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Shirley Cheng
Website URL: www.shirleycheng.com
For Immediate Release

Embrace Ultra-Ability to Love the Life You Live

How would you like to see far and wide and dance with your heart like the blind and physically disabled author Shirley Cheng? Would you want to live positively and passionately, and welcome ultra-ability into your life? Embrace Ultra-Ability! will gently guide you through the dance steps so you can waltz to the music of life. Filled with the blind author's precocious wisdom, insight and personal experiences, this new book empowers you to accept all the jewels Jehovah God Almighty abundantly supplies us, and supports you on your journey to using the gifts wisely. Once you have welcomed all His treasures—from love to hope—be ready to soar with ultra-ability!

"If there is ever to be a poster person for people with ultra-abilities, it would have to be twenty-four-year-old Shirley Cheng. ...(a) power-packed guide...full of sage advice, helpful exercises, common sense analyses...tough love prescriptions..." -ForeWord CLARION Reviews

"(Written) with verve and conviction...ever cutting to the chase." -Kirkus Discoveries

"…very effective and empowering in teaching positive affirmations, self-confidence, self-love and true sight." -Dorothy Lafrinere, WomensSelfEsteem.com

"Shirley Cheng's vibrant prose refreshes the soul. Her positive message of hope and love has universal appeal." -The Rebecca Review, Top Ten Amazon.com Reviewer

"Readers will be able to understand Cheng's message thanks to her clear and simple writing peppered with colorful, non-cliched metaphor. No psychiatric jargon will plague them." -H.A. Senidal, Writer

ISBN: 9780615155227; trade paperback with 167 pages

Release date: January 2008; autographed copies are available for order from www.ShirleyCheng.com

Shirley Cheng (b. 1983), a blind and physically disabled award-winning author, motivational speaker, parental rights in children's medical care advocate, self-empowerment expoert, poet, author of seven books, and contributing author of eleven books, has had severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since infancy. Owing to years of hospitalization, she received no education until age eleven. However, after about 180 days of special education in elementary school, she mastered grade level in all areas and entered a regular sixth grade class in middle school. After a successful eye surgery, she hopes to earn multiple science doctorates from Harvard University.

Cheng is also the author of award-winning title Waking Spirit: Prose & Poems the Spirit Sings (ISBN: 9780615136806); The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine: A Young Woman's Autobiography of a 20-Year Tale of Trials & Tribulations (ISBN: 9781411618602), Dance with Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart Tells (ISBN: 9781411618589), and Daring Quests of Mystics (ISBN: 9781411656642). With highly acclaimed experts like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, and Brian Tracy, Cheng co-authored Wake Up…Live the Life You Love: Finding Life's Passion; she is also the co-author of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2, with experts Jack Canfield and Dr. John Gray.

Cheng is available for interviews, speaking engagements, book signings, and inspirational events. She has been on over twenty radio shows, including Be the Star You Are! for three times. She was featured in World Journal, the largest Chinese national newspaper in North America, in July 2004.