Topic: Arts & Literature

"Fairy Senses" has been named a finalist in both the Young Adult Fiction and Science Fiction categories of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

The 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards has selected Fairy Senses, Frances Ruiz's debut novel, as a finalist in two categories: Young Adult Fiction and Science Fiction. The Next Generation Indie Book Awards were established to honor the most exceptional independently published books of the year. They are open to independent publishers worldwide and are presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group.

A new mystery thriller, "The Lion and the Covenant, " makes the claim that the Ark of the Covenant was captured by British imperial forces in Ethiopia in 1868.

The Ark of the Covenant - or an artifact believed by many to be that sacred relic - was captured by British imperial forces in Ethiopia in 1868 and hidden in Australia between March 1869 and the early 1950s. That's the startling claim made in a new book, an international mystery thriller called The Lion and the Covenant.

In Phillip Lambro's book, "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind," Lambro recalls how, in the editing room at Paramount, Polanski answered sex-for-sale ads from "Sally in the Valley" under the name of Paul.

When successful classical music composer and conductor, Phillip Lambro, was hired by film director Roman Polanski in 1974 to compose the film score to Chinatown, Lambro found himself thrown into one of the biggest power struggles in classic celluloid history between film director Roman Polanski and producer Robert Evans.

Christopher Meeks' "The Brightest Moon of the Century" is drawing reviews that show the kind of hope and inspiration that "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coehoh offers.

As The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho said, "Love can consign us to hell or to paradise. It always takes us somewhere." His book has inspired millions.

As this press release shows, many fundies continue to believe that if it isn't Christian, then it must be Satanist. While we certainly believe that the Illuminati, if they exist, aren't necessarily a good thing for the freewill of humankind, to label them as "satanist" seems to be going a bit far, don't you think?

Tom Hanks' new film Angels & Demons blurs the line between facts and fiction surrounding a secret society and the Vatican, but the film has angered some researchers calling it "disinformation" and a "whitewash" of what they call a real satanic secret society that continues to exist today.

With nods to their rich history and a fresh eye on the future, the award-winning Native language choir strikes a winning combination by warmly engaging their past - and passionately embracing their future on their seventh album.

The Cherokee Nation has released For Our Future, the latest CD from the award-winning Cherokee National Youth Choir. For Our Future is the choir's seventh album release since their formation in 2002.

Original Blood, Sweat & Tears saxophonist Fred Lipsius has released a new video of his digital artwork.

Computer artist and musician, Fred Lipsius, has produced an art-music video featuring over 50 digital paintings selected from his Online Gallery at www.FredLipsiusArt.com. The video also features an unreleased piece of music Fred composed in 1987 called Rumi. Rumi is one of the world's most beloved poets who devoted his life to writing poems about God's higher calling.

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Samples of Fred Lipsius' artwork.

"Heart's Ease" is an all-instrumental CD of original works featuring Gunn's instrument of choice, the autoharp.

Celtic American Musician Marc Gunn has released Heart's Ease, an all-instrumental CD of original works featuring Gunn's instrument of choice, the autoharp. Described by Gunn as a "pure labor of love," the CD reflects fantasy themes, Celtic music forms and explores the full range of the unusual instrument.

A devil's mansion, a chainsaw wielding madman, and hostile extra-terrestrials are just the beginning of the hellish adventures experienced by a quartet out to defeat evil paranormal forces in "After Midnight" by Ireland's Stephen King.

When the forces of Hell are unleashed, a quartet of four friends must stop hostile paranormal forces, no matter how terrifying those forces may be, no matter how bloody their chainsaws, in Patrick Cunningham's After Midnight: Volume One.

The Exodus campsites of Moses have been found according to the author of the new book God's Storehouse of the Deep and the Red Sea Path of Moses. In the appendix is the actual geographic satelite study that used gulf war map making technology to find all the campsites of Moses.

A new novel entitled God's Storehouse of the Deep by John Clarke, incorporates a geographic satellite Exodus research that finds all the Exodus campsites of Moses from space. The research matches the geographic Exodus clues of Moses to the maps of the US Dept of Defense that were produced during the Gulf War.