Northern Passages: Feisty Tales of 'Growing Up North

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Jerry Harju's third book, "Northern Passages," is another hilarious helping of a boy growing up in Upper Michigan in the late '30's and 40's. The short stories range from his first day at kindergarten to high school prom night. One tale deals with life in Hot Springs, Arkansas where our hero faces the danger of playing football in a school where he's the only Yankee. Other topics range from the perils of recital piano playing to the terrors of Lutheran conf... More >>

Northern Passages: Feisty Tales of 'Growing Up North

Missing Pieces: My Life As a Child Survivor of the Holocaust

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Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga & most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Eventually reunited after the war, the family moved back to Szarvas, only to face harsh repression at the hands of the Communists a few short years later. In 1957, the Barsonys immigrated to Win... More >>

Missing Pieces: My Life As a Child Survivor of the Holocaust

Northern D'Lights: Another Hilarious Account of Growing Up North

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Ever wonder what it would be like to sneak onto a ski jump when no one was looking? Repair a coffin in the middle of a funeral? Headlighting deer with your girl on the first date? Jerry Harju tells how it happens in "Northern D'Lights," his second book of autobiographical short stories on the trials and mistrials of growing up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the 1940's.... More >>

Northern D'Lights: Another Hilarious Account of Growing Up North

Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

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A journalist explores her family's hidden roots to uncover the history of her New York German-Jewish family, which attempted to hide its religious and cultural background by converting to Roman Catholicism.... More >>

Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

Immigrant Son, Book 1: An Armenian Boyhood

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The Depression in America. Hard times forgotten--but never forgotten by those who lived through a long period when a family spent all its energy in simply trying to get enough to eat. Multiple illustrations, black and white line drawings, by the author as he was growing up in Troy, New York.... More >>

Immigrant Son, Book 1: An Armenian Boyhood

Growing Up True: Lessons from a Western Boyhood

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In Growing Up True, Craig Barnes shares his stories of growing up in rural Colorado during and after World War II. As the youngest of three boys, and an imaginative one at that, he dreamed of many a swashbuckling adventure far beyond Colorado's Highline Canal. But the lessons and demands of real life always nipped at the edges of his fantastic dreams. Barnes's mother told him that he would develop moral character if he would carry water to her maple saplings. His fa... More >>

Growing Up True: Lessons from a Western Boyhood

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

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An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood-his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915-he changed his name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was... More >>

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

Costly Roots

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The compelling autobiography of a girl who was born into a Jewish family in London. When she became a Christian as a teenager, her family reacted in a way that can only be described as shocking. This is the story of how Sarah's faith in Jesus as Messiah, Saviour and Lord develops, and how she comes to undertand how valuable her Jewish roots are, so that she eventually finds fulfilment in sharing her understanding of the Old Testament foundations of the Christian fai... More >>

Costly Roots

Girl Walks into a Bar: A Memoir

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From the glittering skyscrapers of Manhattan’s media elite to the slacker haven of a fashionably low-rent L.A. bar, Strawberry Saroyan traces her journey from girl- to womanhood, as well as from fantasy to reality. A powerful and profoundly postmodern coming-of-age story, with a voice reminiscent of Liz Phair’s one moment and Mary McCarthy’s the next, Girl Walks into a Bar explores Saroyan’s struggle not only with who she is and who she wants to be but al... More >>

Girl Walks into a Bar: A Memoir

My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan

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This beautiful, spare, autobiographical narrative tells of the life of a Kurd named Azad as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture that hopes for a free Kurdish future. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his father's old Czech rifle, his brother who is fighting in the mountains. But before he is even of school age, Azad has seen friends and neighbors assassinated, and his own family... More >>

My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan

Giving Up Stealing ... for Lent!

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56 years of marriage and 11 children! The Maddens of Baltimore will surprise you, comfort you, make you laugh until you cry, and make you cry until you laugh again! From games of “pitch” to petty thievery, from over zealous confessions to exacerbating obedience, there is truly never a dull moment! But these true stories about a real family, as told by the youngest brother, are much more than just a collection of humor. Together, they weave a tapestry ab... More >>

Giving Up Stealing ... for Lent!

Childhood: The First Part of Tolstoy's Autobiographical Work

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Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.... More >>

Childhood: The First Part of Tolstoy's Autobiographical Work

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination

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In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short literary sketches, leading contemporary Polish poet Adam Zagajewski contends with the effects of coming of age, both artistically and intellectually, in a totalitarian regime. No matter their subject, Zagajewski's essays have the subtlety and resonance of poetry; his is one of the most intriguing voices in today's Europe. First time in paperback.... More >>

Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination

A Memoir of Mary Ann

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Recounts the surprisingly rich years a lively, wise child spent as a cancer patient in a home run by Dominican nuns.... More >>

