REACHING FOR THE SKY: Childhood Recollections of War and Peace

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The serene life of the irrepressibly optimistic little girl was disturbed. Child-play and fantasies gave way to fear and anguish. Wild thoughts were going through her mind while the German bombs were falling nearby her picturesque retreat:How dare they disturb my peaceful space? Who are these people who want to conquer the world? Why aren't they satisfied with their own terra firma, their own hideaways and retreats, their own Camelot? Why would they bother my magica... More >>

REACHING FOR THE SKY: Childhood Recollections of War and Peace

Simply Unexpected

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Travel back in time and relive the life with me from childhood to my early twenties where life was simply unexpected. Where the days and nights seemed like they would never end. Experience wanting to live a normal life as possible, while extreme misfortune and hardships kept interrupting. I call them the demons that I will never forget; they were put upon me by the closest people to me. Come and see how sports changed my life and me focus on a more positive outlook.... More >>

Simply Unexpected

A Man Learns

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A Central Minnesota boy of the 1940's and 1950's interprets his life for meaning and truth and in the process describes what happens to a person's heart. Don Hall mourns the lost freedom of youth, recounts the drunken groping of adolescence, relives the search for meaningful work, the disillusionment with early beliefs, and the quest for comfort and love, and then finally addresses death wtih understanding and hope. Written with tenderness and humor, you will recogn... More >>

A Man Learns

Road Song

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When she was six years old, Natalie Kusz left Los Angeles with her family and headed north to Alaska on a classic quest for freedom, a house on the land, and a more wholesome way of living. Here is hery and survival in an unforgiving environment. "Riveting. . . ."--Los Angeles Times. Serial rights to McCall's and Harper's.Amazon.com Review
In 1969, when she was six years old, Natalie Kusz, with her parents and three siblings, left Los Angeles and headed n... More >>

Road Song

Exiled to Siberia

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"Exiled to Siberia" is the biography of a Polish child deported by the Soviets in 1940.It tells about his early childhood until, as an adult, he declares "I am an American." The book also outlines the pertinent history and discusses the German and Soviet policies toward Poland during WW II.The protagonist's story gives a human dimension to these historical events. The book also testifies to his religious belief as a sustaining force. In addition it causes the ... More >>

Exiled to Siberia

They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia

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"Mayme Sevander and Laurie Hertzel tell a poignant tale of a hidden corner of U.S. and Soviet history. Tracing the hopes and hardships of one family over two continents, They Took My Father explores the boundaries of loyalty, identity, and ideals." —Amy Goldstein, Washington Post "What makes Mayme’s story so uniquely—almost unbelievably—tragic is that her family chose to move from the United States to the Soviet Union in 1934, thinking they were going to ... More >>

They Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia

Mark it with a Stone

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He stayed alive while his family perished, working as a slave laborer,and surviving torture at Auchwitz and Bergen-Belsen.... More >>

Mark it with a Stone

The Village of Longing

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This memoir of a childhood in Ireland in the 1950s is a contemporary classic describing the life and surroundings of an only child in a close-knit society.... More >>

The Village of Longing

When Katie Wakes: A Memoir

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Bestselling author Connie May Fowler tells her own extraordinary story for the first time–the harrowing years of her childhood followed by the abusive relationship she endured as a young woman–and how the unconditional love of her dog helped her escape her physical and emotional bonds.
Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler’s award-winning and bestselling fictional account of domestic abuse, touched thousands. In this piercing memoir, Fowler chronicles t... More >>

When Katie Wakes: A Memoir

Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir

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A unique blend of memoir and public history, Packinghouse Daughter, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, working-class life. The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright, Cheri Register recalls the 1959 meatpackers' strike that divided her hometown of Albert Lea, Minnesota. The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability. Register skillfu... More >>

Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir

See You After the Duration: The Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II: Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert

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Why would British parents risk sending their children to safety over submarine-infested waters? How would American and Canadian families and public respond to them? What adventures would the children experience and what would be the long-term effect on their lives and on attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic? This book sheds light on an aspect of World War II that is little known on either side of the Atlantic. It is a tale that is at times moving, often humorous,... More >>

See You After the Duration: The Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II: Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert

Carolina Comfort

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The book is a refreshing look at the past century describing the lives of women of one Southern family. The book describes a disappearing lifestyle during the -s and stories of the writer leaving traditional life to live aboard and her boating observations. The last is a narrative and postcards sent to her grandmother in the early s.... More >>

Carolina Comfort

Silent Screams: The Search for a Missing Father, Home, and Identity

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A young woman searches for her father who disappeared without a trace over 20 years ago. As she searches, she struggles with the sacred bond of trust broken between her father and herself when she was only eight.... More >>

