When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis

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At age 13, the last thing Elizabeth Golden wanted was to be singled out. A typical seventh grader in her school in Philadelphia, Elizabeth s world was filled with best friends who made her laugh, schoolwork, and sports. Then, during a routine check-up, her doctor found two curves in her spine. Elizabeth had Scoliosis and was instantly different from her classmates. Elizabeth was told she needed surgery and she kept a memoir throughout her operation and long re... More >>

When Life Throws You a Curve: One Girl's Triumph Over Scoliosis

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, What was it like to grow up in the South? Morris s response turned into a timeless story of growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and ... More >>

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

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In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at ... More >>

Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

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