The Human Spirit Virtual Book Publicity Tour September 2011

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Join Carole Eglash-Kosoff, author of the nonfiction book, The Human Spirit (Author House), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 5 – 30 2011 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Carole Kosoff

Carole Eglash-Kosoff lives and writes in Valley Village, California. She graduated from UCLA and spent her career in business and in teaching. In 2006 her husband, mother, and brother died within a month of one another, causing her to reevaluate her life. She volunteered to work with the American Jewish World Service and was sent to South Africa to teach. She returned there a year later, having met an amazing array of men and women who had devoted their lives during the worst years of apartheid to helping the children, the elderly, and the disabled of the townships. These people cared when no one else did and their efforts continue to this day. It is their stories that needed to be told. They are apartheid’s unheralded heroes and The Human Spirit is their story.

Carole has also completed a historic fiction novel, a pre- and post- Civil War interracial love story set in Louisiana, When Stars Align.

In addition to writing Mrs. Eglash-Kosoff has established the …a better way! Scholarship program, which provides money and mentoring for several worthy local high school students for both their first and second year of college.

All profits from the sale of The Human Spirit will be donated to Ikamva Labantu and other South African charities. The book is available at Amazon, Author House and Barnes & Noble on-line sites as a hardback, paperback and as an e-book.

An avid student of history, Carole Eglash-Kosoff is a native of Wisconsin. After graduating from UCLA, she spent her career in the apparel industry and teaching fashion retail, marketing, and sales at the college level. Her first book is . She has also established the …a better way! Scholarship program, which provides money and mentoring for worthy high school students for both t

You can visit her website at www.whenstarsalign-thebook.com or connect with her at Facebook at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553077163.

About The Human Spirit

Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run democracy are still being revealed. Some individuals toiled publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to improve the welfare of the Black and Coloured populations that had been so neglected. Nelson Mandela was still in prison; clean water and sanitation barely existed; AIDS was beginning to orphan an entire generation.

Meanwhile a white, Jewish, middle class woman, joined with Tutu, Millie, Ivy, Zora and other concerned Black women, respectfully called Mamas, to help those most in need, often being beaten and arrested by white security police.

This book tells the story of these women and others who have spent their adult lives making South Africa a better place for those who were the country’s most disadvantaged.

Read the Excerpt!

Thoughts of a mother living in

a Black township during apartheid:

When we awaken each morning with nothing, the smallest most insignificant something can bring a smile. A larger plastic jug in which to carry clean water and make fewer trips to the distant fresh water tap, a little sun to dry the damp floor beneath us, even a warm body to snuggle with at night can help get us through another day. Food is expensive; jobs are scarce and pay provides us barely enough to survive. We are less than nothing to the Whites we meet. Drugs, alcohol, and sex, readily available, provide brief escapes from hopelessness. There has to be something better.

Prologue

A Changing World

The human spirit is that essence of mind and body that allows each of us to exert all of our energies to overcome the worst difficulties of life that we might encounter. One such travail faced by a wide swath of mankind is the denigration of one group of people by another. It is one of the uglier parts of the human personality that has evolved. Children bully those who are smaller or shyer than others. Adults openly abuse those of a different color, a different ethnicity, or those who have a different belief system.

The founders of our country proclaimed that ‘all men are created equal,’ but it was only partially true. In truth, it only pertained to white Christian males. Slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person and Jews and Asians were excluded as less than desirable.

America fought a bloody Civil War in the mid-nineteenth century to end the practice of men being allowed to own other men as property. But it would take another entire century for our nation to acknowledge the disparity of opportunity between Black and White. A forty-two year old Negro woman, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a White man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Five years later four Black college students tried to get served at a Woolworth’s lunch counter reserved for Whites in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were refused.

They and others had begun to oppose a system that was morally corrupt. They believed they had an inherent right to be treated fairly…no better, and no worse. Flames spread across the country as many Whites joined Blacks in a peaceful Civil Rights movement that changed the landscape of our country.

