Thursday, June 24, 2010

German Boy: A Child in War


  • ISBN13: 9780767908245
  • Condition: New
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“I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book.” -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose

As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy is the vivid, true story of t... More >>

German Boy: A Child in War

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Toast



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Toast is Nigel Slater’s truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family’s pantry—rice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon biscuits—we are transported.... His mother was a chops-and-peas sort of cook, exasperated by the highs and lows of a temperamental stove, a finicky little son, and the asthma that was to prove fatal. His father was... More >>

Toast

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir



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Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a haunting and ultimately triumphant memoir about growing up poor and undaunted in the South. With an unflinching voice, Barbara Robinette Moss chronicles her family's chaotic, impoverished survival in the red-clay hills of Alabama. A wild-eyed, alcoholic father and a humble, heroic mother along with a shanty full of rambunctious brothers and sisters fill her life to the brim with stories that are gripping, tender, and funny. Moss... More >>

Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir

Friday, June 18, 2010

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate



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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming American Foreign Service officer, moved to Jerusalem with his family. They settled in a small house, where young Kai could hear church bells and the Muslim call to praye... More >>

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Monday, June 14, 2010

Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, Special Collector's Edition



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This is the inside story of The Brady Bunch as only Barry Williams could tell it! In this updated Collector's Edition are updated information and numerous never-before-seen photos of this classic American TV show and its stars. Think you know everything about Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Mike, Carol, Alice-- and the people who played them? Think again! From drunken golf-cart races across the Paramount lot to make-out sessions in Tiger's doghouse, B... More >>

Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, Special Collector's Edition

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood


  • ISBN13: 9780316284615
  • Condition: New
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A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, 'The Unwanted' is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is now living in America.... More >>

The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood


  • ISBN13: 9780375704048
  • Condition: New
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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes har... More >>

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found



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With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. The house on Mary Street was home to Jennifer; her older brother B.J.; their hardworking father, who smelled like aftershave and read her Snow White... More >>

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood



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An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent

When Robyn Scott ’s parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn changed forever. In this wild and new landscape excitement can be found around every corner, and with each misadventure she and her family learn more about the quirks, charms, and challenges of living in on... More >>

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood