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 | Before the Knife: Memories of an African Childhood
What happened to me affected all of us—my mother, my father, my sisters, and me: we all fell apart under the horror of it, and we all tried to pretend that there was no horror.
Before the Knife is an unforgettable story—a transc...
Manufacturer: Knopf
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 | Hellfire and Herring: A Childhood Remembered
Christopher Rush returns, decades later, to rediscover his childhood and offers a frank account of his youth. This evocation of a way of life now vanished demonstrates the timeless power of the word in resurrecting the past. Rush writes of family, ...
Manufacturer: Profile Books
| $18.87 - $30.95
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 | A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers
In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they were characters in an opera. The daughter of a mercurial composer and the granddaughter of a legen...
Manufacturer: Grove Press
| $3.84
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 | Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, “America has learned a lot about Tony Blair over the last weeks . . . and we’re proud to have him as a friend.” Despite the President’s assertion, the average American knows little about Tony Bla...
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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 | When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood (Women in the West)
Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child’s life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888–1982) was a rancher and horse breaker who...
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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 | Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions
Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discove...
Manufacturer: Paul Dry Books
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 | The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia
A pink-skinned, fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because he was born there and knew no other ...
Manufacturer: Goose Lane Editions
| $12.52 - $19.95
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 | Adventure on the High Sea!
"Adventure on the High Sea! A Family´s Sailing voyage Across the Atlantic" is a true story for young readers ages 8 to 13 but should also appeal to a parent´s sense of adventure. A young girl and her family set out for the adventure opportunity of a ...
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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