A New York Times Notable Book A deeply affecting memoir, Still Life in Harlem is Eddy L. Harris's insightful look at a neighborhood - both real and metaphorical. He reveals the magic of Harlem, as it becomes home and spirit in his masterful hands. Through his keen perceptions we enter the images and passions Harlem has always conjured, coming to understand its significance to those who live there and to those who only yearn to come to it. Unforgettably moving, this book chronicles how the world we know as Harlem came to be - from its pastoral days as a New York suburb to its days as the mecca of the black universe to its decline into a symbol of urban despair. Harris is torn over what this community has become and remorseful for having abandoned it. Lured back by Harlem's enchanting whispers in the ear of his imaginings, he returns in reverie. With amazing emotional depth and candor, he explores issues of identity through Harlem's sturdy people - folks with eyes dimmed from too few chances and with life worries burdensome enough to bend backs. He also examines his taut relationship with his father, juxtaposing a generation that aspired to do everything in its power to ensure that their sons and daughters would enjoy a better life against a recent generation cornered by resignation and surrender. Through it all, in what can be seen as only a stretch toward grace, Harris discovers his need for Harlem and Harlem's need for him, locating the life in this rich community that still harbors the embers of hope.
THE BOOK THEY TRIED TO BAN! Fox is coming out of retirement. He has nothing to lose and now more violent and dangerous than ever before. Outraged by what is happening to his home and country he embarks on a strategy of relentless bloody mayhem to take back the streets of England. Fox is the catalyst to right the wrongs forced upon the people by the deaf and greedy politicians who squandered state money for their own interests. As civil war spills out across England and into Europe Judgement Day is looming for the guilty and there is no escape.
For black Americans from the north, a crossing into the South has always been a meaningful transition, a journey weighted with the burdens of history and oppression. Writing with real emotion and a twist of irony, Eddy L. Harris combines the lively detail of travel writing with a brilliant exploration of race in America.
Fox is a troubled man. A criminal with attitude. He's dangerous. He lives by a crude moral code with loyalty at its core. When his friend is beaten senseless by a gang of feral youths he's had enough. His demons are in charge. He puts together a motley crew and exacts a terrible revenge on the perpetrators of the crime. But Fox and his crew don't stop there. They embark on a mission to clean up ?the filthy underbelly of society?. London by night is their killing ground. An orgy of violence is unleashed as the avengers hunt down their prey. Bloody retribution is meted out without mercy. This story reflects the true facts of the dark hostile underbelly of a society which normal people choose to ignore. It exposes real life on the streets of a city that has been lost to low lifes that will ultimately destroy it. Read this book and become aware of what is happening beneath the thin veneer of your blinkered lives.
It's magic! Every year, the Christmas Village comes to life...but only if all the people and pieces of the village are set up by sunset on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The Real House children, Annie, Maggie, and Joanie don't have time to finish setting up the village before they leave for Gramma and Grampa's house the day after Thanksgiving. With just a little magic left, and a lot of cooperation, the people of the Christmas Village come alive and get to work, racing against time and overcoming obstacles to finish setting up the village. Grannie Noelle, her faithful dog, Holly-Honey, the magic owls, Ora and Ona, and all the wonderful children and residents of the village share ideas and work together hoping to refuel the Glow-Mometer before sunset on Sunday. Will they be able to accomplish this magical task in time, or will they just be ordinary Christmas Village figures this season who cannot move or talk?
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From selling drugs in a street corner, Jonas Victor, through particular circumstances, opens his hearth and finds God. Unfortunately he also witnessed how low some men with the moral responsibility to elevate human souls, can let their basic twisted minds get the best of them. For Jonas all these represent a path to God.
After being sentenced to life in prison, Eddy had an encounter with God in a jail cell in Brooklyn. As the story unfolds his faith grows to the point that he does not believe he will be in prison long. After a year he is released. Restoring his life from a gang member and a drug addict, God also healed him of a blood disease due to intravenous drug use. As he became a certified addiction counselor/mental health professional he began working in a mental health facility, and the lessons he has learned are laid out in this memoir for the addict and the addict's family. Various kinds of fears which shape our beliefs and how we feel about a particular race or nationality or even ourselves are hardwired into our brains--this memoir addresses those fears in an introspective personal way, and by example a way to overcome them.
Spanning approximately forty years, these memoirs are tied together with the thematic thread of a writer-to-be coming of age. They chronicle his discoveries of nature, family, love, community and self. For several years he becomes immersed in music as a member of an R&B and jazz band. During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement he narrowly escapes, but has a close look at death by the hands of law enforcement officers in of all places, a college campus. He drops out of college, fights off drug abuse and winds up in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. After regaining his equilibrium, he continues his higher education, and realizes some measure of personal success. During this time he is recruited by the CIA. The final piece, "Rewind", reveals a mature, stable, self-aware man who knows who he is and where he fits into the world as he now sees it-a still-racist world that is reluctant to embrace him, but one in which he is determined and prepared to realize his long-recurring dream of being a writer. Engaging and articulate, these memoirs go beyond being one person's life excerpts, to reflecting American history and culture, and human search for self.
After being sentenced to life in prison, Eddy had an encounter with God in a jail cell in Brooklyn. As the story unfolds his faith grows to the point that he does not believe he will be in prison long. After a year he is released. Restoring his life from a gang member and a drug addict, God also healed him of a blood disease due to intravenous drug use. As he became a certified addiction counselor/mental health professional he began working in a mental health facility, and the lessons he has learned are laid out in this memoir for the addict and the addict’s family. Various kinds of fears which shape our beliefs and how we feel about a particular race or nationality or even ourselves are hardwired into our brains—this memoir addresses those fears in an introspective personal way, and by example a way to overcome them.
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