Other countries around the globe faced similar injustices and struggled to overthrow their own national yoke of oppression. On the continent of Africa colonies that had been controlled by European countries for hundreds of years sought their independence, occasionally in peaceful transition, more often through bloodshed. Ethiopia fought to free itself from Italy. Angola and Mozambique fought off their Portuguese masters. British-controlled Rhodesia was unwillingly divided into Zimbabwe and Zambia. The Congo gained independence from Belgium, and there were others.

At the southern tip of that continent, however, a prosperous, White dominated government, and an integral member of the British Commonwealth, stood resolute. The Union of South Africa, the continent’s largest and most developed country, would not be intimidated. Wealthy and exploited by White settlers for nearly two centuries, its four million Afrikaans and British descendents would not sanction any form of equality with the fourteen million Xhosa, Zulu, Bantu and Coloureds whose ancestors often dated back millennia. Whites controlled 98% of the nation’s wealth and they were not eager to share it.

In 1948 a newly elected government, controlled by a coalition of ultra right wing parties established a formal policy of ‘apartheid,’ a separation of the races…a complete political and economic subjugation of the country’s majority. During the forty-five years that followed, the White entrenched minority would become more strident…more violent. And the non-white majority would suffer!

Slowly a few individuals began to rise from the ooze of their existence and object to their treatment. They convinced others and a movement began.

But the Union of South Africa did not magically shake off the yoke of oppression imposed by the policies of apartheid. The government did not gracefully cede its White domination over the country’s Black majority because of Nelson Mandela. Nor were its newfound freedoms the singular result of the efforts of Bishop Desmond Tutu or the sudden magnanimity of the country’s elected President, F.W. De Klerk. These were among the many leaders whose wise judgment and desire to have a bloodless transition we all remember.

What allowed the Union of South Africa to become the independent, majority led and democratic Republic of South Africa were the cumulative energies and pressures of its people, those who were imprisoned, those who were killed, and those in the townships and informal settlements who worked without fanfare to improve their lives and the well-being of their children.

These men and women saw the squalor around them …children wandering the dirt streets while their parents looked for food…seniors without heat or a hot meal, the blind, crippled and sick, dying of neglect. And a new scourge, HIV, inflicting large numbers of the population with AIDS, leaving hundreds of thousands of children orphaned by parents dead from the disease.

Old and young, Black and Coloured, economically disadvantaged….these were the most vulnerable!

Caring individuals struggled to organize their communities but their resources were negligible. Government and businesses ignored them but these few weren’t entirely alone. Despite severe prohibitions, a few White liberals connected with these caring persons to bring small measures of justice, fairness, and opportunity to better the lives of those who had so little. Together Black, White, and Coloured men and women worked to set up the basic services that have evolved today as recognized social support networks.

All that can be said at the end of an individual’s life is that he, or she, made a difference and that their family, their community, and those they touched, were better for them having lived and given of themselves.

This, then, is a story of important people; individuals who helped bring equality to the land. People who made a difference …men and women you probably have never heard of.

Read the Reviews!

The more I read, the more I enjoyed it. Helen Lieberman is truly a credit to humanity–if the world had more like her, what a wonderful world it would be! I am now looking forward to reading about the Hayes-Tilden times. Merci pour tout.

— Dennis Hill, attorney, Encino, California

Dearest Friend…came home last night after a trying trip to Cape Town and to my surprise I saw a package on our dining room table …from the USA and hastily I opened and WOW!!!!! your book and the cherry on the top is that I am featured in your book ….I am stunned and have no words to express my appreciation and gratitude towards you …i started early morning to read and I am really fascinated by your amazing work…you have outdone yourself and did an absolute great work…i enjoy the book tremendously this far and cannot wait to start read and learn about this amazing people you write about. Thabiso is in Heaven and cannot stop talking about your magnificent writing skill and great humanitarian works…

— From your St. Helena Bay Family, Johan and Team

The Human Spirit Virtual Book Tour Schedule

Monday, September 5

Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

“This book tells the story of these women and others who have spent
their adult lives making South Africa a better place for those who were the
country’s most disadvantaged.”

