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10. Bernadene Coleman has written a novel of endearing characters that come to life on the pages of Beyond Color. Each chapter propelled me forward in an unfolding story of love and pain and family. I truly found it hard to set the book aside after each evening of reading as I yearned for the next predicament or solution in the lives of Gabriela, Tina and Dina. Much the way short story author J. California Cooper paints pictures of real people, Coleman writes about people and makes you know them and embrace them. I know now I must read her earlier novels as well. Carole Wade, Director of The Writer's Corner Publicist, the WADE group2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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15. This riveting story starts with a fourteen year old Creole girl, Gabriela, losing her parents in New Orleans. Still a teenager, Gabriela becomes a single mother of blue-eyed, blond, twin girls, Tina and Dina. She felt she was forced to leave town. After moving to Los Angeles, Tina, the talented twin, pursues a career in a white theatrical environment. Dina, the intellectual twin, is employed in a black political environment working to improve Civil Rights. This is the story of how the three coped with love, deceit, disappointment and survival. It is a complete package of emotions filled with vulnerability, strength and self-examination. When it ends, the reader will want more. Janice Shelby, Librarian, Los Angeles, CA2007-06-06 Post A Comment
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20. Beyond Color is an awesome story! The dream sequences captured the mystique that is identified with New Orleans. You will instantly fall in love with the characters and feel as if you are with each one through each adventure they traverse as they deal with 'color' as it is often defined in their city of New Orleans. Readers will want to curl up with this book Dorris Woods, Phd., Author2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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26. Excellent story and great character creation. Vivid, sensitive, and insightful. I can see this as a potential best seller. John Rosenkranz, Artist2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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29. I enjoyed reading Beyond Color, IMMENSELY! -kjc2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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32. Readers of this trilogy are made aware of universal themes of love and forgiveness beautifully interwoven-klc2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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35. Maestro! -jtc2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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616. we are live and beyond waiting for win98 to comeback aft crash2007-07-09 Post A Comment
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58. You have opened a window on the lives of our elders. I laughed and I cried and I beamed with pride as I read Mama Rose! Delores Thompson2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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59. Thank you for such a magnificent book! It is a book that should be read by everyone. I loved your beautiful descriptions. Mama Rose is an awesome book! Dolores Graham2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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93. to my Beloved AB, your Dear Niece! -sjw2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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102. Your loved ones will remember you always for having taken time to write this precious story, Mama Rose, which documents those events that had been so carefully hidden away. Marj Fierstadt2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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119. Beyond Color' is a culmination of this author's mastery of telling the story the story like it is; this chronicles the connection du emigres, from New Orleans to LA?'the Journey West' -jsc2007-05-05 Post A Comment
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165. A beautiful story of the power of a woman's courage, despite racism, disappointment in love, and many other challenges.' Robin Quinn, Los Angeles writer and the editor of The Cherished Self2007-05-06 Post A Comment
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168. I recently completed BEYOND COLOR. What an absolute delight it was. From the opening chapter that ripped out my heart, but caused me to form an instant bond with Gabriela, to the last few pages with their wonderful drama about the fate and direction of the lives of Gabriela's enchanting twins, I lived in their worlds. That's the absolute best that can happen for me when I'm reading a book. BEYOND COLOR was magic! Peggy Eldridge-Love2007-05-06 Post A Comment
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617. Have you read BEYOND COLOR yet?---Here are the first few paragraphs: It took only moments for the entire rood to erupt in flames. Within minutes, fire and smoke had engulfed the wooden house where the Malette familylived. "Wake up, Harold!" screamed Josephine. "The house is on fire! Quick, get Gabriela outside." Harold Malette gathered up his sleeping, fourteen-year-old daughter and guided her out into the night air where she would be safe away from the flames and smoke. Gabriela began coughing and crying, so he held her close and said, "You're okay now. Be strong." Harold panicked when he did not see his wife, Josephine. "Don't go back inside!" the next-door neighbor, Glorya Amour, yelled. Her husband, Victor, tried to restrain Harold while screaming, "Man, don't be stupid; you know you can't go back in there!" Harold ignored their warnings, pushed Victor aside and rushed into the smoke-filled house. He found Josephine slumped by the bedroom door. As he picked her up in his arms, whorls of smoke and flame lapped at his face. The windows shattered, the roof exploded and collapsed. The sounds pierced through his body and everything turned red, and a moment later, black. 2007-09-03 Post A Comment Top Bottom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007-09-03 Post A Comment
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618. this is from the Topaz2007-11-24 Post A Comment
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