New York, NY – ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to present the latest work by Susan Pollet: Watching And Letting It All Go

These fictional stories explore both the process of watching and “letting go,” as well as what that opened up for these characters as they struggled with what they could and could not control in their lives. “Letting go” is looked at in terms of people’s thoughts about their pasts and futures, their relationships, their work, their neighbors and neighborhoods, and their life plans and personal identities. By reading these stories, perhaps the readers will take comfort in knowing that we all get to the other side one way or another, but it is our attitude during the journey that counts.

Susan L. Pollet lives in New York City, and has been an attorney for over forty years, primarily in the area of family law. She has published over sixty articles on varied legal topics, including family and criminal law. She is also a published author and artist. In 2019, her first novel "Lessons in Survival: All About Amos" was published by Adelaide Books. She created the collage for the book cover. Three of her short stories were published by Adelaide Literary Magazine in 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively. In 2020, her second and third novels, "Through Walter's Lens" and "Women in Crisis: Stories from the Edge", were published by Adelaide Books. Her fourth and fifth novels, "A Grey Divorce Support Group", and "Not so Surprise Endings", were published by Adelaide Books in 2021. She created the images for the book covers for those books as well. Her first and second children’s books, entitled "On Becoming Juliet Rose", and "William Wondered Whether Worrying Was Worth It", for which she created the text and illustrations, were published by Adelaide Books in the fall of 2020 and the fall of 2021, respectively.

Title: Watching And Letting It All Go: Short Stories
Author: Susan L. Pollet
Publisher: Adelaide Books
Publisher Website: https://adelaidebooks.org/
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ISBN: 978-1958419014
Price: $19.60
Page Count: 152 pages
Format: Paperback

Description of the company: ADELAIDE BOOKS LLC is a New York based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction and creative nonfiction. It was founded in July 2017 as an imprint of the Adelaide Literary Magazine, with the aim to facilitate publishing of novels, memoirs, and collections of short stories, poems, and essays by contributing authors of our magazine and other qualified writers.

We believe that in doing so, we best fulfill the mission outlined in Adelaide Magazine – “to promote writers we publish, helping both new and emerging, and established authors reaching a wider literary audience.”

Our motto is: We don’t publish classics, we make classics.

FUNCH, renowned host of the hottest pool parties combining fun and brunch with all-afternoon drinks and games, is teaming up with crypto VC Native Capital (NATCAP) to bring in the new month with an epic pool party on Saturday, October 1 at the Kwee Zeen Sofitel in Sentosa, Singapore. Following on the heels of Asia’s premier cryptocurrency conference Token2049 Singapore and coinciding with the city’s Formula 1 weekend, this party is not one to be missed.

Show up between 12 noon to 3 pm to enjoy a scrumptious buffet brunch with a menu that is sure to please everyone. The feast includes gourmet appetizers such as caviar, sushi, dim sum and oysters, with a wide range of fish, meat, deli, salad and dessert options to round out the meal. And of course, there is also a suitably impressive drinks menu, with wine, spirits, cocktails and beer available for party-goers to enjoy.

Singapore’s Formula 1 pool party will kick off after brunch, running from 3 pm to 10 pm. Top UK DJs will be playing all day long, setting the party vibe while over a dozen FUNCH pool games provide non-stop entertainment for party-goers. Want to play Jenga with giant blocks? How about pool basketball or Twister? FUNCH has something for everyone.

Pool Games List
Double Shootout Basketball / Limbo / Giant Connect-4 / Giant Jenga / Electric Cars / Twister / Marvel Pinball / Giant Tic Tac Toe / Giant Checkers / Floating Battle Logs Water Toys / Floating Volleyball and Basketball / Ring Toss / Bag Toss / Go Limbo / Giant Floats

The pool party will also be an excellent chance to network. Partner companies in attendance will include: Native Capital, blockchain game Redshield, DAO Venture Capital CrowdFundJunction, sports NFT company JETCOIN, Web3 PR agency yourPRstrategist, upcoming metaverse signature event by Men’s Folio, Metavision and Tennix, a tennis Web3 solution.

There is no entry fee to the pool party and the dress code is ‘beach casual’.

For the brunch, event partners are pleased to extend a complimentary welcome drink and a F1 Brunch 20% discount to guests.

Booking link can be found here: Formula One Brunch Discounted Booking:
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Kindly note that guests will need to input promo code "FUNCH20" into the ‘Comments Section’ of the booking link to enjoy the 20% discount.

The brunch and drinks fees (before discounts) are SG$118++ for food, SG$55++ for wine and beer, SG$65++ for Prosecco and SG$75++ for champagne.

There is also even a complimentary shuttle bus service running between Harbourfront and Sofitel Sentosa so event guests do not have to worry about logistics and can focus on relaxing and having a great time!

