Many are drawn to the artistic construction and beauty of costume jewelry, but don't know enough about it to start a collection. One of the country's leading experts on jewelry collecting provides this new guide as a roadmap for starting collections. Author Marion Cohen focuses on four distinctive and extremely popular categories of costume jewelry: multipurpose jewelry, clips, motion jewelry, and figural jewelry. 
A detailed introductory section explores all aspects of costume jewelry--what it is, why collect it, and where to find it, and each of the four major sections introduces collectors to the variations of costume jewelry. With hundreds of listings and photographs, collectors will quickly and confidently identify pieces to add to their collections; plus, get information on caring for collectible pieces and identifying reproductions. 
* Includes information on the what, why, and where of collecting costume jewelry * An indispensable tool for beginning collectors * Features multipurpose jewelry, clips, motion jewelry, and figural jewelry

Costume Jewelry Variations: A Collector's Identification and Price Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Cohen, Marion

Antiques & Collectibles

Krause Pubns Inc

The Limits of Miracles: Poems About the Loss of Babies

The loss of a baby is perhaps the most tragic thing that can happen to a person; for some only the unique qualities of poetry can fully capture the expressions of grief. These poignant and sensitive poems, all by bereaved mothers and fathers, give consoling affirmations for anyone who has suffered a pregnancy loss or disappointment. Marion Cohen is a poet, writer, mathemetician, teacher, wife, and mother. She has had several books published and is a consulting editor for Mothering.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Praeger

Review I Dream About Being by Katherine Schneider Aker I Met A Woman Yesterday by Katherine Schneider Aker Blessing Way by Jeannine Ann O'brien Parvati Baker Out Draws Beauty By The Midwife by Jeannine Ann O'brien Parvati Baker Once by Enid L. Baron Barbara Joan by Madelin Tiger Bass Notice To My College Children by Madelin Tiger Bass To The Mother From Scarsdale Who Asked About Publishing by Madelin Tiger Bass Conception by Justine Buisson Creation by Marlene Anne Bumgarner At My Breast by Phyllis Capello Listen by Phyllis Capello Captive Audience by Martha Christina Approaching The Special Child's First Birthday by Marion Deutsch Cohen By The Way, You Know, Kids Aren't The Only Thing by Marion Deutsch Cohen Cesarean, V by Marion Deutsch Cohen Intensive Care Nursery by Marion Deutsch Cohen This Is A Fat-liberation Poem by Marion Deutsch Cohen To Some Poets We Know by Marion Deutsch Cohen Trying-to-conceive Poem #4 by Marion Deutsch Cohen Why I Still Breastfeed Bitties - Though He Turned Two by Marion Deutsch Cohen Leak In The Bucket Of Consciousness by R. V. Cottam Family Sampler by Barbara Crooker Freight Train by Barbara Crooker Stillbirth by Barbara Crooker Do You Have Sons? by Lucy Diggs Waiting For My Son On The Jr. High School Steps by Kathy Evans Guilt by Nadine Major Feinberg Emptying by Doris Ferleger With A Trembling by Doris Ferleger How Brief The Period Of Infancy! by Kim Fischer Daughter by Nancy J. Gilbert To My Daughter In Her Father's House by Penny Harter The Holy Mother Speaks To Her Child At The Threshold by Liana Herbertson A Night Between The Two Of Us by Holly Hirsch I've Been A Mother For More Than 23 Years Now by Kay Kaiser-cook Laws Of Nature: Muggins At Three by Kay Kaiser-cook To Marion - In Answer To Your Request by Kay Kaiser-cook You Come Home by Judith Kirkwood Reciprocal by Marilyn Krysl For Serena by Marie Levy In Transit by Joan Lindgren I Get It All Done by Iris Litt Blessing by Catherine Lynn Draft Dodger Mother by Catherine Lynn Lesson At Thirteen by Catherine Lynn Song by Charlotte Mandel For My Daughter, Approaching Four by Eleanor Rodman May Span by Jean Mccamy A Child's Fragile Sleeping Soul by Peggy O'mara Mcmahon Fourth Child by Peggy O'mara Mcmahon Spoonfeeding My Baby by Peggy O'mara Mcmahon Maternity Song by Carolyn Miller Mother's Poem by Carolyn Miller Elsa's Birth by Jessica Murray Child, You Are Shooting Star Propelled by Laura Newton Holding My Son by Abby Niebauer An Often Repeated Scene by Nancy J. Nowak Borning Song For Don by Linda Peavy Miscarriage by Marion J. Helz Perry Sonnet: 11 by Marion J. Helz Perry Before You Leave by Mary Ellis Peterson Conception by Mary Ellis Peterson First Born by Martha Popson Watching Mary Dance by Martha Popson Waiting by Louise Rachel Comfort by Susan Harned Roth Three Women Named Rebecca by Bettie Mixon Sellers To Amanda by Karen Shafer Don't Forget To Write by Pearl B. Sheridan I Really Would Hate To Mother The Great by Pearl B. Sheridan Julie Said %you're Beginning To Look Like by Beverly Slapin On The Treatment Of Colic by Beverly Slapin Birthing Brings Me by Susan Suntree Newborn by Susan Suntree Sawing by Susan Suntree Sunbathing by Ingrid Swanberg Milklight by Ani Tuzman Calendar by Kathleen Salapow Vandemark Ellen At Eleven by Sonny Wainwright Grandmother by Pat Gallant Welch Labor by Judy Wells -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Mother Poet

