When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis

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At age 13, the last thing Elizabeth Golden wanted was to be singled out. A typical seventh grader in her school in Philadelphia, Elizabeth s world was filled with best friends who made her laugh, schoolwork, and sports. Then, during a routine check-up, her doctor found two curves in her spine. Elizabeth had Scoliosis and was instantly different from her classmates. Elizabeth was told she needed surgery and she kept a memoir throughout her operation and long re... More >>

When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, What was it like to grow up in the South? Morris s response turned into a timeless story of growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and ... More >>

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

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In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at ... More >>

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir

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The long-awaited memoir by one of Romania’s greatest living authors

The Hooligan’s Return is a haunting memoir, vividly re-creating Norman Manea’s harrowing childhood in Fascist Romania while providing indelible portraits of Ceausescu’s dictatorship and the pre- and post-Communist eras.

Manea’s observations about his visit in 1997 are intertwined with his reflections on his return to Romania after four years in Transnistria, in the cam... More >>

The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir

Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots

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 In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bi... More >>

Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots

Farewell Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

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From the melting pot that was Iraqi society comes a tale, recounted by a grand old man of Canadian letters, of growing up as a Jewish boy in Baghdad in the 1940s.

Naim Kattan was born into an intellectual Jewish family in Baghdad in 1928. He, his brother, and his friend Nessim were the only Jews in a group of young men who met every evening in a cafe to talk passionately abut creating a national Iraqi literature in their newly independent country. They had go... More >>

Farewell Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

City of One: A Memoir

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City of One is a poignant and beautifully written memoir of childhood loss and its enduring meaning. Francine Cournos was three years old when her father died, and by the time she was eleven, her mother was dead of breast cancer. “I had been hurled over a cliff,” she writes. “The irreversibility of what had happened crashed down on me; a nauseating wave of fear and a flood of tears followed. I didn’t know who I was without my mother. What would fill the vast... More >>

City of One: A Memoir

Half the House

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“Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity.”—Library Journal “A scorching account of the dark underside of family life.”—Richard Selzer “Wonderfully written.”—Kirkus Reviews “A book of unsparing and at times brutal candor . . . reminding us of the fragility of childhood and the costs it exacts upon the adults we become.”—The Washington Post The hardcover publication of this unflinching memoir resulted in the arres... More >>

Half the House

Father and Son

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Edmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, "This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs." Father and Son remains one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it, Edmund Gosse recounts, with humor and pathos, his childhood as a member of a Victorian Protestant sect and his struggles to forge his own identity despite the loving control of his father. His work is a key document of the crisis of fa... More >>

Father and Son

Tarzan, My Father

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An authoritative insight into the life of the man most film fans consider the "one and only" Tarzan - Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller -- this book offers an intimate look at Weissmuller's early life, middle years, and later decline, through swimming training, Olympic triumphs, failed marriages, a Hollywood life as Tarzan of the Apes, and subsequent career as Jungle Jim. Written by his only son, this biography is a sensitive yet unsentimental por... More >>

Tarzan, My Father

The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses

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-You must always, always tell the truth, no matter the consequences, for you must model yourself on Jehovah, and Jehovah does not lie. This is the most crucial rule of all,+ Joy Castro is told as a young girl in a Jehovah+s Witness family. Joy is 12 years old when her divorced mother marries a brother in the church. He is highly respected in the community, having displayed the ultimate sign of spiritual devotion: he served at Bethel, the Watchtower headquarters in B... More >>

The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses

Growing Up Yanomam'o: Missionary Adventures in the Amazon Rainforest

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Imagine living in a stone-age culture. That is how the Yanomam'o have been described. Three generations of the same family working with this Venezuelan tribe and now a new film coming out from the tribal leaders themselves to refute the secular anthropologists by showing how walking with Christ has transformed their culture. Mike's growing up years will take you through adventures with animals, nature, and people.... More >>

Growing Up Yanomam'o: Missionary Adventures in the Amazon Rainforest

The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood

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While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Germany was like for people who were reared to think of Adolf Hitler as the savior of his country, and rarer still are accounts written from a female perspective. Ursula Mahlendorf, born at the height of the Great Depression in 1929 to a middle-class family, was for a long ... More >>

