Family & Childhood Books


Pa Pa, Where Are You? Best Price: $21.75 Konstantin spent his youth dodging bullets and being forced to watch exectutions on his way to...	Change Me into Zeus's Daughter Best Price: $3.95 Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter by Barbara Robinette Moss I loved this book. It seems...	The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Alex Awards (Awards)) Best Price: $8.87 Nothing bonds a family like a dark secret, but imagine a New York socialite and gossip columnist...	Forever Alien: A Korean Memoir, 1930-1951 Best Price: $37.50 Korean native Sunny Che spent most of her early childhood in Japan, where she and her family...	Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai'i Best Price: $0.01 Susanna Moore paints mesmerizing pictures with words. She begins her memoir with "No memory...



The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir Best Price: $0.01 Against the backdrop of the lives of three generations of Kasmiri women, Sudah Koul weaves a...	Displaced Person: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, and America Best Price: $11.75 Ella writes what she remembers about her childhood and gives us a chance to understand what life...	Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy Best Price: $13.66 First begun in 1962 as a 12th grade classroom assignment to pen the author's life story,...	Westhope: Life as a Former Farm Boy Best Price: $12.44 No, not the first time for that? Seems this book has no reviews, yet. This book tells the story...	Child of War: A Memoir of World War II Internment in the Philippines Best Price: $44.17



German Boy: A Child in War Best Price: $8.88 "The German Boy." A book by Wolfgang Samuel. As a 12 year as boy, I also...	Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose Best Price: $10.78 Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when...	Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed America in 1964 Best Price: $0.20 Mary Winstead does a brilliant job depicting the conflicts that grow within everyones soul...	Living Root: A Memoir (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) Best Price: $20.06 In this literary memoir, poet and essayist Michael Heller interweaves family and personal...	Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir Best Price: $8.45 Writer Mindy Schneider was 13 once, and she remembers it with photographic precision and pungent...

Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir Best Price: $4.75 This is an hilarious memoir of an adolescent's first summer at sleep-away camp. If you...	Ghostbread (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction) Best Price: $15.99 I'm not given to 5 star ratings easily. They have to be earned and this young author, Sonja...	Possum Hollow, Book 2 Best Price: $6.00 This book is now out of print from Herald Press.	A Daughter of the Samurai Best Price: $338.79 The rating of 4 stars is due to the fact that I have not finished reading the book. My sister...	Miracle at Sea

The Reality of a Fantasy CD Best Price: $22.76 This is the spoken word from the book with the same title. I liked the book, so of course, I...	2943: An Immigrant Girl's Childhood in St. Louis Best Price: $15.95 Great book. Paints such a vivid picture of her childhood. It helped me to relate to how life...	The Farmer's Wife Pony Club Sampler Quilt: Letters From the Lucky Pony Winners of 1915 and 90 Blocks That Tell Their Stories Best Price: $26.94 Introduction In the early 1900s the Webb Publishing Company created The Farmer's Wife ...	The Making of a Patriot: France 1926-45 Best Price: $27.00 Mr. Leprince is a proud Frenchman who has lived in the United States for over 40 years. His...	The Making of a Patriot: France, 1926-1945 Best Price: $16.73 From start to finish, this personal memoir of a young man, coming of age during World War II...

Gisela: From Hell to Heaven Best Price: $25.95	Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger Best Price: $8.99	The Secret Holocaust Diaries Best Price: $33.79 For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos,...	Unnecessary Talking Best Price: $10.65 Poet Mike O'Connor's boyhood home of Montesano, Washington comes alive through the...	The Fourteenth Year Best Price: $10.73 [...] 2007 review by NIcole Merritt Author Kelly Watt gives a personal account of her life...

An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood Best Price: $3.95 I confess it was years into Jimmy Carter's writing career before I found out he was writing...	Toast Best Price: $5.15 Slater awoke in me so many past food feelings from my own childhood not just from his sumptuous...	Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader Best Price: $3.50 On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, ?America has learned a lot about Tony Blair...	Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824 Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial...	Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless I chose this book last year while I had an Audible membership. The narration is superb and the...

A Daughter of the Samurai Best Price: $338.79 The rating of 4 stars is due to the fact that I have not finished reading the book. My sister...	Miracle at Sea	The Reality of a Fantasy CD Best Price: $22.76 This is the spoken word from the book with the same title. I liked the book, so of course, I...	2943: An Immigrant Girl's Childhood in St. Louis Best Price: $15.95 Great book. Paints such a vivid picture of her childhood. It helped me to relate to how life...	The Farmer's Wife Pony Club Sampler Quilt: Letters From the Lucky Pony Winners of 1915 and 90 Blocks That Tell Their Stories Best Price: $26.94 Introduction In the early 1900s the Webb Publishing Company created The Farmer's Wife ...

The Making of a Patriot: France 1926-45 Best Price: $27.00 Mr. Leprince is a proud Frenchman who has lived in the United States for over 40 years. His...	The Making of a Patriot: France, 1926-1945 Best Price: $16.73 From start to finish, this personal memoir of a young man, coming of age during World War II...	Gisela: From Hell to Heaven Best Price: $25.95	Living Crazy Like Fly Best Price: $3.17 Imagine going home from school, walking in your door and fearing for your life. Now, do that...	Noble Street Best Price: $15.76 John Cooper's Noble Street taught me more about America's race and poverty problems than...

Explication : One Adoptee's Experience Not your basic Oprah-like happy reunion of adoptee and birth-family, this book details the very...	Junebug: A Memoir Best Price: $7.97 Junebug, a Memoir , is the story of a plucky little girl growing up in the 30's, 40's...	German Boy: A Child In War (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author recounts his...	Schemer: A Boy Grows Up in Wisconsin (I Could Go on and on: a Librarian Remembers) Best Price: $25.65 Growing up in small-town America. A boy's adventures of growing up in the Wisconsin Village...	Time Has Made A Change in Me Robert David Ward brought together a diverse mix of people whose lives were linked by time and...

A Girl From the Home Best Price: $14.53 A GIRL FROM THE HOME is a remarkable memoir which tells the story of a precocious seven year old...	Golden Boy Best Price: $125.76 Tim Kawakami turns in a decent re-telling of Oscar De la Hoya's rise to boxing fame &...	An Hour Before Daylight : Memories Of A Rural Boyhood Best Price: $39.97 I enjoyed this book tremendously. I am always fascinated to learn of the humble beginnings to...	Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories Of An African American Coal Miner Best Price: $11.00 One of the joys of life is the opportunity to have a conversation with someone whose life...	Return to Dresden Best Price: $35.00 Maria Ritter returns to Germany as an adult, and through the recollections of her early...

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Best Price: $7.74 I read the novel of Into the Arms of Strangers before I saw the documentary of it. Both were...	Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood Best Price: $1.90 "Low Down" has plenty of moments that are tragic, horrifying, horrifyingly funny. A...	Ganbatte: A Nisei's Story Best Price: $26.73	Remember That Ol' Horse? (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) Best Price: $11.33	Dorie and Peggy Best Price: $10.05

Beyond the Yellow Brick Road Best Price: $18.94 Very heart felt true story of a mothers pain and her strength to go on with God in her life. It...	Toast Best Price: $12.76 `toast, the story of a young boy's hunger' is a memoir by noted British culinary writer,...	Go Ask Ogre: Letters from a Deathrock Cutter Best Price: $5.25 Go Ask Ogre is a collection of letters that the author wrote to the front man of the band Skinny...	The Porcelain Sleigh: A Childhood Revisited; Germany 1937-1947 The Porcelain Sleigh is a coming-of-age story of a young German girl in a small town in the...	Coaling Station A

Black Diamonds: A Child's Joy & Loss: The Val and Sudie Dunn Family Best Price: $8.10 Black Diamonds is a series of vignettes depicting moments from the author's childhood in a...	Scared-Y-Cat Best Price: $10.95 My whole family loved this book. It felt like a genuine trip back into the good old days of...	Runaway: Life on the Streets--The Lessons Learned Best Price: $18.12 Every now and then I come across a book that can move mountains. This is such a book. This...	When Grandmamma Was New (The Story of a Virginia Childhood) Best Price: $35.99 The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in...	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Best Price: $64.46 A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but...

Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22 Best Price: $57.13 Like his most famous work, Joseph Heller was a study in contradictions: eccentric, brilliant,...	Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered Best Price: $13.99 While Ruth Kluger's life trajectory shares certain features with other survivor stories, the...	The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood This is a very engaging book and indeed once you start, it is hard to put down. Kien's life...	Return to Dresden Why did the German people tolerate the Nazi madness? Maria Ritter's life is haunted by the...	Silence and Noise A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in...

Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister...	Josephine: A Life of the Empress Best Price: $5.50 In 1804, when Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband, Napoleon, to receive the imperial...	Clear Springs: A Family Story Best Price: $2.90 This is a gorgeous tribute to the author's mother and home state. I picked this up shortly...	Redemption: A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars Best Price: $7.50 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Stacey...	The Language of Baklava: A Memoir Best Price: $8.94 Normally, I wouldn't want to give autobiographical information when writing about someone...

The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story Best Price: $5.95 After reading `A Child Called "It"', `The Lost Boy', and `A Man Named...	Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition) (Dover Chess) Best Price: $8.94 Brady's Profile of a Prodigy should be on the bookshelf of every chessplayer who has more...	Storkbites: A Memoir Best Price: $54.55 Marie Etienne's story of growing up rich in Louisiana, one of 9 children who are each in...	Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 Best Price: $4.97 Julian Padowicz has done a superb job in recounting how his mother managed to get them both out...	Meeting the Four O'Clock Train and Other Stories: Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, Arizona 1909-1927 Best Price: $127.87 This richly illustrated book recounts the childhood years of Fagerberg in the central Arizona...

Cut The Strings: The True Story of a Soul Reclaimed Best Price: $15.71 Here was a man with such pride, a man in his late twenties who could create a beautiful item...	Facing The Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Best Price: $69.00 In just a matter of days, I've completed reading what I consider to be one of the most...	Lancaster, Ohio : What a Town, What a Time! "Lancaster, Ohio -- What a Town, What a Time!" is a sometimes poignant, often funny,...	Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey Out of Revolutionary Russia Best Price: $3.92 This memorable book gives us the memoirs of an 88 year old first time novelist, Nora Lourie...	Child of the Enemy Best Price: $13.95

Sandlot Stories Best Price: $5.70 See the international passion for baseball through the eyes of children who played. With these...	Storkbites: A Memoir Best Price: $4.25 Marie Etienne's Storkbites about her childhood growing up in a loving, yet verbally and...

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