River of Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood

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“David Lee Thompson has produced a caring and introspective personal account of the vanishing Appalachian culture. This way of life existed for over twelve generations, teaching its people the importance of family, community, and religion. Thompson’s old home place, ‘now empty and lonely,’ holds ‘faint whispers of what was once alive with laughter and reminiscences.’ His boyhood memories of life on Bowen Creek represent the last vestiges o... More >>

River of Memories: An Appalachian Boyhood

Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia: the Cratis Williams Chronicles.

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Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a log cabin on Caines Creek, Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1911. To use his own terms, he was "a complete mountaineer." This book is an edited compilation of Williams’ memoirs of his childhood. These autobiographical reminiscences often take the form of a folktale, with ... More >>

Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia: the Cratis Williams Chronicles.

Crazy in the Kitchen

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During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and mo... More >>

Crazy in the Kitchen

A Child in Community

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Delightful and inspirational, Veronika van Duin's story is strangely familiar - familiar because we've all been through the toils of school, friendships, struggling with studies and adolescent longings, and trying to sort out our identities. Strange too, because the author, a perfectly normal little girl, was brought up in Camphill communities all over Britain, where she lived alongside disabled children and people with special needs. The idea came from the educati... More >>

A Child in Community

POPCORN POPPIN ON THE APRICOT TREE

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Within the candor and innocence of a child's mind emerges an extraordinary true story--Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree. It's 1965, and Annie Peters is just eight-years-old when her mother is committed full-time to a mental health institution. Uprooted by their mother's illness, Annie and her siblings find themselves torn between a Catholic-run orphanage and the final remnants of their shattered home. But nothing could have prepared the nuns of St. V... More >>

POPCORN POPPIN ON THE APRICOT TREE

Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir

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From one of our most celebrated film critics and historians now comes a beautifully written memoir about his first eighteen years, growing up as an only child in south London in the midforties and late fifties. Told with elegance and restraint, partly from the point of view of a child, partly from that of an adult, it is the story of a lonely, stammering boy cared for by a matriarchy of his mother, grandmother, and an upstairs tenant, Miss Davis, to which he adds an... More >>

Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir

A Capital Place: Memories of a Minnesota life

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A Capital Place is how the author remembers Minnesota’s historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century capital of the Ojibwe Nation, and strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superior—a route followed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota history. In this reminiscence spanning more than a half-century, Laursen writes of boyhood days on a primitive Sandy Lake fishing r... More >>

A Capital Place: Memories of a Minnesota life

...By Reason of Childhood

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Through experiences both poignant and comical, sifted mysteriously through the sleeve of his family history, Frankie emerges as an anxious yet mysteriously through the sieve of his family history, Frankie emerges as an anxious yet intrepid survivor.... More >>

...By Reason of Childhood

Is the War Over?: Postwar Years of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust

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Gabriele Silten spent much of her childhood in two Nazi concentration camps. Many of her friends and many members of her family were victims of the Holocaust. What she experienced should not have been experienced by any human being, let alone any child. Gabriele’s wartime years were vividly described in her first memoir, Between Two Worlds. According to history books, World War II ended in 1945, and those who had survived the ordeal of Nazi concentration camps we... More >>

Is the War Over?: Postwar Years of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust

The Burning Generation

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These memoirs detail a harrowing experience of a young boy who was captured by the Nazis and deported to a series of six camps for a period of five and a half years.... More >>

The Burning Generation

A Boy's Life

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Related to Green Integer’s Travels, A Boy’s Life explores Hans Christian Andersen’s own childhood through his words, revealing the turbulent and exciting boyhood of the great Danish storyteller.... More >>

A Boy's Life

Spatzies and Brass BBs

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An autobiography that captures the essence of a happy family in a rural community. This feel-good book will be appreciated by young and old with its treasured memories and detailed depictions of life in the 1930s and'40s in the Midwest.... More >>

Spatzies and Brass BBs

Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood

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What happened to me affected all of us—my mother, my father, my sisters, and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror.

