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 | For Solo Violin: A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy
In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938–45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic i...
Manufacturer: Paul Dry Books
| $7.95
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 | Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
In her no-holds-barred family memoir, controversial scholar-critic Louise DeSalvo breaks the traditional silence around life for an Italian American girl coming of age in working-class Hoboken, New Jersey. Upon first publication, DeSalvo's memoirwhic...
Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY
| $9.00
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 | Return to Dresden
Why did the German people tolerate the Nazi madness? Maria Ritter's life is haunted by the ever-painful, never-answerable "German Question." Who knew? What was known? Confronting the prof...
Manufacturer: University Press of Mississippi
| $20.94 - $35.00
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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
| $15.99 - $16.00
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 | Anne Frank: REFLECTIONS ON HER LIFE AND LEGACY
Of all the memoirs that convey the human devastation of Hitler's Final Solution, Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is by far the most popular and influential. Since its publication in Holland in 1947, the diary has been translated into more than ...
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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 | Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an Optimist
"Finding My Way" is the autobiography of Evelyn Stefansson Nef that reveals the continuous blossoming of a woman born in humble circumstances in Brooklyn in 1913 who became an accomplished writer, authority on the Far North, linguist, psychotherapist, a...
Manufacturer: Francis Press
| $25.00 - $26.00
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 | Half the House
"Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity."-Library Journal "A scorching account of the dark underside of family life."-Richard Selzer "Wonderfully written."-Kirkus Reviews "A book o...
Manufacturer: New Rivers Press
| $8.00
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 | The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War
For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase “before the war” calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, Samuel Hynes describes his midwestern boyhood...
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
| $1.99 - $14.00
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 | The Next Better Place: A Memoir in Miles
At the age of eleven, Michael Keith left a stable life with his mother and sisters and set off to cross the country with his irresponsible hobo of a father--a real bum. The memoir, narrated without sentimentality by this funny, world-wise little boy, de...
Manufacturer: Highbridge Audio
| $0.99 - $32.95
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 | The Island's True Child
Fortunately for us, Dot Simpson vividly remembered her early island life and wrote about it with moving simplicity. Her memoir is brightened with dry humor, and it tells of a time long lost but infused with values we still cherish, such as love of home ...
Manufacturer: Down East Books
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