Mourning a Father Lost: A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered

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Returning to the kibbutz of his childhood to attend his father's funeral, Avraham Balaban confronts his still intensely painful childhood memories. With a poet's keen voice, the author weaves together two interrelated stories: a sensitive artist growing up in the intensely pragmatic world of Kibbutz Huldah and the rise and fall of a grand yet failed social experiment. As he moves through the seven days of sitting shivah for his father, Balaban experiences an expandi... More >>

Mourning a Father Lost: A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered

Mother Was a Rebel: 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 Alabama poet laureate 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... More >>

Mother Was a Rebel: In Praise of Gentle People

Missing Pieces

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"And that night over the checkerboard, I began to see how radically my world had changed. When I had played checkers with my father [before the war] at age eight or nine, I had felt that from time to time he held back and let me win, but now I saw clearly that our positions were almost totally reversed. He was the one who missed clear opportunities for moves and I was the one who held back until he found them or I pointed them out so that he could win. We ended up ... More >>

Missing Pieces

The Mended Rose

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"The Mended Rose" is the inspiring true story showing how one young woman overcame six years of child abuse and rape. It encourages men, women, and teens to overcome their past for the sake of their future.... More >>

The Mended Rose

Memories of My Childhood

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As a child in England, Ann suffered with asthma and spent a lot of time in bed. The author and her family did not have television in those days, so reading her books and looking out of the window was how Ann passed her time. She wrote this poem for her mother and, when her mother dies, it was found in her effects. After reading the poem to a group of children and seeing how attentive they were, the author decided it should be an illustrated children's book.... More >>

Memories of My Childhood

Milk Horses: A Memoir

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Milk Horses: A Memoir reveals the life of a child born during WWII who becomes a poet. The midwest during WWII as seen through a Michigan family.... More >>

Milk Horses: A Memoir

Me, Jeff, and Goo

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There are no greater adventures in the world than those shared by children and their best friends. Me, Jeff, and Goo, a unique and captivating collection of stories authored by Doug Morris, chronicles the adventures of a childhood shared with his brother Jeff (also the illustrator of this book) and their best friend, Goo. This account of the trio's growing-up years in their small Kansas hometown is packed with mystery, mischief, intrigue, and even a seri... More >>

Me, Jeff, and Goo

Mervyn's Lot

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In this prequel to Mila and Mervusya: A Russian Wedding, Mervyn Matthews describes his remarkable childhood in Wales in the late 1930s, '40s and early '50s. To escape the bombing during the Swansea blitz during World War II, Matthews went to live with his grandmother in the working-class Hafod district. He was evacuated to west Wales to escape further bombing and spent a long period hospitalized. In addition to suffering the discomforts of war and ill health, Matthe... More >>

Mervyn's Lot

Memories of the Beach

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In this rare combination of history and memoir, Lorraine O'Donnell Williams details life within Toronto's Beach community in the 1930s and '40s from the vantage point of her front verandah that abutted the boardwalk. Her extensive research has uncovered numerous little publicized facets of the heritage of this exceptional neighbourhood, including the stories of what was in its time one of North America's most remarkable amusement parks, the elegant dance hall, and h... More >>

Memories of the Beach

The Memoirs of Someone Awesome

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Proving that, in fact, there was a time before kids began locking themselves in dark basements with video game controllers clutched tightly. Michael Spencer has written a book about many things both physical and mental, both tangible and dreamlike. He ends up being the climax of the era where a child’s imagination was their greatest toy. The last Great General of an army of youth that has since faded into forgotten lore, he has sent out this slightly demented,... More >>

The Memoirs of Someone Awesome

Livin PO in Sandbed Hell

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Livin PO in Sandbed Hell is a nonfiction, humorous autobiographical memoir about desperation and the "Poverty Motivational Method." There are no pretensions. The language is vintage Country PO, sometimes quite plain and coarse. Many will identify the grinding poverty and the resulting indignities to the mind, body and soul. To win was to ESCAPE! The book is amusing, sad, and sometimes gut busting funny. The endless back breaking work in the sun roasted fiel... More >>

Livin PO in Sandbed Hell

A Little Boy's War

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In this autobiographical reminiscence of the war years, Roy Bartlett relates the experiences of a young boy living in the West London suburb of Ealing, particularly during the sustained German Luftwaffe 'Blitz' on the capital in 1940 during which he sustained injury. Millions of people in London and other cities, children as well as adults, survived the horrors and rigours of the war. Many accounts have been written, but few from the viewpoint of a child. Aged nine ... More >>

A Little Boy's War

Life with Grandma

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"Life With Grandma" is a collection of non fiction short stories that recount the childhood adventures of the author under his grandmother's care while his parents were at work. Each story contains a life lesson that provides an opportunity for interaction between parent and child.... More >>

Life with Grandma

A Life of Agony and Praise

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Author Turns Abusive Childhood into Work of Praise LONGWOOD, FL—It could be your cousin, the next-door neighbor, the leader of a Bible study, or the guy working in the office down the hall. It’s a sad fact, but many Christians struggle with emotional problems from childhood trauma and abuse. Often they don’t want anyone to know about it, or if they do, they don’t know who to talk to. Curiously, some things are still considered taboo for Christians to tal... More >>

A Life of Agony and Praise

The Keeper of Absalom's Island

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This account of rural Ireland in the 1940s describes a way of life that has now disappeared. It deals with a young boy's limited horizons, emerging conflicts with religion and convention, the futile endeavour to reach his father and the many colourful characters that are an integral part of his childhood.... More >>

The Keeper of Absalom's Island

Jack's Shop: Beyond the Front Porch

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Follow the antics and adventures of a young boy growing up in rural Virginia during the1950s and '60s. It may bring to mind a far simpler and, in some ways, misguided period in the history of the south. A bygone era of outhouses, skunks, and the simple pleasures of country living is fondly recalled with a unique sampling of poignant humor. Through his eyes, the serenity and simplicity of the day is continually questioned until finally a life-threatening illness forc... More >>

Jack's Shop: Beyond the Front Porch

Inside the Pinball Machine

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Inside The Pinball Machine is an autobiography of a young man from a suburb of Boston who is afflicted with a serious illness at a very young age, survives it, and goes on to accomplish the same goals that his peers do- graduating middle, high school. The main character s path, though, is much different due to lingering effects of his childhood illness. We see moments of joy and moments of despair that offer the reader an explanation to why the main character acts t... More >>

Inside the Pinball Machine

Maria Zacharczuk-Gruenwald: The true story of a young non-Jewish girl's dreams shattered by the Nazi regime

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In this book I hope to make it clear and concise about the historical accuracy of some portions of the Holocaust. With the true information provided from Maria Zacharczuk-Gruenwald’s lifechanging experience during her internment during the Second World War. Until now the information that was available was incorrectly presented in several publications. Also limited information exists about women prisoners at Ebensee and many other concentration camps. There are man... More >>

Maria Zacharczuk-Gruenwald: The true story of a young non-Jewish girl's dreams shattered by the Nazi regime

Hope Survives

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It wasn't Hope's fault that she was born, but her mother made her regret her existence every day during her childhood. Her cowardly father could only look aside as his wife wielded her poisonous words or worse, her severe punishments. Hope needed to deal with hunger, overwork, beatings and verbal abuse. She was isolated from friends, her only solace being the books she loved to read. There she was able to escape the pain that she grew up in. As she marked off the da... More >>

Hope Survives

Hope for Carsonville

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The stories swirl around Hope Quinlan, the bright matriarch and lovable soul whose fierce independence, love of a drop now and again, and huge heart, guide her twelve offspring through high adventures and low heartbreaking events, like the house fire, chickens in the upstairs closet, the abandoned house game. These are TRUE experiences of Erin Quinlan Hartman's childhood, who was inspired to tell her story when a small child appeared at her bedside one night and to... More >>

Hope for Carsonville

Mama Was a Con Man, Papa Was a Christian

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Addison fondly recalls growing up in rural north Louisiana in the 1920s.... More >>

Mama Was a Con Man, Papa Was a Christian

Hayfield: Magical Place, Magical Time

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This book centers around the author's first nine years of life in a small town. Protected by the heroes of the time, parents, siblings, and the people of Hayfield, Minnesota, all who actually took care of one another and allowed one boy to live in a truly magical time. Who should read this book? Anyone who has ever lived in a small town, because they will recognize their own experiences. Anyone who wants a read free of smut and politics. Everyone who would like to b... More >>

Hayfield: Magical Place, Magical Time