Ransom Notes

Congress declared September 13 – 19, 2010 as Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and “LITTLE HOT MAMA – The Flossie Turner Lewis Story” by Flossie Turner Lewis and Paula Meseroll reached #1 Bestseller status this morning on the Amazon Kindle Book Chart for Literacy.

The autobiography of Flossie Turner Lewis recounts the life of a woman of strength, a single mother who raised five children, a black entertainer who performed on the carnival and chitlin circuits, in speakeasies and minstrel shows, and in the swank nightclubs of Miami’s Overtown where the Turner Family shared venues with other greats of the day. From the Deep South to Miami, Puerto Rico, and Los Angeles, Flossie lived her life as a performer, a mother, and a woman who could neither read nor write. That was until she decided at the age of 65 to learn how. Remarkably at age 69, she received the National Award For Excellence as the Outstanding Student of 2002 at the National Literacy Conference, and at 72, she was awarded a high school diploma.

Flossie’s story of personal courage, tenacity, and strong values propels the reader through eras of discrimination, broken families, and the itinerant lifestyle of a traveling black entertainment family during and after the Depression. It is both a time capsule of an America seldom written about and a testament to one woman’s triumph over adversity, poverty, and illiteracy.

In recognition of Flossie’s extraordinary life and literacy achievements, ProLiteracy, the leading international non-profit literacy organization, has partnered with Stay Thirsty Media, Inc., the publisher of LITTLE HOT MAMA, to help champion the power of literacy through Flossie’s inspirational story.

And, in gratitude for all that literacy has brought to her, Flossie Turner Lewis, co-author Paula Meseroll, their literary agent, Leticia Gómez, and Stay Thirsty Media have joined together to donate 50 cents from the sale of every digital copy of Flossie’s book to The Flossie Turner Lewis Literacy Fund at ProLiteracy to support this most worthy cause.

LITTLE HOT MAMA is a triumphant and compelling story of one woman’s journey  from illiteracy to leading the wave of electronic books in the Digital Book Revolution.

For more information visit: http://www.amazon.com/LITTLE-HOT-MAMA-Flossie-ebook/dp/B003UD7VOC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1284388245&sr=8-1