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Most Americans regard the World War II period as belonging to the greatest generation, but it was also a time when religious intolerance and racial violence flourished. It is within this world that this compelling memoir is set. Against impossible odds, Bill would be elected to serve his country as a U.S. Congressman and Senator, and Janet would become a prominent television personality, activist, and highly respected businesswoman and author. This powerful book is one of inspiration, hope and ultimately the redemption of America's soul.
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This lady is NOT BLACK, she could pass for white!!.......2007-05-27
I find it really amusing that these people with caucasion features who have a pretty easy time being accepted in the "white world", some how think they are the authority on race relations or interracial relationships. I have friends who married very dark skinned African Americans who lived in working class neighborhoods. Their love survived more pain, hardship, and strife then that half-breed Mrs. Cohen could ever imagine. I seriously doubt that Mr. Cohen would have it as bad a dark skinned male, with a white woman on his arm.
Get a clue!
TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS ARE ONE.......2007-03-19
This is a love story. The journey of two people arriving at the same place in time, finally. They share their respective experiences with sharp incisive candor. Readers are given a "no holds barred" look into their world.
Quite frankly, they are right. It is the time for a book of this quality to be written. Two little children born and raised in America, each having individual, separate horrendous struggles, - yet surviving, maturing, achieving success. Through their eyes, we experience life in the political, journalist, entertainment,social, personal, civil rights, and sports arena of action. Through them We meet a young Muhammad Ali, Quincey Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Sidney Poiter, Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, the FBI, Deepak Chopra, Bruce Gordon, Mahalia Jackson, John Johnson, Andrew Young, soldiers in Bosnia and many many more. Beautiful glossy photographs capture memorable moments. Thank you Bill and Janet. Your respective journeys were often jarring, but seldom boring. The book contains enlightening perspectives and is a wake-up call to the sometimes harsh yet mostly beautiful realities of life here on planet earth. And much like the lyrics of that sweet old poignant song, " We will show them as we walk together in the sun, that our two different worlds are one," -- you have indeed done just that.
I have never met William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen, but I have observed Janet's steady progress and achievements, over the years, from the cover of Jet Magazine to the Ebony Fashion Fair, and her television show. I have always been inspired by her courage, intelligence and professionalism. I am an African-American woman. This book is excellent and informative. Its final chapter features Janet's masterfully crafted play, a dialogue between murdered Emmitt Till and the Holocaust's Anne Frank.
My next read will be Janet's book, "From Rage to Reason."
it takes all kinds.......2007-03-01
I found the book to be an enjoyable and interesting read and I share some of the other readers comments about the book. One of the great things about the internet is that anyone is free to go online, write a review, and show how foolish they are. I sometimes wonder of some people deliberately write nasty or very poor reviews just to "stir the pot". Anyway, the world is slowly but steadily blending itself together. First products & stores, now language, and within a couple of hundred years or so, the majority of humans will be blended, too. "That's life", as Frankie sang.
A different perspective.......2007-02-22
I found the book of interest and enjoyed many segments of it. In particularly, I liked the focus on how to overcome the adversity of one's surroundings and the misperceptions around oneself. The book also is a barometer of how America has changed and for the better too.
Like the authors, I also am married to someone outside my 'race". I came to the US as an immigrant from the Netherlands,earned a PhD in the physical Sciences from an Ivy League University and taught in three major research universities, including an ivy league university and a Big 10 unviersity. Now I run a consulting business. I'm Protestant. My wife is an immigrant from Korea, was educated there as a nurse, and is Buddhist. We met in New York CIty.
If I have learned anything from our multicultiural and multiracial amrriage it is this. The key to keeping it going is mutual respect for each other, mutual respect for the cultures from which we came, a willingness to try new things considered foreign by some, a willingess to accomodate to the partner's wishes even if one doesn't understand the cultural context, and a willingness to try new things. Bill Cohen and Janet Langhart portray these critical components very well.
I realize a review is not the place to advertise but for those interested, the novel "Dissensions" has an interesting subplot and about an inter-racial and multi-cultural marriage. The book can be orderved via:
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Response to Review.......2007-02-22
This is to Alesha Bryant, How dare you say Janet Langhart Coehn is not black. Both her parents are fair skinned black folks. There is something wrong with Black people who have issues about their own skin color complaining that another person is not black. FYI most African Americans are mixed no thanks to slavery. I have a Black Father and an Italian mother and I am Ms. Langhart's complexion, and i am BLACK, so please do not say such idiotic things again, without knowing the facts. If that is your opinion, if you "think she looks Italian" your entitled to your opinion but you sound ignorant. Ms. Coehn is a Beautiful and Accomplished African American woman, so STOP hating on her COLOR, its not about COLOR its about culture. Are you really black, because your name is spelled the ghetto way???
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She didn't want to worry, but found, like usual, she couldn't help it. She tried to tell herself it didn't matter anyway. This relationship was only supposed to be temporary, nothing more. She was black; he wasn't. It was an experiment they were both going to learn from and move on. That's how it was supposed to be. That's all it could be. This encounter would only prove their relationship was impossible. But then, somewhere, she'd forgotten the unspoken agreement. Somewhere, she'd started to believe there was nothing wrong with them being together—that there was the possibility they should be together. She'd listened, learned, liked, and finally loved, though she was still reluctant to admit the latter, even to herself. It was too risky. Nevertheless, her feelings were real. Now, they were walking into possibly the greatest threat to their relationship, the looming test of doom behind door number three—her family. She found herself hoping for the leap of faith that would allow them both to survive; that wouldn't allow something as superficial as the color of his skin to both deny and destroy them.
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Sly, Insightful, Cleaver, but NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL.......2006-03-07
If you're looking for your typical romance novel where the action comes on fast and strong and is 100% escapist logic, then this is not the book for you.
However, if you want a book that contains some interesting and thoughtful insight into the social politics of America, both between whites and blacks, and especially between blacks and each other, then this book will prove to be a worthwhile read. It's a BW/WM relationship, but it starts off with a BW/BM relationship that is every bit as engrossing as the end story.
The initial action in the story occurs in the late 1970s just as more Americans were becoming aware of Apartheid in South Africa, and just as the social demonstrations for racial and gender related justice in the U.S. were coming to an end. In short, this is a Book Club type of novel. There is a lot to discuss here especially about how American blacks see themselves and others.
I think that this story is an introspective examination on the part of the author that envelops the reader and makes one think about one's own experiences and feelings. In many ways this book reminded me of the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis. Just as with that movie, you may not like everything that is being said, but it still tends to be true none the less.
As for the $24.95 price tag, I'm sure that this is because the author and publisher want to make money even if only a few copies are sold. I went with the significantly cheaper $6.00 E-book offer and I thoroughly enjoyed my read. An added bonus, no matter which option one selects, is that the book is a decent length - 445 pages - so I really felt that I got my money's worth.
This book is truly excellent and I hope that it makes on to Oprah's Book club list. It's just that good!!!
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The Kiss
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The Kiss, an enigmatic photo flip book, reveals a single passionate kiss shared between a couple. Highlighted in a small compact size and an artistically simple black and white cover, The Kiss is a montage to this most intimate of acts. To view, simply flip the pages of the book through your fingers and watch as the "moving" couple lean in to kiss each other and then embrace.
The Kiss is made up entirely of striking black and white images that were shot by famous photographer Chris Craymer. Chris has photographed numerous stars such as Johnny Depp and Mena Suvari, done cover shoots for magazines such as Vogue, and worked on several advertising campaigns with companies including Neutrogena, Dove, and Clarins.
The Kiss has been widely received around the world because it is a universally understood expression. In addition to North America, it is currently being published in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Revealing one single intimate embrace with Chris's stylish black and white photography and featuring a unique flip-book format, The Kiss makes a hip and truly original gift to express your feelings to the one you love.
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Sara Ash's Lord of Snow and Shadows is the promising opener to the Tears of Artamon series. The novel sets the stage in grand fashion as Ash deftly introduces the principal players in her well-realized fantasy realm. She begins with Gavril, a carefree portrait painter basking in the sunny climes of an irrelevant island republic. He soon discovers he is heir to a great and terrible legacy in the snowy wasteland of Azhkendir. Kidnapped by his murdered father's personal guard, he is both captive and the Drakhoan--ruler of Azhkendir. His inheritance turns out to be more than just a crown, however. A dark force of immeasurable power is growing inside him while he finds his realm under siege from within and without.
Ash masterfully avoids most of the usual fantasy memes--except, of course, the reluctant hero, Gavril--and imports a vast menagerie of technologies and culturally resonant magics into her world. Her conflicting armies wield magic, muskets, and heavy cannon alongside darker forces that are too delicious to mention here. Apart from a few niggling inconsistencies (Gavril's transformation from foppish artist to deft statesman, for one), Ash's novel is a frosty infusion of new air into a genre overrun with the usual maidens-with-broadswords clichés. --Jeremy Pugh
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Combining the best of fantasy traditions with her own unique vision, Sarah Ash brings to dazzling life a new saga filled with epic adventure and unforgettable characters. Far-reaching in scope and imagination,
Lord of Snow and Shadows embarks on a journey like no other--into a shape-shifting world teeming with political intrigue, astonishing magic, and passions both dark and light.
Raised by his protective mother in the sunny clime of the south, Gavril Andar knows nothing of his father--or the ominous legacy that awaits him. But his innocence is about to be shattered. The man who ruled the wintry kingdom of Azhkendir, a man infused with the burning blood of the dragon-warrior known as Drakhaoul, has been murdered by his enemies. It is his fiery, chameleonlike blood that pulses through Gavril’s veins. The news is Gavril’s first taste of death--but it will not be his last. For blood is the liquid that seals his fate.
Expected by clan warriors from the north to avenge his father’s murder--and still his unquiet ghost--Gavril is kidnapped. He soon learns that becoming Drakhaon means not only ascending to the throne of Azhkendir but changing, in subtle ways at first, into a being of extraordinary power and might. A being that must be replenished with the blood of innocentsin order to survive. Ensconced in Kastel Drakhaon with no means of escape from the icebound kingdom, and carefully watched by neighboring rulers waiting to move against him, the untested Gavril must fight to retain his human heart and soul in the face of impending war--and the dark instincts that threaten to overpower him.
Man and beast, spymaster and insurgent, nature and the netherworld--all collide in phenomenal twists and turns. A masterwork of adventure fantasy,
Lord of Snow and Shadows will leave you stunned--and longing for more.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Combining the best of fantasy traditions with her own unique vision, Sarah Ash brings to dazzling life a new saga filled with epic adventure and unforgettable characters. Far-reaching in scope and imagination, Lord of Snow and Shadows embarks on a journey like no other -- to a shape-shifting world teeming with political intrigue, astonishing magic, and passions both dark and light.
Raised by his protective mother in the sunny clime of the south, Gavril Andar knows nothing of his father -- or the ominous legacy that awaits him. But his innocence is about to be shattered.
The man who ruled the wintry kingdom of Azhkendir, a man infused with the burning blood of the dragon-warrior known as Drakhaoul, has been murdered by his enemies. It is his fiery, chameleonlike blood that pulses through Gavril's veins. The news is Gavril's first taste of death -- but it will not be his last. For blood is the liquid that seals his fate.
Expected by clan warriors from the north to avenge his father's murder -- and still his unquiet ghost -- Gavril is kidnapped. He soon learns that becoming Drakhaon means not only ascending to the throne of Azhkendir but changing, in subtle ways at first, into a being of extraordinary power and might. A being that must be replenished with the blood of innocents in order to survive.
Ensconced in Kastel Drakhaon with no means of escape from the icebound kingdom, and carefully watched by neighboring rulers waiting to move against him, the untested Gavril must fight to retain his human heart and soul in the face of impending war -- and the dark instincts that threaten to overpower him.
Man and beast, spymaster and insurgent, nature and the netherworld -- all collide in phenomenal twists and turns. A masterwork of adventure fantasy, Lord of Snow and Shadows will leave you stunned -- and longing for more.
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If you like high fantasy with tormented characters, you'll like this.......2007-08-21
I'll be honest-what first attracted me to this book was the cover. It's just beautiful-even for a non-fantasy book. For a fantasy novel it really rates up there with the best covers because there is no amazingly beautiful woman wielding a sword or magical flames or riding a dragon or winged horse on the front. But what kept me interested in this book; in a period when I've been having trouble focusing on one book was the content.
This is the story of Gavril, who just wants to be a painter like his mother as he was trained to be. But he has no idea who his father is, and when the man dies his blood sworn guards leave the frozen kingdom of Azhkendir and inform Gavril he is the new ruler. When he resists them, they kidnap him from the peaceful bay where he lives and dreams of being with the Grand Duke's lovely daughter and take him back to the land of his father-who was reported to be a monster in more ways than one.
There he finds his fathers pregnant mistress, a serving girl who somehow liberated his father's murdered ghost into the world of the living and that he is changing. The sprit of the Drakhaoul has entered in to him as the heir to his father, and it is changing him, making his blood purple, causing him to shoot blue lightning from his hands and creating a lust for innocent blood...
Set against a backdrop of political strife and impending imperialism, Gavril's struggle to remain human while protecting his new home, finding his fathers murderer and trying to free himself from the demon is compelling stuff. It's well written too with a very well designed world. It's not perfect though, there are a lot of plot lines to follow (though not nearly as many in say, "A song of ice and fire") and the motivation for what characters do is often unclear. Still, halfway through I purchased the next two books in the series and expect to read them soon.
Four stars. If you like high fantasy with tormented characters, you'll like this.
While it's not "Lord of the Rings" it's still great.......2007-03-24
I'm someone who's really critical about fantasy books these days and generally I can't find many that please me. Alot of them lack originality and their plot is just trying to be something bigger than it can handle. Also, alot of modern fantasy is filled with a bunch of crappy names for people that seem to me just a bunch of consonants and vowels randomly chosen and put together. But enough of my ranting....
The reason why this book is so good is that it doesn't try to be something it's not. It has all the basic essentials and then some-a great narrative, plot twists, original settings and characters, and good dialogue. The story is about this guy who is sort of a dragon too who is destined to defend this aging society of warriors against a conquering king who is using modern technology (mainly guns) via his mage assistant. But really it's more complex than just this but I wouldn't want to ruin it for you.
So if you are really looking for a good and newer fantasy book try this one.
Great book.......2007-03-17
This is a wonderful fantasy story that has a very interesting and different plot. Her characters are very well developed. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
Mediocre effort with some interesting elements........2007-03-15
For the character development and general level of writing, I would have been inclined to rate Lord of Snow and Shadows with just one or two stars. The characters were miserably written. The motivations were thinly sketched-- people seem to fall in Reel Deep Tru Luv at the drop of a hat. The grasp of human nature that Ash exhibited felt flat and immature.
This said, there were some really interesting plot elements and Ash does seem to have a decent grasp on world building. She neatly sidestepped many of the High Fantasy tropes in creating her plot elements. In the hands of a really skilled author, the world could have been genuinely interesting.
I will confess to being curious to see if Ash has a better grip on craft in her later books. Not curious enough to go out and buy the second one new, however. I may pick it up if I see it second-hand.
not the best fantasy EVER but its pretty good.......2007-03-09
When this book arived I went straight to reading it. At first it was rather dull but once I got about 3 or 4 chapters into it the story line started to piece together into a good story line. I can'y say the boog is really really realy good but well worth the read. I am so going to buy the next book to the series. One thing I didn't like about the book is the fact that you didn't get to know the charecters before the story line took off. Sarah Ash did a wonderful job at describing the surroundings. I would recomend this book to anyone because its well worth the $7.50 dollars it cost!
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- What charming quirk of nature had made these elegant little killing machines?"
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Crossing Infinity
Karen Haber
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Teenager, Jaz Andrews, finds and befriends Cory Lanus, a tall, gentle young stranger upon whom she develops a crush. But she gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that Cory comes from another planet, and that he can change gender at will. As Jaz and her pals attempt to help and protect their new friend they find their own lives at risk, and learn a few lessons about the transcending power of love and compassion. This book explores timely concerns facing kids today, including gender identity issues, absentee parents, and difficulties at school.
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What charming quirk of nature had made these elegant little killing machines?".......2006-02-04
What can you say about a book that transcends multiple genres to tell a story with both profound sweetness while really pushing the edge -- multiple edges in fact?
Karen Haber, who is known as the First Lady of Science Fiction and a good friend to many, myself included, has the rare ability to say something so true and so well that she changes the very way you see the world -- or worlds.
"Cory liked the cats for their silken grace, immense vanity, and playful carnivorous impulses. What charming quirk of nature had made these elegant little killing machines?"
Adults as well as the right kind of kid should buy this and read this for an experience of kind and honest bravery in facing a strange, sometimes hostile, sometimes indecipherable world for a really delicious reading experience, an experience you simply won't be able to find anywhere else. Bravo!
Engaging and relatable.......2006-01-09
I really enjoyed reading Crossing Infinity. As someone who usually gets distracted and doesn't finish books, I found this one fun and easy to get through. It also delves into some interesting issues, arising from one of the protagonists being a poly-gendered alien. The characters are endearing, real, very human (even when they're not actually humans), and easy to relate to.
Karen Haber, a friend of mine, is a talented author who addresses interesting issues in a way that keeps the story fun and fresh.
I am the author of this book and I have a correction to make to the book description:.......2005-11-23
This is a science fiction novel of gender confusions across worlds, a fact that goes unmentioned in the above book description. You neglect to observe the main plot point of CROSSING INFINITY: that the alien refugee, Corylanus, is able to shift gender, and does so under extreme emotional pressure, from male to female, and back again. This book explores notions of gender identity -- and through that exploration underscores the beauty of unconditional love.
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A Saint for Today.......2007-07-09
Even though Edith Stein was writing in the first half of the twentieth century, many of her observations on the human person still ring true, providing food for thought when contemplating contemporary issues. In a clear and logic style, Edith Stein reflects on the world around her. Edith's writings on women's role in society and gender issues are inspiring. In addition, her ability to view the world's events, including the autrocities of the Nazi regime through the eyes of faith gives witness to her courage, strength, and love of God, providing inspiration for all.
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An enduring collection of articles that shows how we can unite practical concerns with a spiritual dimension.
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light upon light upon light.......2000-06-23
this classic in the field of spiritual experiance came into my possession twenty-five years ago and has been a continual companion on my path. in my estimation this is priceless book and i'm overjoyed to find it reprinted. my suggestion to anyone that is fortunate to read it is to look again at LIGHT as the underlying theme of the book. you will be rewarded!
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THE ESSENTIALS OF MYSTICISM AND OTHER ESSAYS.
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