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 | Crossing Guadalupe Street: Growing up Hispanic and Protestant
To grow up as a Mexican-American Methodist in a small town in south central Texas in the 1940s and 1950s was to be a minority within a minority. This account of a boyhood in Seguin, Texas, broadens our understanding of Latino culture by evoking a time w...
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
| $10.25 - $17.95
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 | Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth
In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America’s preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor ...
Manufacturer: Anchor
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 | The Silent Stars Go By: A True Christmas Story
In this touching, true story, award-winning writer Philip Lee Williams tells how life changed for him in 1959 as he spent his last Christmas in the country. It is a powerful memoir of southern Christmas traditions and one boy's dreams. Williams brings b...
Manufacturer: Hill Street Press
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 | Vincent Roth, A Life in Guyana, Volume 2: The Later Years, 1923-1935
In the second volume of Vincent Roth's Guyana memoirs, Vincent is a mature adult who is very sure of himself and bound to his adopted country. Roth's memoirs, while revealing colonial petty-minded bureaucracy, jumped-up officialdom, and incompetence, ne...
Manufacturer: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
| $24.21 - $24.95
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 | The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and Son
Young Fred Waitzkin is a Jewish boy stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Fred's father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed-he literally brightens American cit...
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
| $60.03
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 | Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
A unique blend of memoir and public history, Packinghouse Daughter, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, working-class life. The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright, Cheri Register recalls the 1959 ...
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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 | Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memor...
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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 | Girl From Stone Lake
She was born in a shack in a lumber camp the backwoods of Wisconsin. Dad left his home in Pleasant Valley, Minnesota as a boy of sixteen, bumming his way to Yellow Stone Park in Wyoming, where he drove a four horse wagon and fought the wild bears!...
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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