{"title":"James Berry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ajeemah-and-his-son-paperback","title":"Ajeemah and His Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1807, at the height of the slave trade, Ajeemah and his son, Atu, are snatched by slave traders from their home in Africa while en route to deliver a dowry to Atu's bride-to-be. Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations'never to see one another again. \"Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances.\"'SLJ. \"Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poet's terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . 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Ajeemah and Atu are then taken to Jamaica and sold to neighboring plantations'never to see one another again. \"Readers will come away with a new sense of respect for those who maintained their dignity and humanity under the cruelest of circumstances.\"'SLJ. \"Each moment here of the Jamaican-born poet's terse, melodious narrative is laden with emotion. . . . Brilliant, complex, powerfully written.\"--K. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notable Children's Book of 1993 (ALA)\u003cbr\u003e1993 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)\u003cbr\u003e1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)\u003cbr\u003e1992 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)\u003cbr\u003eNotable 1992 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS\/CBC)\u003cbr\u003eBulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (C) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1993 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)\u003cbr\u003eChildren's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress)\u003cbr\u003e1993 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51452290007263,"sku":"9780064405232","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/djDlI3nbjK9780064405232.webp?v=1790286753"},{"product_id":"the-valley-of-dry-bones-paperback-1","title":"The Valley of Dry Bones - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is dark. The sea is calm. Overhead stars are sparkling with the rhythm of soft, background music. Nature gives its best while a large darkened freighter waits in international waters for two hundred men, women and children being smuggled from the shores of a country known for its Holocaust history. Those boarding will carry the memory and scars of the Romanian Holocaust, now a country denying exit visas for its Jewish population. The atmosphere onboard the waiting ship is laden with fear, the kind that entertains the unknown, the unexpected. Systemic forces of anti-Semitism that brought on the Holocaust still lurk in the shadows raising the level of danger. Brave and experienced men directing the operation bear a common burden: all carry painful memories of relatives and friends buried somewhere in unmarked mass graves. Tonight they will use they're pain of history to forge new beginnings for many. Those in the radio room are reporting to the central figure responsible for this operation, a man of great wealth whose family perished in the Holocaust and whose mission it is to bring life to Ezekiel's dry bones by delivering members of the Diaspora to the shores of Israel. Sudden flashes of light alert seamen that a vessel is nearing. Fear of the unknown tightens its grip. A foreboding eerie silence hangs heavy. Each knows the consequence of failure. 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In this volume, Berry offers insights into the various methods he employed as an executioner and what it was like witnessing people's final moments. Contents include: \"The Executioner at Home by H. Snowden Ward\", \"How I Became an Executioner\", \"My First Execution\", \"My Method of Execution\", \"Other Methods of Execution\", \"Two Terrible Experiences\", \"How Murderers Die\", \"From the Murderer's Point of View\", \"On Capital Punishment\", etc. Read \u0026amp; Co. 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