The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

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This is a memoir of the author's childhood in America.Amazon.com Review
"There was a war on against colored people," June Jordan recalls her father telling her. "I had to become a soldier." Jordan's fierce, funny, lyrical memoir of her first 12 years reveals the seeds of her adult poetry in her childhood experiences: the magical sounds of words in the nursery rhymes her mother crooned, the awareness nearly from birth of the bitter complexities of family re... More >>

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

Soaring & Crashing: My Bipolar Adventures

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Holly Hollan's personal journey into the throes of Bipolar (formerly called manic-depression) will leave readers with an intimate understanding of the disorder, and a hopeful way to cope with the future. Hollan uses Soaring & Crashing to bring readers into an account of her life with Bipolar. She travels through a troubled childhood, and into an equally tumultuous adulthood, illustrating the ups and downs of this often misunderstood and stigmatized condition. Ultima... More >>

Soaring & Crashing: My Bipolar Adventures

Homesick: A Memoir

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This is a story about home . . . At a time when much of America is yearning to recapture the spirit and feelings of a more innocent era, comes this exceptional new book from one of our most beloved actresses: a story of one woman's journey to reconnect with the landscape of her childhood.Though best known today as the star of the television series Once & Again and Sisters, Sela Ward considers herself first and foremost a small-town girl. The eldest of four c... More >>

Homesick: A Memoir

JUNGVOLK: The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich

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This is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. After reading this book, the reader will wonder who had the most exciting time during World War II.Will Gehlen's father, a trolley driver, was drafted into the Wehrmacht to man a Sturmgeschutz assault gun in Russia. His older brother, Len, was enlisted in the Hitlerjugend. The author, only 10 years old when the war be... More >>

JUNGVOLK: The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich

Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse

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Charred Souls describes the childhood of one child and her 6 siblings as they grew up in a family that used child abuse as a source of entertainment. In her book, she describes the methods of intimidation, torture and isolation used to keep the children from seeking help from others. It also describes how, since much of the extended family practiced the same type of abusive behavior, the children assumed the whole world lived this way. This family, while they may ha... More >>

Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse

An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, With a New Epilogue

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In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered. Many years later, after enjoying successful lives in California, they met, became friends, and decided to share their intimate story--that of two boys trappe... More >>

An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, With a New Epilogue

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

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Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts “Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal yet universally appealing story moves with ease between the seemingly trivial concerns of hairstyles and boys to the more profound questions of faith and identity. By t... More >>

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s

The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South

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The true story of a young man whose life and family were torn apart by a decision no mother should have to make.
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The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South

Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

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An exquisite memoir of growing up dirt poor in Oklahoma. "Love of the land is not located so much in the mind, or in the heart, as in the skin: how the skin feels when you go back." -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt. When the peasants are deprived of fields to work, so goes the chorus of an old Irish ballad, "All that's left is a love of the land." In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower er... More >>

Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

Papa, My Father: A Celebration of Dads

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While relating specific events which he remembers about his own father, Leo Buscaglia has written this book "in celebration of all fathers." Readers are reminded that seemingly ordinary events can forever remind us of a cherished family member. This book reached #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list.... More >>

Papa, My Father: A Celebration of Dads

Everything Will Be All Right

• Excellent reading for sociology class
• Motivational book for parents and children
• Secrets to success
• Power of positivee thinking
• Power of faith

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Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood--fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only home they ever owned to collect insurance money. In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his family for generations. With a genu... More >>

Everything Will Be All Right

Somehow Form a Family

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Tony Earley is a writer so good at his craft that you don't read his words so much as inhale them. His first book of nonfiction is one of those unexpected classics, like Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies, in which a great writer rips open his or her heart and takes the reader inside for a no-holds-barred tour. Born thirty-nine years ago, Earley was too late to be a Baby Boomer, too soon to be a Gen Xer. Although he grew up in the North Carolina mountains, he says "I g... More >>

Somehow Form a Family

Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune

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This is a unique and honest account of the author's childhood growing up in a commune in rural Virginia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nethers, as the commune came to be called, was started by Eugster's "liberal, radical, union organizing mother," Carla. Committed to radical social change and caught up in the fervor of counterculture, Carla, separated from the father of her three children, unilaterally sold their middle-class house in Baltimore, and moved to a r... More >>

Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune

Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany

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Placed in an orphanage at the age of 7 because she was an "occupational child" - her father being an African American serviceman serving in Germany who had no part in her upbringing - the author recounts her life and her journey from Berlin to Chicago to discover a family she had never known.... More >>

Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany

Sala More Than a Survivor

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This is the touching and inspirational story of Sala Lewis, who at age ten was left alone to wander the streets of Poland after her family was taken away by the Nazis. Sala had been out with her friends and came home to find her family gone and the apartment where she lived sealed off. Everything she possessed was no longer hers. She had no family, no clothes, no food, and at that moment in time, no future. Sala was strong willed. It was easy to see that, even thoug... More >>

Sala More Than a Survivor

Storkbites: A Memoir

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Like the myth from which the term evolved, Storkbites is a story of mixed messages...of hate masquerading as love, of hidden wounds and pain. Marie Etienne's compelling memoir, set in South Louisiana, paints a powerful picture of murder, suicide, insanity, and alcoholism all humorously juxtaposed with Mardi Gras balls, Christmas celebrations, family fishing trips, and a daughter's coming-of-age. Etienne, the seventh of nine children, takes readers on a harrowing tre... More >>

Storkbites: A Memoir

Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis

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A stepson's intimate portrait of C.S. Lewis. Douglas Gresham recollects his childhood and adolescent years in C.S. Lewis's household. An engaging memoir with an album of 20 family photographs.... More >>

Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis

Kitchen Privileges

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In her long-awaited memoir, Mary Higgins Clark, America's beloved and bestselling Queen of Suspense, recounts the early experiences that shaped her as a person and influenced her as a writer. Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. The gift of storytelling was a part of her Irish ancestry, so it followed naturally that she would later use her sharp eye, keen intelligence, and inquisitive nature to cre... More >>

Kitchen Privileges

My Boyhood

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1922. John Burroughs, the American naturalist, was best known for his essays on nature. This book contains some sketches of his boyhood and early farm life. He had an intense love of his birthplace and cherished every memory of his boyhood and of his family and of the old farm high up on the side of Old Clump. When his son, Julian, tried to write about John, John took the matter into his own hand. Also found in this book are the writings of Julian on his father. Ill... More >>

My Boyhood

A Bag of Marbles

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When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable story; readers will instinctively find themselves rooting for these children caught in the whirlwind of World War II.

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A Bag of Marbles

Once Upon a Farm

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From the author of the best-selling Memories of a Former Kid. Artley, raised on his family farm in Hampton, Iowa, describes the sometimes tedious, sometimes enjoyable, responsibilities of growing up on a farm.... More >>

Once Upon a Farm

Men in My Town

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It is indeed rare when the young victim of a brutal crime grows up to reveal his story in a way that is both compelling and objective. Such is the case with Keith Smith in the gripping and deeply disconcerting bio-novel, Men in My Town. Based on his experience of having been abducted, beaten, and raped by a local pedophile, Smith reminds us how quickly the innocence of youth can be snatched away. But there are two stories here, one of despair, the other of revenge. ... More >>

Men in My Town

El castillo de cristal/ The Glass Castle

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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote... More >>

El castillo de cristal/ The Glass Castle

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

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Winner of the Governor General's Award
A Library Journal Best Book of 2001

Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass execution. "We children lived like the donkey," Mezlekia remembers, "careful not to wander off the beaten trail and end up in the hyena's belly." His memoir shed... More >>

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

Zee Bees

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This is the true story of a young boy growing up in a highly religious, football-minded small midwestern town with a dream of playing football for the Zion Benton High School Zee Bees. Bob Osmon overcame a boyhood illness through hard work and made a pact with his best friend to condition themselves and improve so that they could win the championship in their senior year. They encountered Evan Ellis, a tough, almost brutal coach. Coach Ellis was harsh and demanded m... More >>

Zee Bees

When the Meadowlark Sings: The Story of a Montana Family

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Another great story of growing up on the prairies of Montana is born. Nedra Sterry, born in 1918 in Fort Benton, Montana, the daughter of hailed-out homesteaders, grew up in a succession of isolated one-room schools in northern and central Montana, where her mother, a teacher, eked out a living. The book traces Sterry's family through the homesteading boom, the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar advancements brought by rural electrification. An extremel... More >>

When the Meadowlark Sings: The Story of a Montana Family

Street Kid: One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival

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Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, Judy went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. This is an incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. After a childhood lived in terror, in 1994, Judy was presented with an Unsung Heroes Award for her charity work with street children in South Africa. Her moving story came to light after Judy w... More >>

Street Kid: One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival

Who Needs June Cleaver?

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This collection of short essays comprises an insightful and multi-layered memoir based on the writer's New Jersey childhood. The pieces reflect on family relationships, events, life-lessons, colorful characters, and observations that lodge in a child's memory and stay through a lifetime. With rich wisdom and perspective earned through time and distance, the author explores images going back to mid-century, a time in which children growing up in small town "main st... More >>

Who Needs June Cleaver?

Safe from the Past: A Story of Hope, Faith and Determination

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"Riveting!", "Gripping", "A Motivational Tour De Force".

A kidnapping, the divorce of her parents, the loss of her father, temporary abandonment and extreme poverty are just some of the issues the author dealt with as a young child.

Her mother finally tells her she must go to college so she can break out of this cycle of poverty and hopelessness. But how can she when she has no money and absolutely no confidence or self esteem?

Read this true... More >>

Safe from the Past: A Story of Hope, Faith and Determination

Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq

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From the author of the international bestseller Zlata’s Diary comes a haunting testament to how war’s brutality affects the lives of young people Zlata Filipovic’s diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children affected by military conflict. In Stolen Voices, she and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, ... More >>

Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq

Josephine: A Life of the Empress

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In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial façade. To her subjects, she appeared to vet hew most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who was the conqueror of Europe. In actuality, Josephine's life was far darker, for her celebrated allure was fading, her weal... More >>

Josephine: A Life of the Empress

When the World was Young

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My book was written as a result of our many family reunions. After a festive reunion dinner, we would entertain ourselves for hours reliving the events of our childhood. There were just too many unforgettable stories that couldn't be lost in the winds of time. Yes, grandchildren, that's the way it was when Grand Paw Bill and Joe grew up, in a time and place that no longer exists. When the World was Young.... More >>

When the World was Young

Into the Arms of Strangers : Stories of the Kindertransport

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The story of what is was like to grow up Jewish in Nazi Germany, to escape danger and fear, and also to leave family and friends, on the British Kindertransport scheme. Among the voices we hear are those of two of the organizers, an English foster mother, and 13 surviving children.Amazon.com Review
Between December 1938 and the outbreak of war in August 1939, some 10,000 children, the vast majority of them Jews, from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechos... More >>

Into the Arms of Strangers : Stories of the Kindertransport

Nobody's Child

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Michael Seed's childhood was a daily ordeal of unspeakable neglect, misery, and abuse from an alcoholic father whose tyranny ruined his son’s formative years and drove his wife to suicide. On a daily basis both Michael and his mother would fall under the man’s wrath, and one awful night Michael’s father began sexually abusing his son, a trend that would continue for years. Worse still, the abuse did not stop at home. Once he began school, Michael fell victim t... More >>

Nobody's Child

Vertigo: A Memoir

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In her no-holds-barred family memoir, controversial scholar-critic Louise DeSalvo breaks the traditional silence around life for an Italian American girl coming of age in working-class Hoboken, New Jersey. Upon first publication, DeSalvo’s memoir–which sifts through painful memories of childhood incest, a sister’s suicide, a mother’s psychotic depression, and a father’s violent rage–enjoyed wide acclaim as an instant classic of the genre, written in "one... More >>

Vertigo: A Memoir

While the Locust Slept: A Memoir

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In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Told in flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor manages to piece together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel. Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Razor spent his childhood at the hands of abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than ... More >>

While the Locust Slept: A Memoir

When I Was a Little Girl

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"When I Was a Little Girl" is the childhood memoir of Mae Logozzo Samal Knox, who grew up in Meriden, Connecticut, in the 1920s and '30s. In describing the "Greatest Generation," the generation into which the author was born, Tom Brokaw said, "The enduring contributions of this generation transcend gender," and he credits the women of the Greatest Generation with changing "forever the perception and the reality of women in all the disciplines of American life." By ... More >>

When I Was a Little Girl