Publication date: 2006-11
List Price: $27.99
Price: $27.99
Review The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $21.99
Price: $21.99
Review A Backward Glance / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 200
Price: $25.45
Review Diary of a Preacher's Daughter / Authorhouse:A warm and intimate story of a family. It will make you laugh and make you cry. Piercingly affective, painfully moving, this is one of those rare books that you never want to put down.
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 609
List Price: $17.95
Price: $180.11
Review They Call Me the Hug Machine: John's Story / Authorhouse:
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $20.99
Price: $20.99
Review An Ordinary Life / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $95.99
Price: $95.56
Review A New England Girlhood / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $32.50
Review German Boy: A Child in War / Ulverscroft Large Print:“I think German Boy has all the qualities of greatness. I love the book. ” - from the Foreword by Stephen AmbroseAs the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named Wolfgang Samuel, who left his home with his mother and sister and ended up in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced farther west into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy is the vivid, true story of their fight for survival as the tables of power turned and, for reasons Wolfgang was too young to understand, his broken family suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger, and constant fear. Because his father was off fighting the war as a Luftwaffe officer, young Wolfgang was forced to become the head of his household, scavenging for provisions and scraps with which to feed his family. Despite his best efforts, his mother still found herself forced to do the unthinkable to survive, and her sacrifices became Wolfgang’s worst nightmares. Somehow, with the resilience only children can muster, he maintained his youth and innocence in little ways–making friends with other young refugees, playing games with shrapnel, delighting in the planes flown by the Americans and the candies the GIs brought. In the end, the Samuels begin life anew in America, and Wolfgang eventually goes on to a thirty-year career in the U. S. [+]Air Force. Bringing fresh insight to the dark history of Nazi Germany and the horror left in its wake, German Boy records the valuable recollections of an innocent’s incredible journey.
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review The Ghost of Makara: Growing Up Down-Under in a Lost World of Yesteryears / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 973
Price: $23.50
Review Too Close to the Falls / Topeka Bindery:Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the course of aboriginal politics. Elvis and cocktails and Catholicism and the secrets buried deep beneath a place that may be another, undiscovered Love Canal – Lewiston, New York. Too Close to the Falls is an exquisite, haunting return, through time and memory, to the heart of Catherine Gildiner’s childhood. And what a childhood it was ….
Publication date: 2005-07-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $39.00
Price: $39.00
Review The Adventures of Childhood / AuthorHouse:While growing up in North Philadelphia (North Philly), a trip in the summertime to North Carolina was a refreshing experience. Many adventures waited whenever my family made the trip. Open fields a fresh country air seems to spell adventure for any kid who loves nature and enjoy taking hikes. What you'll discover in "The Adventures of Childhood" will make you aware of how similar each of our lives was while growing up. You may even say, "That happened to me when I was a child" as you read them to your children. "The Adventures in Childhood", is a series of adventures that children of all ages can relate to and enjoy reading about.
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $13.95
Price: $13.95
Review Gisela: From Hell To Heaven / Authorhouse:
Creator: Sam Kelly
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $94.95
Price: $77.99
Review The Road to Nab End / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2006-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $27.99
Price: $27.99
Review Out of India (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $23.46
Price: $69.99
Review Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy / Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media:"Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban. " In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth - with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas - becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1, 1959. Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made illegal, political dissent leads to imprisonment, and too many of Carlos's friends are leaving Cuba for a place as far away and unthinkable as the United States. Carlos will end up there, too, and fulfill his mother's dreams by becoming a modern American man - even if his soul remains in the country he left behind. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is a eulogy for a native land and a loving testament to the collective spirit of Cubans everywhere. "In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. [+]His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household - and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution. That childhood, until his world changes, is as joyous and troubled as any other - but with exotic differences. Lizards roam the house and grounds. Fights aren't waged with snowballs but with breadfruit. The rich are outlandishly rich, like the eight-year-old son of a sugar baron who has a real miniature race car, or the neighbor with a private animal garden, complete with tiger. All this is bathed in sunlight and shades of turquoise and tangerine: the island of Cuba, says one of the stern monks at Carlos's school, might have been the original Paradise - and it is tempting to believe. His father is a municipal judge and an obsessive collector of art and antiques, convinced that in a past life he was Louis XVI and that his wife was Marie Antoinette. His mother looks to the future; conceived on a transatlantic liner bound for Cuba from Spain, she wants her children to be modern, which means embracing all things American. His older brother electrocutes lizards. Surrounded by eccentrics, in a home crammed with portraits of Jesus that speak to him in dreams and nightmares, Carlos searches for secret proofs of the existence of God. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, Waiting for Snow in Havana is an both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died - and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn. ".
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 940.548144
List Price: $20.99
Price: $20.99
Review A Tale of Two Countries: / Xlibris Corporation:A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES is the story of a young French girl, Raymonde Kenyon, who was born and lived in France during the supercharged events of WWII. Her second country is the United States, where she married a US. Army officer and has lived an eventful second life.
Publication date: 2007-11-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $69.99
Price: $69.99
Review Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $90.99
Price: $69.56
Review The Boys' Life of Mark Twain / IndyPublish.com:The Preface reads: "This is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, rearedalmost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-dayhave no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attainhonorary degrees from the greatest universities of America and Europe; tobe sought by statesmen and kings; to be loved and honored by all men inall lands, and mourned by them when he died. It is the story of one ofthe world's very great men-the story of Mark Twain. " It was at the mature age of nine that he found he could endure this no longer. One day when the big packet came down and stopped at Hannibal, he slipped aboard and crept under one of the boats on the upper deck. Then the signal-bells rang, the steamer backed away and swung into midstream; he was really going at last. He crept from beneath the boat and sat looking out over the water and enjoying the scenery. Then it began to rain.
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.99
Price: $32.99
Review Carefree on a Tether / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $30.99
Review See Tommy Run: Life on Polio Hill / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Saint Hedwig and Me / Allegro Press:
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The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction), A Backward Glance, Diary of a Preacher's Daughter, They Call Me the Hug Machine: John's Story, An Ordinary Life, A New England Girlhood, German Boy: A Child in War, The Ghost of Makara: Growing Up Down-Under in a Lost World of Yesteryears, Too Close to the Falls, The Adventures of Childhood, Gisela: From Hell To Heaven, The Road to Nab End, Out of India (Isis Nonfiction), Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, A Tale of Two Countries:, Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain, Carefree on a Tether, See Tommy Run: Life on Polio Hill, Saint Hedwig and MeTop headlines: 2007 Tokyo Motor Show: Cars Makers Should Greenlight: The concept cars that we think should become production models. ›07:00 31 Oct, Wed Video: Wrapping up RNC, GOP ticket hits the road: Sept. 5: Sen. John McCain began the final 60 days of the race to the White House in Wisconsin, finishing his day in Michigan. 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