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If you are a library or retail store that has not purchased from Mayhaven, this is the time to do so. If you are our 1000th commercial customer, you will receive an additional $500 worth of books and/or audio books FREE. We are just three commercial customers from a winner!
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NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
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Will Culp's Better Off Dad
Parenting Morsels from a Stay-at-home Daddio
WILL CULP will be participating in a nationwide panel discussion January 25, 2012, for the public radio program,"To The Point." The topic is Stay- At-Home Dads.
Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.
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Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life
By Wayne C. Temple
In Book and Audio Book
Audio Book Read By the Author
Wayne C. Temple recently spoke at the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois. The Museum gift shop carries some of his many books. (Mayhaven has published five of the most recent). And if you can't find them there, you should be able to get them at The Lincoln Home Center Gift Shop, or at The Prarie Archives (just South of the Old State Capitol). And don't forget that you may hear Dr. Temple read his own work on Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life
High Praise for THE RAWEIGH MAN TOLD ME
by Ruth St. John Thomas
Today I got a call from Dorothy Smith. When I heard her strong, clear voice on the phone, I knew exactly who it was. Retired from the University of Illinois, she is celebrating her 95th birthday. Her purpose was to tell me that she keeps a book we published, The Rawleigh Man Told Me, by her chair. She says she has read it many times, and now, with failing eyesight, just likes to hold it and think about it. She said it is her favorite book. And, though she does not know the author, she asked that I tell Ms. St. John Thomas how much the book means to her.
This children's book is a novel based on a child who was sent to the midwest on The Orphan Train. The hardcover edition is available.
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Fun and Important Children's Books
This is the month when everyone is thinking of a new start, you don't want to miss these two illustrated books for children, using humor and adventure to focus, humorously, on children's health and hygene.
Amy Mitchell's Dirty Jayne 
Heidi McIntyre's Jack's Snack Attack
Jack's Snack Attack has been included in fund-raising drives for children's issues, and is a favorite book among New York City elementary students where the author often reads the book to eager listeners.
Both books will soon be available as Audio Books.
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Ten Sisters: A True Story
Thanks to those who called to say they watched 10 Sisters: A True Story, (based on Mayhaven's book Ten Sisters: A True Story) which recently aired in Washington D.C., Chicago and other TV areas.
Some of you have asked about Irma, one of the Ten Sisters. She is recovering from a fractured hip, and is working hard in rehab. Thank to those those who have asked about the other sisters. Jenny no longer makes quilts (she has made hundreds as gifts for children and those in hospitals and nursing homes), but she is as entertaining as ever, thoughtful Bede looks keeps all updated on family news, and Vera keeps busy participating in a number of community projects. When she is not working, Doris enjoys the Urbana Rotary Club.
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Dan Guillory Article
The article in the Illinois Issues (Dec. 1, 2011), "Can the arts salve the wounds of the recession?" by Dan Guillory speaks of all artists, in virtually every creative field. We urge you to go the Illinois Issues web site to read the entire article.