535 dogs rescued from kill shelters

I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has purchased, read, and taken the time to review one of my books. All profits from my books go to help get dogs like Rocky, Ashton,  Buster Brown, Ice, Vinnie, Sandy, Peaches, Snoopy, Griffin, Cheddar, Scooby, elderly siblings Precious, Pee Wee, Dotti, Candy, Bart, Jocelyn & 7 puppies, pregnant Coralie, Odie, Xena, Travis & Brodie (see photos below) out of kill shelters. So far in 2018, 535 dogs have been rescued. In 2017 we’ve helped free 904 dogs. In 2016, 250 dogs were freed. In 2015, 149 dogs were freed.

AND please for everyone who’s purchased a book could I humbly ask you to write a review when you’ve completed the read.  Amazon promotes and ranks books according to number of reviews in addition to sales. Every voice helps spread the word and that is an energy that can help a dog.

LINK TO PURCHASE ALL MY BOOKS and to see all reviews for all my books click on the books cover:

AMAZON U.S.

http://www.amazon.com/Paulette-Mahurin/e/B008MMDUGO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1467744666&sr=8-1 

AMAZON U.K.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_bl_sr?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Paulette+Mahurin

And on all other Amazon sites around the world.

AMAZON RANKING

My books have been ranked in the top 100 best sellers on Amazon U.S. in their categories (historical fiction, teen and young adult, and literary fiction).  What an honor to be ranked #87  LITERARY FICTION BEST SELLER next to Paulo Coelho; incredible author of The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage.

Amazon Australia ranked my book NUMBER ONE in all it’s categories: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction & Teen and Young Adult and is #3 best seller in the entire kindle bookstore.

And in Amazon U.K. it just made it to#1 Best Seller List in Teen & Young Adult Category and #3 in Historical Fiction Category and #24 best seller in the kindle books store.

NEW RELEASE AMAZON RANKING #3 FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF ANGEL

RECENT REVIEWS FOR A DIFFERENT KIND OF ANGEL

AMAZON U.S.

5.0 out of 5 stars*****”you never know how strong you are until you have to be”

Byellenon October 11, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I think Paulette’s writing is getting better and better. The writing is solid and flows together great. Paulette always has little subtle lessons in her words. “while I live, I hope” Klara lives in a horrific place where there isn’t much hope but she always seems to keep this little flame of hope in her belly. With the kindness of a women she meets on her first day that is also a prisoner of this hell hole they find them self in, their friendship and sisterhood grows and keeps there flame of hope burning. I love how Klara finds ways to keep her mind alive like drawing picture with the cracks in the walls, windows and floor. And then there is Nellie Bly. A lesson in itself of how if you truly believe, you can become anything you want.
I would highly recommend this book. It isn’t always pretty but some history isn’t easy to read about. But maybe some of us will walk away with compassion in our hearts for people who are different then us. “Look below the surface and beneath the difference you’ll meet another’s heart”

5.0 out of 5 stars*****Heartbreaking and Hopeful

ByAllen M Werneron October 10, 2018

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“Beneath the differences – you meet another’s heart. That’s where the light of love never dims.”

Working myself in the mental health field, I already had a working knowledge of journalist Nellie Bly and her courageous undercover reporting of the heartless conditions inside Blackwell’s Island asylum for women in the 1800s.
‘A Different Kind of Angel’ by Paulette Mahurin is the tale of Klara, a young Jewish woman, who, due to her inability to speak English, is railroaded by the justice system and institutionalized. At every step, Klara finds appalling conditions, inhumane treatment and filth.
To maintain a sound mind, Klara often recalls her past, happier days with her parents and siblings in Kiev. The only problem with these memories is the devastation that eventually drove her to America in the first place. She fled the Russian program that criminalized Jewish people and murdered her family. The abuse Klara experiences in Blackwell’s Island all too often reminds her of the cruel solider who destroyed her home.
A Different Kind of Angel is an eye-opening page-turner. We have come far in how we treat people with mental health issues, as well as foreigners. In these challenging times today, is a reminder of a place we don’t want to go again. Heartbreaking at times, hopeful as well. A great read. Highly recommended.

