Mama’s Home Remedies has been nominated in Health/Wellness and Multicultural Non-Fiction categories for the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Vividly descriptive and nurturing, this ultimate natural home remedies book will help you change the way you live and think about life’s dilemma–how to improve and maintain your health and happiness for many years to come. Colorfully written with all-inclusive artist’s palette, Mama’s Home Remedies presents to the reader a spectacular kaleidoscopic tapestry woven of centuries-old herbal remedies, timeless techniques and concepts, intellectual rigor and joyfully recounted anecdotes and folk tales, women’s wisdom, family values and traditions, artistically rendered illustrations and an abundance of humor–all that we hold sacred in life.

Many years ago Mama would gather “the girls” (medical professionals like she was) for tea each Friday in her fragrant, blossoming garden in Moldova. Under a canopy of trees filled with birdsong they’d strengthen their bond of friendship and share stories of the success they’d achieved using natural remedies to treat and heal their patients and neighbors. As each woman recounted her experience, Mama’s daughter, 12 year-old Svetlana, sat attentively on a bench recording in her journal “recipes” for teas, tinctures, infusions and poultices.

Mama’s Home Remedies is a collection of the abundant knowledge of natural health and healing that the young Svetlana garnered in Mama’s tea garden, interwined with her Grandmother’s fairy tales, family vignettes, legends and herbal lore. Filled with easy-to-make, natural healing recipes for common ailments and illnesses–such as allergies, headaches, stress, fatigue, insomnia, asthma, and respiratory problems–this all-encompassing guide to wellness offers a holistic approach that blends alternative treatments with folklore, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to foster optimal health and joyful living.

The Indie Book Awards Contest was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories for the year and is presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency in New York.

According to Catherine Goulet, Awards Administrator, along with the other Finalists, author Svetlana Konnikova, MA, AN achievement will be published at www.IndieBookAwards.com

Mama’s Home Remedies is listed as a Finalist in the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards catalog which will be distributed at Book Expo America in Los Angeles later this month.

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