A Memoir of Mary Ann

A Voice from the Mountains

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The pages of this intimate and engaging memoir feature short poetic vignettes that, when read together, create a richly vivid tale of Caponi's ideallic childhood in Pretare, a small Italian mountain village, and his contrasting immigration and experiences as a young man in modern American culture. It also incorporates Caponi's years as a U.S. soldier during WWII, which brought him to Italy and lead to his eventual return to the mountain of his youth. A sculptor by ... More >>

A Voice from the Mountains

Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods

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Resurrecting Grace is a wildly entertaining collection of memoir about the often painful and humorous experience of growing up in the one true faith. This small confessional of personal pieces from women and men about the Church, the saints, the nuns, hidden desires, and overt transgressions—and of course the guilt, the guilt, the guilt—is one for proud Catholics, former and recovering Catholics, and Catholics by association. Editor Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian m... More >>

Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods

A New England Girlhood

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For 'girls of all ages, and women who have not forgotten their girlhood'... More >>

A New England Girlhood

Nobody's Boy

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I was a shadow, the silent child, never spoken to or touched except in anger.

No hello. No goodbye. No "I love you." "Bad seed," said my mother. I was Nobody's Boy.

We moved more than 100 times by the time I was in my teens. We kids sometimes ate chicken feed, or chewed tar from telephone poles. But I bore the brunt. One Christmas my six siblings all got gifts. Not me. Not a trinket. I was Nobody.

First Mom disappeared, then Dad; ... More >>

Nobody's Boy

My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family

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Bayonne prepared me well for a larger life and a larger world. I knew who I was and where I was from. I was connected by innumerable little cords to people and places that gave me strength and identity. On The Block I was safe, secure, loved. I even had a number, 174, the address of our house, but the number wasn't a badge of anonymity. To the contrary, it marked my place, where I belonged. As moving as Russell Baker's Growing Up and Calvin Trillin's Messages fro... More >>

My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

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A funny, wistful memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic that recalls the charm of Growing Up and the tenderness of One Writer's Beginnings. "All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary journalist Michael Dirda re-creates his boyhood in rust-belt Ohio, first in... More >>

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland

Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir

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Remember those long sultry summer days at camp, the sun setting over the lake as you sang “Kumbaya”? Well, Mindy Schneider remembers her summer at Camp Kin-A-Hurra in 1974 just a wee bit differently.Not a Happy Camperchronicles a young girl’s adventures at a camp where the sun never shines, the breakfast cereal dates back to the summer of 1922, and many of the counselors speak no English. For eight eye-opening and unforgettable weeks, Mindy and her eccentric ba... More >>

Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir

The Children of Dunseverick

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This enchanting and evocative book paints a vivid portrait of a happy childhood in 1920s Ireland.... More >>

The Children of Dunseverick

Daddy's Apprentice: Incest, Corruption, and Betrayal: A Survivor's Story

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Sandy Wilson immerses you in the horrific, true account of her childhood. You travel the labyrinth of incest, crime sprees, and exploitation. Her struggle captures your heart and fuels your outrage. How does Sandy end a decade of her father's psychopathic tyranny?... More >>

Daddy's Apprentice: Incest, Corruption, and Betrayal: A Survivor's Story

Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair with The Bay City Rollers

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Funny, poignant, and totally original--this story of one girl's love affair with the Bay City Rollers is a brilliant portrait of an era.

'I loved them desperately. For four years I lived for them. It's not a pretty story.'

Bye, Bye Baby is the true tale of a passionate obsession with possibly the most untalented bunch of musicians in the history of rock and roll. Even in their heyday, Leslie, Eric, Woody, Alan, and Derek of the Bay City Rollers were h... More >>

Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair with The Bay City Rollers

War and Innocence : A Young Girl's Life in Occupied Norway

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War and Innocence is a World War II memoir written from the perspective of a young girl. Author Hanna Aasvik Helmersen, only eight years old when the war began, offers us an extremely clear picture of the Norwegian experience through the war years. Ms. Helmersen writes in a simple strong style. There are no clichs, no attempts at drama. Hanna is Everychild, uninhibited in this direct, almost understated account. She tells of the massacres, the deprivation... More >>

War and Innocence : A Young Girl's Life in Occupied Norway

An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life

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"A love story, full of a passion for literature and marked by intellectual vigor."—Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times "All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary journalist Michael Dirda re-creates his boyhood in rust-belt Ohio, first in the w... More >>

An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life

Don't Let My Mama Read This: A Southern Fried Memoir

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Meet Hadjii.

