About this title: From the author of "Roots", this is the tale of a Christmas rebirth and redemption that takes place before the Civil War, about how the remarkable Underground Railroad changed the lives of a white Southern man and a black slave.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gramercy
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780517162699ISBN:0517162695
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Edition: Book Club Edition. Large Print.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. 1988 Doubleday large print hard cover. NOT EX LIB! Clean, bright pages with little reading wear, firm spine ends, light edgewear. Dust jacket has mild edgewear & light cover scuffing. 176 p. Large Print. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday, N. Y.
Date Published: 1988
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. X-library with normal flaws.....The hard cover and the jacket has very light shelf wear.......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by..... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. This is a very nice hardcover copy. DJ is VG. P/O name is on FFEP. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1st printing, 1988
Description: Very Good+/Very Good+ hard cover. 12mo, cloth, 101pp. edgewear, crease mark back and small fold front flap, dust jacket. slight shelfwear. novel. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Woodcuts By David Frampton. Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book has prev. owner's name scribbled out, dj is price clipped. read more
"A Different Kind of Christmas by Alex Haley "Harpin' John cupped his harmonica. He played. Fletcher heard the melody of "Silent Night" as the Christmas moonlight bathed the faces of the black man playing and the white man listening."
As I read this small book packed with a wonderful story, I wished Alex Haley were still here writing his heart out. The man was brilliant. "A Different Kind of Christmas" is mainly about, Fletcher Randall, a white Southerner. Fletcher grew up on a thousand acre plantation in North Carolina. The plantation was worked and served by over a hundred slaves. Slaves owned by Fletcher's parents. His parents send him North to go to Princeton University in New Jersey. In New Jersey it's not easy for a slaveholding son to make many friends.
During Fletcher Randall's university days, he meets three brothers who are Quakers. As a sect, the Quakers played a huge role in helping slaves escape on the Underground Railroad or giving a kindly hand to the slaves following the North Star in some other way, giving the slaves a hiding place, food and/or giving a new route out of danger from dogs and slave patrollers. Although the Quakers played the biggest part in helping slaves to freedom, the Native Americans also helped. Their knowledge of the forests and rivers was tremendous.
Alex Haley's story takes place before the Civil War and before the word "secession" was used. It also a plan for a Holy night, Christmas Eve. Mention is made of Harpin' John hearing the German emigrants sing "Stille Nicht." The beauty of the song sung by the Germans impressed him. Later, he would try to recapture the tune on his harmonica."
"Alex Haley was such a brilliant story-teller. This book is a total classic. It's a quick read but you definitely bond with the characters, feeling their emotions. Anyone who has every questioned the status quo would enjoy this book."
"This is an absolutely wonderful book to read to your children at Christmas as well as an uplifting story about human kindness. It is a shame that it is not more well known because it is a gem."
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