www.Facebook.com/LifePositiveBook From Hollywood to Bangkok, to Bali and beyond, including Kuala Lumpur and Palm Springs-with profound expansion to Singapore, Mumbai and throughout all of Asia, and ultimately in 21 languages across the globe-Life Positive: A Journey to the Center of My Heart could easily be titled Eat, Pray, Disclose. "Dedicated to the tens of millions of people in the world living with HIV, most of whom do not yet know their status; to everyone who fights for us; and to those who still fear us. Get tested and live longer and be strong." ...Nicholas Snow SYNOPSIS: In Bangkok, Thailand, Hollywood's primo promo homo on the go-go Nicholas Snow is eking out a modest living as a foreign correspondent, actor and media personality when, in a moment of personal desperation, he makes a decision that changes his life forever. Decades into the AIDS pandemic and completely armed with the knowledge to protect himself, during a moment of passion with a man who is unaware of having HIV, Nicholas has a rare slip in his safer sex behavior and becomes HIV positive. What might have been the end of a lifetime of dreams turns out to be only the beginning of a remarkable journey that Nicholas himself chronicles in real time as he is living it. Part 12-step-program 4th-step inventory, part reality-show-on-paper, this is the painful yet triumphant saga of how Nicholas Snow uses his own mistake as an opportunity to empower millions of people throughout the world by disclosing not only his HIV status, but his experience, strength and hope as well. If you or someone you love are LGBTQI and/or a person living with HIV/AIDS or working on behalf of those living with HIV/AIDS; or are in any way affected by HIV/AIDS; or if you or someone you love may be (even unknowingly) HIV positive, you need to read this book. If you have risked it all in pursuit of a dream and a passion, you need to read this book. If your life has been changed forever in an instant by an event or challenge and you have had to decide what to do next despite incredible opposition, you need this book." ...Kristin Johnson, Editor

A novel of intrigue, love, mystery, betrayal, and the world's oldest terrorist organization. This is a novel which draws on the magic of A Thousand and One Nights and the realism of history and political life. The hero-warrior, minstrel and poet, Nureddin-is divided between his commitment to sultan Saladin and his love for the beautiful enchantress Laila. Saladin aims at uniting the fragmented Arab world against the Crusaders; Laila is queen and supreme houri of the artificial paradise set up by the terrible Old Man of the Mountain, who terrorizes his enemies and reduces his followers to a state of blind obedience. Involving suspense, love, poetry, conspiracies, war-Assassins is, above all, the story of a powerful love relationship that triumphs over all adversities. In an inventive style. . . Nikos Kyriazis artistically transmutes historical materials into fiction of great literary and emotional impact. --Kostas Sardelis

"I will speak to you of war, battles, love, hatred, heroism, self-denial and betrayal, of a dead man who will save a living man. "Of a weapon, a gift from the gods, a shield, of a narrow pass and a plain where the fate of the world will be judged." This is the prophecy revealed to the seer Megistias from Zeus. It will be fulfilled by the brave and noble Spartan, Teleutias, the genial and faint-hearted Athenian, Nausinous - whose friend's example will lead him to unparalleled heroism - the Persian commander-in-chief Mardonius, the beautiful Spartan woman Helen and the slave from Miletus, Dianeira, who will fight for her freedom and whose heart is torn between two Greeks. You will run with Teleutias in Olympia, you will attend the brilliant symposia of Mardonius and the sensual dance of Dianeira, you will hear Leonidas and Themistocles deliver speeches at the council of the Isthmus of Corinth, you will travel with the royal trireme of Xerxes to Tempe, you will sail with Nausinous and the Athenian fleet. You will feel the fear and horror of battle with the weight of the shield in the left hand and the spear, slippery with perspiration and blood, in the right.You will fight in the phalanx at the battles of Thermopylae and Plataea, "where the assault is a faceless beast with hundreds of heads but only one soul, where the earth trembles at its steps, where the sun shines on the bronze breastplates and helmets and the colourful crests made of horses' manes and tails quiver, where the painted shields approach united and the well-polished metal tips of the spears are Death itself. " "The Shield" brings together the magic of the novel and a profound historical knowledge, making the reader feel what it meant to be a Greek during antiquity. It is a moving epic, but also a very human story, where the grandeur of the spirit freely chooses the ultimate sacrifice and clashes with hatred, passion, intrigue and betrayal.