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 | Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
A reissue of the classic 1975 memoir that Elie Wiesel called "deeply stirring…important and enriching."
In this significant and lasting account, Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed author of several books on the psychology of the adopted, tells...
Manufacturer: Other Press
| $9.51
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 | Farewell Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad
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...
Manufacturer: David R Godine
| $10.00 - $17.95
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 | Aspargus Dreams
Expelled from mainstream education and vaguely aware she has something called "Asparagus" Syndrome, 12-year-old Jessica is sent away to a residential school for young people with autism. Here, miserable and misunderstood, she spends the next five years ...
Manufacturer: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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 | Indian Boyhood
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.
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
| $3.37 - $9.95
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 | And God Was Our Witness
The compelling World War II memoirs of a young Polish girl forced into slave labor in Russian along with her family and thousands of other Poles; while the rest of the world sat idly by as Poland disappeared and turned away from the resulting displaced ...
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
| $16.47 - $28.95
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 | Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stra...
Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
| $7.43
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
In 1971, when Alexandra Fuller was two, her parents abandoned their life in England and returned to what was then Rhodesia, and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was at its height. While her father was away for long str...
Manufacturer: Recorded Books
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