Zamboanga Remembered

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Cesar Lee brings to life his childhood home, Zamboanga City. The exuberant freedom of growing up in the Philippines during the 30's and 40's is counterbalanced by the effects of the Depression and invasion by the Japanese during World War II. But children will be children, no matter where they live or what their circumstances, and Zamboanga Remembered provides a wonderful child's-eye view of a world some of us can only imagine.... More >>

Zamboanga Remembered

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824

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"It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder's power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same."—Peter Kolchin, from the foreword Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a ... More >>

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824

A Young Girl's Diary: Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud

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Kept by a Viennese schoolgirl from the ages of 11 to 14, this authentic diary first appeared in 1919. In a gently ironic tone, the book relates daily encounters and experiences as well as private conversations. Richly expressive, it chronicles the passage from childhood to puberty with an honesty that scandalized the anonymous author's contemporaries.
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A Young Girl's Diary: Prefaced with a Letter by Sigmund Freud

Cowboy Princess: Life with My Parents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

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In Cowboy Princess, the eldest daughter of the famous Hollywood couple tells the story of America's most famous cowboy and cowgirl like nobody else can.... More >>

Cowboy Princess: Life with My Parents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer

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Negotiating the no man’s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy’s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story William Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his best poetry, Kloefkorn describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie’s Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters who made... More >>

Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer

The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood

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In the 1840s and 1850s, thousands of German families left Europe for a new life in America. Hundreds of these immigrants eventually settled in the Dubois County community of Jasper, Indiana, the county seat. Surrounding the town were dense hardwood forests that provided the raw materials for craftsmen to begin the furniture-making firms for which the area became well known. Two of the German families that put down roots in the Jasper area, the Schmitts and the Krap... More >>

The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood

A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers

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In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they were characters in an opera. The daughter of a mercurial composer and the granddaughter of a legendary cantor, Deborah as a child longed to be entrusted with their precious music and carry it on herself. But it was impossible; she was a girl. A Joyful Noise recounts Deborah's search for a place within the family tradit... More >>

A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers

Bronx Boy: A Memoir

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Jerome Charyn's three-part memoir of his boyhood in the Bronx has all the imagery and color of an enchanting and entertaining novel -- someone has said that it captures the author's world so accurately that it can't possibly be true. Bronx Boy, like The Dark Lady of Belorusse and The Black Swan, both selected by The New York Times as Notable Books of the Year, is a tour de force of memory and imagination.In this third and final installment, the higher truths of a ma... More >>

Bronx Boy: A Memoir

A Child's Christmas in Brooklyn

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Festivals, food-feasts, families—BIG families and the nostalgic draw of old-world tradition—A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN BROOKLYN is THE Italian American Christmas Book. A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN BROOKLYN, a deceptively dainty little literary morsel, puts Christmas in its proper place in the consciousness of Christmas Italiana, while simultaneously reinvigorating refined literature. The book is crafted as much in its lyric as it is in its appearance which is no me... More >>

A Child's Christmas in Brooklyn

Unframed Originals

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In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwin recalls his youth, growing up in a repressed Presbyterian household in the small river towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The complex portrait of a family without language or history transforms the story of their isolated lives into the development of a writer’s conscience and a warning about the fate of a middle class eager to obliterate origins. Unframed Originals brings the reader complex and intimate ... More >>

Unframed Originals

Ultimate Judgment : A Story of Emotional Corruption, Obsession and Betrayal

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When millionaire shrimping magnate Donald Sahlman died of cancer in November 1992, his friends, family and business associates crowded into a church in Tampa, Florida to mourn a man who was gentle, generous and compassionate. But their benevolent image of Sahlman was about to be shattered. In a case that would shock all who knew him and set a legal precedent, Sahlman was put on trail and posthumously charged with the heinous sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. Thi... More >>

Ultimate Judgment : A Story of Emotional Corruption, Obsession and Betrayal

No Place Safe

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In this compelling memoir, Kim Reid hauntingly transports readers to the innocent world of a childhood protected by a loving home, yet threatened by a danger beyond any child's understanding... Thirteen-year-old Kim Reid will never forget the summer of 1979. In those precious free moments when she is not taking care of her little sister while her single mother works as a cop, Kim's days are filled with thoughts of boys, makeup, and starting high school in the fal... More >>

No Place Safe

A Little Rock Boyhood: Growing Up in the Great Depression

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A Little Rock Boyhood:Growing Up in the Great Depression 
A. Cleveland Harrison
After more than fifty years, American newspapers, journals, and books are still repeating the tragic story of school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. But long before that crisis, blacks and whites in Arkansas suffered  together in  the Great Depression, facing the toughest economic times in American history, side by side. Cleveland Harrison tells hi... More >>

A Little Rock Boyhood: Growing Up in the Great Depression

WHERE THE ANGELS BOW TO THE GRASS: A BOY'S MEMOIR

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Ostensibly the story of a boy and his father, this look back at the late 1960's, through the decade of the 1970's, recalls a time when a sense of loyalty reigned, certainly in the world of the two main characters. Where the Angels Bow to the Grass, A Boy's Memoir, told through the eyes and the heart of a man who was indeed a boy at the time, gives the reader some genuine insight into what shaped the later writings of Thomas Porky McDonald. The importance of the game... More >>

WHERE THE ANGELS BOW TO THE GRASS: A BOY'S MEMOIR

The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir

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The first memoir about a woman"s experience in Kashmir, one of the most volatile and alluring places on the globe This is a magical memoir of a land now consumed by political and religious turmoil, a richly detailed story of a girl"s passage into maturity, marriage, and motherhood in the midst of an
exquisite and fragile world that will never be entirely the same.

"For those who only associate Kashmir with the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of... More >>

The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir

The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked

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“Awjeezma!” was the universal dissent, whined—repeatedly if necessary—at an unreasonable mother who wanted the vacuuming done now-not-next-year or a pile of encrusted dishes washed or the sputtering heater refueled.
“Awjeezma! Do I gotta?”
“If I have to tell you one more time—”
“Awjeezma! Awright! Jeez!”

Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of countless untamed boys who gr... More >>

The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked

When I Was a Kid and Other Mishaps

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Come with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear--the Great Depression and World War II--when Bob Huber grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado, bumming around with a crowd of ne-er-do-well kids full of innocent exploits and wild adventures.... More >>

When I Was a Kid and Other Mishaps

Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust

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When German troops come to the small village of Be³zyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the conce... More >>

Jakub's World: A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust

Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

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Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents' belle époque mansion by the Nile, the five-year-old Colette finds companionship and comfort among the other "outsiders" in her home away from home -- the cooks and servants in the kitchen. The chef, Ahmet, lets Colette taste the ful; she learns how to make sambusaks for her new friends; and she shops fo... More >>

Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

Small Town Memories: Growing up in the 30's and 40's and the Family Secret

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This story of growing up in the 30's and 40's in two Midwestern towns is told with humor, insight and at times, pathos. It is a socially significant account of family life during the Depression and civilian life during WWII.... More >>

Small Town Memories: Growing up in the 30's and 40's and the Family Secret

West Texas Tales: 1925?1933

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Sitting at the breakfast table in the old farmhouse on the hill, Mama holding the baby and Daddy buttering the kidsÂ’ biscuits while theyÂ’re hot, helps tell the story of a familyÂ’s struggles and joys during the drought and depression on a West Texas farm. This story by the author of Odyssey of Innocents is her memory as a young girl from 1925 to 1933. Each chapter contains an incident of family life: going to a Medicine show, the Pie Supper, making lye... More >>

West Texas Tales: 1925?1933

The Orphan Home: The Memories of Laurence K. & John H. Buchholz

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The Orphan Home: In September, 1910, with shipping tags tied to their clothing, John and Laurence Buchholz--six and eight--were put aboard a Lehigh Valley passenger train, by their father, in Geneva, New York, for the first leg of their 360-mile journey to a rural Ohio orphanage. This account of their childhood at the Ebenezer Orphan Home in Flat Rock, Ohio, was drawn from conversations recorded during their later years.... More >>

The Orphan Home: The Memories of Laurence K. & John H. Buchholz

Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich

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One of a handful of Jews in the WASPish enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, and undersized at that, George Tabb was routinely kicked around by the other kids - one blind, another one with one arm - as well as by his father. Playing Right Field refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of th... More >>

Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich

Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir

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For readers of A Civil Action and Refuge, a harrowing story of a body and a place--the New Jersey boglands, one of the most contaminated regions of the country. This is an American story. Two immigrant families drawn together from wildly different parts of the world, Italy on one side and Barbados on the other, pursued their vision of the American dream by building a summer escape in the boglands of New Jersey, where the rural and industrial collide. They picked ... More >>

Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir

Wasn't It Only Yesterday

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In this charming memoir of growing up in Utica, New York, in the 1940s and 1950s, Mario Fumarola celebrates the traditions and experiences of Italian American life. A gifted storyteller, Fumarola re-creates in vivid detail not only his own early experiences but also the motley cast of characters surrounding him, paying tribute to indelible family ties with an affection that will resonate with many readers.... More >>

Wasn't It Only Yesterday

A Twig Grows in Springdale

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Little kids in a little New england town growing up in the depths of The GReat Depression of the 1930s is a warm personal snap shot album of the people, events and happenings of those far away days-Reader's say "Thanks for the Memories" and "I never thought my ganbdfather was ever a kid!"... More >>

A Twig Grows in Springdale

A Girls War: A Childhood Lost In Britain's WWII Evacuation

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It probably doesn’t surprise anyone to learn that for each one of us, a childhood does matter. It’s a lesson the planners of Britain’s World War II evacuations should have kept in mind. Doreen  Drewry Lehr searches for her childhood, lost when she was sent away from her mother before she was even five. She finds precious clues in conversations with those who shared her  wartime experiences on the beautiful, isolated and harsh Yorkshire Moors. The second part... More >>

A Girls War: A Childhood Lost In Britain's WWII Evacuation

Danger Close

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Anyone who has felt overwhelmed by insurmountable obstacles--and who has not?--may find this book a source of inspiration and reassurance. Danger Close is neither the ordinary compilation of "uplifting" stories, nor an amoral manual on "How to Prevail by Applying Ten Tactics of Highly Successful Terrorists." Though Yon does not hesitate to express his views--forcefully and sometimes controversially--this story is not a sermon. It is, mistakes, misadventure... More >>

Danger Close

Vincent Roth, A Life in Guyana, Volume 2: The Later Years, 1923-1935

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In the second volume of Vincent Roth's Guyana memoirs, Vincent is a mature adult who is very sure of himself and bound to his adopted country. Roth's memoirs, while revealing colonial petty-minded bureaucracy, jumped-up officialdom, and incompetence, nevertheless present a picture of a country that worked, where the mail reached the remotest parts of the interior, but where the obliterating power of nature over human effort had to be constantly resisted.... More >>

Vincent Roth, A Life in Guyana, Volume 2: The Later Years, 1923-1935

America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World

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In 1940 seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the United States—one of more than 16,000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He spent four years with the wealthy Spaeth family in Dayton, Ohio, before returning to his parents in Southampton. Evocative, heartfelt, and charming, this is a story of a double childhood—of a boy who became American while never ceasing to be British.

"An original, sensitively t... More >>

America Lost and Found: An English Boy's Wartime Adventure in the New World

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

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Muir recounts in vivid detail the three worlds of his early life: his first eleven years in Scotland; the years 1849–1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness; and two-and-a-half most inventive years at the University of Wisconsin during that institution’s infancy.... More >>

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Vincent Roth, A Life in Guyana, Volume 1: A Young Man's Journey, 1889-1923

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From an early age, Vincent Roth kept a detailed account of his experiences, often illustrated with sketches and later by watercolors. It was from these handwritten journals that his son-in-law edited this book. The first volume covers his early yeas as a child abandoned to relatives in France, Scotland, and London. It also covers his reuniting at the age of 12 with his father and stepmother in Australia, his arrival in British Guyana, and the first 15 years of his w... More >>

Vincent Roth, A Life in Guyana, Volume 1: A Young Man's Journey, 1889-1923

The Assault of Laughter

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When Melissa's mother, Maggie, comes out, she packs up her three kids and leaves the safety of the only life she's ever known. But a short time later, Melissa's father has Maggie declared unfit and Maggie loses custody of Melissa, Katie and Tim. Caught between her mother's home filled with love and the verbal and physical abuse she experiences from her father, Melissa struggles to hold on to what's most precious, coming finally to understand her mother's... More >>

The Assault of Laughter