Tuesday, September 6

Book reviewed at Reading, Reading & Life

“Take a break from your normal reading and give this book a shot. I dare you not to be touched to the core when you are finished.”

Wednesday, September 7

Interviewed at Blogcritics

“I had always wanted to be a writer, and I did some before I met my husband, but in the 20+ years we were together I didn’t write. It all returned when I was in Africa…separated from old friends, writing frequently about those I met. Those stories eventually became The Human Spirit.”

Thursday, September 8

Book spotlighted at Book Marketing Buzz

“These men and women saw the squalor around them …children wandering the dirt streets while their parents looked for food…seniors without heat or a hot meal, the blind, crippled and sick, dying of neglect. And a new scourge, HIV, inflicting large numbers of the population with AIDS, leaving hundreds of thousands of children orphaned by parents dead from the disease.”

Friday, September 9

Interviewed at The Book Connection

“Five years ago when I lost my husband, mother, and brother within thirty days of one another, I thought my life was over.”

Tuesday, September 13

Guest blogging at Beyond the Books

Get to Know My Book – Part 1 – “The human spirit is that essence of mind and body that allows each of us to exert all of our energies to overcome the worst difficulties of life that we might encounter. One such travail faced by a wide swath of humanity is the denigration of one group of people by another. It is one of the uglier parts of the human personality that has evolved. Children bully those who are smaller or shyer than others. Adults openly abuse those of a different color, a different ethnicity, or those who have a different belief system.”

Wednesday, September 14

Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Get to Know My Book – Part 2 – “Fedenze is an attractive tall, black girl from the Eastern Cape area. She had ‘matriculated’ (graduated from high school) and moved with her family to Hout Bay, Cape Town, where better opportunities might exist. She got a job as a Project Administrator with Iziko Lo Lwazi, a local craft NGO. Today she and I made sales calls trying to sell lovely wine bags decorated with ostrich feathers.”

Thursday, September 15

Guest blogging at As the Pages Turn

Get to Know My Book – Part 3 -“Killing and looting were rampant. John and Jean left with nothing…no pension, little for their home and only what they could carry under the guise of vacationing for a week. The country now has a 6000% inflation rate and surplus farm production is long gone. Nearly ½ million people have left over open borders to South Africa and they account for major increases in local crime. Meanwhile Jean and John, like most of the country’s middle-class whites, scattered and now live at a far lower economic level. John spends most of his time fishing…he loves to fish, primarily fly-fishing. They are both bright and articulate, longing for the pleasantness of a life that will never return.”

Friday, September 16

Guest blogging at Allvoices

“Marshall, 4 years old when he arrived, could only walk on all fours and couldn’t speak. Brain damage had stunted his growth. Now at six he sings, walks, is toilet trained and has entered kindergarten. Myrna was abandoned when her mother realized she couldn’t care for a child that would never grow to care for herself. Now at 2 ½ the caregivers are trying to stimulate her sensory and motor skills. Progress is slow but her bent body is now a little straighter and responds a lot better. Brendan, five, was accidentally thrown off a bridge while playing with a friend. He suffered irreparable brain damage. He, too, was abandoned. Care and physical therapy are making small inroads.”

Monday, September 19

Book spotlighted at Examiner

Tuesday, September 20

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

“There are people around the world who suffer and who have suffered. We need to help them and recognize that even as we have problems, they rarely rise to mere survival as in other parts of the world.”

Thursday, September 22

Guest blogging at Cafe of Dreams

Monday, September 26

Interviewed at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, September 27

Interviewed at Divine Caroline

Wednesday, September 28

Book reviewed at More: Love. Life. Action.

Thursday, September 29

Guest participant at Literarily Speaking’s September Book Panel

Carole Kosoff’s THE HUMAN SPIRIT VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on September 5 and end on September 30 ’11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

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