Sofitel Sentosa Shuttle Bus Details
Depart Harbourfront: Every 30 min from 1200 till 2300 hrs
Depart Sofitel Sentosa: Every 30 min from 1200 till 2330 hrs

Geneseo, NY, USA, September 2, 2022 -- Cottone Auctions’ late summer Fine Art & Antiques auction, on Friday, September 23rd, will feature items from the estate of Howard D. Booher, Sr. of Atwater, Ohio; the private Tiffany lamp collection of Rich and Pat Garthoeffner of Lititz, Pa., the estate of Al Turner, Bonita Springs, Fla.; and fine items from private institutions, estates and individuals.

The auction is online-only and will begin at 12 o’clock noon Eastern time. Online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and the Cottone Auctions website: www.cottoneauctions.com. Register to bid at live.cottoneauctions.com. Phone and absentee bids will be taken. To place a phone bid, you may call the Cottone Auctions gallery at 585-243-1000.

The sale is packed with over 200 quality, curated lots. Howard D. Booher, Sr., the founder and CEO of East Manufacturing Corporation for 54 years, was an avid collector with an affinity for fine works by Tiffany Studios and Duffner & Kimberly. Over his lifetime, Mr. Booher amassed a noteworthy collection of early 20th century lighting and fine leaded glass windows.

Duffner & Kimberly examples from the Booher collection include a fine and rare Italian Renaissance table lamp with a 24-inch shade (est. $40,000-$60,000); a Renaissance floor lamp; an Elizabethan table lamp; a Greek table lamp; and a fine and rare counterbalance lamp.

The estate also includes a historically important John La Farge (American, 1835-1910) Aesthetic Lantern (est. $30,000-$50,000). Lanterns such as these hung in the Japanese room of the William H. Vanderbilt mansion in New York.

Mr. Booher’s many works by Tiffany Studios include a documented leaded glass window of Boy David among luxuriant foliage, 6 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 4 inches (est. $50,000-$80,000); and a rare Turtleback Tile lantern (est. $30,000-$50,000).

Tiffany Studios lamps from the collection of Rich and Pat Garthoeffner will be highlighted by a Peony lamp with an 18-inch shade (est. $40,000-$60,000); and a Poinsettia lamp with 18-inch shade (est. $30,000-$50,000). A Tiffany Studios Jeweled Dragonfly lamp with a 14-inch shade ($30,000-$50,000) from a Pennsylvania collection will also be offered (est. $30,000-$50,000).

Finishing off the Tiffany is a magnificent documented leaded glass Romanesque ornamental window, circa 1890, from a private Chicago, Illinois collection, at 8 feet 5 inches by 4 feet 9 ½ inches (est. $50,000-$80,000); an attributed suite of mahogany and leaded glass wisteria trellis doors, circa 1920 (est. $75,000-$125,000); and finally, three Moorish filigree screens, attributed to Louis C. Tiffany Company, Associated Artists (N.Y., 1881-1883) (est. $75,000-$125,000).

The 20th century design, paintings and prints will include an Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) gouache on paper titled The Beams, from Perls Galleries New York, acquired by a private collection in New York in 1966 (est. $40,000-$60,000); and a cloud form stacked and laminated walnut sideboard made in 1979 by master craftsman Wendell Castle (American, 1932-2018), from the estate of Esther Germanow in Pittsford, New York. (est. $15,000-$25,000).

Also offered will be a signed screen-print on wallpaper by Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), titled Cow (F. & S. II.11A), 46 inches by 29 ½ inches (est. $5,000-$8,000); an oil painting by Jean Dufy (French, 1888-1964) titled Les Cavaliers au Bois, 22 inches by 18 inches (est. $10,000-$15,000); a magic realism work by T. Lux Feininger (German/American, 1910-2011) titled The Cuyahoga Engine, 20 inches by 29 inches (est. $10,000-$15,000); and an etching by Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901-1966) titled Dans I'Atelier, 15 inches by 11 ¼ inches (est. $5,000-$8,000). Other artists will include Pablo Picasso, Patrick Heron, Sam Francis, Michael Goldberg, Howard Hodgkins and Martha Visser’t Hooft, to name a few.

Highlights of the European painting and decorative Arts category will feature a rare enconchado, oil and mother-of-pearl on panel, attributed to Miguel & Juan Gonzalez, Mexican School, 17th/18th Century, of Saint Simon the Zealot, 26 ¼ inches by 19 ½ inches (est.$3,000-$5,000); and a 17th century oil on canvas English portrait, School of Van Dyke, 35 ¼ inches by 28 ¾ inches (est. $5,000-$8,000).

