What Alicia Keys is Most Grateful for on World Gratitude Day

(Tuesday, September 21, 2010)

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Sep 21, 2010, 06:15 ET

BOSTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Started in 1977 by the United Nations Meditation Group, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 marks the 33rd celebration of World Gratitude Day. Wonder what Alicia Keys is most grateful for on this date?

In a new book hitting stores shelves nationwide, On Gratitude: Sheryl Crow, Jeff Bridges, Alicia Keys, Daryl Hall, Ray Bradbury, Anna Kendrick, B.B. King, Elmore Leonard, Deepak Chopra and 42 More Celebrities Share What They're Most Thankful For (published by Adams Media, a division of F+W Media; September 21, 2010), author Todd Aaron Jensen reveals the people, places, and things that are most important to our favorite stars. Ask them what they are thankful for, and their answers might surprise you. Who's grateful for surviving cancer, for being called an SOB by W.C. Fields, for dancing with child soldiers in Uganda, for the unexpected romantic advances of Bo Derek, for the ability to transform overwhelming grief into one of literature's most indelible characters, for being an eleventh-hour obstetrician in a third-world country, for wearing pajamas to the White House. Find out now.

As an offering of gratitude to readers everywhere, Adams Media is offering a one-time free download of the Alicia Keys essay included in this remarkable collection. Visit www.adamsmedia.com/gratitude for complete details.

Additionally, Adams Media has donated 1000 copies of ON GRATITUDE to Operation Gratitude a nonprofit organization which seeks to lift morale of U.S. troops with individualized care packages.

Sure to galvanize readers everywhere to make their own gratitude lists and live their own lives with more love, affection, and thanksgiving on this World Gratitude Day, ON GRATITUDE is both powerful and transformative. Jensen adds, "I hope every reader feels a little richer for their journey with this book – and then seeks out an experience they read about or begins counting their own blessings. It's so simple, really: just say thank you. You'll be surprised at how amazing your life really is."

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