Broadmoor

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Home? Why must there be a place called Home? Why is there, somewhere in each human soul, a void that can be filled only by remembrance of that special place? In Broadmoor, four aging brothers, seeking answers and guided by memory, take you with them on a journey back to their childhood, back to poverty and hard times, to betrayal and desertion, and to years of back-breaking labor and struggle to survive. As you follow, you will meet a loving but imperfect fami... More >>

Broadmoor

Through the Burning Steppe: A Memoir of Wartime Russia, 1942-1943

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Elena Kozhina was just eight years old when the Germans laid siege to Leningrad in 1941. Evacuated to a no-man's-land in the heart of the Russian steppe, she watched her family perish around her-and witnessed the indomitable strength of her mother in the face of life's greatest adversity.

Drawing comparisons to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl and comparable works by Tolstoy and Gorky, Elena Kozhina's jewel of a memoir is poised to become a classic of t... More >>

Through the Burning Steppe: A Memoir of Wartime Russia, 1942-1943

Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood

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A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taf... More >>

Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood

Margrit's World War II

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In 1943, five-year-old Margrit was sent to a farm in Bavaria to escape the bombing in the big city of Hamburg. Separated from her mother, father, and siblings, she had to face many new experiences—life in the country, school, the death of a friend—without their support. Unaffected and direct, Margrit's World War II is a poignant look at war through the eyes of a child.... More >>

Margrit's World War II

The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale

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After her parents' divorce, Jade's father informs her that it is her duty to take care of his "needs." Though Jade is powerless to resist at first, she never stops trying to find a way out of the horror that has become her life. The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale is the first installment of an astounding three-part memoir of sexual abuse, drug abuse, loss, and healing.... More >>

The Beginning of the Storm: Jade's Tale

You're Going to a Home!

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A powerful true story of rampant child abuse, prevalent in the New York catholic Homes for children during the 1940s through the 1960s. And focuses on the death of the author?... More >>

You're Going to a Home!

Beerinsky

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.....The memoirs of how one orphan boy called a Beerinsky (the bedwetters) survived in the cruel child abuser orphanage run by overworked, sometimes sadistic disciplinary nuns. He survived without love, compassion, encouragement or individual attention. This was the practice during the world-wide TB/Flu epidemic. Other than shelter, food and clothing, the aim of the nuns was extreme discipline, thus effectively destroying all self esteem of the 200 bo... More >>

Beerinsky

The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome

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What makes the Asperger child immerse himself in such things as Doctor Who and The Incredible Hulk? In this honest and entertaining autobiographical account, Will Hadcroft links his obsessive TV series fixations to eventually being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. He describes drawing comfort from identifying with heroic individuals or fictional characters, and the liberating effect of an accurate diagnosis for someone who felt 'out of place' and didn't know why. T... More >>

The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up With Asperger Syndrome

Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood

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Author Ann Hennessy presents an engaging dichotomy of American life in the 1930s and 1940s in this charming coming of age story filled with childhood games, first love, and lessons in life. Coupled with vivid memories of Maryland's lush Eastern Shore and the dawn of Baltimore's emergence as a Mid-Atlantic urban center, "Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood" offers readers a first-person account of "what it meant to be alive and young in those days when America itself... More >>

Becoming Ann: A Baltimore Childhood

Beating the Odds: A Boyhood Under Nazi-Occupied France

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The book is about what can happen when the international community ignores a power-hungry dictator who schemes and plots the destruction of free and civilized countries. The date was September 3, 1939. The dictator: Adolf Hitler. The nations: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, England, and the United States. An American psychiatrist, who spent his youth in France during WWII, uses his keen insight into the human condition to write about the politics and histor... More >>

Beating the Odds: A Boyhood Under Nazi-Occupied France

An Autobiographical Horror Story: Parts I and II

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A continuation of the Autobiographical Horror Story series.... More >>

An Autobiographical Horror Story: Parts I and II

Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered

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Emily Fox Gordon was a fatty, an academic failure, a schoolyard pariah, and a disappointment to her highly educated parents. And yet her early life was, as she puts it, "a succession of moments of radiant apprehension." Growing up in a Massachusetts college town in the fifties, she cultivated the writer's lifelong habit of translating experience into words. As she grew older, she became aware of her mother's long withdrawal into alcoholic depression. For Emily this ... More >>

Are You Happy?: A Childhood Remembered

Runaway: Life on the Streets--The Lessons Learned

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REVIEW BY: Jennifer Oliverhttp://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977117535It is my intention, through my book, to try to relate to teenagers the pain, suffering, and sadness a runaway child feels after reaching adulthood. The teenager who takes to the streets, and experiences what I describe in my book, both the good and the bad, will forever remain sad, lonely and in a state of total distrust of family, friends and spouse.As an abused teen, living in... More >>

Runaway: Life on the Streets--The Lessons Learned

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

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From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called “radiant, wise, and passionate” by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts with her Arab-American cousins to goat stew feasts under a Bedouin tent in the desert. These sensuo... More >>

The Language of Baklava: A Memoir

Adventures of Benny Bob

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These are autobiographic adventure stories about growing up in the wild, wild West, where young Benny Bob’s sense of humor taught him to run fast. It’s actually one of a series of events about how Benny Bob lived and later became a citizen soldier. This may be a clue on how a boy growing up can develop into a great warrior in a time of world confusion. These stories are based upon journal entries and pictures made of Benny Bob’s adventures by his mother. Re... More >>

Adventures of Benny Bob

The Island's True Child

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If any one place could be considered the archetype of a traditional, remote, cussedly independent, Maine lobster-fishing village -- and its gone-but-not-forgotten way of life -- Criehaven is it. When three-year-old Dot Simpson came to Criehaven in 1908, it was truly a world unto itself. To us, it might seem an unbearably limited and unrelentingly hard way of life, yet it clearly offered something immensely satisfying, too. Dot wrote that anyone who moved off-island ... More >>

The Island's True Child

The Front Bench Regulars : Wit and Wisdom from Back Home in the Hills

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This book is the author's recollections of his boyhood, working after school in an Ozarks pool hall owned by his father and grandfather, and the old farmers and rivermen who were his best friends. He writes a hilarious account of what he remembers of the nightly occurrences woven around the hunting and fishing stories and tales those old men told which helped to steer a young boy toward a life as an outdoor writer. This true account of those years in the 1960's is a... More >>

The Front Bench Regulars : Wit and Wisdom from Back Home in the Hills