Carmen L'enlevement De La Redoute La Venus D'ille

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Carmen L'enlevement De La Redoute La Venus D'ille
Pierre Richard
Manufacturer: librairie larousse
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KGKC98

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CARMEN L'Enlevement De La Redoute La Venus D'ille

Manufacturer: Classiques Larousse
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GZY2L2

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La Venus D'ille Carmen
Jean Brunel
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ASIN: B000ND4CIK

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Carmen, L'Enlevement de la Redoute, La Venus d'Ille (Classiques Larousse)

Manufacturer: Larousse
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000FOOZW0

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Good Book for Sci-Fi Fans

Must-read for any sci-fi fan, or a good book for any reader

COOL TO THE POWER OF TEN!

A great time-filler!

Excellent

Independence Day: Silent Zone
Dean Devlin , Roland Emmerich , and Stephen Molstad
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Good Book for Sci-Fi Fans.......2004-06-01

Being a fan of the movie, ID4, I ordered this book because this book starts at the very beginning. We've all seen the movie, but I was curious to find out how it all started.

The book centers around Dr. Okun, and how he became involved with Area 51, and the trials he goes through finding the clues to the alien invaders.

This book is a nice addition to the movie, and can't wait the read "War in the desert."

If anyone has a used hardcover of the book Independence Day: War in the Desert, they can sell me, please email me at rking@king7.com

Must-read for any sci-fi fan, or a good book for any reader.......2001-10-31

Independence Day: Silent Zone takes place before the alien attack and is about research on the alien ship. Okun, a young and spirited scientist, gets hired to Area 51 to work on research. As all the scientists work, Okun finds a huge government cover-up to hide secrets, so work is limited.

Silent Zone is a really good book. Its plot is incredible, and the writing style is easy to read. Okun, the protagonist, is an interesting character (interesting is to say the least...) He was written to be cool, and he does come off as that, for the most part. He also can be considered a nerd, but he's still cool. The other scientists at Area 51 are also interesting characters.

The writing is descriptive, and that pays off to add detail to science fiction. That style also keeps the reader interested to read on.

The prolouge, which takes place on July 5 after the attacks, is one of the best introductions I have ever read. It is also very descriptive, and is sets a very fun tone for the rest of the book. Once I read that, I realized that the book would be a really good one.

I really suggest that you read this book. It is a read-and-read-again book, so I also suggest that you buy it. Read, and then enjoy.

COOL TO THE POWER OF TEN!.......2001-02-14

Just as Okun says in the book--- it's most definately cool to the power of ten! This halarious story gives us the prequil to the popular 1996 film. It follows the exploits of Okun (hippie genius with a 2.7 gpa) and the old scientists from Area 51 who were there from the start with the Roswell Incident. Set in the 1970's, it's a wonderfully told tale thats funny, and whimsical as well as smart. The style of writing RULES and the images you get from reading it are stunning! This book it totally "Groovalicious" (head nodding) READ THIS ONE!

A great time-filler!.......2000-06-13

This interpretation of the Roswell incident and Area 51 according to the characters in INDEPENDENCE DAY is extremely entertaining. The story charts the progress from college to Area 51 of Dr Brackish Okun, the longhair hippie throwback scientist from the movie. As his work into alien existence becomes more classified, he discovers the link between alien abductions and the forthcoming ID4 invasion. Some of the descriptions of the alien abductions are surprisingly plausible. Although this spin-off is not as technologically advanced as Rober Doherty's AREA 51 series, it is still well worth a read.

Excellent.......1999-11-03

In my opinion, "Silent Zone" was one of the best written books I have ever read. Stephen Molstad wrote this in a manner that was easy to follow and a joy to read. The style he used kept me interested and above all, open minded. The adventures that Dr. Okun take are entertaining and keep the story flowing. It is a must read for any sci-fi fan or someone looking for a good book.

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Even if you seen the movie; read this book.
ballah ballah ballah
For sheer entertainment value . . .
Probably better to just watch the movie.
Absolutely FANTASTIC!!!

INDEPENDENCE DAY: SILENT ZONE
DEAN DEVLIN STEPHEN MOLSTAD
Manufacturer: VOYAGER
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0006483429

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Even if you seen the movie; read this book........2002-06-26

This is a very fast read. I loved the movie and like the book. It covers some areas that are not in the movie (would have just slowed the movie down). This book is well written for a moive spin-off. It would be a great intro book for someones entry into SciFi. A great book for the beach.

ballah ballah ballah.......2001-07-08

like too many novels based on movies [as opposed to movies based on novels], this rendition tries to fill in, for no apparent reason, completely irrelevant details. I hate to say it, but wow...the movie is much better! If you have access to a DVD player, watch the ENHANCED version of the movie, as it clarifies in about 9 extra minutes of footage, so many plot-idiocies of the theater and VHS release. The book is ok, but not excellent, hence, 4 *'s.

For sheer entertainment value . . ........2000-06-13

. . . and a great mind candy beach read for those lazy days on vacation, strap yourself in and prepare for impact! With scenes not in the movie(or will they be in the special edition DVD out soon?) the novelisation of the excellent alien invasion disaster epic is surprisingly well done for this type of spin-off. Stephen Molstad transposes the film characters into print very well in a cinematic style yet painting a more human picture of a cardboard character in places! This novel is also a good introduction for young adults to the world of'adult'fiction, in my view. Great if you want a good, easy-reading book with a bit of dramatic impact, also check out SILENT ZONE, an interesting prequel.

Probably better to just watch the movie........1999-06-18

Watch the movie first for the breathtaking special effects. Only then if you're interested, should you buy the book, because it has a few more details in it. I pity those who bought the hardcover.

Absolutely FANTASTIC!!!.......1999-05-22

I read the book countless times and watched the movie goodness knows how many times, and still it leaves me awed. This is the kind of book I'll bring wherever I go. The idea of all humanity coming together is an idea that will sit in your mind always.

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Independence Day: Silent Zone
Stephen Molstad
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEXAJ0

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Silent Zone: Independence Day (ID4)
Stephen Molstad
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Food writing delicious enough to eat with photos to match. A useful guide to boot!

Geeky book for Produce Lovers

Melissa's

Well designed, beautiful book, not to mention extremely informative

This book will inspire your everyday menus

Melissa's Great Book of Produce: Everything You Need to Know about Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Cathy Thomas , and Nick Koon
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Book Description

"It's not enough to know your jicama from your heirloom tomatoes these days. When it comes to fruits and vegetables, there's a whole new terrain and this book is your GPS. From dragon fruit to yuzu, this smart, savvy, handsomely illustrated guide tells you how to recognize it, buy it, prepare it, and cook it, with edgy recipes from all over the world."
—Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue! Bible and How to Grill

Chances are, you're tempted to venture beyond the standard fruits and vegetables when enticed by the array of fresh produce at your grocer's. But then you're stymied. Exactly what is that? Is it supposed to be eaten cooked or raw? Should it be firm or soft? Do you peel it? How do you get to the good stuff?

This guide gives you the answers. It tells you how to choose and use all kinds of produce and includes:

More than 100 fruits and vegetables
200 gorgeous color photos and 100 delicious recipes
The seasonal availability of each fruit and vegetable
Information on how to select, store, eat, and cook each item

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Food writing delicious enough to eat with photos to match. A useful guide to boot!.......2007-08-24

From The Orange County Register/Fullerton News Tribune
October 5, 2006

by Judy Bart Kancigor, author of Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family

You're shopping for produce and spot this spiny magenta...what? Christmas ornament? You're curious, but what on earth is it? For a moment your hand hovers as you gauge your own adventurous spirit. But do you buy it soft or firm? peel it? cook it? eat it raw? So instead you buy plums. Again.

"The appearance of dragon fruit is downright surreal," writes Cathy Thomas, the Register's food editor and award-winning author of "Melissa's Great Book of Produce: Everything you need to know about fresh fruits and vegetables" (Wiley), a gloriously photographed, comprehensive guide down the produce aisles. With Thomas at the helm, each fruit, from Asian pear to yuzu, and each vegetable, from artichoke to yu choy sum, begs to be discovered, its perfume inhaled and, yes, tasted.

Dragon fruit "has eye-popping magenta skin, dotted with bright lime-green spines" and "tastes like a marriage between kiwi and pineapple," she promises. Indeed it does, as I discovered recently at a book signing and reception held in the gardens of the Long Beach Museum of Art. Robert Schueller, marketing guru for Melissa's World Variety Produce, Inc., the largest distributor of specialty produce and foods in the U.S., selected a dragon fruit from the exotic fruit buffet - a riot of color like an artist's palette - and cut into it to reveal its purplish-pink flesh.

So what do you do with it? Dice the flesh, says Thomas, and combine it with diced pineapple or mango, toss with mint or liqueur and serve in the spiny shells. Or cut into wedges and splash with fresh lime. Use dragon fruit purée in cakes or quick breads or fold into sweetened whipped cream.

Thomas and Melissa's have teamed up to take the guesswork out of buying, storing, preparing, using and serving 120 fruits and vegetables. Brilliant photos from the Register's Nick Koon and 100 mouth-watering recipes plus a glossary of gizmos make "Melissa's Great Book of Produce" a valuable resource for the home cook or seasoned professional.

But the icing on the cake (or, I should say, the crown on the pomegranate) is the prose. Unlike other produce guide writers one consults for mere information, Thomas, with her uncanny ability to capture sound, smell and taste, invites you on a shopping adventure. Take figs: "Fragile fig skin surrenders easily to reveal soft-textured flesh filled with a multitude of tiny seeds. A bite produces tiny seed-popping sounds, flesh saturated with honey flavor, and a moist flower-petal aroma." Go ahead. Pass up those luscious black missions. I dare ya'.

Each fruit and vegetable fairly leaps off the page. "I want people to be able to smell each one and taste it," she told me. "Should it give a little when you press your thumb or snap when you break it?"
Common varieties combine with the exotic, eliminating the intimidation factor. "Everybody knows common celery," said Thomas, "but what about Chinese celery? The leaves and stalk are limp. They're supposed to be. They're so aromatic and delicious. I love to see people use them in stir-fries and soup."

"I make it a point to try something different every time I shop," noted Nancy Eisman, Melissa's special projects director. Good idea! So as fall days turn crisp and the soup kettle beckons, why not try the sunflower choke (also called Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke or girsole).

Cream of Sunflower Choke Soup
From "Melissa's Great Book of Produce" by Cathy Thomas

1 1/2 pounds sunflower chokes, peeled, cut in 1-inch-thick slices
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups chicken broth, sodium-reduced preferred, or vegetable broth
Salt and white pepper to taste
3 tablespoons minced Italian parsley
Optional: croutons

1. Place sunflower chokes, milk, and broth in nonreactive, large saucepan. Simmer, partially covered, about 12-14 minutes. Remove 1/2 cup liquid.
2. Puree in batches in food processor or blender, using caution because ingredients are hot. Add reserved liquid if soup is too thick. Taste and add salt and generous amount of pepper. Ladle into 4 soup bowls. Top with parsley and croutons, if desired. Serves 4

Geeky book for Produce Lovers.......2007-04-03

A geek in one thing, a geek in all things, I guess and here is a book for all the gardening and food geeks out there. I came acorss those book while trolling the sorting shelves at my local library. It is one of the best finds I have made in a while.

Melissa's Great Book of Produce: Everything you need to know about fresh fruits and vegetables is a information-filled and gorgeously photographed tome on produce both familiar and strange. For each piece of produce you get information on buying, storage use and even a few recipes along the way. There are some items in here I have never heard of before and it is great to get information on those I have heard of, but never encountered.

A wonderful book for the kitchen or the couch, Melissa's Great Book of Produce will surely expand your knowledge and, most likely, your appetite.

Highly Recommended

Melissa's .......2007-01-23

This book has tons of information! I work in an upscale grocery store where we carry a lot of the product that is in this book. I can read up on a particular product and know when it is available, how to pick out good product and even find a recipe or two. Thanks!

Well designed, beautiful book, not to mention extremely informative.......2006-04-14

Visually, this book is impeccable. The food stylist, graphic designer, and photographer have done a fantastic job of showing the fruits and vegetables in an appealing and stimulating way, sliced and angled just so. The typography and look of the book is probably one of the nicest on my shelves. But it's not just a good coffee table book. Most importantly, it contains enough detailed information on a quite impressive range of fruits and vegetables that it has quickly become my favorite reference book for fruits and vegetables. I can't say enough how thoroughly enjoyable the book is to look at and learn from. And my favorite part is when the author describes how a particular item tastes: for example, a feijoa has a "sweet-tart taste blending pineapple, citrus and purple grapes." The next day I hunted down a feijoa and enjoyed that sweet-tart taste! I have since personally vowed to try every fruit and vegetable in the book that I haven't yet eaten. It may be a challenge to find them all, but of course, as the book implies in its title, melissas.com is one place I can look for them.

