Book Talk: September 29, 2005 - The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life - at the Glendale Public Library

Author Adeva Maglaya will present highlights of the book to a culturally diverse audience.

(PRWEB) September 8, 2005 -- Glendale-based author Monette Adeva Maglaya is scheduled to present the book, The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life: How to Survive, How to Thrive, How to be Fully Alive." Because this is a one time event, the one hour talk is expected to draw a culturally diverse, capacity crowd on Thursday, September 29, 2005, 7 PM at the Glendale Library Central Auditorium at 222 East Harvard Street in Glendale. Admission is FREE. Though meant for immigrants, even readers and reviewers who are native born citizens or longtime residents believe that there is something for everyone in this unusually perceptive, all-encompassing guide book.

The heated national debates on immigration issues showing a trend towards polarized public opinion dangerously hovering and shifting towards xenophobic, fearful, extremist views particularly after 9/11 makes the topic of the book timely and relevant for immigrants who still look to America as the place to be, a place where dreams can become reality. The book takes the cudgels on behalf of the silent majority composed of positively contributing, working immigrants within the middle spectrum. What may be lost in the shuffle of unceasing, acrimonious political discussions on the local, state and national levels is the truth that most immigrants are real people with valid, legitimate concerns struggling daily with life size challenges just like the average Joe through the seasons of surviving, thriving and finally becoming fully alive.

The guide book - written in simple, terse and easy-to- understand style - was touted by Gary Shteyngart of the New York Times in its Sunday Book Review section as a remarkable new book." Shteyngart admits that ... few books have come closer to telling me what it means to be an immigrant in America today...religious, resourceful, highly flexible and yet essentially conservative, the immigrant is the most reliably American of all Americans, the indispensable citizen, the bedrock of the American dream...The world rightfully looks to America as the nation most welcoming to immigrants - and yet what many highly educated immigrants do not know, or do not care to know about one anothers struggles could fill a book. This one, for instance."

The Midwest Book Review rates the success guide highly as ... an informed and informative self-help guide written especially for American immigrants. From practical problems such as getting legal status and employer sponsorship; to economic budgeting; to learning how to tap into inner personal strengths and making a difference for the better, (the guide is) ... is well-rounded, useful, practical, and very highly recommended reading offering a wealth of applicable advice for all immigrant Americans regardless of their cultural or ethnic origins."

Rating five stars among readers at amazon.com, a reviewer writes that the book is ...one of the very best of the introductory manuals available today for newly arriving immigrants ... (it) offers a thoroughly "user friendly" orientation to becoming successful within the framework of American culture, society, politics, and economics. Accessibly organized by chapter, The Complete Success Guide For The Immigrant Life covers such vital issues as acquiring legal status; learning conceptual and logistical basics ranging from time zones to thrift shops; taking care of ourselves from the kinds of foods available to handling stress; family matters; education opportunities and career choices; money and finances; common problems and pitfalls ranging from scams to schemes to identity theft; establishing and operating a business venture; immigration specifics from the concept of "melting pot" to becoming bilingual; and the definitions of success. Also very highly recommended is Monette Maglaya's The Immigrant's Little Quote Book For Success ."

Adeva Maglaya was a presenter at the 6th annual Southern California Libraries Network Literacy Program held in January this year at Cal State Dominguez Hills where the book and the authors presentation were given high marks and rave reviews by attendees, participants and organizers of the conference. Acquisition librarians of public libraries, schools and universities in various states across the country particularly New York, New Jersey and California have been quick to note the practical significance and use of the book in catering to and serving the need for information and guidance by their immigrant readers. The authors professional background includes teaching, writing, editing, advertising, public relations, creative and marketing consultancy covering a span of three decades. She is a senior marketing and training executive of Los Angeles-based Asian Journal Publications, Inc. which publishes newspapers in Northern and Southern California.

Two Books for Immigrants to America

Title: The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life

Subtitle: *How to Survive *How to Thrive *How to be Fully Alive

Author: Monette Adeva Maglaya

ISBN: 0974110299

Category: Reference/Success How-to/Immigration/Citizenship

Length: 320 pages

Retail price: $19.95

Size/Binding: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 Perfect

Graphics: Original halftones

Features: Americana Chapter dividers ; Quotation call-outs/footers

Available at: www.immigrantsuccess.com and amazon.com

A Companion book to The Success Guide

Title: The Immigrants Little Quote Book

for Success

1001 Brilliant Nuggets of Wit and Wisdom from the

Best Men and Women Who Ever Trod the Earth

Edited by: Monette Adeva Maglaya

ISBN: 0974110280

Category: Reference/Immigration/Citizenship

Length: 224 pages

Retail price: $11.95

Size/Binding: 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 Perfect

Available at: www.immigrantsuccess.com

and amazon.com

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