Before the Knife is an unforgettable story—a transcendent memoir—of the beauty and brutality in a young girl’s African childhood and of the ways she found to survive it.

When Carolyn Slaughter was nearly four, she and her family moved from England to a remote outpost in ... More >>

Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood

Memories of a Depression Baby

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In Memories of a Depression Baby, author Bill Williams tells the heartwarming story of growing up in a large family during the Great Depression. Born just seven months after the stock market crash of 1929, Bill remembers his family's day-to-day struggles to survive not only the depression, but also World War II and the Korean War, when all five brothers served in the armed forces. A great sense of humor was prevalent in their family, and helped see them through som... More >>

Memories of a Depression Baby

The Homecoming

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Fascinating and at times sentimental account of one man's return home to Burma following a forced exodus in early adulthood, when his youth was marked by hardship and loss, revealing a character determined to succeed, even at the expense of abandoning his country of birth.... More >>

The Homecoming

A Blossom from a Barnyard

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This book, tells a story about Judith Lynn (Ford) SansonÂ’s life. She was born in 1958 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For many years, the family lived in town. Until 1968 they moved to a small farm. Farming became a new way of life. The illustrations are drawn from the author. Moving from town to out in the country was the families dream. The move was 300 miles up to northern Wisconsin. Starting from scratch was an interesting struggle. The family started with a small... More >>

A Blossom from a Barnyard

The Territory of Men: A Memoir

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Born into the turmoil of mid-sixties San Francisco, the daughter of a flower child and a surfer, Joelle Fraser grew up with no bedtime, no boundaries, and no father. But “dads” she had in abundance, as her mother worked her way through boyfriends and husbands, caught between the traditional rules of her upbringing and the new freedoms of the “me generation” and women’s lib. Moving every few months, from houseboats and beach shacks to run-down apartments, J... More >>

The Territory of Men: A Memoir

The Golden Olden Days

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If you enjoy reading something light, yet informative, that will take your thoughts off your problems, get THE GOLDER, OLDEN DAYS. Not only will you enjoy this lost lifestyle of the family, by you will chuckle all the way through!... More >>

The Golden Olden Days

Birth of a Tumbleweed: Memoirs of Growing Up in Post-Nazi Germany

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I met Inge in the autumn of 1969, shortly after she arrived in New York. Introduced by a mutual friend, we fell in love and got married a year and a half later. She was the first German I got to know and she did not resemble the 'ugly German' stereotype so many Americans were raised hearing about. Born after the war ended, and out of wedlock, she was innocent of any wrongdoing but had to endure being raised among the rubble and anguish which follows all wars. Living... More >>

Birth of a Tumbleweed: Memoirs of Growing Up in Post-Nazi Germany

Fourteen: Growing Up Alone In A Crowd

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Born eighth in a family on its way to becoming almost twice that size, Stephen Zanichkowsky immediately learned that his life was not going to be easy. Instead, he and his siblings fended for themselves to avoid the wrath of their father and the heartbreaking emotional distance of their mother. Silence and terror ruled. A brother was taken away by the family one day, never to return. A sister was born with a mental deficiency that was never explained. As the years w... More >>

Fourteen: Growing Up Alone In A Crowd

Beans and Rice: Growing Up Cuban

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A somewhat humorous look at growing up in a different culture, and surviving Fidel Castro... More >>

Beans and Rice: Growing Up Cuban

Famous Builder

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Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws," who composes tunes in his head that he might later send to Folk Mass Today or to the producers of The Partridge Family. Born into a family whose incremental success bumps them up a notch from their immigrant upbringing and into suburban America, Paul puts his creative, undaunted energy into drawing intricate housing developmen... More >>

Famous Builder

A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir

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Charles Mee believed in God, family, and his future. But when he collapsed one night at a school dance, his dreams began to vanish. In a narrative at once funny and profound, Mee brilliantly captures the era in which polio, not communism, was every North American parents nightmare. A story both of a child with a potentially fatal disease and to the man whose recognition of himself as a disabled outsider has heightened his gifts as a storyteller.... More >>

A Nearly Normal Life: A Memoir

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir

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At sixteen, Keith Fleming is so miserably defiant that he is locked in an adolescent mental hospital. Filled with despair, Keith's life is literally saved by his uncle, the writer Edmund White. Keith soon finds himself transformed as Uncle Ed arranges treatment for Keith's disfiguring acne, enrolls him in prep school, and instructs his nephew in a worldly view of life and love. Meanwhile, Uncle Ed is both strapped for cash and completely caught up in the beehive of ... More >>

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir

Growing Up in Mississippi

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Growing Up in Mississippi shares experiences and impressions from a multifaceted group representing all areas of the state and many professions, talents, and temperaments. Parents, teachers, churches, communities, landscape, and historical context profoundly influenced these men and women when they were young. In his revealing foreword, Richard Ford explores the very essence of influence and illustrates his conclusions by recalling an indelible incident between h... More >>

Growing Up in Mississippi

Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir

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This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year—1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father. His older brother Derrick reads pulp novels to him each night as he soaks his remaining fingers in Epsom salts. His brothers urge him to "flip the Wicked Bird" any time ... More >>

Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir

This Angel Wore Glasses

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Losing a child is the worst possible life event that a person can endure. This Angel Wore Glasses is how a family dealt with their child's life shortening illness. It is looking at life through the eyes of a little boy afflicted with a rapid aging disorder. It is one little boy's story; sometimes poignant, other times funny. It is the telling of the story meant to be shared by any family who has ever lost a child. It is a story about the earth life of an Angel and h... More >>

This Angel Wore Glasses

And God Was Our Witness

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The compelling World War II memoirs of a young Polish girl forced into slave labor in Russian along with her family and thousands of other Poles; while the rest of the world sat idly by as Poland disappeared and turned away from the resulting displaced refugees without a country.... More >>

And God Was Our Witness

How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent

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In this frank and funny book, Zoe Street Howe breaks the glitzy surface of a media obsession and seeks the reality from the horses' mouths. Whether you rejoice or seethe at the mention of Peaches, Jade or Jack or if you are born of rock heritage yourself and are considering changing your name and moving to Mongolia, this book may make you see things a little differently. Zoe Street Howe speaks to Ian Dury's son Baxter, Dylan Howe (Steve Howe), Julian Lennon, Calico ... More >>

How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent

All Paths Have Puddles

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Randall was born in 1943 amidst the difficult days of World War II. His parents were sharecroppers in central Kentucky. The Loyalls moved from one family farm to another, hoping to find an easier life. Randall's parents worked long and hard to make a living for Randall and his older brother. After witnessing their faith in God, love for family, and dedication to hard work, Randall wrote All Paths Have Puddles as a tribute to his family and the millions of famili... More >>

All Paths Have Puddles 

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

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When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon-the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, Rhodes offers new reflections on the abuse he and his older brother endured at the hands of their terrorizing stepmother and negligent father. He also describes readers' powerful and moving responses to his book, considers his changing sentiments a... More >>

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

2943: An Immigrant Girl's Childhood in St. Louis

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Rags, old iron. With the cry of the ragman calling for secondhand goods, enter the poor but jubilant world of Millie Petrov, an immigrant girl whose parents traded the harsh Eastern European peasant life for a new beginning in America. Visit the St. Louis of the 1920s and this bustling immigrant neighborhood, where the clatter of streetcars is background music for the colorful family who lives in the upstairs flat at 2943 Chouteau Avenue: Mama and Papa, Millie and... More >>

2943: An Immigrant Girl's Childhood in St. Louis

The Cracked Pot: Finding Grace in the Cracks of Childhood Abuse

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For all too many people, childhood was not an idyllic time -- it was a time of facing unimaginable fears, resulting from horrific abuse. But as Jim Cyr's story courageously reveals, the wounds of childhood not only heal, they can lead to the loving grace of wisdom, and a heartfelt desire to help others achieve wholeness, too. Now a minister and storyteller, Jim suffered with five congenital birth defects that required many painful and humiliating surgeries, fro... More >>

The Cracked Pot: Finding Grace in the Cracks of Childhood Abuse

The Division Street Princess: A Memoir

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Set in the 1940s, Elaine Soloway’s memoir takes its title from the street that Studs Terkel exalts in his classic book, Division Street: America, and from the pet name her father gave her. Soloway lived in a three-room flat above her family’s grocery store. In her tale of bookies, poolrooms, sidewalk playgrounds, and relatives who lived down the block, we learn about her loving but embattled parents, her adored older brother, and neighborhood kibitzers. Along wi... More >>

The Division Street Princess: A Memoir

Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America

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Gifted journalist Gelareh Asayesh writes indelibly of her struggle to balance an Iranian childhood with her adult life in America.


"A brave and beautifully written memoir that should be read by all who seek to understand Iran, America, or the divided life of the exile. Rarely have the enduring questions of time, place, faith, and identity been explored with such an array of amazing images.
-Tom Drury, author of The Black Brook... More >>

Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America

You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir

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aura Love has an uncanny knack for getting an audience to listen. Today she is beloved by fans around the world for her funk-folksy music. But Love's life wasn't always so good. Growing up in racially troubled Nebraska, Love survived a miserable childhood, shuffling among a mentally unstable mother, foster homes, and orphanages. Despite the odds, Love survived, thanks ultimately to her enormous will. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes is Love's wrenching, shocking, yet... More >>

You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir

We Went To England:

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A vivid, often humorous slice of autobiography, We Went To England spans the Atlantic Ocean - Rochester, New York to London, the Great Depression and the second World War. Children of an American mother and an English father, Elaine and her sisters have a privileged, sheltered life - more akin to the world of Jane Austen than that of Angela's Ashes. Elaine, though, finds there is always a BUT. You have to learn to be a Lady. To obey a set of rigid rules - what's ... More >>

We Went To England:

Snapshots of a Faded Past

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Here, the author takes you back to a time in the forties, fifties and early sixties-that has vanished forever. Through the author’s vivid memory and descriptions, you will relive a time you might have forgotten, at least in part. If you never lived in those times in the South, you are in for surprises, some disbelief and lots of laughter. You are also in for some insights you will never forget. ... More >>

Snapshots of a Faded Past

Tales of the Heartily Homeschooled

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What do you get when you throw 20 children, four parents, several cross-country trips, and a sense of humour between the covers of one book? Lots and lots of big family fun that will tickle the funny bones and warm the hearts of your entire clan. Rachel Starr Thomson is the oldest of twelve children. Carolyn Currey, her second cousin, is the oldest of eight. Not only are their families huge, they also homeschool! Drawing on some of their favourite memories, Ra... More >>

Tales of the Heartily Homeschooled

Dogodogo: Tanzanian Street Children Tell Their Stories

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With the help of their English teacher, eight young Tanzanians recount their experiences as street children - how they came to leave home, how they survived, how they found refuge, and how they still love their families. These moving and often shocking stories are illustrated by the boys themselves. "Dogodogo" is suitable for a wide range of audiences and can be read by students at either primary or secondary level. The text tackles a range of serious, global issues... More >>

Dogodogo: Tanzanian Street Children Tell Their Stories

Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America

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A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in California -- offers wisdom for both longtime practitioners and a new generation of students in this fascinating memoir of his Zen upbringing. Over half a century ago, when the first Zen Masters came to America, eager young students in search of enlightenment flocked to hear their teachings. Many, like Ivan Richmond's parents, became Buddhist teachers themselves while raisin... More >>

Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America