This book will inspire your everyday menus.......2006-04-04

Move over, apples & bananas! This is a book whose time has come -- just a decade ago, produce departments offered 200 items --today they have more than 500 fresh produce items and the authors of this handsome book have been instrumental in bringing many exotic items into the mainstream. We especially like the buying and preparation suggestions! Melissa's Great Book of Produce will inspire you to incorporate the more adventuresome fruits and vegetables into your daily meals.

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Half the households in America include an animal companion. Yet, each year, community shelters take in six to eight million unwanted dogs and cats who face an uncertain fate. With compelling photos and moving vignettes, this book chronicles the true stories of 75 animals who entered a typical U.S. animal shelter during one week witnessed and documented by the authors.

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buy it.......2007-08-31

It's such a good book. Many stories are sad, but it also offers real hope as to what we as individuals can do. Highly recommended. You'll go back to it when you find you need inspiration.

Review of One at a Time.......2007-05-13

As someone who has adopted 3 animals from a shelter, I appreciated this book thoroughly. This book puts names and faces together while also educating the reader about the importance of adopting from your local animal shelter. The theme of this book is you can actually save a life. There are heartwarming stories alongside tragic ones. If you want to learn more about the animals at the shelter and their stories this book is for you.

Tough Topic Handled Well.......2007-04-16

This is a very difficult book to read as it covers all kinds of situations that occur in an animal shelter, including details of the euthanasia of animals that simply don't deserve to die. There are many hopeful and heartwarming stories along with those of heartless and selfish owners. Make sure you are in the correct frame of mind when you read this to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Some of the pictures are explicit. However, the subject is covered very well with some very good information and statistics.

INCREDBLE book!.......2006-12-09

I read it in one night . . tears pouring down my face! How could a book do this to me? Because it's real . . . it's true! Some of the truths in this book are shameful. This book is unforgiving. This needed to be written . . . and it needed to do done with this much dignity and heart. Compassion . . kindness, why is it so hard? This book yanks at your emotions to teach us compassion . . it allows the animals to teach compassion to us through their lives and yes, deaths. Hopefully their lives will not be in vain, and we can learn compassion in their honor to not only other animals, but maybe they can show us that all lives are important. From shelters where animals are victims to injustices to Rwanda / Darfur and the like. This book is absoltely incredible. Thanks to the writers who had the balls to write it and then fight hard to get it on the streets. Thanks to the beautiful souls of the animals.

Companion animal euthanasia; a worldwide epidemic........2006-11-04

I volunteer in an animal shelter in Australia. A vet at the shelter loaned me a copy of One at a Time: A Week in an Americal Shelter as she thought I would appreciate the content. Appreciate is an understatement...what I thought was exclusive to our shelter proved to me that the reality of these animals circumstances is a worldwide epidemic NOT exclusive to Australia. The stories are written with honesty and in an uncomplicated fashion accompanied by touching photographs. These animals and their circumstances could be at my shelter. In many ways I found this read comforting, however, if you're not already working or volunteering within a shelter environment, it could be quite confronting. I bought several copies to share amongst colleagues at our shelter.

Book Description

Electric trains were high on any boy's Christmas list during the Fifties and Sixties and Sears sold the finest. This neat book contains full-sized authorized reproductions of every catalog page of toy trains sold by Sears from 1950 through 1969. Organized by year, the best and rarest are illustrated: Lionel, Marx, American Flyer, Tyco and Revell trains and accessories. in all gauges. Includes all the original selling prices too! "Must Have" for any collector.

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Nostalgia!.......2003-03-19

This book is filled with nostalgia. Great reprints of the Sears catalog pages over the years. See Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Allstate...plus HO and N scale trains. You'll look at this again and again. Certainly brings back a lot of great memories.

