The Way I Remember It

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The house Dad built with his own hands is where I began. It’s where my roots are. Growing up there on the three acre farm with two sisters and a brother molded my whole live. Cows, chickens, pigs, cats, and dogs played an important role in my life. ... More >>

The Way I Remember It

Recollecting the Forties

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At the end of the forties, an old road was replaced with a modern highway, and television sets partly replaced radios and books. Those events marked the end of a way of life in rural Michigan. The author looks back at the forties from a modern viewpoint and at her life in a family of schoolteachers, recalling small-town storekeepers, old-fashioned teachers, and a simpler way of life that emphasized education and the environment.... More >>

Recollecting the Forties

Voice of an Angel : My Life

• - Voice of an Angel: My Life, So Far

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How did a schoolgirl from Wales become an international sensation? And how can she possibly cope with staggering, worldwide fame? In this fascinating account, the young singer shares her amazing true story. From humble beginnings in Wales singing on local radio to singing for Prince Charles, President Clinton, and the Pope, to her quick rise to the top of the music charts, Charlotte Churchs unique story is an inspiring tale of a phenomenal young talent and will touc... More >>

Voice of an Angel : My Life

Up Harold's Branch: A Collection of Childhood Memories

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Born in 1946 and living in a four-room house with no indoor plumbing, Saundra takes us back to the 1950s when two-room schoolhouses and country stores were part of every small community in eastern Kentucky. Each chapter is filled with stories about relatives and neighbors who impacted her childhood. Whether it is Aunt Violet from Detroit on a summer visit and wearing high heels, nylon hose and a tight-fitting girdle and complaining that the sweat was “souring” h... More >>

Up Harold's Branch: A Collection of Childhood Memories

The Pull of Moving Water

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In this beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Alice Koskela captures that peculiar mix of innocence and ruthlessness which is childhood - that time when we know far less than we think we do, and far more than any adult might guess. The Pull of Moving Water describes the cultural simmering of the 1950s and the explosion of the 1960s from the vantage point of a girl growing up inside those years, yet impossibly removed from anything that seems to matter. She's stuck on a fa... More >>

The Pull of Moving Water

UC THE FATHER I NEVER KNEW

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The youngest child of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Bernice King is remembered by most as the five-year-old in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken of her as she lay in her mother's lap during her father's funeral. Brought up under the microscope of national attention during one of America's most tempestuous times, she had the mixed blessing of being part of one of the country's most influential families.

In this moving memoir, Ber... More >>

UC THE FATHER I NEVER KNEW

The Price We Paid: A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia

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April 17, 1975—the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime seized power and forced Cambodians of all ages into slavery, turning their lives upside down. This resulted in the death of more than 1.5 million Cambodians out of roughly 8 million population due to forced labor, starvation, and execution. Author Vatey Seng was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge took control. The Price We Paid is her vivid and haunting memoir of the atrocities of the regime. Vatey recou... More >>

The Price We Paid: A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime, Cambodia

Towards the Light at the End of the Tunnel

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A unique historical perspective through the eyes of a German who has a hair-raising girlhood in Hitler?... More >>

Towards the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Today I Am A Boy

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"Can I now, a white-haired man who gets into the movies at reduced cost, Do I have any magic words left? Can I get a miracle? If I can recall my youth and understand it, that may be the miracle I seek now." When David Hays was 66 and had joined a synagogue for the first time in over fifty years, he decided to study Hebrew and be a bar mitzvah. And so this world-renowned theatrical designer, founder of the legendary National Theatre of the Deaf, father of tw... More >>

Today I Am A Boy

Prairie Winter

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A charming diary of an Illinois farm girl detailing life on the prairie from September through June, during the late nineteenth century, using dated entries by months.... More >>

Prairie Winter

Tales & Memories of Western North Dakota

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This manuscript has been inspired with Steve’s antidotes, bits of wisdom and jokes (sometimes ethnic, to reflect the melting pot that was and is North Dakota; and from most unknown sources). A story about how to live life with humor, courage and grace along with personal hardships, tragedies and triumphs.... More >>

Tales & Memories of Western North Dakota

Summer of ’66

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In the August 2006 Texas Monthly article on Charles Whitman ("96 Minutes," by Pamela Colloff), Shelton Williams is a character in the recounting of the Whitman tragedy. Shelly was there when the shooting started, but it was not his first encounter with the young man who weaken so much havoc on that hot August day in Austin in 1966. While Shelly and Charlie did know each other, they were not friends and they were not adversaries at the University of Texas in the spri... More >>

Summer of ’66

Porky: My Unusual Pet

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A ten year-old girl receives a smart and lovable baby pig for her birthday.... More >>

Porky: My Unusual Pet

A Plant Once Uprooted Can No Longer Hug the Ground

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The story of a hidden child during the Holocaust years in France. Told through poetry and illustrations. "A Plant Once Uprooted..." describes the life, the traumas, the joys and the sorrows of a small child caught in the web of the Holocaust during World War II in France. Is is based on Renee Ferson Osten's autobiography "Don't They Know The World Stopped Breathing?" Forced to leave the safety of home and family and flee from the German occupiers, she was five... More >>

