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?

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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

Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood

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Martin Lemelman's elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir Two Cents Plain collects the memories and artifacts of the author's childhood in Brooklyn. The son of Holocaust survivors, Lemelman grew up in the back of his family's candy store in Brownsville during the 1950s and '60s, as the neighborhood, and much of the city, moved into a period of deep decline. In Two Cents Plain, Lemelman pieces together the fragments of his past in an effort to come to terms with a chi... More >>

Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood

The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II

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One survivor tells of the fire bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes. These are typical in the stories collected in The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II. For this book Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, a childhood refugee himself after the fall of Nazi Germany, interviewed twenty-seven men and wome... More >>

The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II

Yes Mother

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Imagine small children never having parental supervision or normal food to eat, and being beaten and abused by their own mother. This is the author's true story.... More >>

Yes Mother

What Doesn't Kill You . . . A Spiritual Journey to Serenity

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A woman who survived suicidal impulses demonstrates how faith and perseverance can help others facing similar feelings.... More >>

What Doesn't Kill You . . . A Spiritual Journey to Serenity

Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy

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Revealing biography chronicles the chess champion's brilliant play, controversial behavior, private life, and more. 90 games. 26 photographs. Diagrams.
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Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy