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Hot off the press! And Climbing to the top of the charts...
The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life: How to Survive, How to Thrive, How to be Fully Alive
Glendale, CA July 29, 2004 -- Find out what Gary Shteyngart of the New York Times Sunday Book Review Section -- July 4, 2004 Independence Day issue -- had to say about this "remarkable new book" written by Monette Adeva Maglaya in a lengthy, incisive essay, "First, Get a Green Card. Next, Hire a Publicist." Shteyngart, author of the novel, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook", wrote:
"… 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 with all its tainted pleasures and `millenial lunacies …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 another's struggles could fill a book. This one, for instance."
The Midwest Book Review states: "The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life by Monette Adeva Maglaya is 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 Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life 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."
Another review says: "One of the very best of the introductory manuals available today for newly arriving immigrants to (and foreign students studying in) the United States, Monette Maglaya's The Complete Success Guide For The Immigrant Life (ISBN 0974110280, $19.95) 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 (0974110280, $11.95)."
The book attempts to put a human face to the statistics. Together with concerns for national security, the economy and health care, immigration as a political agenda will be a polarizing issue that will affect the coming national elections amid serious concerns of how this nation of immigrants born just 228 years ago is to transform itself in this century -- or at the very least, in the next four years. Immigration is once again at the forefront of what may become a heated national debate with many voices on both sides of the fence calling for reforms. Given the prevailing mood and thinking of the American public against the murky backdrop of an extremely volatile geopolitical climate, there are as yet, quiet indicators that landmark changes affecting immigration are in the offing. Sadly, what may be lost in the shuffle and in the endless and oftentimes strident political discussions is the view of immigrants as real people with infinitely challenging lives and with the same dreams and concerns just like the average Joe.
Monette Adeva Maglaya, has spent the last 11 years studying and observing the immigrant way of life in America and has published two books that address immigrant concerns: "The Complete Success Guide for the Immigrant Life: How to Survive, How to Thrive, How to be Fully Alive" and its companion book, "The Immigrant's Little Quote Book for Success - 1001 Brilliant Nuggets of Wit and Wisdom from the Best Men and Women who ever Trod the Earth." The Success Guide is meant to help immigrants in their search for those ways of thinking, doing and being that enable them to succeed through the progressive and sequential phases of surviving, thriving and evolving to become positive contributors to America through the seasons of their immigrant lives. The author's heartfelt love for America is palpable in both books. The Success Guide's tiny companion is a compelling book of quotations. While primarily intended for the immigrant soul, the quotations selected benefit native born Americans as well. This portable quote book is proving to be increasingly popular among the younger demographics—teenagers and young adults just starting out on their own.
The books are hot off the press and attracting the attention of many of its intended readers. Steadily climbing to the top of the charts, the books are available online at immigrantsuccess.com and the amazon.com websites. The big bookstores, both Barnes and Noble and Borders and wholesale distributors like Baker & Taylor, Brodart and Quality Books have been fielding inquiries directly from customers and from library acquisitions personnel. As a consequence of favorable book reviews from the New York Times, Amazon customer reviewers, Midwest Book Reviews and other professional reviewers as well as the increasing demand for the books, Amazon has beefed up its inventory. Early indicators suggest that the books are timely and relevant to the times for they answer a genuine and festering need that has been building up to critical mass in the last few decades. Public interest in the books are strong not only among prospective immigrants overseas, but also among the crop of new arrivals to America. Surprisingly, the books are being read even by well entrenched, already successful immigrants who have lived in America for decades. Even native born readers of the books have found insights and fresh perspectives that are uplifting and inspiring. In this book, America is seen with fresh, appreciative eyes and a grateful heart, as a unique and beautiful concept of what truly and essentially constitutes a nation. The book is written in a direct, easy to understand, no nonsense writing style that gets to the heart of the matter.
If the immigrant is to survive, he must remember the lesson of the Galapagos dodo bird: Adapt or perish. He must harness those built-in instincts to help him endure, survive, thrive and become fully alive in this Promised Land called America. He needs to rely and cultivate those instincts that tell him how to winnow the chaff from the grain; how to peel off the blinders so he can see truth from bunk and hone those senses that equip him with the ability to discern quite incisively and precisely, the things that are essential to his own immigrant life.
Digging deeper beneath the grossly apparent cultural differences and the color of skin among many ethnicities, the author finds a palpable, common thread running through the lives of an untold number of immigrants—an entire range and depth of curiously similar beliefs, hopes, aspirations and dreams about life and living that are nurtured with quiet passion, deep commitment and keen intelligence. Underneath the seeming fragmentation is a common soul seeking wisdom and guidance in living a meaningful and worthwhile immigrant life in a country that is evolving like no other.
About the Author: Monette Adeva Maglaya is an observer who writes about the immigrant way of life in America. Starting as an assistant editor for a series on Shakespeare's works three decades ago, she has since meandered about and worked in a career that included being editor, teacher, seminar speaker, researcher, public relations specialist, sales executive and consultant in the fields of education, advertising, public relations, marketing and sales. She has come full circle devoting her time to her family, consultancy and writing. She moved from the Philippines in the mid-nineteen eighties and with her family, calls Glendale, Southern California home.
Book Details:
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
ON SALE at:
http://www.immigrantsuccess.com and http://www.amazon.com
A Companion book to The Success Guide
Title:
The Immigrant's Little Quote Book for Success 1002 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
ON SALE at:
http://www.immigrantsuccess.com and http://www.amazon.com
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