Run to the Rabbit Hutch

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In her story Run to the Rabbit Hutch, Dolores Schwalb reaches back in her memory to relive her life in Medford, Oregon. Growing up during the Depression, she was the third child of five. Her father was a lumber mill laborer, and when the mills closed, her parents had to use plenty of imagination to make ends meet. They had plenty of that, along with a good sense of humor. She relates stories told to her by her mother of her many relatives' antics and the tricks they... More >>

Run to the Rabbit Hutch

Only Son: A Memoir

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Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, the only son of a man who worked hard to support his family, but also tyrannized them with violent outbursts and regular beatings. His childhood made Johnson tough and angry-and fueled his determination to be a successful black man in a white world. Eventually, he became one of the biggest names in New York television news. A man about town, the father of four, Johnson had money, fame, and success. Then something happened. His mother, ... More >>

Only Son: A Memoir

Roots and Wings: Notes from My First 64 Years

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Roots and Wings is one ordinary woman's story of the extraordinary joy she's taken from her life so far – from the struggles of her youth in Australia to her enriching career to her high-profile globetrotting on the world stage. Among the many lessons: through it all, nothing is more important than family.... More >>

Roots and Wings: Notes from My First 64 Years

Revelations of an Ordinary Childhood

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Written through the eyes of a child, Terrell's stories are filled with anger and rage, uncertain outcomes, or dark results. At such age, you would expect innocence and happiness; instead, you will be introduced to the ruff edges of life in the streets of South Central, Los Angeles that seems so far away from a normal childhood that one almost starts questioning its reality. Yet it is ordinary for so many young people who grow up under similar circumstances. After h... More >>

Revelations of an Ordinary Childhood

Possum Hollow

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This book is now out of print from Herald Press.... More >>

Possum Hollow

The Porcelain Sleigh: A Childhood Revisited German 1937 - 1947

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The Porcelain Sleigh is a coming-of-age story of a young German girl in a small town in the western part of Germany, during Hitler?s ?Third Reich.? Growing up with episodes of ?normalcy and evil,? her tale stands for life in many small towns before and during World War II. The threads of happy and idyllic events are intertwined with dark and sinister occurrences. But at the core of the girl?s life lies a secret which she does not know, but is aware of through situat... More >>

The Porcelain Sleigh: A Childhood Revisited German 1937 - 1947

Polly’s Contraption

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Polly Bender has some problems. She is disliked by many of the girls she goes to school with, partly because she shows some of her American Indian heritage. Partly because she is becoming club footed. Polly is in the summer, ready to start twelfth grade, when her foot starts turning in. Polly wants desperately to play her senior year of volleyball for Haywood High School. Polly plots her own destiny and devises a contraption to push her foot back to normal. It does ... More >>

Polly’s Contraption

Noble Street

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Noble Street is a story about a boy's struggle growing up poor and black in Philadelphia during the 1940s. It gives the reader an honest look into the lifestyle and the community of the Cooper family, the good, the bad, the ugly. It is a tale of how a mother on welfare with twelve children, a brutal husband, inspired her sons to do battle with poverty, hunger and racism. And, in doing so, she taught them a great lesson. It is the struggle to survive that gives life... More >>

Noble Street

Pa Pa, Where Are You?

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Konstantin spent his youth dodging bullets and being forced to watch exectutions on his way to school. This is a story of his youth and how he came to freedom in America. A story that spans 5 decades. It will take you to Manchuria, China, Sao Paulo, Brazil to America. The story will explain how freedom is gained and what this young immigrant did to answer the questions "Pa Pa, Where Are You?"... More >>

Pa Pa, Where Are You?

Over to Candleford

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an excerpt from: XVI As They Were 'Come the summer, we'll borrow old Polly and the spring cart from the "Wagon and Horses" and all go over to Candleford', their father said, for the ten-millionth time, thought Laura. Although he had said it so often they had never been. They had not been anywhere farther than the market town for the Saturday shopping. Once, when some one asked them how long they had lived in their cottage, Laura had... More >>

Over to Candleford

An Orphan In New York City

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An Orphan in New York City is about survival. When immigrant parents died or could no longer financially or emotionally support their children, benevolent Jews came to the rescue. This is the story of life at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum with a thousand brothers and sisters during the Great Depression.... More >>

An Orphan In New York City

No Ordinary Lives -- Four 19th Century Teenage Diariesw

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The diaries in this collection include the writings of four young people between the ages of twelve and twenty a boy growing up on a lake in Maine, a sea captain s daughter, a Shaker farm boy, and a daughter raised by a single mom. What can we discover from these diaries? Readers may be surprised, for example, by the technology available to Delmer Wilson in the Shaker community in 1887. Because all these diaries were produced during the writers developmental years, ... More >>

No Ordinary Lives -- Four 19th Century Teenage Diariesw

The Original Little Joe: Adventures in Childhood Survival from the Days of Yesteryear

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"The Original Little Joe" is the heartfelt story of a young boy growing up during the latter part of the great depression and through World War II. However, it is not the typical story of the hard pressed, deprived and abused inner city street punk. Rather this boy was the youngest of eleven children in a poor struggling family living on a small piece of land in the rural Pacific Northwest. He watched and in time became a part of this family who attempted to sc... More >>

