Hamlin Avenue

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Like many first generation families at the end of the war, the Costello family left their flat in the Little Italy Taylor Street neighborhood near downtown Chicago and headed for the distant suburbs. They bought a spacious old house one hundred and sixty-four blocks south on Hamlin Avenue in the little town of Markham. Their world changed dramatically: skyscrapers, factories, and elevated trains gave way to chicken coops, open fields, and wide front porches. The a... More >>

Hamlin Avenue

Madelaine's Slippers

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This memoir relates the deeply troubled childhood of a young boy being raised by an abusive stepmother. It describes various school memories and misadventures, as well as the physical, emotional, and sexual growing experiences of this painfully shy young lad.... More >>

Madelaine's Slippers

A Lost Childhood

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For seven idyllic years, Santina lived with her family on the sun-bathed coast of North Africa in the Italian Colony of Lybia. Until the Fascist fanaticism of Mussolini's Regime reached out with a subterfuge beyond belief. On the pretext of a three month holiday in the "Motherland" for those children born in North Africa, families were persuaded to allow their children to go to Italy. So it was Santina and her three siblings set off on their Italian "holiday". On ar... More >>

A Lost Childhood

gritos de la infancia

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Una jornada estremecedora y fascinante dentro de la mente y el alma de una mujer quién lucha apasionadamente para romper las cadenas de una infancia abusiva y para superar los efectos de un ataque incestuoso. Un libro de lucha que se convierte en un canto de liberación.... More >>

gritos de la infancia

Fruit Tramps

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Fruit Tramps tells the story of the Walling family as they travelled across America seeking work as migrant laborers. Calling to mind Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the poignent storytelling will deeply involve you in the family's quest for a better life. The author's reminescences are full of details regarding a time in American history that many may regard as part of a more innocent past; when simple joys were richer, tragedies were faced more stoically, and a... More >>

Fruit Tramps

Flashbacks of Youth

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Flashbacks of Youth is a legacy to the author's children, grandchildren, and future generations. However, the story - a snippet of life in the thirties and forties will also bring back memories of youthful experiences for many of today's senior citizens.... More >>

Flashbacks of Youth

Longest Road to America: Volume 1: Childhood

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Ivanka as a child gets bitten with the "impossible dream" to go to America. Her macho grandfather owns a lot of land in the valley and he declares that men will be falling at my feet like ripe pears off the tree. But that does not matter much to the teenage Ivanka, who takes off suddenly one day for the Big City. Ivanka is disowned with these words: "Big city is no good for a girl like you, there are good men here - get married and be a good wife to 'him'." Iva... More >>

Longest Road to America: Volume 1: Childhood

Father And Son: Biographical Recollections

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

Father And Son: Biographical Recollections

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to th... More >>

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

The Longest Road to America: Vol. 2

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The Longest Road to America: Vol. 2

Evacuees - Stories of the Children

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Evacuees! Stories of the Children Written by the Evacuees, Edited by Terry Gasking. In 1939 the British people's only idea of the war time conditions were shaped by Newsreels showing the Luftwaffe's Blitzkrieg on Poland and Czechoslovakia. It was feared something similar would follow on London, South East England, and perhaps other big cities. In a few weeks an estimated 1,800,000 children were moved out of London, away from their parents; to 'safety'. Ma... More >>

Evacuees - Stories of the Children

Emerging Son

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"Emerging Son" is an autobiographical memoir about a man's journey to a purposeful midlife from youthful uncertainty. The author's quest to recreate the happiness of his youth takes him from the newsroom to the courtroom as he launches a career, from the Midwest to Rome as he grows in faith, and to South America as he builds a family. Looking to his father as an example, the writer ultimately discovers he has to look within himself for answers to life's questions ab... More >>

Emerging Son

Dragonfly Daughter: The Story of Violet Rose

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Imagine an unusual life lived in secrecy, on a crash course with tragedy that can only be avoided through courageous action that severs oneself from the past, and dooms one life in order to save another. This unusual tale is the story of Violet Rose whose memoir describes a world marked by all the deprivation and abuse typically associated with parental neglect, alcoholism, and mental illness, but with an added twist - prenatal trauma that produced birth defects and... More >>

