grew up in Moldavia among medical professionals who were active in natural and folk medicine and herbalism. She has put together a power-packed volume of the wisdom of ages placing generations of knowledge and practice into everyone’s hands." -- (Click to read full review.)
Lynnette Walther, Columnist
Herald Gazette Village Soup, Camden, Maine
“This book isn’t just a guide to remedies. It’s a loving tribute to the women who taught [the author], including legends, her grandmother's fairy tales, family vignettes, and herbal lore woven through the details of the remedies. There are hundreds of remedies covering almost every ailment. You may not know many of the herbs or may not want to spend too much time brewing some. But the variety of suggestions for the same problem allows you to pick the ones that best suit you. This is a lovely book to read for pleasure, and your health!” -- (Click to read full review.)
Best-selling author, speaker and counselor Daylle Deanna Schwartz in her blog, Lessons from a Recovering Doormat, January 2009
Little Green Blog, a blog devoted to natural, healthy living, loves MHR:
“As you read, you’ll find yourself transported to a room full of wise women where you start to feel your own cells stirring with memories of forgotten truths. Use this book to discover the secrets of nature, restore your faith in your body’s ability to heal and allow your intuition to guide you towards health and wholeness.” -- (Click to read full review.)
"Mrs. Green" in Little Green Blog, September 3, 2008
The June 2008 issue of Midwest Book Review's Small Press Bookwatch online magazine applauds Mama's Home Remedies:
“Secrets of staying healthy in day to day life when constantly seeing a
doctor isn't practical--the secrets put forth in 'Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Living'. Boasting almost eight hundred folk remedies and the superstitions, folktales, and legends behind them, offering something to heal the spirit alongside the body. Some of the remedies are not just that, and can serve as marvelous snacks and meals sure to uplift anyone who is down in their life. For being packed cover to cover with non-stop invaluable wisdom, 'Mama' Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of natural Living' is highly recommended to anyone who wants that edge in health and for community library collections on the subject.”"A book you will go back to time after time as a 'comfort book' (like
comfort food!)--one that will variously provide information, stimulate your thinking, give you peace, and entertain you... In the few short weeks I have had the book, it has earned a place on the bookshelf right next to my computer, so that when I need a break, it is right at hand. It is marvelous vehicle for stress relief."Peter A. Gail, PhD, author, books and articles on creative living and edible wild plants, and founder, Goosefoot Acres for Resourceful Living
(Read the full review at Dr. Gail's blog, Doc Weed's Doin's, an account of the continuing adventures of Dr. Peter Gail as he goes around the country sharing what he has learned over the years about how various cultures use backyard weeds for food and medicine.)
“Packed with nearly 800 remedies and recipes, motivational mottoes, inspirational advice and useful tips, this book provides centuries of healthy wisdom from the personal observations, experiences and life philosophies of several generations of women in one family....” Click here to view the full review as seen in the magazine.
Balance magazine, Winter 2008 issue,
Volume 9, Number 1, page 66“Mama’s Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Living is a tribute to the old wives’ wisdom that transcends modernity. It will inspire you to reach for your vegetable pantry before you head for the pharmacy. ... As we speed along in our rapid-fire lifestyles, we’re lucky to have Ms. Konnikova’s immense knowledge wrapped in Mama’s Home Remedies’ 314 pages. The next time I’m faced with a health challenge, I will seek a gentler solution straight from Mother Nature, and my mom-in-law's soup pot for they are the world’s first and only true healer.” (Click here to read the entire review!)
Christine Hohlbaum, Mama's Musings blog
“The suggestions in this volume bring fruitful advice and invaluable worth. Most people have forgotten that the simple things are at the center of soulful nurturing and this health publication is an exemplary model of such authentic knowledge. This book offers us an outline of happiness and health. Everyone will benefit from these jewels of understanding and I am sure that you will be as rewarded as I was after embracing many of these natural prescriptions.”
Anna Maria Clement, NMD, PhD, codirector and chief health administrator of Hippocrates Health Institute
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Dialogue with the Trees of Strength and Everlasting Life' in Mama’s Home Remedies. Svetlana Konnikova fills this delightful essay on the importance of trees in our lives with fascinating legends, appealing real-life personal and family stories, poetry, home remedies, interesting nature facts and motivating aphorisms. She even includes a chart of the Trees of Life; mine is the walnut, the tree of passion and power. Her descriptions of scenery paint colorful pictures that make me want to go to the places she portrays. I am proud that she quotes from my grandfather Joyce Kilmer’s poem, 'Trees'. I hope that her work will help to instill a deeper reverence for the environment in readers everywhere.”
Miriam A. Kilmer, artist and granddaughter of poet
Joyce Kilmer, author of “Trees”
Reviews for Grapette, The Runaway Who Rolled Away:
From What’s New in Children’s Books, 2008 Edition:
“Students in second and third grade and above will enjoy the quick thinking characters and full-page illustrations.” - Read Full Article
From Children of a New Earth Magazine (April '08 Reviews & Recommendations):
“Children 4-8 and their parents will be mesmerized by this unique tale of love and family. This story and the engaging colorful illustrations are infused with the charm of the California wine country.” - Read Review
From Tatiana Fabergé, author The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, and great-granddaughter of Carl Gustavovich Fabergé, legendary jeweler and designer to the Russian Imperial Court:
“I am sure this book, with its inspirational story and whimsical fine art illustrations, will warm the hearts of all the little children who read it or have it read to them.”
From ForeWord Magazine:
“Grapette, the Runaway Who Rolled Away is a delightful book for children ages 3 and up – just the type of book that parents will enjoy reading to their young children.”
More Reviews:
“The book is terrific and I know the children will love it. The story is so clever and charming, and the illustrations are fabulous. I wish you the best of luck and success with them.” - Linda Janger, Los Angeles, California
“Cute for kids of wine-focused parents.” - Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Special Best of Year Issue, December 31, 2007, Gift Guide, Holiday Bookshelf, page 26
“An enchanting story.” - Awareness magazine, Kids' Reviews
“A gentle, whimsically illustrated story with a strong underlying warning against running away and making parents worry.” - Entrepreneur.com's Children's Bookwatch, December 2007
“A heartwarming moral and tale of love and family.” - Families First Monthly
“The most positive characteristics of this book is the message: Grapette discovered that being home was the best place of all. The illustrations are great with intense colors and whimsical characters. The characters are fun... We liked being transported into a grape vineyard, a place we have never been before, and surrounded by nature throughout the story.”- Jeanne Murphy, Evanston, IL
“A classic for generations to come. A delightful children's book, sure to appeal to all ages with its timeless tale and wonderful illustrations!!” - Raynette Bryan, Boca Raton, Florida
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