Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

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Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock -- his hair was t... More >>

Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

Indian Boyhood

• ISBN13: 9780486220376
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Chronicles first 15 years in life of a native Santee Sioux Indian in mid-19th century: childhood memories, training in the hunt, woodlore, religious practices, work of the medicine men, games, initiation rites, more. 13 illustrations.... More >>

Indian Boyhood

Broken

• ISBN13: 9780340937440
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Shy Keenan was not meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that she was deaf and nearly blind by her first day in school. Her stepsister thought nothing of pouring boiling water over her, and virtually every day she was raped by her stepfather. At agre 10 she was sold to a gang of dockworkers, viciously attacked, and left for dead in a field with a fractured skull. Today, Shy is an internationally respected advocate in the fight for justice f... More >>

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Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story

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While other children were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was trying to figure out how to go from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls. This powerful, unforgettable memoir chronicles how one child was shunned--and even physically abused--by her classmates from elementary school through high school. It is an unflinching look at what it means to be the outcast, how even the most lov... More >>

Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

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Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What’s more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated twins.
Paula Bernstein, a married writer and mother living in New York, also knew she was adopted, but had no inclina... More >>

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

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Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young Ngũgĩ displayed what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning, yet it was unimaginable that he would grow up to become a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and critic.
 
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Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

Abandoned and Forgotten: An Orphan Girl's Tale of Survival During World War II

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Much has been written about World War II, but not often do we hear about the immeasurable suffering of the Germans who wanted no part of Hitler's regime. Abandoned and Forgotten is the memoir of a young girl growing up in the then-German province of East Prussia by the Baltic Sea. Orphaned at the age of nine and left to fend for herself in a hostile world, Evelyne Tannehill witnessed firsthand what happens when law and order break down and self-preservation bec... More >>

Abandoned and Forgotten: An Orphan Girl's Tale of Survival During World War II

My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story

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Stephen "Pista" Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris still brings a husky tone to his voice when he remembers the terrible ordeal they endured together. Stephen's account of the Holocaust, told in the refreshingly direct and optimistic language of a young boy, will help every reader to understand t... More >>

My Brother's Voice: How a Young Hungarian Boy Survived the Holocaust: A True Story

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

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"A classic evocation of childhood . . . a masterly mixture of up-country drawl and Huckleberry Finn."—The New YorkerA hugely popular bestseller when it first appeared in 1957, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. is Robert Paul Smith's nostalgic and often wry look back on his 1920s childhood. Smith agitates against what he perceives as the over-scheduled and over-supervised lives of suburban children as he celebrates privacy, boredom, ... More >>

Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

Education of Little Tree

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The super-seller memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. The most sensitive and evocative autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of a young boy in the Appalachian Mountains.... More >>

Education of Little Tree

Being a Boy

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Illustrations and text about a New England childhood. The American rural life described here is that of the period 1830-1850. This book was first published in 1877. Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was the author of many essays, including the collection "My Summer Garden" (1871).... More >>

Being a Boy

Zlata's Diary

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Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her 10th birthday. An ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl, her preoccupations include whether or not to join the Madonna Fan Club and the fate of the supermodels. But in Sarajevo, the war draws closer.... More >>

Zlata's Diary

A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse

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- A Brother's Journey will appeal to the same audience that made #1 New York Times bestsellers of Dave Pelzer's popular novels: A Child Called "It" (Health Communications, 1995), The Lost Boy (Health Communications, 1997), and A Man Named Dave (E.P. Dutton, 1999), which have sold over six million copies combined. - There is a strong market for memoirs detailing traumatic experiences, as demonstrated by the success of A Million Little Pieces (Nan A. Talese, 4/03) and... More >>

A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge ... More >>

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers