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