Mother Was A Rebel: Tuscaloosa Sketches "...in Praise of Gentle People"

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Many people have interesting childhoods, eccentric relatives, go off to college, and set out as adults to make their way in the world. Few people are as keenly observant or can write as compellingly about these experiences as does Helen Blackshear in this inviting memoir. Here we are invited into extended Southern families and are given glimpses of a world that no longer exists-of genteel women's schools, of college towns when they were small communities, of first c... More >>

Mother Was A Rebel: Tuscaloosa Sketches "...in Praise of Gentle People"

Memoirs of a "Little Italian Boy"

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This is a story about me, as a little Italian boy born in a small town in Massachusetts. My father and mother came to this country in the early 1900s. Neither spoke English or knew anything about American money. They asked for nothing, and received nothing, from government assistance. I remember my father saying he had only thirteen cents in his pocket when he came here from the old country, but he had a strong determination to become an American. His newfound freed... More >>

Memoirs of a "Little Italian Boy"

Eb

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EB is a love-song to a time and a place. A wonderful place of neighborhoods and parishes and consistency and constancy; a place of well-used front stoops, second-home candy stores and club-like saloons; a place of time honored values and life-long friendships; a contrarily sophisticated but endearingly innocent place; the biggest small town in America...Brooklyn, NY. At a magical moment in time...the 1940s and '50s."...an evocative coming-of-age story...an honest an... More >>

Eb

Meeting the Four O'Clock Train and Other Stories: Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, Arizona 1909-1927

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This richly illustrated book recounts the childhood years of Fagerberg in the central Arizona town of Prescott. Recounting the people, places, and activities of a small community in the West, his stories bring to life the day-to-day activities of school, social events, fads, commerce, and travel during the early part of the twentieth century. The book contains historical photographs, illustrations, maps, and indices.... More >>

Meeting the Four O'Clock Train and Other Stories: Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, Arizona 1909-1927

Mary Paxson: Her Book: 1880-1884

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Once in a long time an authentic bit of childhood is captured and held within the pages of a book, so that other children in spirit, whether old or young, may enjoy it. Such a book is Mary Paxson's. The real diary of a real girl in the early 1880's, it has the sweetness, charm, and inimitable humor of unconscious literature in its rarest form. Mary Paxson's book is one to keep on a near-by shelf to read when life seems hurried and nerve wracking and you want to simp... More >>

Mary Paxson: Her Book: 1880-1884

Drifting With the River Gods

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This chronicle about a river and river people is a cross between Cannery Row and Huckleberry Finn. Rivers have been magnets for young boys who as grown men never lose their love of them. Young Martin Quigley had an uncle, an expert boatman and fisherman, who reared him and introduced him to trout and salmon angling, and to life, in their backyard river, the Suir (Waterford and Tipperary). This memoir is about one idyllic Irish summer in 1961 when eleven-year old Mar... More >>

Drifting With the River Gods

Martha Jane & Me

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A funny and delightful memoir of growing up in Briton Ferry, this book is a mostly affectionate recollection of growing up in pre-war Wales that focuses on Martha Jane, the author's flamboyant grandmother and dominant influence on her youth.... More >>

Martha Jane & Me

Marriage, Kidneys, and Other Dark Organs : A Memoir

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Fanciful dreams of childhood slowly erode as reality emerges. Lively essays tell stories of a turbulent and energetic upbringing. A deeply felt and provocative search for the illusive love factor, Venera writes with humor and pathos.... More >>

Marriage, Kidneys, and Other Dark Organs : A Memoir

Making My Mark: An Artist's Early Life

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Through his own words and drawings, an artist describes his early life in Belfast, struggling against the conventions of the 1930s and 40s.... More >>

Making My Mark: An Artist's Early Life

Down Home Missouri: When Girls Were Scary and Basketball Was King

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In this warmly witty account, Joel Vance re-creates what it was like for a city kid to have his life changed almost entirely when he is transplanted from his Chicago birthplace to his father's home country in rural Missouri. He shares his emotions, his dreams, and the realities of his high school days, capturing the essence of the experiences of many who lived in the Midwest at mid-century. ... More >>

Down Home Missouri: When Girls Were Scary and Basketball Was King

Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-BQ

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The Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-bq is a true account of a parent-child relationship, beginning with the details of the death of the author’s mother, Belle-Moue, and tracing her history back, chapter by chapter, to her birth some decades earlier. It reads like modern-day fiction, scored with factual information. The theme is universal. Authors from different cultural backgrounds have written about the life and death of a parent: Simone de Beauvoir and Michael Igna... More >>

Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-BQ

Doing the Charleston: A Geechee Memoir

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Doing the Charleston: a Geechee Memoir is not a novel. It reads more like a young boy's diary: Tinky hates his nickname, and is called instead "Big Boy" by his grandfather. As a result, Big Boy spends as much time as possible with his Grandfather learning the real secrets of life. In his hyperactive dyslexia, Big Boy disconcerts parents, teachers and other sundry authority figures. He bedevils his neighbors and relatives, plays `doctor' with the girls; and--on one... More >>

Doing the Charleston: A Geechee Memoir

Lost and Found: A Daughter's Tale of Violence and Redemption

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When Babette Rosen Hughes was two years old her father disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from her life. Although he had been murdered in a turf war with the mafia, and although her uncle- an innocent bystander was murdered along with him, her mother told her that he died of pneumonia, never acknowledged her uncle's existence, and then remained willfully mute about the murders, about her childhood in a Dickensian orphanage, about her marriage and the secrets of h... More >>

Lost and Found: A Daughter's Tale of Violence and Redemption

Looking Through The Eyes Of An Unseen Child

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"To know Diana Joy is to know a pure faith and a hope that defies human understanding. Being a part of her life is a privilege; walking beside her has increased my faith and belief in the resiliency of the human soul. It is moving to read Diana Joy's story and to know that others will be touched by reading it, too." Cindy Smith, LCSW Looking through the Eyes of an Unseen Child is an extremely powerful book, helping to liberate the conversation and understa... More >>

Looking Through The Eyes Of An Unseen Child

Deceptions and Betrayals

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This is not your average run of the mill autobiography, far from it! Deceptions and Betrayals is a touching and inspiring story with astounding events and triumphs. Marty shares her story of survival with wry wit and humor. Beginning during World War II and touching on the Vietnam era, Deceptions and Betrayals spans over sixty years of highs and lows, tears and laughter. This autobiography reads like a carefully crafted novel, finding grace in straightforward ... More >>

Deceptions and Betrayals

Living to Tell : Collected Memoirs

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Spanning approximately forty years, these memoirs are tied together with the thematic thread of a writer-to-be coming of age. They chronicle his discoveries of nature, family, love, community and self. For several years he becomes immersed in music as a member of an R&B and jazz band. During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement he narrowly escapes, but has a close look at death by the hands of law enforcement officers in of all places, a college campus. He drops out of c... More >>

Living to Tell : Collected Memoirs

Living Crazy Like Fly

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This is a story of a poor little rich girl growing up in Warsaw, Indiana on beautiful Chapman Lake. She came from an affluent home and suffered severe child abuse at the hands of her parents for 18 years, as did her other 5 siblings. This story is dedicated as a thank you for her zany friends, her inspirational teachers and her old lost love. It is an inspirational story of survival of some horrifying life experiences. It has been written as both a thank you to th... More >>

Living Crazy Like Fly

Little Miracles

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Prior to World War II, Poland was a vibrant cultural, industrial and economic center for a vast Jewish population. The Jewish community contributed not only to the development of housing, but community buildings, schools, theatres and synagogues. These mementos of Jewish life are now a memory, having been destroyed by the Nazi barbarism that was rampant in most European countries. Poland was totally obliterated during World War II, and many of the country’s p... More >>

Little Miracles

Cut The Strings: The True Story of a Soul Reclaimed

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Here was a man with such pride, a man in his late twenties who could create a beautiful item from nothing. But the truth of the matter was 'My dad was a monster'. This is the true story of one woman's courage in the face of a life full of pain. Abused by her father, bullied at school and neglected by her mother, Lynn Grocott's childhood was a waking nightmare. As an adult, tormented and haunted by her youth, her life went from bad to worse. She was eventually admitt... More >>

Cut The Strings: The True Story of a Soul Reclaimed

Life of a Country Boy

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In this, the prequel to Snail Mail Versus Email, France Bozeman recounts his boyhood in rural Georgia with much charm and humor, recalling a bygone day when food came from the garden and chores were the main source of entertainment. From the idyllic, halcyon days of childhood to the hardships of the Depression years and a wartime spent in the Army, it's all here, evocatively captured for posterity, the record of one man's youth and of a way of living long since pass... More >>

Life of a Country Boy

The Cross on Castle Rock: A Childhood Memoir

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In early 1942, the U.S. government imprisoned, without charge or trial, 120,000 American citizens and legal resident aliens. Their crime? They were of Japanese ancestry and were living on the West Coast. The Cross on Castle Rock chronicles the World War II years which author George Nakagawa spent in American prison camps. In spite of the poor food, stark conditions, and restrictions on freedom, communal living and freedom from chores resulted in a fun-filled three ... More >>

The Cross on Castle Rock: A Childhood Memoir

Life in a Jewish Orphanage

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This story is about a Jewish-Orthodox child who was severely abused by authorities and when she complained about this abuse, she was told to listen and behave. She suffered from her injuries so badly that it put her into the hospital's intensive care and neurological unit more than once. This abuse took place in a Jewish-Orthodox orphanage, where she grew up and lived for eleven years under the supervision of a very disturbed Holocaust survivor who imagined that our... More >>

Life in a Jewish Orphanage

Crazy Ray: A Story of Manic Depression with Suicidal and Homicial Tendencies

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Crazy Ray: A Story of Manic Depression with Suicidal and Homicial Tendencies

Lancaster, Ohio : What a Town, What a Time!

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"Lancaster, Ohio -- What a Town, What a Time!" is a sometimes poignant, often funny, true story of a young boy's life in a small Ohio town during the Great Depression years through World War II. With the support of large, easy to read type and lots of really interesting vintage photos, it contains the author's personal recollections of the events, the colorful town characters, and his always exciting life in general during one of the most unusual times in Amer... More >>

Lancaster, Ohio : What a Town, What a Time!

Junebug: A Memoir

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Junebug, a Memoir, is the story of a plucky little girl growing up in the 30's, 40's and early 50's. The Great Depression, World War Two, Catholic education, and the relative innocence of the age all played a role in June's story. Adventure abounds with her 3 brothers, close in age to her own, and two baby sisters some years younger, their faithful dog Prince, and various and assorted neighborhood buddies. Friendships were cherished, bullies thwarted, illnesses, ... More >>

Junebug: A Memoir

The Joy Cart

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A rare bone cancer robbed Jarrett Mynear of a normal childhood when he was two years old, but it didn’t steal his spirit. The Joy Cart is the story of how an extraordinary boy captivated crowds with his courage, faith and humor in the face of adversity. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, Jarrett got busy. By delivering thousands of toys to sick children, this pint-sized Santa Claus traveled a path that led to national television appearances, prestigious awards ... More >>

The Joy Cart