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Jul.24.2009
The National Public Radio review of our novel Rabbit in the Moon was aired live Tuesday July 21. WeI sat listening with a certain level of anxiety, hoping the review would be positive. And it was! We were so excited that we had to share with our friends and fans. So here is the link to the archived...
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Jul.24.2009
The National Public Radio review of our novel Rabbit in the Moon was aired live Tuesday July 21. WeI sat listening with a certain level of anxiety, hoping the review would be positive. And it was! We were so excited that we had to share with our friends and fans. So here is the link to the archived...
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May.30.2009
Rabbit in the Moon won ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Silver Medal for Mystery! According to founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, winners were selected by dozens of librarians and booksellers who are experts in the subject matter of the books they judged, and who make purchasing...
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May.15.2009
The backdrop of our novel, Rabbit in the Moon, is the seven weeks in 1989 between the April rise of the student Democracy movement and its fall with the Tiananmen massacre on June 4. During those few weeks in 1989 that we all watched on CNN, many of the UCLA students from Mainland China who we...
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Mar.27.2009
We just returned home after a seven hour drive from Tallahassee. Wednesday night’s Florida Heritage Awards ceremony, which included the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal winners, was quite special. After a successful book signing sponsored by the Museum of Florida History, we were ushered into a “...
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Mar.21.2009
Rabbit in the Moon: China arrests former soldier who asks for reassessment of the Tiananmen massacre
According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet asking President Hu Jintao to “use his wisdom” to reevaluate what the Communist Party called a counter-...
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Mar.11.2009
Yesterday (March 10, 2009) was the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule that sent the Dalai Lama, age 73, into exile. 2009 is a year of several politically sensitive anniversaries. As each approaches, the Chinese government is clamping down on any potential unrest...
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Mar.06.2009
The short-lived student democracy movement of 1989 had one prominent supporter among the Communist Party leaders: Zhao Ziyang. Fearing a loss of power as the protests grew and ordinary citizens joined the demonstrations, Deng Xioping, then head of the Party, wrote an editorial for the People’s...
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Mar.02.2009
According to a BBC article, a group of mothers whose children were killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 are now urging the Chinese government to end the taboo against acknowledging the event not as a “political disturbance” but a massacre. They want a full investigation of Deng Xiaoping’s...
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Mar.01.2009
Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian won Gold Medal for Genre Fiction, for Florida Book Award
Exciting news: our latest novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah & Joel Shlian has won the the gold medal in the Genre Fiction category for the Florida Book Awards. The Florida Book Awards-now the most comprehensive state book awards program in the nation--is an annual program established in...
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Feb.02.2009
As China faces its own domestic financial crisis, the leadership has received increasing criticism from within the country, most notably the December 10, 2008 Charter ’08, a petition originally signed by 300 dissidents, now with perhaps thousands of additional signatures. Fears of destabilization...
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Jan.22.2009
New evidence may explain why it is that we lose not only our youthful looks, but also our youthful pattern of gene activity with age. A report in the November 26th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals that a protein perhaps best known for its role in the life-extending...
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Jan.19.2009
On December 10, 2008, more than 2000 Chinese citizens released a signed petition they called Charter 08 to mark the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The name, Charter 08, came from the famous Charter 77 dissident group formed in cold war Czechoslovakia. The...
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Aug.05.2008
According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, one out of three working age adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have joined the ranks of the uninsured. Many of these estimated 11.4 million either go without care or...
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Jul.28.2008
This week our book is featured on AuthorBuzz: http://www.authorbuzz.com/dearreader/index.shtml . Five people will receive free autographed books, so take a look and e-mail us if you are interested! As we mentioned in one of our past blog entries at http://www.shlian.com, we are donating all...
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About Deborah
I am a physician, medical consultant, and author of numerous non-fiction articles and books as well as three published paperbacks - one romance and two psychological thrillers (Nursery and Wednesday's Child). Nursery and Wednesday's Child initially published...
Causes Deborah Shlian Supports
All royalties from my book, Rabbit in the Moon are contributed to to medical charities including Remote Area Medicine, Breast Cancer Research Foundation and...
Deborah’s Favorite Books
Coma by Robin Cook; Candide; Bonfire of the Vanities; Prince of Tides; Anna Karenina;