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Want more motivation?
Lafayette entrepreneur Frankie Russo has an astonishing
resume: recording artist, mortgage broker and founder and CEO of Potenza
advertising agency. He shares his success strategies, including rising from
failure, in “The Art of Why,” explaining that business pioneers have a purpose
— a why — which fuels their passion. Russo’s book is meant to be a road map for
readers who look to find their own “why” in life. It comes with exercises,
chapters that discuss making a plan, building a team, turning failure into
opportunities and adapting, among much more.
Vincent Miholic is a founding administrator at South
Louisiana Community college, taught at Southeastern and is now a training and
development program manager for the state. He’s written “Bridging EngagementGaps: An Essential Resource Guide to Strengthen Workplace Engagement.” “The
book explores the behaviors and actions that contribute to promoting optimal
profit or service and examines the complex relationship that are directly tied
to the generative and intrinsic patterns that create energy and satisfying fun,
flow, passion and joy in work,” Miholic writes.
Re-releases
Pelican Publishing has re-released two popular Louisiana
cookbooks. “The Buster Holmes Restaurant Cookbook: New Orleans Handmade
Cookin’” features the Creole recipes of Holmes, who owned and operated his
restaurant at 721 Burgundy St. for five decades. Food writer Poppy Tooker
writes the foreword. In its fifth printing is “Justin Wilson Looking Back: A
Cajun Cookbook,” filled with stories, photos and recipes from the storyteller
and humorist. This cookbook was his final retrospective.
Book news
“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, Kate
Chopin’s “The Awakening” and Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men” have
been included in The Library of Congress’s “America Reads,” an exhibition
showcasing 65 books—chosen by the public—that had a profound effect on American
life. “America Reads” exhibition opens Friday at the Library of Congress.
And speaking of those representing Louisiana at the Library
of Congress, Michael Doucet and BeauSoleil will perform a “Cajun Music from
Louisiana” program at noon June 28 in the library’s Coolidge Auditorium. The
event is part of the library’s Homegrown 2017 Concerts in celebration of the
35th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage
Fellowships.
At the library
Local children’s book writers and illustrators will be on
hand for the Creating Books for Children panel discussion Monday at the South
Regional Library in Lafayette. Book sales and signings will follow the panel
discussion and refreshments will be served. The discussion is sponsored by the
Acadiana Group of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
It’s Family Movie Day beginning at 1 p.m. Friday at the West
Ouachita Branch Library. Friday’s movie is “Big Hero Six,” appropriate for all
ages. Visit www.oplib.org for more information.
Cheré Coen is the author
of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette,
Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country.” She writes Louisiana romances under
the pen name of Cherie Claire. Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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