McMahon, Peggy O'Mara

Poetry

Bookpeople

In 1977, at the age of 36, Jeffrey Cohen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. But it wasn't until 10 years later that the "dirty details" began, when the disease had progressed to the point where he could not transfer himself out of his wheelchair. That point is where his wife Marion begins her memoir of caregiving: "If I had to explain it in three words, those words would be 'nights,' 'lifting,' and 'toilet.' And then, if I were permitted to elaborate further, I would continue, 'nights' does not mean lying awake in fear listening for his breathing. 'Lifting' does not mean dragging him by the feet along the floor. And 'toilet' does not mean changing catheters."
 But "dirty details," Marion Cohen teaches us, involves more than "nights," "lifting," and "toilet." There is the loss, anger, fear, and desperation that envelops the family. She reveals what it felt like to be consistently in "dire straits" with no real help or understanding, what she characterizes as society's "conspiracy of silence." Chronicling their lives in the context of her husband's progressing disease, she discusses the raging emotions, the celebrations, the day-to-day routine, the arguments, the disappointments, and the moments of closeness. During the 15 years she cared for him at home, both continued to work on various projects, share in the rearing of their four children, and be very much in love. This powerful, honest narrative also delves into the process of making the "nursing-home decision" and those decisions Cohen made to put her and her family's life together again.

Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Temple University Press

Dirty Details

In a Brooklyn hospital, in 1954, five babies, four girls and one boy, were born on the same day. In Sweden, on that day, another baby girl was also born. This is the story of how these individual’s lives eventually intersect, and how they not only become acquainted with one another, but become lifelong friends. All of these individual lives are viewed through the lens of Adina Claudette Saville, whose dreams are unlike the others. Amelia, Anna, Alice and Astrid, together with Adina form an alliance of cherished friendships. They offer steadfast support throughout their adolescence and into their adult lives, as each woman embarks on a different life path to happiness and fulfillment. However, there is one journey Adina must take, and she decides not to allow these friends any knowledge of her predicament. Some journeys that challenge one’s fortitude, must be traveled alone. The Life That Sits Beside You is an uncommon story of a woman and her unique devotion to the man she loves, to her family, and to the lifelong friends, she holds dear to her heart.

The Life That Sits Beside You

Romance

Contemporary

Independently published

Destiny By Design: Weaving My Tapestries of Fate

Religion & Spirituality

The Fifth Question

Paranormal

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