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Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains 1987-1995: Motive Power and Rolling Stock : Richard Kughn Era
Mike Solly
Manufacturer: Kalmbach Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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The Technique of Bruges Flower Lace
Veronica Sorenson , and J.E.H. Rombach-de Kievid
Manufacturer: Batsford
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The Torchon Lace Workbook: A concise lacemaking course--the basic skills fully explained, with prickings and diagrams for 27 finished lace products. (Color Craft Workbooks)

ASIN: 0713489693

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Originality and versatility define Bruges Flower Lace, and lacemakers familiar with bobbin techniques will discover a wealth of exciting designs here. There are 60 patterns, based on flowers, leaves and braids, with the characteristic scroll.

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Technique of Bruges Flower Lace
J E H Rombach- Kievid
Manufacturer: Batsford
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Book Description

Fans of Cardcaptor Sakura, rejoice! TOKYOPOP is proud to release the first of three art books from the top-selling girls' manga series. There are 120 pages of full-color artwork, most of which have never been seen in America before. Also included is an EXCLUSIVE 15 PAGE MINI-COMIC, not available anywhere else, which no fan will want to be without.

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A book that's worth getting no matter how much it is........2003-09-21

A definate get for CCS fans. I thought that you could only get this on the internet, but when I purchased all three at the mall, I was obviously proven wrong.
I have to say this is the second best one. It has all the extra stuff{a mini ccomic and poster}, but the art work isn't as good as in the second one, but it is better than the third, and still a must get for fans.
The comic is of Sakura being sick. The poster is double-sided and has Sakura, Tomoyo, Chereu, Naoko, and Rita on one side and has Touya, Yukito, Syoran, and Yamasaki on the other.

The Illustration of A Lifetime.......2003-05-12

I am a huge fan of Cardcaptor Sakura and I bought this book. When I first flip through the book, I was already amazed. With colorful detail, and beautiful illustration,every inch of this book was unbeleivable! The good thing about this book is that these are picture that is never before seen in Amereica! You also get a mini- comic book of Cardcaptor Sakura, artist notes, and an EXCLUSIVE poster of 5 main girls in pretty angles costume on one side, and 4 main boys on the other side and the funny thing is that Yamazaki-Kun is in color for the first time and his eyes are open too!!! (LOL) ;)

If you like Sakura - especially the art - this is a must!.......2002-12-16

I've been a fan of Cardcaptor Sakura for a while now and when I was at an anime convention this summer, I had a chance to look at the artbooks. I was reluctant to spend money on something that I was never going to be able to read, so I passed it up - but boy, am I glad I did! I was thrilled when I found out they were translating the artbooks and releasing them here and they're well worth the price here on Amazon.

All of the pictures in the book are absolutely gorgeous; there are pictures of every character except Eriol and his guardians, who I expect will be in the second artbook (this one is the first of three). I cannot say for certain, since I won't get my hands on that one until *after* Christmas. However, there's much of the pastel CLAMP colors that we've come to expect in the beautiful artwork for this series. The printing is clean and nice and so many of them would make wonderful scans if I were so courageous as to attempt to scan them. Most CCS fans will recognize these pictures as ones they have seen online though - to have the real thing in your hand finally is thrilling.

The book is read like most traditional Japanese books, with the opening held to the left - backwards to us 'Americans' but a format that's becoming more and more familiar to anime fans. After all of the pictures is a section that describes where each picture is from, what the depiction means (or what the artist was aiming for), how it was done, and other little tidbits. The manga in the back is an adorable little story focusing mostly on Sakura and Touya and a cute little scene. As a bonus at the end, there's a full color pullout featuring the girls of the show as angels on the front and the boys as devils on the back - very cute!

Book Description

“I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but he tells her, gently, that he doesn’t think so, that she can’t understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre’s memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the nature of whiteness in a way that passionately informs the connections between herself and her family. A moving account of life in a biracial family, this book is a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America, the story of an education into the realities of African American culture.
Lazarre has spent over twenty-five years living in a Black American family, married to an African American man, birthing and raising two sons. A teacher of African American literature, she has been influenced by an autobiographical tradition that is characterized by a speaking out against racism and a grounding of that expression in one’s own experience—an overlapping of the stories of one’s own life and the world. Like the stories of that tradition, Lazarre’s is a recovery of memories that come together in this book with a new sense of meaning. From a crucial moment in which consciousness is transformed, to recalling and accepting the nature and realities of whiteness, each step describes an aspect of her internal and intellectual journey. Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons’ and husband’s experience as Black Americans—an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor’s unconscious racism or the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy—or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a fluid, even ambiguous, identity. It is a coming of age that permits a final retelling of family history and family reunion.
With her skill as a novelist and her experience as a teacher, Jane Lazarre has crafted a narrative as compelling as it is telling. It eloquently describes the author’s delight at being accepted into her husband’s family and attests to the power of motherhood. And as personal as this story is, it is a remarkably incisive account of how perceptions of racial difference lie at the heart of the history and culture of America.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent book!.......2005-06-29