A Plant Once Uprooted Can No Longer Hug the Ground

Spirito Splendido

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Spirito Splendido, is a humorous look at life from a precocious child's perspective as she grows up in 1940's New York while her father is away during the war years. Grandfather is in the Mafia, matriarchal grandmother rules the household, and glamorous Mom dreams of the day her husband will return and reunite the family. The rude awakening comes when this Marine comes home and moves his family from the glamour of New York to Camp Lejeune, where daily life include... More >>

Spirito Splendido

Soft Hearts & Hard Times: A boys life 1921-1941

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Soft Hearts and Hard Times is the true story of a little boy who’s age of awareness coincided with beginning of the Great Depression. It tells the story of how he and his family endured; and how the dismal events of the day affected them. It demonstrates how, even in the worst of times, there is still time for a boyish pleasure or two.... More >>

Soft Hearts & Hard Times: A boys life 1921-1941

Peat Fire Memories: Life in Lewis in the Early Twentieth Century

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This collection of lively, detailed anecdotes provides a glimpse of what life was like for Kenneth Macdonald as he grew up in 1891 in the village of Sandwick, Isle of Lewis. A picture of a kind, sympathetic, and exceptionally popular teacher at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway is painted, highlighting a man whose interest in ordinary folk was what motivated his whole life. Macdonald was regarded as one of the pioneers of socialism in the Isles at a time when left... More >>

Peat Fire Memories: Life in Lewis in the Early Twentieth Century

Silver Spoon and After

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Lenore Nir’s happily-married, university-educated parents provided love and comfort for Lenore and her two brothers in Toronto, Canada. Her home was strongly Zionist, and after university, she moved to Israel, married there, raised three children, and became a U.S. Embassy press translator in Tel Aviv and a Windsor Daily Star correspondent. In 1991, Lenore and her husband followed a son and daughter to Toronto. Tension erupted. Recovery from a suicide attempt was ... More >>

Silver Spoon and After

The Shrinking of the Magnolia

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"The Shrinking of the Magnolia allows the childhood of Dr. Cary Christian to come alive in stories that tell of a little girl growing up in a small southern Alabama town. The stories written for young and old often contain life lessons learned."... More >>

The Shrinking of the Magnolia

A Short Horse Is Soon Curried

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Entrepreneurial country boy finds the early twentieth century made to order for his many varied adventures. Honing his instinctive survival skills in his nearby mountain playground led to saddle making, horsemanship, and rodeo. World War II military pilot, policeman, agricultural pilot, upholsterer and rearing a family left few dull moments.... More >>

A Short Horse Is Soon Curried

An Oxford Childhood: The Pride of the Morning

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In this personal reminiscence of growing up in Cowley, Oxford in the 1920s, the author’s detailed memories describe every aspect of life in the years following the Great War. The clothes she wore, the furnishings of her parents’ house, and the food they ate are graphically remembered. She describes the fun they had with a newly made rag rug, trying to identify the pieces of old clothing that it was made from, and remembers that on bath nights, in front of the f... More >>

An Oxford Childhood: The Pride of the Morning

She Ate the Neck of the Chicken

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When Jim and I saw the round red target staring up through its cellophane wrapper, we snatched the package and scampered up the attic stairs. I never imagined the cigarettes belonged to anyone. I thought they were left behind and long since forgotten . . . Before World War II, at big family gatherings in the country, I found glory in acting big, romping with my brother and cousin, challenging a banty rooster, braving a treacherous bridge, taming a wild kitten,... More >>

She Ate the Neck of the Chicken

Seeds of Lotus: Vietnamese and Cambodian Voices in America

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Seeds of Lotus had its origin in a controversial war we are still debating today--fifty years later. In America, we call it the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, they call it the American War. In truth, the political aftermath of that war destabilized the entire region of Southeast Asia and displaced a tangled mass of humanity. The flight of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos passed through many exotic destinations-Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines-this w... More >>

Seeds of Lotus: Vietnamese and Cambodian Voices in America

Scuffletown: Adventures of a Boy Growing up In the Rural South

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Educational and entertaining, this book contains snippets of life that reflect hard work and humor, love of nature, and the role of friends and family in the shaping of a life. While describing the hardships of life at an earlier period in our history, to which many older adults can relate, the book is all up-to-date in its moments dedicated to the stories of great outdoors and its wildlife—moments of innocence and awakening, that reflect how perennial and endurab... More >>

Scuffletown: Adventures of a Boy Growing up In the Rural South

A Scottish Childhood Volume II: Over 70 Famous Scots Remember

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Over 70 well-known Scots—ranging from Joe Beltrani to Nicholas Parsons—donated personal pieces which relate tales drawn from all over Scotland and cover a span of some 80 years.... More >>

A Scottish Childhood Volume II: Over 70 Famous Scots Remember

Schemer: A Boy Grows Up in Wisconsin

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Growing up in small-town America. A boy's adventures of growing up in the Wisconsin Village of Shiocton in the Town of Bovina during the forties and fifties of the twentieth century. The author, a retired professional library cataloger, tells what living was all about in the forties and fifties.... More >>

Schemer: A Boy Grows Up in Wisconsin

Scared-Y-Cat

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A snake lives in Mrs. Larson's house and eats Children!

Jane thinks she is a Scared-Y-Cat. Her friend tells her a boa constrictor lives in the house across from the church, and that it eats children! Jane knows this doesn't sound right but she wonders if this could be true. After all she thinks a bear sleeps under her bed at night. She plans to look in the woman's window to see the snake. While she's trying to build up the nerve to do this she ... More >>

Scared-Y-Cat