The Original Little Joe: Adventures in Childhood Survival from the Days of Yesteryear

On Seven Mile Road

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In August of 1945 the Marchenia family took up residence in a home on Seven Mile Road on the East Side of Detroit. It was a home with a potbellied stove and a generous front porch, lilac bushes and shade trees. It was a time when children spent their days flying kites, and watching clouds, and their evenings chasing fireflies and gazing at the stars. It was a golden period of childhood. On Seven Mile Road is a story about growing up in the forties and fifties. I... More >>

On Seven Mile Road

Naked Ears: A Child's-Eye View of the Great Depression

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Naked Ears portrays a time in our history when life was simpler. It views the Great Depression through the eyes of a young girl. Life in rural Arkansas in the 1930s had all the elements of life in any society - happiness, sadness, dreams, frustrations, humor, friendship. Farm families depended on the land for their livelihood, and neighbors were always willing to lend a helping hand. They had no electricity, no plumbing, and no telephones. Trips to the doctor were ... More >>

Naked Ears: A Child's-Eye View of the Great Depression

Oh Those Youthful Years

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In this book Varadaraja V. Raman, a native of India, now Emeritus Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, reminisces on his youthful days the country of his birth. He recalls with affection his parents, his impressions of the books he read, his memories of the teachers from whom he learned, his reflections on aspects of his culture and heritage, as well as snippets of life in Calcutta in those distant days. The book should be interesting reading for thos... More >>

Oh Those Youthful Years

My Life as a Blue Coat Girl

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My Life as a Blue Coat Girl gives a charming insight into the life of a young girl from a working-class family in Coventry, prior to the Second World War. Ivy's father dies when she is only two years old, leaving her mother to cope with four girls all under the age of seven. When Ivy is nine, she and her sisters are separated and sent away to different care homes and Ivy's life as a Blue Coat Girl begins. Ivy tells her story of the hurdles and experiences she faces ... More >>

My Life as a Blue Coat Girl

My Journey: From the Third Reich to the New World

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An engaging account of the author's childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, his unexpected discovery of being half-Jewish - thus stigmatized under the Nuremberg race laws, his search for his father, and his eventual quest for a new life abroad.It provides insightful flashbacks to Hitler's coming to power and to life under his rule, the country at war, the plight of the writer's aunt - a staunchly anti-Nazi school teacher - in the hands of the Gestapo, and later to his ... More >>

My Journey: From the Third Reich to the New World

No Bed for Me

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NO BED FOR ME charts the roller coaster years of life in the 30s and 40s: a life influenced by psychological emotion, war, and a shattered childhood dream. But there were also times for humour, love, and understanding. The first twelve years of life were spent alternating between a family home dominated by an unemotional Mother and a home for children full of love and understanding. Four years in the regimented discipline of a boy's home, meant survival skills were ... More >>

No Bed for Me

The Ninth of Twelve From the Usta Place

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"The Ninth of Twelve From the Usta Place" is a touching and heartwarming book by first time author Helen Sexton. The ninth of twelve children, Helen recalls experiences and adventures of growing up in western Missouri. From singing around the pump organ with her family and helping her mother sew clothes to misadventures with a hungry bear while on a picnic, you'll feel as if you're sitting across the kitchen table from Helen, coffee cup in hand, while she s... More >>

The Ninth of Twelve From the Usta Place

My Father's Garden

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There are multitudes of books written on self-image that are not necessarily causing the reader to understand the 'God-image' that we were created in. Due to a 'Father Image' problem, I am in pursuit of uncovering the top layers of falsehood that veil our hearts to the truth in defense of our so great salvation and am passionate about showing people the beauty of who we were created to be in the garden, who we were when we were with God, our real Father, before we c... More >>

My Father's Garden

My Story: Going Home Again

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We all have a longing to return to the safe, loved places of our childhood. Author Mary Pat Miller does just that in her wistful new memoir. While growing up in a small Civil War town of Lexington, Missouri in the '40s, Mary Pat and her siblings were raised in a hardworking, fun-loving devout French-Irish family.... More >>

My Story: Going Home Again

My First Life: A Memoir

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My First Life is an autobiography of life in a small, rural village in western New York in the '30's and '40's, and a lucid account of the culture of small town life during the worst years of the depression and WWII. Day provides interesting tales of his family, neighbors, old men of the village, and his pals, with whom he explored everything from the village haunts to his sexual coming-of-age. A compelling social history of the times and of the ways in which they s... More >>

My First Life: A Memoir

My Father Was A Bit Player

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During the Depression, the motion picture industry spun timeless fantasies of romance and adventure through the silvery images of its glamorous stars. The movie theatre was a house of dreams; a place of refuge for a population struggling with economic hardship and emotional despair. We continue to study and adulate the icons of Hollywood's golden era, but what do we know of the lives of the hard-working, middle class people that made Los Angeles a unique and thrivin... More >>

My Father Was A Bit Player

Movies, Memories, and Me

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The author, in this autobiographical memoir, takes the reader back in time when youngsters could roam free through the countryside, and urban violence was as distant as the outer reaches of the solar system---a time of innocence and adventure.... More >>

Movies, Memories, and Me

My American Education

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This collection of essays is designed to show how a mediocre high school sophomore matured into a college honors student. This collection is an intimate look at how a boy became a man. ... More >>

My American Education