OPA'S FOUNDLING

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Memories of an American Boy Stranded in Nazi Germany during WWII... More >>

OPA'S FOUNDLING

Old Friends

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A neighborhood memoir celebrating four decades of camaraderie and fellowship.... More >>

Old Friends

Of Mice And Me

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Poor Wildman Weiner. Only seventeen, and already he's thinking, Is that all there is? But it's about to get worse! For unwittingly, the nerd has taken some bogus aptitude test in junior high that reveals a talent for - of all things - Science! The next thing he knows, he finds himself enrolled - along with thirty other dweebs - in an accelerated program of college level biology, whose aim it is to turn him into an even bigger nerd! The Humanity of it! Soon enough... More >>

Of Mice And Me

No Silver Spoon

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A delightful memoir of a small town in southern Minnesota during the Great Depression. Stimler writes with humor and authority (he was there!). He tells his story in thirty-seven vignettes that show how people coped and found hope in everyday events. If you lived through the Depression, you’ll find poignant memories that will bring both tears and laughter, and if you love “Christmas Story,” you’ll be entertained just as much by “No Silver Spoon.”... More >>

No Silver Spoon

Nana's House

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Nana's house is the story of a family who endured trying times after leaving the island of Sicily for a better life in America. They discovered that the love of God is the greatest love of all.... More >>

Nana's House

MY MOTHER: Recollections of Maternal Influence

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John Mitchell (1794-1870) a leading Congregational Minister of the 19th century New England wrote this book as a tribute to his mother, Mrs. Abigail Mitchell. One celebrated author of the day said, "It is one of those rare pictures painted from life with the exquisite skill of one of the old masters, which so seldom present themselves to the amateur." Originally published in 1849, the aim and character of the work is described by the author in the following w... More >>

MY MOTHER: Recollections of Maternal Influence

Mudwatching: Adventuring with Grandpa

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Sharing Your Wealth

Ken Magee has had a life filled with both challenges and adventure. As a Hospice Medical Director, he recognizes too often that records of such treasures are lost. In recording riches from his own childhood, he journeys back with his grandchildren to these early years in the Great Depression era. He challenges you also to tell and record your own life stories. Don't leave those treasures buried.... More >>

Mudwatching: Adventuring with Grandpa

Miss Rossie

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These delightful stories accurately describe life in the village of Columbia, Alabama, as it was in the mid-nineteen fifties. I was there, a youngster growing up in the little town. The principal figures of these stories are the newly-arrived Baptist pastor and the most memorable lay woman in the Baptist church. I remember them both with appreciation and fondness. I was ten years old when Bill Wagner came to town as our new pastor, bringing remarkable vitality to... More >>

Miss Rossie

Memories of An Old Geezer

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If you like Mark Twain's books, you'll like this one! If you like history, you will love this book. Current events are skillfully woven into stories from the past. Do you like to read to your children? You can read these stories to your children without having to worry about stumbling over four letter words or adult situations. Memories of an Old Geezer contains lots of humor, but nothing that you wouldn't tell your mother! Have you ever wondered how your ... More >>

Memories of An Old Geezer

Memoirs of an Italian Geek

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Memoirs of an Italian Geek is a collection of stories that tell the ongoing tale of the childhood and adolescent escapades of a third generation Italian-American Geek as he deals with the tribulations of life, technology, and friendship throughout the last few decades of the twentieth century. Starting with his earliest memories of the golden years, before school began, and on through to his graduation from high school, the endless impact of his friends and family i... More >>

Memoirs of an Italian Geek

Ma Moves Home

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Ma Moves Home is the heartwarming tale of an aging parent who moves in with her boomer daughter after thirty years of mutually independent living. The daughter tells the story through events that arise as mother and daughter adjust to living under one roof. Issues of pride, guilt, and guidance are confronted and accommodated. Then real life settles in with its mixture of laughs, loss, frustration, and triumph. The story line is punctuated with vignettes, memories fr... More >>

Ma Moves Home

Loving Through The Looking Glass

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This is Emily Dianne Mott's first book. She wrote this memoir with the guide of of her deceased brother, Bob's, spirit from the other side. After being bitten by a recluse spider and facing death, she has a near death experience that brought her close to Bob during this experience. Through her life experiences we see how she has embraced the challenges brought on through the fire, drugs, alcohol, physical abuse, and mental illness. Understanding homosexuality and th... More >>

Loving Through The Looking Glass

Love from Blodwen

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This memoir of Margaret Wyles's childhood in the industrial valleys of south Wales and in rural Ceredigion is also a family saga revolving around the trials of three generations of the author's family. It focuses on intergenerational rivalry and relationships, all seen from the perspective of a child. The narrative is enhanced by the use of excerpts from real letters, lending an adult perspective against which the child narrator's outlook is contrasted. A book about... More >>

Love from Blodwen

Living in Concord

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A tender and poetic anthology of essays and memoirs of growing up in England combined with reflections on life and love and gardening and nature in the small town of Concord Massachusetts... More >>

Living in Concord

Kinder Memories of World War II

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Kinder Memories of World War II depicts the life of the author as a child in Heidelberg, Germany, during the Second World War and the times right thereafter during the occupation by the Americans. Being protected by parents, life is lived as normal as possible, going to school, taking piano lessons, even traveling. But there is also the constant fear of being bombed, little food, alarms blaring day and night, constant blackouts, seeking shelter, and at the end, li... More >>

Kinder Memories of World War II

Juan

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A chance encounter in a Nicaraguan airport forever changes the lives of two people in this touching story that begins in a Managuan barrio. Juan Francisco Espinoza is a twelve-year-old shoeshine boy when fate places Karl Price, the principal of an American school in Venezuela, in his path. Though they only meet in passing, Price is so taken with the eager child's winning personality that a correspondence begins between them. The relationship between the Amer... More >>

Juan

Jep's Place: Hope, Faith and Other Disasters

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Jep’s Place is a vivid account of growing up during The Great Depression on a hardscrabble farm in a family of 13 children of former sharecropping Polish immigrants. The isolated farm at the end of a dirt road has no electricity, telephone or running water. The drafty farmhouse is often heated only by a kitchen woodstove. The children’s bedrooms have no heat. The fire in the kitchen stove dies during the night, and frost forms on the children’s bedroom ceiling... More >>

Jep's Place: Hope, Faith and Other Disasters

I Don't Want to Die All Alone

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Joseph describes a sad, but shockingly true story of growing up around crime, drugs, and streets. He shares with readers his days of beings hot, escaping a drive by shooting, the brutal murder of his brother, and several suicide attempts.... More >>

I Don't Want to Die All Alone

His Son: A Memoir

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The return of "an American masterpiece" (William Saroyan) long out of print.Bill Henderson did most of his growing up in the decade of the tail-finned car, Eisenhower, rock and roll, the threat of atomic annihilation, and pervasive silence. This anguished yet loving portrait of a child of the fifties and his father reveals the secret life of that decade. "A valediction of the 50s."-Rosellen Brown, Chicago Tribune "A powerfully moving book."-Anne Tyl... More >>

His Son: A Memoir

His Name Was Amy Mable: A Lifetime of Memories

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Take a trip down memory lane and revel in the adventures of “little Raz”, a child of the depression. For the young reader it is a chance to live history through the eyes of a child struggling with little Raz as he gets into and out of “situations”. For the young reader it imparts knowledge of living in a world without electricity. The teen-ager will react to the frustrations and emotions of a young boy living poor, working hard and forced to accept the respo... More >>

His Name Was Amy Mable: A Lifetime of Memories

Hick From the Sticks

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Farmers across the South struggled to survive during the Great Depression years of the thirties. Rural folks worked small family farms with manual implements and horse-drawn equipment to eke out a living for large families. Children toiled beside parents to provide a roof over their heads, clothing on their backs, and food for their stomachs. People on the farm endured a primitive existence without electricity, running water, indoor bathrooms, automobiles, air condi... More >>

Hick From the Sticks

The Hawthorne Scent

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Derick Bingham has written a unique autobiography in verse covering... The author's idyllic childhood in the Kingdom of Mourne. An inspiring schooling in Downpatrick, the town long associated with Ireland's patron saint. A career at Queen's University, Belfast in which the author became the Queen's University Orator on the the strength of declaring his faith. 35 beautiful illustrations by Ross Wilson, one of Ireland's most gifted artists.... More >>

The Hawthorne Scent

Hardpan

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From the Viking Press Reader's Report: "This is not just a memoir of childhood, but a story of survival, determination and fierce integrity, none of which the author "skimped"during his time in the Tulsa Children's Home.... More >>

Hardpan

Growing in His Light

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In this book, Growing In His Light, June Temple reminisces about the first seventeen years of her life. Along the way she reveals the loving atmosphere which later prompted her to become the "bush teacher in BC."... More >>

Growing in His Light

Follow Your Heart

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How do you confront the pain and abuse of a childhood that is shocking almost beyond belief? The author not only survived, but triumphed over incredible brutality and is an inspiration to anyone who reads this book. The reader is taken on a journey starting with a father who beat and abused his children. Their cries would be unheard, their misery unrelenting. Rejoice with Frances as she finally finds love and a way to forgive so many wrongs.... More >>

Follow Your Heart

Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas

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Odette Larson vividly recounts her adolescence on the edge of Las Vegas before it became the Disneyfied center of family entertainment that it is today. She and her brothers would ride together on Odette's horse through the desert, reveling in the frontiers of this haunted geography, discovering the expanses that liberated them from the severity of their lives at home. There they would meet up with various characters—African-American cowboys, lascivious truckers, ... More >>

Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas

FEAR NO EVIL

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"FEAR NO EVIL" IS A NON FICTIONAL BOOK ABOUT A YOUNG BLACK MAN GROWING UP IN THE DEEP SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA. ITS STORY LINE FOCUS ON A HISTORICALLY EVENT IN 1970. FROM THERE IT MOVES FOWARD TO THE PRESENT DAY. THIS VERSION OF "FEAR NO EVIL" IS A 6 BY 9 PAPERBACL VERSION.... More >>

FEAR NO EVIL

Early Memories

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1913. This work is the autobiography of Henry Cabot Lodge, the American politician and author. Lodge was the great-grandson of George Cabot, the American politician and businessman. Henry was a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was a leader in the opposition to the Peace Treaty and the Covenant of the League of Nations in 1919. Lodge was a prolific writer, writing several biographies, including those of Hamilton, W... More >>

Early Memories

Doomed

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"Doomed" is the true story of John Allen's childhood, a childhood spent primarily in a particularly pernicious cult; it is also the preface, of sorts, for his first book "The Called and Chosen."... More >>

Doomed

Diary of a Preacher's Daughter

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A warm and intimate story of a family. It will make you laugh and make you cry. Piercingly affective, painfully moving, this is one of those rare books that you never want to put down... More >>

Diary of a Preacher's Daughter

Crossroads on Nebraska Ave.: An Autobiography

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Rich in detail and emotion, Marr's work is an autobiography that is both interesting and inspiring. Detailing his early years as a youth strongly impressed by the war, as well as offering his parents' backgrounds, Crossroads on Nebraska Ave. presents a clear picture of how one man developed from paper boy to a customer sensitive Head Grocery Buyer and Category Manager for Publix supermarket.... More >>

Crossroads on Nebraska Ave.: An Autobiography

Christmas at Long Lake

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“Rick Skwiot works his own magic…As usual, Skwiot’s writing is
sure…And his tale has a gritty, blue-collar cachet…This is good
reading.” — Kansas City Star
“Skwiot’s vivid descriptions of the physical and emotional
landscape of this environment are poignant, entertaining, and
instructional…There is magic in this depiction of a setting
and a way of life that can be described only as Edenic.”
— Library Journal
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A Childhood Remembered

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Ever wondered what a growing lad got up to in a Shropshire market town during and after the War.In this book he describes his schooldays,his surroundings,how he was touched by the War and many other aspects of his adolescent life. The text is illustrated by delightful pen sketches of the places described by the author and the whole book paints a picture of a life lived in an age gone by which is never likely to return. A life of no computers,no TV and not many cars.... More >>

A Childhood Remembered

Childhood

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I felt neither happy nor unhappy; I had nothing to say. I had neither fear nor hope, nor even a feeling of curiosity; I was neither cheerful nor sad. The only thing which grated upon me was the face of the mistress of the house. Although I had not the faintest idea either of beauty or of ugliness, her face, her countenance, her tone of voice, her language, everything in that woman was repulsive to me.... More >>

Childhood

Buddy the Rose

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Buddy The Rose tells how Buddy, A small rose, is uprooted from his home, greenhouse, and eventually his flower pot only to find a new home, family and new friends. This book is my attempt to tell my life story through Buddy. Until I was seven years old I was called Buddy and I was told my last name was Johnson. Then I was told my real name was Phil Kennedy. I soon changed homes. Not once, but three more times. From the Johnson's in Florida, to another family i... More >>

Buddy the Rose

A Bruised Child: A Story of Emotional Child Abuse and the Courage to Heal

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Author details a childhood steeped in emotional abuse. How he found help (spiritually and psychologically) to understand the sickness of his parents and the joy of forgiveness and healing. Riveting lessons for all parents to remember.... More >>

A Bruised Child: A Story of Emotional Child Abuse and the Courage to Heal

The Crossing: A Story of East Timor

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East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia — one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit. Exquisitely crafted and evocative, Luis Cardoso’s personal history of his homeland takes as its central image a crossing — from child to adult, Portuguese to Timorese, tolerance to repression, colonialism to independence. “[Cardoso is] the genuine article ... in the cont... More >>

The Crossing: A Story of East Timor

Broadmoor

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Home? Why must there be a place called Home? Why is there, somewhere in each human soul, a void that can be filled only by remembrance of that special place? In Broadmoor, four aging brothers, seeking answers and guided by memory, take you with them on a journey back to their childhood, back to poverty and hard times, to betrayal and desertion, and to years of back-breaking labor and struggle to survive. As you follow, you will meet a loving but imperfect fami... More >>

Broadmoor

Through the Burning Steppe: A Memoir of Wartime Russia, 1942-1943

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Elena Kozhina was just eight years old when the Germans laid siege to Leningrad in 1941. Evacuated to a no-man's-land in the heart of the Russian steppe, she watched her family perish around her-and witnessed the indomitable strength of her mother in the face of life's greatest adversity.

