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