He’s got a loving family, a taste for making trouble, and a wicked sense of humor. His first book, Don’t Let My Mama Read This, is a rarity—an upbeat memoir about a blessedly normal childhood written by a natural-born storyteller. In it, he offers a warm, witty look at the pleasures and pitfalls of growing up in a close-knit Southern family, from a young man who’s just like you, only funnier.... More >>

Don't Let My Mama Read This: A Southern Fried Memoir

Pictures of Home: A Memoir of Family and City

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Pictures of Home is based on photographs that were stored on a shelf in the bedroom closet where Douglas Bukowski grew up. The pictures and the history behind them are brought to life in stunning fashion in Mr. Bukowski's spare prose. Pictures of Home is the story of a family and a city, told affectionately and endearingly by one who is part of both.... More >>

Pictures of Home: A Memoir of Family and City

Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood

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Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand there’s life with her mother, who leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and her two siblings along. Hart tells of her mom’s new life in a Hispa... More >>

Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood

On Colfax Avenue: A Victorian Childhood

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"Everyone was moving to Denver, which was mushrooming all over the prairie and giving every evidence of becoming a metropolis of real proportion"—so recalls Elizabeth Young of her childhood on Colfax Avenue. Her youth ran parallel to that of her hometown: she grew up in the 1890s in the midst of Denver’s rapid metamorphosis from frontier town to modern city. Young’s memoir provides vivid glimpses of the people and events of this heady era, along with the... More >>

On Colfax Avenue: A Victorian Childhood

Displaced Person: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, And America

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In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood—one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi before granting her access to the American dream. Despite her hard life as a refugee, Ella finds solace in others and retains her indomitably inquisitive spirit. Throughout her ordeals, she never relinquishes hope or ... More >>

Displaced Person: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, And America

Don't Let Them See You Cry: Overcoming a Nazi Childhood

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She was the daughter of a prominent Nazi the Third Reich s minister of health who was also an SS lieutenant general and yet she never heard any outward expressions of her parents virulently anti-Semitic beliefs.

She grew up dependent on her father s consistent warmth and attention, the man she would cherish above all others, the sun in my life. She grew up protected, her country s darkest, most obscene moments hidden behind a veil of normalcy.

A scho... More >>

Don't Let Them See You Cry: Overcoming a Nazi Childhood

Charity's Children: The Tway it Was

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It was my fortune to be the firstborn of my mountain mother and my coal mining father in an exciting time of transformation and awakening. My childhood began in Tway Mining Camp, a small state-of-the-art coal mining camp just outside Harlan, Kentucky nestled in the great Appalachian Mountains. My formative years were spent in "Tways." In addition to my unusual mother and talented father, I was nurtured by those who lived in "Upper Camp." They were black. They were... More >>

Charity's Children: The Tway it Was

Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood

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'Albany recreates a landscape of her childhood where misery is a faraway sound floating above a voice speaking in tones of affection, terror, rage, love and, most of all, a hipster's defiance.'-Greil Marcus

One day we're walking down the street, passing a newsstand, when I stop and pick up a magazine (maybe Life) with Thelonious Monk of the cover. I kiss it, and say, 'Hi Monk.' Dad, combusting with pride, picks me up, looks at me with those beautiful gray-gre... More >>

Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood

Buffalo Nickel: A Memoir

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Through intensely passionate prose, this unique autobiography charts Salas' dramatic coming of age in the conflicting shadows of two older brothers: one drug addict and a petty criminal, the other an intellectual prodigy.... More >>

Buffalo Nickel: A Memoir

Memoirs of Childhood and Youth

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.... More >>

Memoirs of Childhood and Youth

Bosnian Counterpoint

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"Bosnian Counterpoint" evokes childhood memories of a Bosnia in which diverse ethnic and religious groups lived in mutual respect and tolerance. "Bosnian Counterpoint" was translated into Swedish and published in Lund as "Bosnisk Corsvaeg" in 1996. Subsequently, it was published in Serbo-Croatian in Tuzla, Bosnia, as "Bosanski Kontrapunkt" in 1999. ... More >>

Bosnian Counterpoint

The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging

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Fusing an intimate memoir with an outspoken critique of organized religion's failure to welcome all into its community, The House Where the Hardest Things Happened is the moving story of one woman's search for a sense of belonging.

Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, Kate Young Caley attends a strong community church where everyone is treated like family, members selflessly help one another, and all the kids are made to feel special. Then, suddenly, ... More >>

The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir About Belonging

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

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"There’s no news like hearing irrefutable proof that you’re not the sole cause of your parents'’ woes, your father's drinking, your unshakable feeling that you’re not put together quite right and finding out the problem all along was your father's unrequited yearning for angora." --Noelle Howey from Dress Codes

Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father... More >>

Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine

Unnecessary Talking

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In this warm and humorous memoir, the boy you meet is irrepressible, devilish, curious, rambunctious, imaginative, sports-minded, friendly, naive, and absolutely joyful - definitely the kind of boy who would get in trouble from his teacher for 'unnecessary talking.' Mike O'Connor's stories remind a reader of what it was like to grow up in small-town 1950s America.... More >>

Unnecessary Talking

Tiny Titan

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A new kind of MotherÂ’s Day story for all the countless mothers in America who dedicate their lives to exceptional children with special medical and mental health care needs. The story and the children are real. In 1989, the Yurceks sixth child, Becca was born with a rare genetic disorder, and while she struggled to survive, her family tumbled into poverty. This is the true and inspirational story of their journey out of poverty and the many miracles they receive... More >>

Tiny Titan