Kinder Memories of World War II

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Kinder Memories of World War II depicts the life of the author as a child in Heidelberg, Germany, during the Second World War and the times right thereafter during the occupation by the Americans. Being protected by parents, life is lived as normal as possible, going to school, taking piano lessons, even traveling. But there is also the constant fear of being bombed, little food, alarms blaring day and night, constant blackouts, seeking shelter, and at the end, li... More >>

Kinder Memories of World War II

Juan

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A chance encounter in a Nicaraguan airport forever changes the lives of two people in this touching story that begins in a Managuan barrio. Juan Francisco Espinoza is a twelve-year-old shoeshine boy when fate places Karl Price, the principal of an American school in Venezuela, in his path. Though they only meet in passing, Price is so taken with the eager child's winning personality that a correspondence begins between them. The relationship between the Amer... More >>

Juan

Jep's Place: Hope, Faith and Other Disasters

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Jep’s Place is a vivid account of growing up during The Great Depression on a hardscrabble farm in a family of 13 children of former sharecropping Polish immigrants. The isolated farm at the end of a dirt road has no electricity, telephone or running water. The drafty farmhouse is often heated only by a kitchen woodstove. The children’s bedrooms have no heat. The fire in the kitchen stove dies during the night, and frost forms on the children’s bedroom ceiling... More >>

Jep's Place: Hope, Faith and Other Disasters

I Don't Want to Die All Alone

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Joseph describes a sad, but shockingly true story of growing up around crime, drugs, and streets. He shares with readers his days of beings hot, escaping a drive by shooting, the brutal murder of his brother, and several suicide attempts.... More >>

I Don't Want to Die All Alone

His Son: A Memoir

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The return of "an American masterpiece" (William Saroyan) long out of print.Bill Henderson did most of his growing up in the decade of the tail-finned car, Eisenhower, rock and roll, the threat of atomic annihilation, and pervasive silence. This anguished yet loving portrait of a child of the fifties and his father reveals the secret life of that decade. "A valediction of the 50s."-Rosellen Brown, Chicago Tribune "A powerfully moving book."-Anne Tyl... More >>

His Son: A Memoir

His Name Was Amy Mable: A Lifetime of Memories

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Take a trip down memory lane and revel in the adventures of “little Raz”, a child of the depression. For the young reader it is a chance to live history through the eyes of a child struggling with little Raz as he gets into and out of “situations”. For the young reader it imparts knowledge of living in a world without electricity. The teen-ager will react to the frustrations and emotions of a young boy living poor, working hard and forced to accept the respo... More >>

His Name Was Amy Mable: A Lifetime of Memories

Hick From the Sticks

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Farmers across the South struggled to survive during the Great Depression years of the thirties. Rural folks worked small family farms with manual implements and horse-drawn equipment to eke out a living for large families. Children toiled beside parents to provide a roof over their heads, clothing on their backs, and food for their stomachs. People on the farm endured a primitive existence without electricity, running water, indoor bathrooms, automobiles, air condi... More >>

Hick From the Sticks

The Hawthorne Scent

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Derick Bingham has written a unique autobiography in verse covering... The author's idyllic childhood in the Kingdom of Mourne. An inspiring schooling in Downpatrick, the town long associated with Ireland's patron saint. A career at Queen's University, Belfast in which the author became the Queen's University Orator on the the strength of declaring his faith. 35 beautiful illustrations by Ross Wilson, one of Ireland's most gifted artists.... More >>

The Hawthorne Scent