Also up for bid will be several Old Masters paintings from the Edward Cornwell (1936 - 2002) collection in Rochester, N.Y; and a rare copper plate of the Bearded Old Man by Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616–1680) (est. $10,000-$15,000). Bronzes include a Mathurin Moreau (French, 1822-1912) on a roux marble base titled Sappho, 25 inches by 26 inches by 11 inches (est. $3,000-$5,000); and a work by Eutrope Bouret (French, 1833-1906) of an Egyptian woman with a harp, 20 ½ inches tall (est. $2,000-$4,000).

Silver will feature a fine and rare pair of Gorham sterling silver Art Nouveau candelabras from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, marked with an “S” superimposed with an “L” (for St. Louis) to denote their significance as pieces exhibited at the Fair, 13 ¾ inches by 14 inches by 4 ¾ inches (est. $15,000-$25,000); a Tiffany & Co. English King sterling silver flatware service (est. $10,000-$15,000); and a Japanese Export silver and enamel Wisteria bowl, circa 1900, by Sanju Saku, Yokohama, Max 4 ¾ inches by 8 ¾ inches (est. $2,000-$4,000).

Estate jewelry will feature a 3.65-carat marquise brilliant cut diamond ring (est. $20,000-$30,000); a 5.66-carat emerald cut diamond ring (est. $25,000-$50,000); and a stunning ladies’ Art Deco platinum, 4.55-carat emerald and 7.78-carat diamond bracelet (est. $8,000-$12,000).

Asian items will be led by a rare Chinese Ming-style blue and white ewer, with the mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795), hand painted porcelain (est. $50,000-$80,000) with outstanding provenance. The ewer was gifted by the Dowager Empress Cixi (1835-1908) to the Honorable Edwin H. Conger (1843-1907) and Mrs. Sarah (Pike) Conger, American Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. It has remained in the family ever since. Also sold will be a beautiful pair of 18th century Chinese Export hexagonal porcelain vases, 16 5/8 inches tall (est. $4,000-$6,000).

The Americana and rare books category will include Thomas McKenney and James Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Vol. 1 & 2, Philadelphia, published by Edward C. Biddle, 23 Minor Street, 1836, large folio (est. $15,000-$25,000); George Washington’s Columbia’s Legacy, Philadelphia: printed by H. Sweitzer & J. Ormrod, December 10th, 1796 (est. $5,000-$8,000); a 19th century oil on panel folk art painting of cat in a rocker, 21 inches by 17 ½ inches (est. $3,000-$5,000); and an oil on canvas painting attributed to Thomas Chambers (American, 1808-1866), 18 inches by 24 inches, from the collection of Edward Cornwell (1936 - 2002) of Rochester, N.Y. (est. $3,000-$5,000).

Live, in-gallery previews are available by appointment only and will be held in the Cottone Auctions gallery located at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, New York. To arrange for a preview, you may call 585-243-1000, or, you can contact them by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..To learn more about Cottone Auctions’ September 23rd auction, visit www.cottoneauctions.com.

Sean Whalen (Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs, Twister) and Richard Tyson (Black Hawk Down, There's Something About Mary), have joined the real life domestic abuse drama Finding Nicole, based on the Chris Cuomo-fronted CNN doc Inside Evil – Until Death Do Us Part. This film chronicles the life of domestic abuse survivor and advocate for domestic violence awareness Nicole Beverly. This film will shoot soon in Michigan.

This film is about Nicole, played by Kaiti Wallen (Tale of Tails) whose journey of falling in love, getting married and starting a family with Warren played by Shomari Giles, (Good Thief), radically changes as signs start to emerge of domestic violence and abuse. Harley Wallen (Investigation Discovery's Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda) will direct as he shares his own dealings of growing up in a household with domestic violence. “This hits very close to home as I grew up similar to Nicole’s sons in the middle of it all, you are forced to grow up fast and to try and figure out how to stay out of the way, or when to try and intervene and as a child that’s simply not something we’re equipped to do well.” Whalen will be playing Cameron, the defense attorney for Warren who pushed the envelope in the case and Tyson will be playing Judge Carter who has the task of deciphering the truth.

The script is written by Geoffrey Calhoun from police reports as well as journals and testimony of Beverly as well as the story structure that Wallen wanted. “I want this to really showcase how difficult it is to leave, how dangerous it often gets and to shine a light on something we sweep under the rug even though statistically it’s an overwhelming epidemic!” Said Wallen

The project is produced by Harley and Kaiti Wallen, Nicole Beverly herself, Joseph K. Williamson, Joseph Victor and Jeffrey Berry.

Production company Painted Creek Productions is producing. The Williamson Management Company represents the Wallen couple and their legal counsel is Bill Dobreff of Dobreff & Dobreff Law. Shawntay Dalon (Detroiters), Vida Ghaffari (The Mindy Project), Blanca Blanco (Betrayed), Michael Alexander (Ash and Bone) , Pierre Aristide and Debra Lamb round out the cast.

Photos courtesy of Bob Delgadillo/WENN.