For the first two years of her life she feels love, but suddenly her protector is gone! Shes too young to even know her Mother is gone. From the innocence of childhood, to the growing sickness and abuse in her life, she is confused and full of fear! How will she ever make it when there is no time to wonderonly time to survive? She wants to be the good little girl, and please her family; she wants to be loved! She wants to be right with God! The confusion, pain, and abuse are unbearable! The family sickness is more than one can comprehend! What she is asked to do is impossiblefor the sake of her siblingsshe MUST do it, but is she strong enough? Walk through the journey with her from her earthly father to her heavenly Father.

Karen Shenfeld's careful, concentrated language draws the reader in. Hers is a charged, physical world where figure skates are ?a shock of alpine white, ? and the Torah's ?crowned letters dance.? It is also a world marked by profound metaphysical connections where fireflies flash ?coded signals of their secret selves.? There is an irresistible brilliance and humour to several of the poems and Shenfeld's tributes to her redhot Jewish mamas - Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, and Sophie Tucker - will leave the lover of poetry wishing she?d offered more. - Kenneth Sherma

The Fathers Hands a 31 daily devotional with poems that refl ect upon The Fathers Character. The inspiration came from going through a deep trial and God spoke to me from Isaiah 41:10: Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. I said to God okay what is at your right hand? His answer was to look up passages with His right hand. There were thirty one days for a monthly devotional to ponder and apply to ones life.

By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.

Pillars of Lace is an eclectic collection of the finest writing by Italian-Canadian women. It is the first anthology of its kind in Canada. This anthology showcases excerpts of a variety of writing styles: poetry, short stories, film scripts, novels, personal memoirs, and journalism. Pillars of Lace is the perfect starting point for an introduction to and a taste of Italian-Canadian women writers. The material previously published or written in French or Italian has been translated into English. Many established, award-winning writers are represented: Maris Ardizzi, Angela Baldassarre, Carole David, Fiorells De Luca Calce, Isabella Colalillo-Katz, Mary di Michele, Caterina Edwards, Anna Foschi, Darlene Madott, Mary Melfi, Gianna Patriarca, Panny Petrone, Liliane Welch, Bianca Zagolin, Carmen Laurenza-Ziolkowski, and other recently and unpublished writers.

“‘You wouldn’t know anyone,’ Jim Berkheiser writes in his poem ‘Slide Show,’ but of course we know everyone in the earnest, downtoearth evocations of family and friends that comprise In Mercurial Days. From childhood games to adult farewells, the poems in this collection take us on a journey that is instantly recognizable. With a poet’s sense of paradox, Jim Berkheiser offers us images that are at once individual and shared.” —Jean LeBlanc, Skating in Concord

Kang-i Sun Chang is Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. In her memoir, Journey Through the White Terror, she tells the powerful story of her father Paul Sun (1919-2007). Along with numerous others, Sun was imprisoned more than 60 years ago during the “White Terror”, the decade following the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government from Mainland China to Taiwan in mid-December 1949. During this time, the Nationalist government implemented a policy of “better to kill ten thousand by mistake than to set one free by oversight,” and as a result, many innocent civilians such as the author’s father became victims of ferocious searches and persecutions. At the time of her father’s arrest, Prof. Chang was not quite six years old; when her father returned home, she was almost sixteen. Having witnessed the injustice of her father’s imprisonment and the freedom their family later enjoyed in America, she felt compelled to write this story. Prof. Chang’s account of how the family survived the White Terror makes her book one of the most intense and thrilling works on the subject. But the book is also about soul-searching and the healing of a childhood trauma. It is a true story about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Love and religion in such circumstances prove to be the ultimate deliverance. All this is described in considerable detail in this extraordinary memoir.

Celebrating every little girl's childhood hero and the special dad and daughter bond!