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 | My Father, Marconi (Picas Series)
Merging both his scientific and personal lives into one compelling history, author Degna Marconi recalls the turbulent existence of her father, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of the radio. Unable to gain admittance to a university, child prodigy Marcon...
Manufacturer: Guernica Editions Inc.
| $7.76 - $8.00
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 | The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir
At sixteen, Keith Fleming is so miserably defiant that he is locked in an adolescent mental hospital. Filled with despair, Keith's life is literally saved by his uncle, the writer Edmund White. Keith soon finds himself transformed as Uncle Ed arranges t...
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
| $2.69
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 | Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir
This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year—1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, P...
Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
| $6.00
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 | Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
"In March 1947 I was born. My arrival was celebrated within the inner family circle, quietly and anxiously. When I was a year old, my mother married a white German man; a year later my sister was born. We grew up relatively unburdened during those first...
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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 | Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers
“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote
Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive E...
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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 | Jew Boy in Goy Town
This is a story about the rites of passage of a young boy growing up in the Catskill Mountains, an area occupied by the Ku Klux Klan, before it became the "Borscht Belt." The author shares his lusts and loves, his young hopes and dreams, his fears and ...
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
| $22.99
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 | Bosnian Counterpoint
"Bosnian Counterpoint" evokes childhood memories of a Bosnia in which diverse ethnic and religious groups lived in mutual respect and tolerance. "Bosnian Counterpoint" was translated into Swedish and published in Lund as "Bosnisk Corsvaeg" in 1996. ...
Manufacturer: Biographical Publishing Company
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