Josie Brewster's Year

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Josie Brewster's Year by Joanne Capen Hamlin The reader will judge whether Josie or Eloise is the more precocious little girl. Joanne Hamlin has given us an engaging six-year-old heroine in this memoir of childhood set in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey in 1927. The simple pleasures and escapades are as fresh today as they were then, which just proves that children, and especially little girls, have not changed. "After the incident with Dandy, Josie tried very hard to be... More >>

Josie Brewster's Year

Confessions of an Altar Boy

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Confessions Of An Altar Boy is about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950/1960s, a time of great rural upheaval and change. The creamery, the horse and cart, cross-road dancing, travelling shows, the threshing machine...their days were numbered. Going to school across the Mass-path, thinning turnips for a shilling a drill, watching Audie Murphy and Randolph Scott in films that broke down halfway through every reel, being an altar boy and 'fiddling' the church col... More >>

Confessions of an Altar Boy

It Wasn't So Bad

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It Wasn’t So Bad is a story based on the author’s life, an Afro-American born and raised in Chicago who at the age of forty gets accepted into law school. He then is reminded of his past and commits to writing this story—a story that reflects his adolescence in a way he feels it never has been expressed. He describes stories of his life as a street player and with a romantic tone describes his romance with life. He provides insight into what a player was to hi... More >>

It Wasn't So Bad

Confessions of a Bumbling Sex Addict

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This work is an account of one who was born in the 1930s, was saddled with a surging libido, and who, in the winter of his life, looks back fondly. "Confessions" is a story that will cause the reader to laugh out loud at both the joy and the foibles of man's unbridled pursuit of sex. Except for locations and times, men and women across generations will be able to identify with the story. The reader will receive tidbits of history from events and practices of the twe... More >>

Confessions of a Bumbling Sex Addict

Irene Remembers - A Cheshire Childhood

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Irene Remembers, the autobiography of Cheshire writer, poet, broadcaster and teacher Irene Boyd (1907-1977), grants us a unique glimpse behind the lace curtains of an upright middle-class family in Edwardian and Georgian England, revealing the intimacies and cruelties, joys and the tragedies played out behind the respectable façade. These disarmingly candid memoirs document her childhood and youth, ending as she enters adulthood, at a time when her experience of li... More >>

Irene Remembers - A Cheshire Childhood

In Their Own Words: The Class of '59

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Graduates of the Class of 1959 write their memories of growing up in an idyllic town in central Pennsylvania and the good times of the 50s, as well as the challenging events that occurred later in their lives. Written with candor and honesty, the stories are a tribute to family, courage, and faith.... More >>

In Their Own Words: The Class of '59

In My Mind's Eye

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Connects past with present, as she transports readers to a time when families and communities were bound together by the need to survive. Mary's present-day musings are interwoven with the remembrances of a seven-year-old child, as she invites us back to the Haneman family farm in Renfrew County during the Depression years.... More >>

In My Mind's Eye

Come Home, Love Dad

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COME HOME. LOVE,DAD combines the heart-warming and sometimes heart-breaking story of an eccentric and loving man with excerpts from letters that he wrote to his daughter, Edgar Award nominated crime novelist, Shelly Reuben. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll love this book.... More >>

Come Home, Love Dad

Immigrant Son: An Armenian Boyhood

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The Depression in America. Never forgotten by those who lived through it. Humor and good luck is examined--especially growing up in a grocery store. Twelve chapers of uplifting thought in spite of hardships endured.... More >>

Immigrant Son: An Armenian Boyhood

An Igbo Childhood

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Samuel Ibekwe has been lucky. He has, through an enthusiastically lived life, made use of the opportunities that came his way. He grew up in rural colonial Nigeria, a world which is now long gone. He was bright enough to be able to attend the prestigious King's College in Lagos, established by the colonial authorities to provide Nigeria with its future leaders. He made good friends during his time there, and he used his opportunities to the very best advantage, and ... More >>

An Igbo Childhood

Collection of Memories

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Collection of Memories explores life on both sides of the border between south Texas and northern Mexico, covering topics such as family and childhood, immigration and discrimination, ranch-life and nature, machismo and culture in ways that are lively and warm, full of empathy and insight. Taken all together these narratives weave a vivid tapestry of life.... More >>

Collection of Memories

The Cold Side of the Pillow

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In the early 1950s, two young children and a small dog battle to survive the harsh reality of poverty and ignorance thrust upon them by a class of people who considered offspring expendable items if need be. Both children bear witness to the times, but only one is strong enough to survive. The price the survivor has had to pay over the years has taken a mighty toll from the heart. The Cold Side of the Pillow is a true story gleaned from a child’s memory. This sto... More >>

The Cold Side of the Pillow

I Walked a Mile with Sorrow

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Childhood should be innocent, not fearful and full of pain. This story tells of the events of my tortured childhood. These events caused me to want to give up on life. My story also tells how my faith in God has been tested over and over again. With God’s love, I was finally able to turn an endless broken heart into a chance for happiness that seemed to be forever out of my reach. My story also shows how God’s miracles brought me from the brink of suicide to hol... More >>

I Walked a Mile with Sorrow

How I Became a Kid From a Baby

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A funny baby memory book for a gift or keepsake! Written from a child's perspective!

If: You're a baby,You've ever been a baby, You wish to have a baby, You'll soon have a baby, You have a baby, You have friends and relatives with baby, You've ever had a baby, Then this little booklet is for you. Regardless if you'll use it as a diary, or you'll read it just for fun, it will transform your perspective of life into a more optimistically one, y... More >>

How I Became a Kid From a Baby

HITLER YOUTH TO U.S. CITIZEN

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This book describes the life of a German boy who was born before Hitler came to power. He experienced the years before the Second World War as a young child in Germany where he was trained to become one of the future members of the Nazi party. After the Second World War his life was shattered because all that he had known so far crumbled. In the USA he learned, for the first time in his life, what freedom really meant. Now, having experienced life under a dictat... More >>

HITLER YOUTH TO U.S. CITIZEN

A Himalayan Odyssey

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adventurous childhood in Himalayan foothills, panda and porcupine as pets. Abruptly dumped in Enlish school at age 14. Became brilliant physicist, Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton also beautiful , much pursued, young woman. Her father was a diplomat turned traitor, sensational defection to Beijing... More >>

A Himalayan Odyssey

Hell and High Water on Hinkle Creek

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Written in a humorous vein and Hinkle Creek lingo, a boy sent by his blind father to his harsh Uncle after the loss of his Mother. A child forced, rather abruptly, into a man’s responsibilities.... More >>

Hell and High Water on Hinkle Creek

Hare, Hare, What You Doing There?: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Thirties

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This memoir is the story of growing-up in a Scandinavian-American family in the hard times that followed the great depression of 1929. It is much more than that, however, for it describes the many, often bewildering, changes in the relationship of a boy with his father. Alternating between the ecstatic heights of hero-worship and the heart-breaking disappointment that each disclosure of his father's very human faults brings about, the boy finds solace in books, fan... More >>

Hare, Hare, What You Doing There?: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Thirties

Boyhood Along the Brook Called Horn

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In BOYHOOD ALONG THE BROOK CALLED HORN, William Jeter invites readers to step away from the hectic pace of life and go back with him to a time when no one owned a watch until high school graduation. Jeter’s wit and imagination shine through ten vignettes that capture a variety of mischievous childhood capers. Numerous detailed sketches, which accompany every vignette, enable readers to visualize all of the fascinating locations and intriguing inventions of ... More >>

Boyhood Along the Brook Called Horn

Growing Up Well: Tales from an Orphan's Asylum

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This work is a series of anecdotes in mainly chronological order depicting the author's experiences during his grade school years growing up in a catholic orphanage. It portrays a way of life no longer a part of the American scene. Orphanages have given way to foster homes and children's social services; a poor exchange in the writers view. Growing Up Well - Tales From An Orphans Asylum is just that - the memories of coming to age among 500 young people in a rel... More >>

Growing Up Well: Tales from an Orphan's Asylum

Growing Up Laughing with Eddie Murphy

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This is the story of growing up with one of the world's funniest people, Eddie Murphy. It's a detailed account of what it was like in the intimate setting of his home, from day to day. What starts out as a close friendship between Harris and Eddie turns out to be much more when they discover that they could be related (cousins) by marriage between Eddie's mother and his stepfather Vernon Lynch. The story has also been turned into a movie screenplay also written by H... More >>

Growing Up Laughing with Eddie Murphy

Growing Up in the Ozarks

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Covering the years from 1928 to 1943 John Hult tells the story of his childhood in Missouri and how his parents and their ten children made it through the drought and depression years.... More >>

Growing Up in the Ozarks

Ducks across the Moon: Life on Eighty Acres in the Flint Hills

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There are some eras of America's past that hold special fascination. For many readers, the early 20th century was such an era. Ducks across the Moon is a collection of stories that revisits the charms as well as the hard times of rural life in the 1930s and 1940s. Each chapter is a vignette that reflects the reality of living in the Flint Hills. The book also encapsulates the relationships between people, both young and old and how they find out what really matters ... More >>

Ducks across the Moon: Life on Eighty Acres in the Flint Hills

A Boy from the Valleys

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Autobiographical tales of a young boy, growing up in the South Wales mining valley in the 1920's.... More >>

A Boy from the Valleys

Growing Up Before the Bomb: The Innocent Years 1935-1945

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Growing Up before the Bomb brings to life a time and place in our collective American past. In a series of chapters the author has captured what life was like, growing up during the Great Depression of 1929-1941 and the difficulties of World War II. The author lived through the depression years when millions of workers were out of work looked to the Roosevelt Administration for help that included such pump-priming devices as the WPA, PWA, NRA, and the CCC. None of t... More >>

Growing Up Before the Bomb: The Innocent Years 1935-1945

Growing Up along California's North Coast: Boyhood Days in Humboldt County during the 1930s

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During the 1930s, the relative isolation and majestic, natural beauty of California's North Coast made it easier for residents to forget about the day-to-day pressures they faced. In Growing Up along California's North Coast, the author lovingly describes the region's unique qualities and how they affected his family, himself, and others.... More >>

Growing Up along California's North Coast: Boyhood Days in Humboldt County during the 1930s

The Bottom Feeders:

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TheBottom Feeders(Some call us white trash)'TheBottom Feeders' delivers several messages in a fast format with no frills.¿ First, it is a sad story of a very poorfamily during the depression years of the 1930' and the early 1940's.¿ Then it is a motivational story of how the Taylor family is self-sufficient and able to survive andimprove their situation through hard work.Morethan anything else, it is a religious book.¿Without their strong religious beliefs for st... More >>

The Bottom Feeders:

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she looks back with rage and love at an ... More >>

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Born Into Turmoil

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A heart warming and compelling memoir of a German boy growing up during W.W.II and the post-war era. Live vicariously through the horrors of war and experience the daily life of a German family trying to survive. Thought provoking, emotional, and funny.... More >>

Born Into Turmoil

The Grandmother Stories

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"THE GRANDMOTHER STORIES" is a collection of memories and remembrances of growing up in Oregon in the 1950's. Life was simpler then; the radio was still a source of exciting entertainment, and television was just a mysterious dream...... More >>

The Grandmother Stories

Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir

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This is a nonfiction, personal narrative that tells the true story of a young boy's courage in the face of Nazi attrocities during WWII. Born in Poland, David Faber as a teenager survived eight concentration camps, witnessed the murder of his family, and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945, at the age of 18, weighing only 72 pounds. Because of Romek fulfills David's promise to his mother to tell the world what happened to his family.... More >>

Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir

Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim: A Childhood Memoir

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This is simply a journey into the author's past in the quiet, sleepy Irish village of Ballivor sixty odd years ago. This book grew out of the radio documentary Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim. That expression, common to those who grew up in Ballivor, yet shrouded in mystery, was the obvious title to give to a radio memoir. The wonderful reaction to it surprised the author, but it shouldn't have. It was the old story of the local being universal.... More >>

Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim: A Childhood Memoir

Good Times & Bad Times

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This is a funny, sad, and hopeful account of the life of a youngster growing up in a rural environment and with no doubt about who and what he is. His escapades will thrill you, make you laugh, and perhaps make you cry a little.... More >>

Good Times & Bad Times