Drawing comparisons to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and comparable works by Tolstoy and Gorky, Elena Kozhina's jewel of a memoir is poised to become a classic of t... More >>

Through the Burning Steppe: A Memoir of Wartime Russia, 1942-1943

Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood

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A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taf... More >>

Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood

Margrit's World War II

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In 1943, five-year-old Margrit was sent to a farm in Bavaria to escape the bombing in the big city of Hamburg. Separated from her mother, father, and siblings, she had to face many new experiences—life in the country, school, the death of a friend—without their support. Unaffected and direct, Margrit's World War II is a poignant look at war through the eyes of a child.... More >>

Margrit's World War II

The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale

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After her parents' divorce, Jade's father informs her that it is her duty to take care of his "needs." Though Jade is powerless to resist at first, she never stops trying to find a way out of the horror that has become her life. The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale is the first installment of an astounding three-part memoir of sexual abuse, drug abuse, loss, and healing.... More >>

The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale

You're Going to a Home!

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A powerful true story of rampant child abuse, prevalent in the New York catholic Homes for children during the 1940s through the 1960s. And focuses on the death of the author?... More >>

You're Going to a Home!

Beerinsky

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.....The memoirs of how one orphan boy called a Beerinsky (the bedwetters) survived in the cruel child abuser orphanage run by overworked, sometimes sadistic disciplinary nuns. He survived without love, compassion, encouragement or individual attention. This was the practice during the world-wide TB/Flu epidemic. Other than shelter, food and clothing, the aim of the nuns was extreme discipline, thus effectively destroying all self esteem of the 200 bo... More >>

Beerinsky

The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome

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What makes the Asperger child immerse himself in such things as Doctor Who and The Incredible Hulk? In this honest and entertaining autobiographical account, Will Hadcroft links his obsessive TV series fixations to eventually being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. He describes drawing comfort from identifying with heroic individuals or fictional characters, and the liberating effect of an accurate diagnosis for someone who felt 'out of place' and didn't know why. T... More >>

The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome

Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood

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Author Ann Hennessy presents an engaging dichotomy of American life in the 1930s and 1940s in this charming coming of age story filled with childhood games, first love, and lessons in life. Coupled with vivid memories of Maryland's lush Eastern Shore and the dawn of Baltimore's emergence as a Mid-Atlantic urban center, "Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood" offers readers a first-person account of "what it meant to be alive and young in those days when America itself... More >>

Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood

Beating the Odds: A Boyhood Under Nazi-Occupied France

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The book is about what can happen when the international community ignores a power-hungry dictator who schemes and plots the destruction of free and civilized countries. The date was September 3, 1939. The dictator: Adolf Hitler. The nations: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, England, and the United States. An American psychiatrist, who spent his youth in France during WWII, uses his keen insight into the human condition to write about the politics and histor... More >>

Beating the Odds: A Boyhood Under Nazi-Occupied France

An Autobiographical Horror Story: Parts I and II

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A continuation of the Autobiographical Horror Story series.... More >>

An Autobiographical Horror Story: Parts I and II

Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered

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Emily Fox Gordon was a fatty, an academic failure, a schoolyard pariah, and a disappointment to her highly educated parents. And yet her early life was, as she puts it, "a succession of moments of radiant apprehension." Growing up in a Massachusetts college town in the fifties, she cultivated the writer's lifelong habit of translating experience into words. As she grew older, she became aware of her mother's long withdrawal into alcoholic depression. For Emily this ... More >>

Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered

Runaway: Life on the Streets--The Lessons Learned

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REVIEW BY: Jennifer Oliverhttp://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977117535It is my intention, through my book, to try to relate to teenagers the pain, suffering, and sadness a runaway child feels after reaching adulthood. The teenager who takes to the streets, and experiences what I describe in my book, both the good and the bad, will forever remain sad, lonely and in a state of total distrust of family, friends and spouse.As an abused teen, living in... More >>

Runaway: Life on the Streets--The Lessons Learned