The Collection is funded by a gift in 1978 from Julie Cohen in memory of A. B., Dolly, and Ralph Cohen, her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and husband.<\/p>\n
Cohen Fiction<\/h4>\n
The Gift of Rain<\/em> by Tan Twan Eng. Weinstein Books, 2008. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us)<\/em> by Tom Vanderbilt. Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. The Toothpick: Technology and Culture by Henry Petroski<\/em>. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. The Piano Teacher<\/em> by Janice Y.K. Lee. Viking, 2009. Source Index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cohen Enrichment Collection is located on the fourth floor of Langsam Library. The collection contains books in all subject areas including cooking, popular fiction, history, and art. Continue reading ![\"Over](\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/source\/voleight\/images\/overandunder.jpg\")
Over and Under<\/em> by Todd Tucker. Thomas Dunne Books\/St. Martin\u2019s Press, 2008.
\nA bitter 1979 labor strike at southern Indiana\u2019s Borden Casket Company serves as the volatile backdrop for this haunting coming-of-age novel from nonfiction writer Tucker. With their fathers on opposite sides of the dispute, Andrew Jackson Gray and Thomas Jefferson Kruer, both 14, learn there is more to life than exploring caves, shooting targets with their prized M-6 Scout rifles and sneaking out on starry nights to run through the woods.
\nLangsam Cohen\t PS3620 .U33 094 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThis remarkable debut saga of intrigue and akido flashes back to a darkly opulent WWII-era Malaya. Phillip Hutton, 72, lives in serene Penang comfort, occasionally training students as an akido master \u201cteacher of teachers.\u201d A visit from Michiko Murakami sends him spiraling back into his past, where he grows up the alienated half-British, half-Chinese son of a wealthy Penang trader in the years before WWII.
\nLangsam Cohen PR9530.9.E54 G54 2008<\/strong><\/p>\nCohen Non-Fiction<\/h4>\n
\nBased on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us.
\nLangsam Cohen TL152.5 .V36 2008<\/p>\n
\nContents include: The oldest habit — Artifacts and texts — Sucksacks and whiskers — Poor goose! — The nasty instrument — Woodpeckers and other dispensers — Talking round a toothpick — The fatal martini — Improving on perfection — The butler did it — and more.
\nLangsam Cohen GT2952 .P48 2007<\/p>\nLook for these soon-to-be-released titles\u2026<\/h4>\n
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County<\/em> by Tiffany Baker. Grand Central, 2009.
\nIn an upstate New York backwater town, Truly, massive from birth, has a bleak existence with her depressed father and her china-doll\u2013like sister, Serena Jane. Truly grows at an astonishing rate\u2014her girth the result of a pituitary gland problem\u2014and after her father dies when Truly is 12, she is sloughed off to the Dyersons, a hapless farming family.<\/p>\n
\nFormer Elle editor Lee delivers a standout debut novel dealing with the rigors of love and survival during a time of war, and the consequences of choices made under duress. Claire Pendleton, newly married and arrived in Hong Kong in 1952, finds work giving piano lessons to the daughter of Melody and Victor Chen, a wealthy Chinese couple. While the girl is less than interested in music, the Chens\u2019 flinty British expat driver, Will Truesdale, is certainly interested in Claire, and vice versa.<\/p>\n