Golden Memories and Silver Tears

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This is an inspirational nonfiction narrative of life during the great depression as viewed through the absorbing eyes and inquisitive mind of a child and his dog. It is a vibrant word portrait of the non-martyr life of a coal miner's son, his extended family, and the people of the anthracite coal region when the economy of our nation was at low ebb. It portrays, contrasts, and harmonizes the values, principles, life styles, and the multicultural ethnic customs ... More >>

Golden Memories and Silver Tears

Childhood's Thief: One Woman's Journey of Healing from Sexual Abuse

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JoAnn is suffering from depression and has no memory of her childhood. Rose Mary Evans is the therapist who treats her. JoAnn Eventually reveals a story of abuse so vile that is a miracle she has survived at all, much less made a success of her life. Readers will be compelled by JoAnn's vivid writing and fascinated by the psychological insights Evans provides.... More >>

Childhood's Thief: One Woman's Journey of Healing from Sexual Abuse

The Ghosts of Yesteryear

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Kathleen Dayus revisits her childhood and young adult life before marriage, bringing to life the people and places her readers have come to know from her earlier volumes of autobiography. Here are stories of her schooldays; her first working experiences; her sister Lisa's theft of money her mother was sending to the Front; and experiences with boyfriends and dirty old men. All are told in the fresh and unsentimental prose for which Dayus is renowned.... More >>

The Ghosts of Yesteryear

Manila Memories

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"Manila Memories" contains four narratives of life in Manila under Japanese occupation in World War 2. The interlaced narratives come from four classmates who attended the American School in Manila and survived the war. Some of their family members and friends were not so lucky.... More >>

Manila Memories

Barefoot Girl

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Stories about growing up in Jacksonville, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s when people cared about their neighbors and children could play outside without fear. Its about visits to family, riding in the country, swimming in the branch behind their house and those wonderful school activities in the town that is home to Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base.... More >>

Barefoot Girl

As It Was: Sin Mar a Bha : A Ulva Boyhood

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Donald Mackenzie has collected fragments of oral history, folklore, hearsay and legend with his own reminiscences and recollections to weave a history of Ulva, an island dominated by its neighbour, Mull. There is also a selection of Gaelic poetry from the people of Ulva.... More >>

As It Was: Sin Mar a Bha : A Ulva Boyhood

Forgive Us Our Senior Moments

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What is a senior moment? Merely a pause, a mental hiatus, a backward glance to the heavenly days far removed from this oft phony, plastic, cordless world we call modern times. It?... More >>

Forgive Us Our Senior Moments

Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951

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Korean native Sunny Che spent most of her early childhood in Japan, where she and her family were treated as outsiders. She returned to Korea, only to find herself a stranger in her homeland. This memoir is the story of her personal struggle amidst the crucial events enveloping Asia at midcentury. Part I chronicles her childhood in Japan and the beginning of the war in the Pacific. Part II describes her return to Korea, the turmoil of Korea's liberation from Japan, ... More >>

Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951

Anna Plus Tales from a Town Called Wells

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Anna Plus: Tales From a Town Called Wells is a series of Award-winning memoirs of the years 1915 through 1945. Rural School teaching, the Great Depression, drought, dust storms, all show the very human changes in education, transportation, medicine, communication and social mores. The Roosevelt Era shows how the war was fought on the home front by those characterized in Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation.... More >>

Anna Plus Tales from a Town Called Wells

For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy

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Recalling his childhood in fascist Italy during WWII, the author unearths a multicolored array of characters and situations, from the comic to the grotesque. His elegant and extremely odd aunt and uncle host a lunch party; his precocious teen cousin daringly allows young Nazi soldiers to follow her all the way to the door of the synagogue; the temple's choir director, having lost his position at La Scala because he is Jewish, leads the temple choir in a rousing rend... More >>

For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy

When We Were Young in the West: True Histories of Childhood

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Historians have considered the contributions of many groups--from outlaws and lawmen to Harvey Girls and railroaders--in the making of the modern American Southwest. But few writers have considered the unique role of children or the powerful impact this vast region of the United States has had on these youngsters through value-forming adventures as they make their transitions to adulthood. Richard Melzer has taken a large step in filling this void with a major exami... More >>

When We Were Young in the West: True Histories of Childhood

Explication : One Adoptee's Experience

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What happens to adoptees that emerge as half a person from the closed adoption system of yesteryear? Jen Bryan takes the reader along with her from the moment she remembers knowing she was sopted as a young child to her harrowing adolescence, and finally to a search for truth that leads only to more questions.... More >>

Explication : One Adoptee's Experience

Africa, Deep in My Heart

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As a child with a father in the military establishment, Shirley Baseley spent a large portion of her childhood in East Africa before returning to England as a young adult, where she married and raised children. And yet she still felt the African sun was in her blood. Many of her siblings and their families had returned to the land of their childhood, settling in various African countries on the east coast of that magical continent. In due time, she followed suit, se... More >>

Africa, Deep in My Heart

The Ed Letters: Memories of a New England Boyhood

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"Lake Wobegon" Meets "Our Town" in 1920s Massachusetts… This folksy collection of letters evokes happy memories of growing up in a small Massachusetts coastal town in the early 1900, with stories that are humorous, often nostalgic, sometimes informative, and always sincere. It's a treasury filled with boyhood antics, simple New England pleasures, and spirited people &endash; from the heartwarming to the cantankerous. A Time when Family and Friends Meant Eve... More >>

The Ed Letters: Memories of a New England Boyhood

Golden Afternoon: Being the Second Part of "Share of Summer," Her Autobiography

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M.M. Kaye is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, including The Far Pavilions and Shadow of the Moon. In the first volume of her autobiography, The Sun in the Morning, she recalled her Edenic childhood in colonial India and her enforced exile in a dreary British boarding school. Now in this second volume, Kaye returns to India--the country she brought to life in her best-selling classics--and resurrects a way of living that has long passed. It ... More >>

Golden Afternoon: Being the Second Part of "Share of Summer," Her Autobiography

The Echo of Memories: A Memoir from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain

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Lilia McGinnis takes you on the journey of her unusual life, from the beauty of her childhood in the cities, towns, and mountain resorts of Bulgaria to the fear and horror of American bombs striking her neighborhood, from the struggles and discouragement of living under Communism to the opportunities afforded her as a professional violinist under that same regime, from the discomforts and grief of a refugee camp, to the wonders she discovers in America, from the dif... More >>

The Echo of Memories: A Memoir from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain

Bungalow Kid: A Catskill Mountain Summer

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Both humorous and poignant, Bungalow Kid recalls what it was like to spend a summer in the Catskills at the height of the region's "glory days."... More >>

Bungalow Kid: A Catskill Mountain Summer

Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

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In lyrical essays, Wandering between Two Worlds explores Anita Mathias's naughty Catholic childhood in India; her large, eccentric extended family in the Catholic sea-coast town of Mangalore; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion whereupon she entered Mother Teresa's convent as a novice. Later essays explores the dualities of her life ... More >>

Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

The Dragon King's Daughter

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Denice Fawcett was born into a dysfunctional family. She, like her older sisters before her, was sexually molested by their domineering grandfather. Her father was a weakling and drunk; her brother was a druggie who committed suicide. Denice had her own troubles. She moved to Brooklyn to live with her sister, got involved with a fast crowd of musicians and addicts, became a heroin addict in the midst of various sexual liaisons. She was finally rescued from this... More >>

The Dragon King's Daughter

Angels Along My Path of Thorns: An Autobiography

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This story is about a girl growing up in Guatemala, a girl who had to endure many horrifying experiences within her family and from without. The book is an action-adventure story written in novel style. It encompasses her fight against the sexist dominant culture; a kidnapping; sexual, physical and mental abuse at the hands of a psychopathic criminal; an attempted murder; a daring escape; eventual rescue by caring friends and strangers; and victory through a determi... More >>

Angels Along My Path of Thorns: An Autobiography

She's All Eyes: Memoirs of an Irish-American Daughter

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From an evocative new voice comes the touching childhood memoir of an Irish Catholic girl struggling to connect with her enigmatic FBI agent father.... More >>

She's All Eyes: Memoirs of an Irish-American Daughter

Dining at the Lineman's Shack

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Mountain lion barbacoa. Margarita's yam soufflé. Pastel de Choclo, a.k.a. Rodeo Pie. And for dessert, perhaps, Miss Ruby Cupcakes. These are but a few of the gustatory memories of John Weston that waft us on a poignant journey into the past in the company of a gifted writer and unabashed bon vivant. The place is Skull Valley in central Arizona, the time the 1930s. Taking food as his theme, Weston paints an instructive and often hilarious portrait of growing... More >>

Dining at the Lineman's Shack

Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

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Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a “Gaiety Girl” mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father;... More >>

Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

Dear Medora: Child of Oysterville's Forgotten Years

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By the time Medora Espy moved to Oysterville as a toddler in 1902, the quaint, remote village was long past its heyday. The population had dwindled and times were hard. Dependable, devoted, and tender-hearted, Medora was the oldest child of Washington State senator and dairy farmer Harry Albert Espy. At various times throughout her life, she endured long months of separation from her parents, especially her mother. Whether the absence was due to the birth of a s... More >>

Dear Medora: Child of Oysterville's Forgotten Years

Auntie Anne: My Story

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A storybook biography which spotlights the life of an Amish-Mennonite girl who later becomes the queen of pretzel franchising.... More >>

Auntie Anne: My Story

Daddy's Concubines--And Me!

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A young Chinese girl grows up in a family that includes her father's concubine against the backdrop of the Communist takeover.... More >>

Daddy's Concubines--And Me!

Afraid to Sleep

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Afraid to Sleep by Aunjee is an important memoir in the vein of The Boy Called It and Screams from Childhood. As the author shares her heartbreaking story of abandonment through prose and poetry, she sheds light on a foster care system that failed her repeatedly and completely. After the death of her father, Aunjee and her siblings were left to their own devices except for the terror they met at the hands of their mother, an emotionally unavailable woman with an exp... More >>

Afraid to Sleep

Time Has Made A Change in Me

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This collection of individual memories of children growing up is filled with the hilarity of youthful ignorance played out in a time over fifty years ago, in a place that had its own unique differences, its own way of doing things. We can bring back the past and we can even profit from it.... More >>

Time Has Made A Change in Me

Cowgirl Dreams

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Cowgirl Dreams is a memoir of the growing-up years of a girl in rural Central Maryland. From the Cuban Missile Crisis through the Vietnam War, Betsy clings to inner and outer landscapes that are not nearly as stable as she wants to believe and that neither love nor ferocity can protect.... More >>

Cowgirl Dreams