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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Arms Kalish  Review “Using this book alone, one could reconstruct, with glorious exactness, a lost time and place. Mildred Kalish has a novelist's eye for detail and a beautiful understanding of what the gestures of daily life mean. A lovely, wise...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the...
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
by Loung Ung Publisher Comments From a childhood survivor of the brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of tragedy and spiritual triumph. 8-page photo insert....
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure...
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Publisher Comments I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller 
Powells.com Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an...
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Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town
by Kelly McMasters Publisher Comments Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by one disaster after another — a UFO, a childhood...
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Blueberry Summers: Growing Up at the Lake
by Curtiss Anderson Publisher Comments "I would begin thinking about summer on our lake as early as Easter. Yes, it was our lake, not just the lake." In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian family...
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipovic Publisher Comments An international bestseller, the extraordinary diary that awakened the world's conscience is now updated with a new Introduction by the author. "The only bright thing to come from [Sarajevo's] recent history."--"USA Today."...
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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
by Dave Pelzer Publisher Comments Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness
by Lennard J. Davis Publisher Comments Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working...
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Uncle Tungsten : Memories of Chem. Boyhood (01 Edition)
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists...
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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire
Publisher Comments This haunting memoir of the Cuban Revolution, seen through the eyes of a small boy, is the heartbreaking story of the author's privileged childhood in pre-Revolution Havana, and how he lost everything, including his father....
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German Boy : a Child in War (00 Edition)
by Wolfgang W. Samuel
Publisher Comments "I think "German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book." -- from the Foreword by Stephen Ambrose <BR>As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little...
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Jungvolk: The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich
by Wilhelm R. Gehlen Publisher Comments 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...
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
by Chanrithy Him
Publisher Comments In this mesmerizing story, finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and...
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The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
by Clane Hayward Synopsis Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday...
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Please Stop Laughing at Me...: One Woman's Inspirational Story
by Jodee Blanco Publisher Comments While other kids were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco was just trying to figure out how to get from homeroom to study hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls. This powerful, unforgettable...
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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher Comments The best-selling author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking offers a charming memoir of growing up in Delhi, India, detailing life in a large family marked by dinners in which forty or more members of her extended family would enjoy the savory dishes of...
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