Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $28.45
Price: $28.44
Review One Dog Man / Lundberg Press:n AHMAD KAMAL Random House New Tork COF fcl6inVI950, BY AHMAD KAMAL f First Printing ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC. , AND SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TORONTO, CANADA, BY RANDOM HOUSE OF CANADA, LIMITED MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY KINGSPORT PRESS, INC. , KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE A. B. Tura, this is for you MY NEWBORN DAUGHTER. GROW IN THE IMAGE OF AMINA, YOUR MOTHER. BECOME EQUALLY DESIRABLE AND MAKE SOMEONE, SOMEDAY, EQUALLY BLESSED. CONTENTS PAGE 1. [+]Half-Pound Pup 3 2. Soap. 8 3. Wipazhazha. 5 4. Adding Machines. 9 3. Spring. 35 6. Paderewski. 36 7. The Saturday Evening Post. 52 8. Money. 70 9. Crime Wave. 80 10. Drat. 89 11. Randolph 106 12. Beauty and the Beast. 137 13. The End of Youth 162 14. Desperation. 183 15. Runaway. 188 16. Love 06 17. For Ever and Ever, Amen. 08 vii ONE-DOG MAN Jfalf-Pouncf Pup JUST the other day a friend gave us a pup a runt with short legs and champion ancestors and more courage than sense. He wasnt short on sense - just long on courage. I wasnt home when he arrived. He met me. The front door was open. I stopped the car and got out. A square pup staggered out of the house and sneered at me. I put a foot on the grass and he fell off the steps and started for me, hair erect all down his spine, ears laid back a half pound of dog in a towering rage. The half-pound had gotten hold of my trouser cuff and was knocking himself out trying to rip it off when Amina came out. Shes a pretty girl. Weve been married going on nine years. She laughed. I asked her. Whose is he Ours. 3 ONE-DOG MAN Ours I asked. How come Whered we get him Oswald and Oxana brought him over. Theyd promised me a pup from the next litter. There he is. Hell grow He was still fighting my trouser cuff. It was his grass he defended. I bent down, put one hand under him, disen gaged his teeth with the other, and picked him up. He used his milk teeth on my finger. The finger didnt come off and it didnt fight back. The pup stopped struggling and took a look at me. We studied each other while I went on into the house. His hair rose as I kissed Amina. I sat down and put him in front of me on my knee. He squared off, took a long sidewise look at me, sneered, and charged. He charged over my leg, across my lap, and up the front of me. Then, unable to advance farther, he lunged at my necktie. Dan gling, he uttered horrid little roars and shook like fury. I couldnt help but like him, square body and all. In the next couple of days we saw a lot of each other. He got so that he let me alone and charged others. He charged the neighbors cat. She didnt take him seriously but she walloped him across the nose, just to give him a taste of what she could do. He stopped, backed away, sat down, groaned, licked the blood off his nose, and attacked again. The cat hit him again, harder, arching, outraged. Amina yelled to get him before the cat killed him, or blinded him, or something He fought through and got her by the leg. Furious, she.
Authors
- Nicholas J. Besker
- Nicholas Besker
Publication date: 2000-01-17
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
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Review Beerinsky / Xlibris Corporation:The memoirs of how one orphan boy called a Beerinsky (the bedwetters) survived in the cruel child abuser orphanage run by overworked, sometimes sadistic disciplinary nuns. He survived without love, compassion, encouragement or individual attention. This was the practice during the world-wide TB/Flu epidemic. Other than shelter, food and clothing, the aim of the nuns was extreme discipline, thus effectively destroying all self esteem of the 200 boys in the institution.
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $30.99
Review State Kid / Xlibris Corporation:
Creator: E. M. Nathanson
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-11-02
Dewey code: 362.732
List Price: $34.99
Price: $34.99
Review Deja Views of an Aging Orphan / Xlibris Corporation:DEJA VIEWS OF AN AGING ORPHAN is distinctive, if not unique, in its views and experiences of still alive HNOH alumni and its use of a variety of literary styles including the memoir, the essay, news articles, poems, history, short story and letters. Many provide first-person accounts of growing up in an orphanage in the 1920s and 30s and it is this first-person recounting that breaks new ground and casts new light on the subject of child-care -of such importance to society and its social policy-making.
Publication date: 2003-02-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.45
Price: $28.67
Review Out of Egypt: A Boyhood in Small Town America Before and During World War II / 1st Books Library:A humorous look at a boy's growing up experiences in small town and rural America during the 1930's and 40's. His problems are cast against the profound changes in American society brought by the Great Depression and World War II.
Publication date: 2007-07-23
List Price: $27.99
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Review Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree / Tate Outloud:Within the candor and innocence of a child's mind emerges an extraordinary true story-Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree. It's 1965, and Annie Peters is just eight-years-old when her mother is committed full-time to a mental health institution. Uprooted by their mother's illness, Annie and her siblings find themselves torn between a Catholic-run orphanage and the final remnants of their shattered home. But nothing could have prepared the nuns of St. Vincent's Home for five vivacious Peters children, whose adolescence comes to mirror a much larger upheaval between the evolving Catholic institutions of the sixties and a burgeoning American pop culture. Vividly portrayed from an outspoken, often comical perspective, Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree celebrates an unusual coming of age story with a nostalgic look back at a bittersweet time in American history, and the frayed but unbroken ties of enduring family love.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-01-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review Lost and Found in Budapest (1936-1937) / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Phyllis, Jane Dunn Barnes
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $28.95
Price: $22.90
Review Black Diamonds: A Child's Joy & Loss: The Val and Sudie Dunn Family / AuthorHouse:Black Diamonds is a series of vignettes depicting moments from the author's childhood in a coal mining town in Eastern Kentucky and her adolescence during the war years in Louisville. Barnes' rich memories breathe life into the time and place of her past, and she connects it to the here and now as she traces her journey into adulthood. As much a coming of age story as a retrospective, Black Diamonds brings a uniquely real and personal perspective to the difficulties of rural and city life in the 30s and 40s. Through all the successes and tragedies Barnes' account recalls, the love and devotion of family to emerge as the real reward to both author and reader.
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.50
Price: $32.50
Review The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent (Reminiscence) / ISIS Large Print Books:
Creator: Patricia D. Beaver
Publication date: 2003-03-11
Dewey code: 976.926043092
List Price: $45.00
Price: $45.00
Review Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia: the Cratis Williams Chronicles. (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 8) / McFarland & Company:Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a log cabin on Caines Creek, Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1911. To use his own terms, he was "a complete mountaineer. " This book is an edited compilation of Williams’ memoirs of his childhood. These autobiographical reminiscences often take the form of a folktale, with individual titles such as "Preacher Lang Gets Drunk" and "The Double Murder at Sledges. " Schooled initially in traditional stories and ballads, he learned to read by the light of his grandfather’s whiskey still and excelled at the local one-room school. After becoming the first person from Caines Creek to attend and graduate from the county high school in Louisa, he taught in one-room schools while pursuing his own education. He earned both a BA and MA from the University of Kentucky before moving to Appalachian State Teacher’s College in 1942; later he earned a Ph. D. from New York University and then returned to Appalachian State.
Authors
- Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis
- Barbara Pollak
Publication date: 2001-01-27
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.99
Price: $28.93
Review Pocket Stones: A Child's Story of World War II in the Philippines / Xlibris Corporation:This is a true story of childhood in the Philippines during World War II, told by a child of an interracial marriage. Despite family responsibilities "Pooh" has freedom to roam, with adventures both humorous and serious, as she struggles with right and wrong, joy and sadness, obedience and rebellion.
Publication date: 2006-11
List Price: $27.99
Price: $27.99
Review The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 940.53161
List Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00
Review German Boy: A Child in War / Topeka Bindery:As the third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans fled the advancing Russians troops. Among them, a little boy and his family found themselves in war-torn Strasbourg before being forced into a disease-ridden refugee camp. The true story of their fight for survival, this book documents the young Wolfgang Samuel's harsh and terrifying experiences as, for reasons he is too young to understand, he encounters arbitary arrest, rape, hunger and constant fear. With the resilience only children can muster, Wolfgang maintained his youth and innocence in little ways - befriending other little refugees, playing with shrapnel, and delighting in the planes flown by Americans. Bringing fresh insight to the dark history of Nazi Germany and the horror left in its wake, this book offers a recollection of an innocent's incredible journey.
Creator: Karen Lindquist
Publication date: 1983-09-01
Price: $6.95
Review Meeting the Four O'Clock Train and Other Stories: Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, Arizona 1909-1927 / Sharlot Hall Museum Press:This richly illustrated book recounts the childhood years of Fagerberg in the central Arizona town of Prescott. Recounting the people, places, and activities of a small community in the West, his stories bring to life the day-to-day activities of school, social events, fads, commerce, and travel during the early part of the twentieth century. The book contains historical photographs, illustrations, maps, and indices.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 817
List Price: $30.99
Price: $30.74
Review The Grandmother Stories / Xlibris Corporation:"THE GRANDMOTHER STORIES" is a collection of memories and remembrances of growing up in Oregon in the 1950's. Life was simpler then; the radio was still a source of exciting entertainment, and television was just a mysterious dream.
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 973.91092
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review Mesquite Creek to Michigan: Around the World in Wartime / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2007-12-27
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $30.99
Price: $27.05
Review Two Tours: Two Years in Vietnam Revisited Through Letters Home / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.98
Review Grandma Ann / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Robert Armstead
- S. L. Gardner
Dewey code: 622.334092
List Price: $35.00
Price: $28.90
Review Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner / University of Tennessee Press:
Publication date: 2003-01-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.45
Price: $28.99
Review Through Hell and Beyond in a Boxcar / 1st Books Library:
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One Dog Man, Beerinsky, State Kid, Deja Views of an Aging Orphan, Out of Egypt: A Boyhood in Small Town America Before and During World War II, Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree, Lost and Found in Budapest (1936-1937), Black Diamonds: A Child's Joy & Loss: The Val and Sudie Dunn Family, The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent (Reminiscence), Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia: the Cratis Williams Chronicles. (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 8), Pocket Stones: A Child's Story of World War II in the Philippines, The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction), German Boy: A Child in War, Meeting the Four O'Clock Train and Other Stories: Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, Arizona 1909-1927, The Grandmother Stories, Mesquite Creek to Michigan: Around the World in Wartime, Two Tours: Two Years in Vietnam Revisited Through Letters Home, Grandma Ann, Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal Miner, Through Hell and Beyond in a BoxcarTop headlines: Drugs: Meet Mexicos Suspected Queenpin: Sexy, stylish and female. 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