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Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl A haunting evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation Jacobs classic narrative written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861 tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves In writing this extraordinary memoir which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmothers attic Jacobs skillfully used the literary genres of her times presenting a thoroughly feminist narrative that portrays the evils and traumas of slavery particularly for women and children Now with an introduction by renowned historian Nell Irvin Painter this edition also includes A True Tale of Slavery the brief memoir of Harriet Jacobs brother John S Jacobs originally published in a London periodical in 1861 Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan iUniverse Little did Constantine and Lydia Shapiro know that as their families each fled from war revolution and anti-Semitism in early 20th Century Russia that they would meet in Berlin and fall in love As Hitler rose to power they again faced persecution Realizing the danger of remaining in Europe they continued their odyssey first to Palestine and ultimately to the relative safety of China and Japan In 1931 Tokyo their son Isaac was born The first eleven years of his life were relatively stable except for the intimidating influence of his father a strict disciplinarian But the sudden onset of World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor altered the course of the familys life yet again They moved from city to city in war-torn Japan surviving privations and the bombing of Japan by the United States The subsequent US occupation led Isaac to be befriended by a US Marine Colonel from far-off Arkansas Colonel later Lieutenant General John Calvin Toby Munn gave Isaac Ike the opportunity to immigrate to America Continuing his familys circuitous journey Isaac landed in Hawaii in the summer of 1946 ready to experience yet another culture From the young age of fifteen Isaac has been encouraged to share his familys fascinating story With this book he has finally accomplished what so many have asked him to do From Manhattan to Mississippi: A New Yorker Falls in Love with the South Quail Ridge Press, Inc When Daisy left the razzle-dazzle of New York City to move to Mississippi she took a huge leap of faith r r Daisy Karam-Read an urbanite to the core thrived on Manhattans fast tempo and glamour and never anticipated living in a sleepy southern town Marriage to the southern gentleman of her dreams brought her abruptly to Mississippi casting this international travel-loving Yankee into a cpmplex culture unlike anything she had ever known r Could all the negative remarks bad jokes and insensitive comments Karem-Read had heard about the South -and Mississippi in particular- be true Daisy takes the reader on an emotional and intellectual journey while uncovering many truths about an often misunderstood region Her entertaining essays are a must-read for southerners and Yankees alike perhaps an eye-opener for all Americans r A Drummers Life: Forty Years in Rock and Roll Evan Brown started in teenage rock and roll bands when American Bandstand was in its infancy Over his more than forty year career he either played with the greats or jammed with them after hours or just sat around and talked From cruise ships to Vegas Route 66 to Alaska he has a career of been there done there Lots of humor a little gun play and of course naked women New Title 1 Conciliar Press Subtitle The Life and Letters of St Dimitri Klepinin Martyred during the Holocaust r by Helene Arjakovsky-Klepinine r In February of 1943 Fr Dimitri Klepinin an Orthodox priest serving the Russian migr community in occupied Paris was arrested by the Nazis for issuing false baptismal certificates to Jews One year later he did in the concentration camp a Dora near Buchenwald a camp know as the Man-Easter Fr Dimitri an associate of Mother Maria Skobotsova was glorified by the Orthodox Church on January 16 2004 In this volume his daughter born only five years before his arrest lovingly tells the story of her fathers life his early search for faith and meaning in a life upended by revolution and exile his decision to enter the priesthood his devotion to his wife and children his sacrificial service to his parish at the rue de Lourmel and his heroic decision to do all within his power to save the Jews who came to him desperate for protection from the growing Nazi menace Peggy-Alone High above the shrill exclamations of surprise and terror came that thin silvery command which the dog great black fellow that he was obeyed at once and his flight in pursuit of those daring petticoats which had intruded on his masters orchard was brought to an ignominious end