The Meeting of Anni Adams

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2007
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THE MEETING OF ANNI ADAMS
The Butterfly of Luxembourg
Story Recounts Metamorphosis of Survival to finding American Dream

(Holly Hill, FL) Imagine living a life of security and comfort while traveling throughout central Europe with a famous professional gymnast—who just happens to be your father—with just one twist. You were born in 1926, and at the age of fourteen your entire world changes because of the Nazi invasion.

Anni Adams survives the poverty, humiliation and uncertainty of the refugee camps and eventually returns to her home, where life is not the same. She quietly resists the submissive lifestyle of the Nazi rule for four years. Here she becomes a Catholic war bride to her American GI husband, following the liberation of her country.

The Meeting of Anni Adams: The Butterfly of Luxembourg shows how family and faith fuel Anni’s survival through her evacuation into France and the years of German occupation of Luxembourg when she and her family are placed in labor camps and government prisons. Anni goes on to live a remarkable life in the United States, where she displays an uncanny ability to meet people of renown in the most unlikely circumstances. Anni’s story is only one of countless others from this time period; she personifies the guts, grit, fortitude, faith and hope of that era. These virtues in the face of adversity create a beautiful butterfly. Each breathtaking “stain glass” pane of the butterfly’s wings is yet another story of how Anni overcomes tremendous odds—the truest form of the American Dream come true.

Author Lonnie D. Story's recounting of this part of Luxembourg's WWII history has been recognized by the Ambassador of Luxembourg to the United Nations, H. E. Jean Marc Hoscheit, the Ambassador of Luxembourg to the U.S., and H.E. Joseph Weyland. In fact, Story's work was lauded by the Luxembourg General Consul, Georges Faber, as a “magnificent, historically correct accounting of the hardships suffered” during the time period of his country's occupation and suppression.

Story is a freelance writer residing in Holly Hill, Florida. He is currently working on his second book, Without A Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story, a true story about a U.S. soldier deployed to Iraq in full health who returns to discover he has aggressive, terminal cancer.

SALES INFO:
Author: Lonnie D. Story
Title: The Meeting of Anni Adams
The Butterfly of Luxembourg
Publisher: ACW Press
ISBN: 1-9321-2426-8
Price: $20.95

Author available for interviews.