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Ruchi Kohli was born in New Delhi, India, and moved to the United States of America at the age of nine. She took an interest in writing poetry as a means to bring about an awareness of the nature of things that take place in everyday life. She is the youngest of three daughters. Her hobbies include singing, going to the health club, reading, dancing, playing tennis, and watching movies. Her interests include politics, social justice toward all humans and animals, and advancement in modern medicine. She has committed to authoring this book—and all her proceeds from sales of this book are being donated to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

"A collection of poems and illustrations that invoke one’s imagination to draw our own lines of thought. Our mind is like a canvas that holds colors of thought painted by experience and emotion. These vivid arrays of feelings are expressed by words and pictures to shape our reality. The design of our art in its play with size, shapes, style, tone, and intensity is challenged by space and time. Its creativity is defined from the boundaries established through conditioning whether traditional or cultural beliefs which develop into our frame of reference."

"Animal Instinct"

by Dorothy Hayes

( ISBN 0595364896 )

It is a novel about a journalist

who quits her job to go work for

an animal rights organization. The

journalist soon discovers that her

boss is emotionally unstable and

toxic. The novel is based on the

author's experience of quitting her

own job to go work in an AR

organization. Names are changed

and many of the characters are amalgamations( but only slightly). The fictitious names she uses for various groups are a bit tounge-in-cheek and are funny. I would sum this book up as "The Devil Wears Prada for vegans".

The bulk of the story is about how the members of the "fictitious"

organization take abuse from their boss and work around her out of their intense devotion to helping animals. This is one aspect of the book I liked. While it painted the boss and other heads of various fictitious AR orgs as being eccentric, it painted the people who work for these organizations as heroic inenduring what they endured, because of their intense love for animals.

It paints them as intensely decent super hard working people.

The main character who works closely with the fictitious boss gets most of the abuse. Her soul searching about why she stays involves detailed descriptions of various kinds of animal abuse that stop just short of being educational..

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“Devil Wears Prada For Vegans”

Posted by beforewisdom @ 2006-08-23 10:56:20 EST

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Mink, a story set in the Apennine's, is a stirring tale of adventure, courage and the quest for survival following a special mink; a journey through harrowing trials posed by adversaries and predators. It is about pathways and bridges that must be crossed against incredible odds.

"So many eyes in the dark. Eyes that change from moment to moment. Closed eyes that can't see anymore. Frightened eyes that don't scream anymore. Half-closed eyes that don't care anymore. Angry eyes that can't fight anymore. In their enclosures, they wait quietly. Parents clutch their children. Males clutch their females. Some have no one left to clutch, so they clutch the wire mesh that imprisons them. They know where they are. They know what happens here."

As an educator, this book was written to make young adults aware of the atrocities that occur on mink farms and I believe this education should begin early. The book describes what happens when an animal is hunted for its pelt told through the mind and the eyes and the heart of the minks that are to die so that they can be worn as a luxury item. Robyn can be reached at

rarhanna@comcast.net.