The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson

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Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had, it would seem, three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist and painter of plein air canvases, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etchin... More >>

The Sporting Art of Frank W. Benson

Native State

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Native State is memoir set in the 50s and early '60s that follows a young man attempting to escape the confines of his celebrity-filled alcoholic family in Hollywood, who chooses the life of a jazz drummer in bohemian Europe. The author wends his way through Tangier, Paris, Copenhagen and Barcelona as he comes to terms with his self-imposed exile, eventually returning to his ailing father in California. An elegantly crafted and engrossing memoir.... More >>

Native State

Last Exit from Bridgeton: an East End childhood remembered

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When James McKenna first published his personal recollections of life in Bridgeton, he had no idea how quickly and widely his account of everyday life in the East End of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s would be embraced by former inhabitants - including those now spread across the world but linked to the days of their childhood by the Internet. In this new edition, the author expands and enriches his own collection with many of their memories and personal anecdotes.... More >>

Last Exit from Bridgeton: an East End childhood remembered

Tryin' To Get To You: The Story of Elvis Presley

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In the fall of 1954, author Valerie Harms met Elvis after a concert in her high school auditorium. As Elvis toured Texas that year, she got to know what Elvis was like and she was even kissed by him. At the suggestion of a local disc jockey, Harms and her friends started a fan club, possibly the first. Elvis gave them photos, signed cards, and read the letters sent to him. When Elvis Presley died, Valerie Harms resurrected her memorabilia of encounters with him ... More >>

Tryin' To Get To You: The Story of Elvis Presley

Apprentice in Budapest

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This frank autobiography covers the first twenty-two years of the life of Raphael Patai, famous anthropologist and biblical scholar. Patai shares meticulously researched genealogical narratives and historical and sociological observations, mixed freely--and with engaging frankness--with portions of an intensely personal and intimate nature. He paints a critical yet affectionate picture of Hungarian Jewry in the years preceding 1933--a world that is no more.... More >>

Apprentice in Budapest

The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder

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A deeply moving story of one woman’s search for truth and meaning in the aftermath of her father's unsolved murder. On the night of June 22, 1986, ten-year-old Rachel Howard woke to a disturbing sight: pools of blood on the hallway carpet and a glimpse of her father clutching his stabbed throat. Stan Howard died minutes later, and his bizarre small-town murder was never solved. Rachel’s father was thirty-two, a laid-back, handsome man who loved the m... More >>

The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder

Through the Classroom Window

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Members of the University of the Third Age describe their own school experiences in the years between 1920-1960. With a foreword by Professor Tim Brighouse.... More >>

Through the Classroom Window

Creeker: A Woman's Journey

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Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain... More >>

Creeker: A Woman's Journey

Through Hell and Beyond in a Boxcar

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It was September 3rd, and raining bombs. The war was three days old now. German planes came over our city and unloaded their noisy cargo. They only managed to disturb the dead, by dropping their destruction on the cemetery and places of no consequence. Then the planes came down over the potato fields, mowing down women, children, and old men harvesting their crops. Fifteen days later, Russian troops, in their Mongolian hats, swarmed all over the city. Dad was killed... More >>

Through Hell and Beyond in a Boxcar

Gum-Dipped

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This is the story of rubber, of Thomas William Coyne, and his daughter, the author of Gum-Dipped. Employed for thirty-seven years by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Coompany in Akron, Ohio, young T.W. Coyne moved his family in 1952 to a small Tudor house in Firestone Park, the residential community built in 1916 by Harvey S. Firestone for Firestone employees. Everything in the Park bore the Firestone name--the school, the streets, the stores, the bank, the tires, the cl... More >>

Gum-Dipped

Black Diamonds: A Child's Joy & Loss: The Val and Sudie Dunn Family

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Black Diamonds is a series of vignettes depicting moments from the author's childhood in a coal mining town in Eastern Kentucky and her adolescence during the war years in Louisville. Barnes' rich memories breathe life into the time and place of her past, and she connects it to the here and now as she traces her journey into adulthood. As much a coming of age story as a retrospective, Black Diamonds brings a uniquely real and personal perspective to the difficulties... More >>

Black Diamonds: A Child's Joy & Loss: The Val and Sudie Dunn Family

Only a Mother Could Love Him - My Story - How I lived with A.D.D. and Overcame It!

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For all parents who have ever cried in despair over their hyperactive, impulsive, and seemingly uncontrollable child; for every teacher who’s ever vented frustration at a student who just won’t pay attention; for every kid who has ever asked himself, Why does everyone hate me?–help is here. Only a Mother Could Love Him is a remarkable look inside the mind of a person with ADD/ADHD. Ben Polis attended six different schools, served over three thousand hours of d... More >>

Only a Mother Could Love Him - My Story - How I lived with A.D.D. and Overcame It!

That One Peculiar Year

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What is relevant in the book and gives vivacity to the narration is the style of the expression, with a flowing narration, from which charac-ters and events take shape with a great realism. The style is swift and effective, and the characters stand out as if they were alive, evoked by an extraordinary emotional charge. The principle inspiring this work may echo after Paul Ricoeur who, in Time and Narrative, states: «Life is a tale, not a theorem». Readers can emot... More >>

That One Peculiar Year

BEYOND MAGNOLIAS: My First 30 Years

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The opening chapter of this book tells of a boy who lost his father at the age of two and went with his mother and seven siblings to live with their maternal grandparents in Southwest Louisiana. Confronted with a huge increase in the size of his family, the boy's grandfather established a dairy farm, called Magnolia Dairy, and put his grandkids to work earning their keep while attending the nearby consolidated school. The author portrays this life as contributing to... More >>

BEYOND MAGNOLIAS: My First 30 Years

Before Modern Conveniences: One Finnish Farm Family 1917-1927

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Learn about how life was before modern conveniences! Read about Miriami's adventures on her parents' farm and the life of Finnish immigrant farmers.... More >>

Before Modern Conveniences: One Finnish Farm Family 1917-1927

Child In Jerusalem

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The year 1919 in Jerusalem marked the conclusion of hundreds of years of Ottoman rule and the beginning of British occupation, a period of great change that would transform the city. Felicity Ashbee's captivating memoir gives the reader a truly original portrait of life in post-WWI Jerusalem as seen through the eyes of a spirited young English girl. The daughter of Charles Robert Ashbee, a disciple of William Morris and prominent player in the Arts and Crafts Moveme... More >>

Child In Jerusalem

Through the Jungle of Death: A Boy's Escape From Wartime Burma

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A GRIPPING SURVIVOR STORY OF ONE FAMILY’S FLIGHT FROM BURMA DURING THE JAPANESE INVASION "As uplifting a testimonial to human courage as any to emerge from World War II."—Daily Mail (London) "A tale of hair-raising adventure, survival, love and loss, shot through with rage, polemic, unlikely humour and a rare spiritual sensibility."—Telegraph Magazine (London) "Unique and heartfelt . . . a tale of human resilience and bravery in the most despera... More >>

Through the Jungle of Death: A Boy's Escape From Wartime Burma

An Island In Time II: Coming of age in the 1950's

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During the 1950s the world got its first glimpse of many amazing events, discoveries and people that have shaped the 21st Century and that are, for the most part, still with us, like: Disneyland, McDonalds, sugar cereals, filtered cigarettes, Rock 'n' Roll, shopping malls and credit cards! We were introduced to color TV, interstate highways, copy machines, computers and the Corvette. Man also conquered polio, Mt. Everest and running the four-minute mile. More import... More >>

An Island In Time II: Coming of age in the 1950's

Child of Steens Mountain

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For Eileen O’Keeffe McVicker, born in 1927 to an Irish immigrant sheep rancher and a school teacher, growing up on a homestead in the West made for “a hard, happy life with layers of riches.” McVicker’s memoir of a childhood spent on the southern slope of Steens Mountain offers a real-life, personal account of eastern Oregon history.An “outdoor child” all her life, McVicker tells stories that revolve around life on the ranch—tending sheep, picking wild... More >>

Child of Steens Mountain

Sweep the Floor or Feed the Cat

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Join author Lucille Peoples on a delightful, whimsical journey into the thoughts and remembrances of a young girl growing up in West Texas in Sweep the Floor or Feed the Cat. Saras mischievous ways and spunky personality get her into lots of fun and her fair share of tomfoolery as she relishes the care-free days of childhood. Full of charming folk wisdom and humorous anecdotes, Sweep the Floor is a collection of coming-of-age stories youre sure to love.... More >>

Sweep the Floor or Feed the Cat

The Last Of The South Town Rinky Dinks

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A poignant memoir of growing up in Springfield, Tennessee on the "other side of the tracks" in a section called South Town. It's about the meager life of the poor and how most overcame their economical struggles in the '40s and the '50s.... More >>

The Last Of The South Town Rinky Dinks

The Legacy of Roxaboxen

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Nominated for 1999 ALA Best Books for Young Adults This book boasts a hidden treasure: the facsimile reproduction of a 1916 work by 11-year-old Marian Doan, telling how she and her friends created a town from lines of stone and imagination. Memoirs, reminiscences, and graphic materials combine to weave a vivid tapestry of Marian and her world, and to trace the long impact of her vision. More than eighty years later, here's an intimate glimpse of how a young autho... More >>

The Legacy of Roxaboxen

The Taxidermist's Son

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Growing up in western Pennsylvania, Ralph Scherder was attracted to the wild outdoors from when he was young enough to wear Spider-Man snow boots. With his father’s taxidermist shop located in the basement directly below his bedroom, Ralph easily becomes familiar with every detail of the taxidermy business – and customers’ vivid tales of hunting in the wild outdoors. Even while his father battled advanced insomnia, he was able to introduce Ralph to hunting, tr... More >>

The Taxidermist's Son

Inherit the Truth: A Memoir of Survival and the Holocaust

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In the years following her liberation from the Nazi death camp, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, like most survivors of the Holocaust, struggled to build a normal life for herself. Decades later, she realized that in her efforts to achieve normality she had not spoken to her children or her grandchildren of her terrifying odyssey. Her memoir of the period between 1939 and 1945, was written for her children so that they would Inherit the Truth.

This is the story of t... More >>

Inherit the Truth: A Memoir of Survival and the Holocaust

Wishing for a Snow Day: Growing Up in Minnesota

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Beloved pets. Holiday rituals. Schoolyard antics. Teenage perspectives on a world at war. Childhood is a mixed bag of challenges and joys wherever one grows up. In Minnesota, youthful memories may be arranged seasonally: making snow angels in January, swatting mosquitoes in July. They may be tinged with a nostalgic glow or imprinted by lessons hard won. In this new collection, Peg Meier explores the themes of childhood—the bitter and the sweet. Thanks to Minnesot... More >>

Wishing for a Snow Day: Growing Up in Minnesota

Daring Destiny

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She ran away. She lived like a fugitive. She evaded capture. She made a new life for herself. Born into an Amish community in Pennsylvania, Emma felt out of place from a very young age. Some of the rules didn't seem logical. Some of the practices didn't make sense. And when she wanted to talk about her doubts, they said her thoughts came from the devil. You will marvel at the strength of character and the courage this young woman called upon to es... More >>

Daring Destiny

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto

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After 60 years of silence, The Diary of Mary Berg is poised at last to gain the appreciation that it so richly deserves, and is certain to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank as one of the most significant memoirs of the twentieth century.Mary was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1940-43. Her diary was published in 1945 in an attempt to alert the world to Nazi atrocities.... More >>

The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto

Tales of Mama and Other Reminiscences

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Short stories printed in the New Jersey News since 1969 under the heading Tales of Mama have been compiled by the author. They are arranged thematically and portray the shtetl, greenhorn experiences, poverty and working conditions, learning, language, humor, philosophy and the author’s childhood. They describe a great love in a poor immigrant family that survives on the Lower East Side in spite of the difficulties of adapting in a new country. Throughout, they ... More >>

Tales of Mama and Other Reminiscences

Reflections in an Oval Mirror

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8th May 1945 - VE Day - was Anneliese Wiemer's twenty-second birthday. Although she did not know it then, it marked the end of her flight to the West, and the start of a new life in England. These illustrated memoirs, based on a diary kept during the Third Reich and letters rediscovered many decades later, depict the momentous changes occurring in Europe against a backcloth of everyday farm life in East Prussia (now the north-western corner of Russia, sandwiched ... More >>

Reflections in an Oval Mirror

Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

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Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer.

"A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the atmosphere of postwar Berlin more vividly than the actual experience of it—and I was there." —Christopher Lehman... More >>

Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany

From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps

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“I’m frightened, Mother. Last year, I was seven years old. This year, I’m eight and so many years separate these two ages. I have learned that I am Jewish, that I am a monster, and that I must hide myself. I’m frightened all the time.”—Francine Christophe. Francine Christophe’s account begins in 1939, when her father was called up to fight with the French army. A year later he was taken prisoner by the Germans. Hearing of the Jewish arrests in France fro... More >>

From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps

Golden Boy

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The paperback reprint of the stirring biography of a lonely, motherless adolescent whose once-in-a-generation talent has thrust him into the glaring spotlight of fortune and fame.... More >>

Golden Boy

Suenos del Lado Este

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East Side Dreams in Spanish. As you read, you will experience with him the difficult time he had growing up, and part of this was dealing with his father. This book will make your emotions run high. You will laugh, cry, and laugh again. It is an inspirational book, relating life’s experiences from the age of a delinquent teenager to his maturity as a successful businessman. In Spanish:Al leer, usted experimentará las dificultades que Art tuvaoal crecer, y p... More >>

Suenos del Lado Este

Aberdeen High Jinks

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Relive a humorous memory of high school through the eyes of a teenage boy in a small Idaho farming community. Share his wretchedness and despair as he endures unrequited love, contact sports, failing grades, ever-changing music departments and an ongoing battle with his own mediocrity! More fun from the author of “Aberdeen Stories: Growing Up Right in Small-town America.”... More >>

Aberdeen High Jinks

Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey Out of Revolutionary Russia

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From the perspective of the 21st century, the author looks back with a clear eye to the turbulent days following the Russian Revolution. Nora Percival'ss research illuminates her personal story, the story so many of us long to hear from grandparents who were unable or unwilling to look back beyond the emigre'ss voyage to another life and another world. Book of the Year Award for Memoir from the High Country Writers organization, 2002.... More >>

Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey Out of Revolutionary Russia

Tales from a Very Small Town

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Charles Dennett shares his story of growing up in the small town of South Hampton, New Hampshire. Recalling both the mirth and misery of 1940s semi-rural life— from the follies of a house in constant disrepair, to the anecdotes of wild farm animals—and featuring an array of aberrant characters, including his obstinate father and worrisome mother, Charles Dennett finds the humor that accompanies the hardships of small-town living.... More >>

Tales from a Very Small Town

Pieces of Pie: Surviving Love

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Pie Dumas’ new book opens to a lonely little girl sitting in a cardboard house, decorating its interior walls with the smiling faces of imaginary family members. That image seems to linger—as indelible as the colored marker young Pie draws with—all the way through to the book’s final, moving paragraphs. Flimsy as the cardboard walls are and no matter how often they must be rebuilt, redecorated and refastened with brown shipping tape, they are the youngste... More >>

Pieces of Pie: Surviving Love

Growing Up Moffett: The Rise and Fall of Innocence in a Pathos Plagued Year

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A Gen-Y, coming of age memoir about a family encountering and overcoming tragedy through the eyes of their precocious and witty 12-year-old daughter. In a writing style somewhere between Harper Lee and Sarah Vowell, author Sarah E. Moffett recalls the time when, at age twelve, the life of her family suddenly began to unravel after a simple phone call from a dying family member. What follows is a struggle to retain faith, hope, and love in the midst of inexplic... More >>

Growing Up Moffett: The Rise and Fall of Innocence in a Pathos Plagued Year

Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro

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Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his schoolmates and even his teachers for being a traitor to his country. But even worse, his father was sent to an agricultural reform camp to do hard labor as punishment for da... More >>

Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro

Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader

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On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, "America has learned a lot about Tony Blair over the last weeks . . . and we’re proud to have him as a friend." Despite the President’s assertion, the average American knows little about Tony Blair except that he remained one of America’s strongest allies in the war on terror and, ultimately, in the war against Iraq. But why? What is Blair’s agenda? Is he just trying to further England’s cause or his own?... More >>

Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader

The Twelve Little Cakes

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Equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a bright-eyed childhood that no outside force could dim, this is Dominika Dery's acclaimed memoir of Communist-era Czechoslovakia.... More >>

The Twelve Little Cakes

A Tale of Two Countries:

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A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES is the story of a young French girl, Raymonde Kenyon, who was born and lived in France during the supercharged events of WWII. Her second country is the United States, where she married a US.Army officer and has lived an eventful second life.... More >>

A Tale of Two Countries:

Clear Springs: A Family Story

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People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir saga of three generations, their aspirations, their conflicts, and the ties that bound them to one another. Spanning decades, Clear Springs gracefully weaves together the stories of Mason's grandparents, parents, and her won generation. The narrative moves from the sober industriousness of a Kentucky farm to the hippie lifestyle of the countercultural 1960s; from... More >>

Clear Springs: A Family Story

The Stones Applaud: How Cystic Fibrosis Shaped My Childhood

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Teresa Mullin was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at four years of age, but it was not until she was nine that she learned most children with the disease were not expected to live to adulthood. What had been a nuisance soon became a force that molded her childhood, youth, and future. In The Stones Applaud, Mullin writes of absences from school, serving as a poster child, frequent hospitalizations, medical treatments, and most painful the isolation that came with cys... More >>

The Stones Applaud: How Cystic Fibrosis Shaped My Childhood

Grandfather Stories: The Family Farm of the 1930's and 40's

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Grandfather Stories chronicles the transition from family farming with a team of horses to the mechanized farm through the eyes of a growing boy. He recalls, “Dogs called Shep or Billy came and went. Cats followed Granddad from the barn with his two pails of milk. Chickens fussed and squawked and produced eggs, which had to be collected every evening. Night hardly cooled from the heat of the day. Rotating fans served as the only air conditioning after electricity ... More >>

Grandfather Stories: The Family Farm of the 1930's and 40's

Memory Fields

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Recounting his experiences during World War II, a Holocaust survivor describes his experiences hiding from the Nazis in a convent orphanage in Czechoslovakia, his feelings of isolation and loneliness, his dread of discovery, and more. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.... More >>

Memory Fields

Growing Up Three Hollers from Lake Wobegon

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In this collection of humerous and touching essays, Tudor shares stories of growing up in rural Zumbrota, Minnesota. She vividly depicts memorable scenes from her life: ice skating on a secluded pond, herding cows on a relatives's dairy farm, eating the dreaded Norwegian lutefisk ( a Christmas tradition ), and roaming the streets of the small town with its cherished public library and scenic covered bridge. Filled with the patriotism, hard work, and dedication... More >>

Growing Up Three Hollers from Lake Wobegon

Regina's Record

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REGINA'S RECORD is a uniquely powerful, thought-provoking, narrative about a resilient, feisty woman whose quality of life was destroyed by the horrific treatment she endured during 32 long years in the American VA psychiatric system. Regina Van Amber is the unfortunate schizophrenic whose story was culled from more than 13,000 government records (which took 7 years to be released) and is graphically recreated over 256 pages by Regina's son, James Anthony V... More >>

Regina's Record

Story of a Girl: my life in Hitler's Germany 1925-1945

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Ilse Ehlich was not a victim of the Holocaust or an Allied soldier fighting against Hitler and the Axis powers. She lived World War II Germany from an entirely different angle. She has the perspective of a good little girl who came home one day to find all but one of the houses on her block completely bombed out. She was among the children who were registered in the Hitler Youth without knowing what that meant. At a time there was there was little to have faith ... More >>

Story of a Girl: my life in Hitler's Germany 1925-1945

My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines

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A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.)
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My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines