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 | The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story
From A Child Called “It” to The Lost Boy, from A Man Named Dave to Help Yourself, Dave Pelzer’s inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over hardship and misfortune. In The Privilege of Youth, he...
Manufacturer: Plume
| $1.26 - $12.95
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 | When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
This is one of the first childhood memoirs to emerge from the hell of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Capturing the overwhelming immediacy of the baffling events, Chanrithy Him writes through the eyes of her younger self in the present tense. She vividl...
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
| $8.35
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 | Please Stop Laughing At Me...: One Woman's Inspirational Story
In her poignant work, Jodee Blanco tells how school became a frightening and painful place, where threats, humiliation, and assault were as much a part of her daily experience as bubblegum and lip-gloss were for others. It is an unflinching look at what...
Manufacturer: Adams Media
| $1.40 - $12.95
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 | Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
July 15, 1968. It is only three months following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation is burning. Black and White America are locked in the tense grip of massive change. Into this inferno steps an unsuspecting young White couple....
Manufacturer: Soul Water Rising
| $10.67 - $17.00
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 | Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised Edition
When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describ...
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
| $6.97
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 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
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 t...
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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 | Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
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 th...
Manufacturer: Vintage
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 | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other - but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater....
Manufacturer: Free Press
| $9.25
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 | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.
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 middle of the United States in the middle of th...
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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