Dragonfly Daughter: The Story of Violet Rose

Living Root: A Memoir

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In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal history with reflections on language, poetry, religion, and memory itself.... More >>

Living Root: A Memoir

Don't Call Me Clarence

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He was a little kid in a tough neighborhood and with a name like Clarence, he developed an acute inferiority complex. Thanks to two teachers who helped him appreciate reading and writing, he had a goal in life that he never quit pursuing.... More >>

Don't Call Me Clarence

Dim and Distant Days

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Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow.... More >>

Dim and Distant Days

Deja Views of an Aging Orphan

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DEJA VIEWS OF AN AGING ORPHAN is distinctive, if not unique, in its views and experiences of still alive HNOH alumni and its use of a variety of literary styles including the memoir, the essay, news articles, poems, history, short story and letters. Many provide first-person accounts of growing up in an orphanage in the 1920s and 30s and it is this first-person recounting that breaks new ground and casts new light on the subject of child-care --of such importance ... More >>

Deja Views of an Aging Orphan

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During WWII

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The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily route, riding the trolley to the local amusement park, going to Orioles' baseball games, and playing with his younger sister, Mary Ann. With great attention to detail, Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, before anyone had heard of penicillin or... More >>

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During WWII

The Life of a Real Girl: A True Story

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Compulsive Eating. Anorexia. Drug Addiction. Psychoanalysis. Mental hospitalization. Sexual hang-ups. Plastic surgery. A tragic love affair. In this remarkably frank autobiography, we see how Johanna Garfield grappled with her personal demons and emerged triumphant. “A sensitive, fascinating account of a young woman’s desperate and victorious struggle for life, happiness and sanity.” —Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin “A rivetingly human account of reality ... More >>

The Life of a Real Girl: A True Story

Dear Alfie

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An exceptional coming of age novel by a first time writer. A boy growing up in a small town experiencing life from grades one through twelve. The book also details his experiences with an adventuresome sibling, who generally steals the stage. A must read for both young and old, that will surely bring a smile to your lips and fond memories to mind. You will easily relate to the situations, and the characters will be like old friends revisited. A scrape with death as ... More >>

Dear Alfie

Childhood Memories

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"CHILDHOOD MEMORIES" is a collection of short stories the author has written of his earliest memories as a young boy 'movin' to a small farm and growing up on it. The entire Wild Wild West story is a vivid portrayal of the mind of a six year old boy's imagination while playing alone in the country. But, he was not alone as he had his imagination to while away the hours. Other stories are about life on a farm, from getting the milk cow, to caring for baby chickens. '... More >>

Childhood Memories

Le Café de Cadix: Or An Invincible Summer

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From the age of twelve at the start of World War II, until I met my American G.I. husband, I worked in the caf© my parents owned in Bab-el-oued, a working-class neighborhood in Algiers. My parents, whose stories we treasured, were exceptional in many ways. My father Salvador was a constant, reassuring presence in our lives. My mother Rose, epitomizing mind over matter, treated neighbors afflicted with typhoid fever, typhus, malaria, meningitis, and even cholera! S... More >>

Le Café de Cadix: Or An Invincible Summer

Cherokee Lost

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When young brothers Gene and Jack moved in with their grandparents in 1950, they didn't realize then the impact that Grandpa Will and Grandma Ida would have on their lives. Life in rural Dallas Hollow, Tennessee, was not always easy, but it was one filled with love, laughter, and life lessons learned. In this memoir, Cherokee Lost, author Gene Guthrie shares a glimpse of life with his elders. While living with their grandparents, they learned of their grandfather's ... More >>

Cherokee Lost

The Captain and the Captives: An American Child Tries To Make Sense Out Of War

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This creative non-fictional accounting of a child's life between 1941 and 1946 offers the reader an inside look at a unique American family. The story begins with President Roosevelt's speech about the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends after the family's relatives return home as released Japanese Prisoners' of War. During the intervening years the child tries to make sense out of the war itself, the sacrifice, and the involvement of family members who were her real li... More >>

The Captain and the Captives: An American Child Tries To Make Sense Out Of War