4.0 out of 5 ****starsFascinating read

Bykindle readeron October 9, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly aka Nellie Brown wrote an expose on the Blackwell Island Asylum in 1887, after staying there for ten days where over 1,500 women were patients in the women’s asylum. That’s where she met Klara Gelfman, a young Jewish immigrant from Kiev, who in 1881 escapes from Russia to New York City and tells her story as a patient in the New York City Lunatic Asylum. The staff includes nurse Miss Rudman, Dr. Lucas Koch, nurse Sally and her boyfriend Roy, nurse Edith Preston, nurse Harriet Brownstone, nurse Barbara Lincoln, Albert, nurse Greta Smidt, nurse Candace Millhouse. Klara shares a six-bed dorm room with her friend Catherine Bigsby and four others Tillie, Annette, Rosie, and Amelia.

The story weaves back and forth from Klara’s present to her past life in Kiev, to her early days in the asylum, to meeting Nellie Brown, Nellie’s story, back and forth to other times in the asylum in those five years. Caught between the past and the present, she is sometimes in a confused in-between state. So much of it is about the inhumane treatment, squalid conditions, and the evil but there are parts that are uplifting. Who are the angels that lift Klara’s spirits?

 

AMAZON AUSTRALIA

5.0 out of 5 stars*****A brutish place!

ByAmazon Customeron 11 October 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Set in the late 1800’s: a story of women of sound mind in a hellhole called Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum. Primarily populated by Klara, a Jewish refugee who doesn’t stand a chance, and Nellie Bly [Elizabeth Jane Cochrane] who went undercover to reveal the sordid truth, this is a harsh tale of how low human beings can get when they think they have absolute power [and an inferiority complex to go along with it].

 

 

RECENT REVIEWS FOR THE SEVEN YEAR DRESS

 

 

4.0 out of 5 stars****moving

BySuzyowon October 13, 2018

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

This book, like many books on this topic, was moving and engaging and made the characters “real”.

 

 

 

 

DOGS RESCUED FROM KILL SHELTERS

 

 

Rocky’s been rescued

 

Rocky’s freedom photo

 

Ashton’s been rescued

 

 

Ashton’s freedom photo

Ashton bonding with new dad: the look of love.

 

 

Buster Brown has been rescued

 

Buster Brown’s freedom photo

Ice has been rescued

 

Ice’s freedom photo

 

 

Vinnie has been rescued

 

Vinnie’s freedom photo

 

 

Sandy has been rescued

Sandy’s freedom photo

 

 

Peaches has been rescued

Peaches’ freedom photo

 

 

Snoopy has been rescued

 

Snoopy’s freedom photo

 

 

Griffin has been rescued

 

 

Griffin’s freedom photo

 

 

 

Cheddar has been rescued

Cheddar’s freedom photo

 

Scooby’s been rescued

Scooby’s freedom photo

Elderly siblings, Precious, Dottie, Pee Wee, were rescued together.

Precious, Dottie, & Pee Wee’s freedom photo.

 

 

Candy has been rescued

 

Candy’s freedom photo

 

 

Bart’s been rescued

Bart’s freedom photo

 

 

9-year-old Jocelyn and her 7 puppies were rescued. She had the puppies on her way out of the shelter.

 

Jocelyn & 7 puppies freedom photo

 

Jocelyn & 7 puppies freedom ride.

 

 

 

Pregnant Coralie has been rescued

Coralie’s freedom photo

Coralie with new foster mom.

 

 

Odie has been rescued

Odie’s freedom photo

 

 

 

Xena’s been rescued

 

Xena’s freedom photo

 

 

Travis has been rescued

Travis’ freedom photo

 

Brodie (names by rescue) has been rescued

Brodie’s freedom photo