Silent Screams: The Search for a Missing Father, Home, and Identity

Miracle at Sea

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In 1941, before America was at war with Germany, a German raider sunk the Egyptian liner Zamzam in the South Atlantic. On board of the vessel were more than 120 American missionaries, among them Mrs. Lillian Danielson and her six children. Eleanor, who was then only nine years old, presents a detailed account of the familyâ€(tm)s departure from America, the catastrophe, and the distressing and arduous voyage back to safety.... More >>

Miracle at Sea

The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2: The Children of the Holocaust Speak

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The memoirs of Jews who were children during the Nazi occupation of Poland


This book serves as a memorial to loved ones who do not even have a grave, as well as a tribute to those who risked their lives and families to save a Jewish child. A wide variety of experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland are related with wrenching simplicity and candor, experiences that illustrate horrors and deprivation, but also present examples of courage and compass... More >>

The Last Eyewitnesses, Volume 2: The Children of the Holocaust Speak

Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

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Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to unending humiliation and abuse. Wu recounts this hidden holocaust in which millions of children and their families died. Feather in the Storm is an unforgettable stor... More >>

Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

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Born in the 1920s to nomadic and bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor yet cultivated minister in upstate New York. But her parents, as always, soon resurface.Amazon.com Review
In this elegant, wrenching memoir, Paula Fox looks at her childhood with the same detached acceptance of life's arbitrary cruelties that informs such acclaimed novels as Desperate Characters. Born in 1923, she was abandoned a... More >>

Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Indigenous: Growing up Californian

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Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life Cris Mazza delivers a spirited rebuttal to pop-culture stereotypes about growing up female in Southern California. Coming of age in the 1970’s and ’80s, Mazza’s memories aren’t about surfing, cheerleading or riding in convertibles. Though her story has its exotic elements—her family hunts and gathers food in the semi-arid coastal hills well into the... More >>

Indigenous: Growing up Californian

Looks Like Howard

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Ever since I ve known Howard, he s been dead. Author, Patricia Kambitsch, tells the true story of her father whose untimely death spurred a lifetime of storytelling. However dead he may be, Howard, the mild-mannered, über-geek hero, thrives through the collective imagination of his widow and six children. Questions of what really happened to her father give way to fantasy suspicions that include the questionable next-door neighbor who was last seen with her f... More >>

Looks Like Howard

Out of Egypt: A Boyhood in Small Town America Before and During World War II

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A humorous look at a boy's growing up experiences in small town and rural America during the 1930's and 40's. His problems are cast against the profound changes in American society brought by the Great Depression and World War II.... More >>

Out of Egypt: A Boyhood in Small Town America Before and During World War II

Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family

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With this stunning memoir of growing up in Italian-American New Jersey, Louise DeSalvo proves that your family's past is baked right into the bread you eat.

In Louise DeSalvo's family, in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. As Louise's step-grandmother stubbornly recreates the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, she clashes painfully with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother, who is set on ... More >>

Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change

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Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs written by Middle Eastern men and women about their own childhoods. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a well-known writer of books and documentary films about women and th... More >>

Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change

Shattered Childhood

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This book by Chris Bagley is about his troubled childhood with his abusive mother. He did not have many chances growing up, and decided that he wants the whole world to know what it was like to grow up in his shoes. The book starts as far back as he can remember; back when he was a small boy and he was adopted along with his younger sister. Little did he know what kind of torturous childhood lay in front of him with his new abusive mother. He starts with himself bei... More >>

Shattered Childhood

The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back

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From the beginning of his distinguished career as a comedian, Robert Klein established himself as a pioneer in observational humour and razor-sharp routines that are infectiously funny. With an ego more fragile than Chinese pottery, Klein has written a funny and evocative coming-of-age memoir.... More >>

The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back

The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief

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Kenny Kahn tells the spellbinding story of being the oldest child of two small-time carnival thieves who make their living as traveling gypsies and then graduate to dealing heroin from their apartment in the housing projects of Los Angeles. It's an inside view of carnival life, of living in a cocaine-selling "shooting gallery" apartment and of surviving a gang-dominated existence in one of LA's worst neighborhoods. It's also a story of the grit and determination ... More >>

The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief

Sleeping Arrangements

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A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in the 1950's--the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.... More >>

Sleeping Arrangements

Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood

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The title of Clyde Bolton's warm memoir of his formative years is taken from a high-school cheer: ''Statham Wildcats on the ball/They've been drinking Hadacol.'' If you know what Hadacol is, Bolton cheerfully admits, that dates both you and him; if you don't, ask your parents or grandparents. The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, now as long gone as Hadacol but equally effervescent in the author's nostalgic but clearheaded look back at what life wa... More >>

Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia

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A pink-skinned, fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because he was born there and knew no other home, he was not completely foreign. Like the eucalyptus, a tree imported to Ethiopia from Australia in the late 19th century to solve a firewood shortage, he and his missionary family were naturalized transplants. As... More >>

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia

Harpo Speaks . . . About New York

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Long before vaudeville, Broadway, and the silver screen, Harpo Marx had triumphed on the greatest stage of all: New York City. For a kid on the streets in 1902, every day demanded wit and improvisation. Beyond the door of the tenement at 179 East 93rd Street lay rival gangs, lucky breaks, failed hustles. While his mother, Minnie, was occupied elsewhere—planning her unruly brood’s ultimate destiny—Harpo roamed the streets doing what any self-respecting second-g... More >>

Harpo Speaks . . . About New York

Land of Childhood

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Set against the lush backdrop of rural El Salvador at the turn of the century, Claudia Lars' richly evocative memoir is a simple, yet profound tribute to the folklore, customs, and traditions of her people. It is a lyrical exaltation of her land's beauty, brimming with warm, vibrant imagery. Born to an Irish-American father and a Salvadoran mother, Lars takes readers on an enchanting journey that celebrates her dual heritage and reveals, with innocence and charm, th... More >>

Land of Childhood

Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

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Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to people long gone--people who led ordinary lives, but were full of extraordinary teachings. This is the subject of Sweet Nata, a memoir about familial traditions and the joys and hardships the author experienced in her youth. Set during the 1950s and 1960s in Mora and Corrales, New Mexico, Zamora reveals her interaction with ... More >>

Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

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The coming-of-age of a pampered half-Chinese boy living in Beijing during the Japanese Occupation. Young David, son of his father's Swiss second wife, has been brought up first by servants and then by an English stepmother. The Japanese invasion destroys the Eurasian world of privilege in which he lives. His father serves in the pro-Japanese government while secretly, perilously, working for the Resistance. David, sent away to school, is taunted as a half-caste b... More >>

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate

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HAVE YOU EVER MET A CHILD WHO TALKED LIKE AN ADULT? Who knew big words and knew how to use them? Was he a charmer or an insufferable smart aleck—or maybe both? Mark Oppenheimer was just such a boy, his talent for language a curse as much as a blessing. Unlike math or music prodigies, he had no way to showcase his unique skill, except to speak like a miniature adult—a trick some found impressive but others found irritating. Frustrated and isolated, Oppenhe... More >>

Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate

Memoirs of a Lightkeeper's Son

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When Billy moved to St. Paul Island with his parents and younger sister, they lived at the southwest light station in almost total isolation. His family quickly learned to cope in a world without neighbours, electricity, schools, or mainland comforts. In 'Memoirs of a Lightkeeper's Son', Billy tells his story of survival on that lonely rock. Sense the lush green of the island in summer in the midst of a crystal blue sea and feel the harshness of winter while buri... More >>

Memoirs of a Lightkeeper's Son

The Orphan and The King

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This is a true story of a little girl who dealt with the pain of child abuse and neglect by escaping into a fantasy world where she could feel loved. It is also her story of recovery through trusting her King and walking with Him into a new world of truth and life. This book tells of the struggles, the ups and downs of recovery and the courage it takes to stop performing and become the real person God created.... More >>

The Orphan and The King

My Provincetown: Memories of a Cape Cod Childhood

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Provincetown means many things to many people. The spiral of sand at the tip of Cape Cod has been a mecca for fishermen, artists, writers, gays, daytrippers, and free spirits. To Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Provincetown means childhood. Every summer of the 1960s and early 1970s, her parents bundled the family into the car and headed for "A Home at Last," the P-town cottage where the unshaded deck sizzled under the sun and the railings were draped with bathing suits and ... More >>

My Provincetown: Memories of a Cape Cod Childhood

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

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A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring…important and enriching."

In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells her own story of growing up at a time when adoptees were still in the closet. Twice Born recounts her early struggle with the loneliness and isolation of not knowing her birth parents; her identification, as a journa... More >>

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter

Sally and Me

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Anenchanting book for Tweenagers to Keenagers set in the early 1940's. Conneediscovers that staying in the home of wealthy cottage owners is both excitingand lonely. Sally, who becomes her best friend, lures her into mischief andadventure in the elegant summer resort - Bella Vista - managed by Connee'sparents. Sally's big brother, Joe, challenges them to outsmart his tormentingantics. Connee learns that false pride can thwart her happiness and that Sally,though care... More >>

Sally and Me

Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood

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In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West--fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II. Known in some circles as a Mormon Hemingway, Thayer has created a richly detailed work that shares cultural DNA with Frank McCourt's ... More >>

Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood

The Body of Brooklyn

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In The Body of Brooklyn David Lazar, an acclaimed essayist and prose stylist, offers a vividly detailed, hilarious, and touching recollection of his Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 70s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history—from the travails of childhood obesity to the sexual triumphs of post-adolescent leanness—form the core of this series of essays, all of which will win the interest and admiration of readers. More-over, this film-flavored ... More >>

The Body of Brooklyn

The Years of Tears

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Hardships and cruelty made their bodies strong and their minds coarse. But the inner strength that enabled them to embrace compassion also made them great people. Ed Abreu remembers the difficult times at the Saint Agnes Convent Home for Boys in New York and the experiences of two brothers in the foster care system over a 12 year period. "For children who are victims of many intense, terrible, abusive experiences at an early age, life becomes a series o... More >>

The Years of Tears

Kick the Tin

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When Doris Kartinyeri was a month old, her mother died. The family gathered to mourn their loss and welcome the new baby home. But Doris never returned to her family – she was stolen from the hospital and placed in Colebrook Home, where she stayed for the next fourteen years. The legacy of being a member of the Stolen Generations continued for Doris as she was placed in white homes as a virtual slave, struggled through relationships and suffered with bi-polar depr... More >>

Kick the Tin

The Fourteenth Year

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The Fourteenth Year is a memoir narrated by a young girl whose unrelenting strength somehow carries her through the throes of an extinguished childhood. Her story begins as she attempts to reclaim control of her life from the steamy grip of her biological father. As she describes the exhausting legal process, the details of the past fourteen years unfold into the culminating showdown between a dad and a daughter. For Kelly, life is dictated by a sexually and emotion... More >>

The Fourteenth Year

Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an Optimist

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"Finding My Way" is the autobiography of Evelyn Stefansson Nef that reveals the continuous blossoming of a woman born in humble circumstances in Brooklyn in 1913 who became an accomplished writer, authority on the Far North, linguist, psychotherapist, art collector, and philanthropist. It includes tales of her friendships with such personalities as Buckminster Fuller, Marc Chagall, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Margaret Bourke-White.... More >>

Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an Optimist

Raised By The Mistress

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For sixteen years, my mother's hands represented strength to me...And then, one night, my mother's hands became a weapon... That's my man, she said. Her voice was a low, hoarse whisper. The way she snarled at me made the skin at the back of my neck tingle... Don't you ever -- she slammed my head down --Ever-- slammed it down again, Step to my man. You hear me?! ...What hurt more than any physical pain was the fact that this woman was my own mother. But what really h... More >>

Raised By The Mistress

One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child's Journey Through France

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Fred Gross knew much about the history of the Holocaust, but he didn t know his own, being a young Jewish child during those terrible years. In the late 1980s, he asked his mother to tell him the story of his family s flight from the German invasion of Belgium and the Nazi policies that would become the Holocaust. Later, his two older brothers added their memories. But this story is not simply an account of the years spent one step ahead of Hitler. It is about a lit... More >>

One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child's Journey Through France

Solitaire: The compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia.

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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Aimee Liu is the author of the novels Cloud Mountain and Face. Solitaire, an acclaimed account of her passage through anorexia nervosa, was first published when she was twenty-five. She has co-authored seven nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Aimee Liu lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Description: The ground-breaking first-hand account of a young girl... More >>

Solitaire: The compelling story of a young woman growing up in America and her triumph over anorexia.

Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent

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With adolescent swagger, BAD GIRL tells the unnerving story of an outlaw young life that must be broken, reshaped and finally redeemed.
At fifteen Abigail Vona was Involved with boys, booze, drugs and stealing anything and everything she could lay her hands on. She was spiraling out of control. Helpless to control his daughter, Mr. Vona committed Abigail to Peninusla Village, a controversial treatment facility for “behavior modification” in Louisv... More >>

Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage Delinquent

Validation Denied Grace Bestowed: somewhere between the ghetto and God was something called foster care...

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In the 1960's Quelyn and brother, J.P., four and six respectively, lived in a small, roach-infested apartment in Brooklyn. They'd eat starch right out of the blue and white box - Jacqueline used to leave them alone two to three days out of the week. Then the cops came. In Validation Denied, Grace Bestowed, Quelyn lends a warm but candid voice to the web of emotions she experienced as a rebellious teenager who embarked on her own "revolution" to defy the stigm... More >>

Validation Denied Grace Bestowed: somewhere between the ghetto and God was something called foster care...

Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea

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An impressionistic memoir by the award-winning Iraqi-American writer, Dunya Mikhail, Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea covers her earliest sensations of childhood to a more complicated grasp of death, beginning with the death of her father to the Gulf War and the subsequent Iraqi War. Mikhail writes: “Death always looks for us. It comes from beyond the continents. It crosses long distances holding a basket of fire in its hand.”
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Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea