The Joshua Grindle Library Series

   
We are very fortunate to have some wonderful bookstores in Mendocino (Gallery Books and Moore's Used Books), and reading is a favorite pastime of our guests. Many of our visitors are also published authors. We have decided to devote this "newsletter" to introducing one of them. Why not? Right? If you have written a book let us know and we'll feature your book(s) on these pages as well. Oh - and we'll keep an inventory of signed copies for our guests to purchase.

   

Featured Author          

   

Alex Kuguchev

Alexander Kugushev was born in France, and educated successively in Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland, and Argentina. The son of political émigrés, growing up in a Europe rent by conflicts between the two World Wars, he experienced a fair share of life’s ups and downs. As a boy and into his early teens, he lived through World War II, the defining experience of his life.  He is a journalist by trade and a publisher by profession, having published educational materials in the United States for over forty years, in print and on the internet. He was the founder and CEO of CyberGnostics, an online educational publisher.  He is a committed naturalized American, speaks seven languages, and has traveled extensively throughout his life, at this point to over seventy countries.  He has authored Resilient America – An immigrant examines our nation’s adaptive continuity (www.resilientamerica.com) and lives in Menlo Park, in Northern California. 

   

His book

Resilient America  An immigrant examines our nation's adaptive continuity  

    

   

What Readers are saying...

"Alex Kugushev is the 21st century version of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French politician and writer who helped us Americans understand ourselves in the 19th century. Both define the differences between America and the homelands of their day. However, de Tocqueville was, as some describe, nothing more than a detached social scientist writing about his travels through early 19th century America. On the other hand, Kugushev is a convert from Europe and South America who draws on almost a half century of becoming an American to explain his perceptions of what we really are. He has become one of us, a proud citizen, who is both embarrassed by our weaknesses and awed by our strengths. As a television broadcaster for many years, I thought I had a good sense of our strong American character as well as the growing pessimism about our future. However, Kugushev has broadened my perspective and restored my hope."

Fred LaCosse, San Francisco, CA (from Amazon.com)

 

What Charles is saying....

"Kugeshev's insightful analysis of the contemporary zeitgeist provides a much needed and refreshing tonic for a tortured small business owner. Maintaining optimism and a cheerful attitude are the greatest assets we have in the delivery of 1st class service. The regular diet of mainstream media and the spiritual exhaustion of our daily discourse fuels a ravenous appetite for Alex's "outside - in" treatment of our national malaise. Bravo! And thank you from the bottom of my heart."
   

WIN A COPY!

Be the first to mention the Library Series or Resilient America and receive an autographed copy of Alex Kugushev's new book! 
   
Previously featured Authors:
Susan White - Bound South
   
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