I love this book and this woman because of the honesty. My father is white, my mother is black. Let me tell you, when one of your parents are black-you are black. Jane tells you this in so many words. This whole biracial thing is a lie because American blacks are a multiracial and biracial people because our blood has been mixed since we were brought from Africa. I love the fact that Jane is honest with herself and understands that her sons are black and they must be taught the pride in that. She is absolutely correct to ingratiate herself in to black culture because that is the society her kids will forever live in and she must understand and be a part of that-after all, she is their mother. Most people won't be able to wrap their minds around many of Jane's ideas, but they should definately try. Life changing book, if you haven't read it. Be honest and be real.

A very disturbed woman.......2002-04-04

Let's get something straight right up front; The book is well written but its' message will leave anyone not suffering from mental illness in a state of rage.

The author is not just white but is more specifically Jewish which puts her claims of white privilege on their head.

Here's another interesting nugget of information: She writes she was raised as a Communist by her father and imbued with the ideas of Marxism. Couple this with the fact she grew up tortured by not having her mother,died young,and you got the makings of someone with SERIOUS mental problems.

Shorthly after the birth of her two sons she begins to lose her identity (hell I'm being nice, she outright becomes ashamed of 'being white) and begins to adopt the racial identity of being black; she makes the argument she is because her sons are black and her husband is black so she magically becomes black by association and ultra close approximation.

Her pedantic is absolutely intolerable and reaches its' zenith when she asserts whites owe blacks such a huge debt that the only way we as whites can ever repay that debt is to stop being white (one is left with the ditinct impression she means as a race altogether).

The only agreeable truth in this book comes at the end when she realizes her two sons are black and (thankfully, from her point of view) not white; she originally believed them to be biracial,a term she comes to realize is laughable and a fantasy. There is truth in this. Remember the recent 2002 Movie awards when Hally Berry won best actress? Hally's mother is white,her father is black. Which half accepted that award? Which half does Hally Berry see herself as?

RACE?????.......2001-04-11

All you people who write reviews on how great this book is especially on issues of race and gender and ethnicity etc etc did you even read the book??? SHE SAYS VERY CLEAR THAT RACE DOESNT EXSIST....most people know that...so how can she write so well on race if she says right off the top that there is no such thing???? hmmmmm

For all those who havent read the book it is very interesting...im sure if she could sew her lips to bell hooks bum she would :)

A brightly shining book.......2000-08-29

This book succeeds on two levels at the same time. Jane Lazarre has written a beautiful memoir of her life as a white woman who first marries a black man and then becomes the mother of black sons. She has reflected on her experience, and given it deep meaning, which she shares in this book, as well.

This is an incredibly powerful book, which goes right to the heart of what it means to be white in America. Lazarre's experiences are her own, but the lessons she draws from her life are important lessons for all of us, especially those of us who are white. I recommend this book without reservation to anyone who wants to think again about race, ethnicity, and integrity.

Informative and enlightening.......2000-04-30

As the mother of a biracial child, I was able to relate to Jane Lazarre-White's experiences. Much of her writing struck me with great familiarity. One thing that she repeatedly addressed was the shame she felt due to the privilege her "whiteness" afforded her. This I could not relate to or understand. As a white female, I am never ashamed of who I was brought into this world to be. I think, instead, that we should be ashamed that the same privilege is not afforded to all. The inequities between racial and social classes is so incredibly divisive; however, we need to ensure that ALL PEOPLE are afforded equalilty and fairness as opposed to stripping it from those who already receive it. Jane Lazarre-White is obviously a well-educated woman...just goes to show us that although we can feed our minds with boundless history on other cultures, we cannot escape our own identity. I hope that Jane Lazarre-White can accept her own identity while embracing the culture of her husband and sons...as we will all leave this world the same "color" in which we entered it!

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