| ||||
 The Glass Castle: A MemoirBest Price: $4.94 I read this book very quickly. The writing is very simple, and the story is compelling. I... |  Hope's Boy: A MemoirBest Price: $12.89 I had heard about this book in People magazine. I also noted that it was recently a best... |  The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a FamilyBest Price: $2.85 I purchased this book for my girlfrind, and she loved it! The compelling story of this little... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $8.16 My primary motivation for buying this book is that I, like the author, grew up in Des Moines in... |  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great DepressionBest Price: $12.81 Little Heathens is a near anthropological survey of life on a small family farm in Iowa during... |
 Persepolis: The Story of a ChildhoodBest Price: $6.15 Please take the time to read this striking memoir and its sequel, Persepolis 2. The language is... |  Running with Scissors: A MemoirBest Price: $3.00 Do not be misled. This book is not funny. This book was recommended because I like David... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $7.45 Don't buy it unless you were born in Iowa in the 50s and 60s. Otherwise, you won't understand a... |  Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodBest Price: $2.83 I found this in audio at an audio rental store. The front intrigued me so I read the back and... |  A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)Best Price: $2.22 This is the story of Zippy, an imaginative, precocious girl who grew up in the small town of... |
 A Tale of Love and DarknessBest Price: $4.14 This is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and... |  Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up In PolygamyBest Price: $8.90 This is the second book I have read about polygamy. This is completely foreign to my Protestant... |  The Florist's DaughterBest Price: $11.86 With great reviews and glowing praise from a piece on MPR our bookclub thought this would be an... |  First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)Best Price: $4.99 I read all but a couple chapters of this book on a flight across the US. It is easy reading and... |  Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational StoryBest Price: $0.91 This was one of my favorite books. I was one of these kids in school that was terribley picked... |
 Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage)Best Price: $8.30 Madhur Jaffrey is a personal favorite - I loved her reading of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance... |  Black Baby White Hands: A View from the CribBest Price: $10.51 Honestly, I only made it half way through the book before I could not stand it anymore. ... |  Waiting for Snow in Havana: Philadelphia Selection:book 1Best Price: $11.20 30 of 33 people found the following review helpful: Waiting for Snow in Havana-Well Worth the... |  All Souls: A Family Story from SouthieBest Price: $4.49 I usually try to read all books that I get a hold of that are memoir..but this one I read about... |  When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer RougeBest Price: $8.44 After reading this I somehow felt changed. Written so well that you feel her emotions immensely... |
 Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North DakotaBest Price: $5.93 Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman **** Fargo Rock City in a nutshell is the history of... |  Hypocrite in a Pouffy White DressBest Price: $2.54 It took me three attempts to get past the first twenty pages. Once I was into the heart of the... |  Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical BoyhoodBest Price: $6.00 The relationship between uncle and nephew is the most precious. Why? Because nephews confide in... |  There's a Boy in HereBest Price: $12.13 I found this book very helpful. I could really relate to Judy's situation and saw many facets... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $17.25 As always, Bryson is informative (the Thunderbolt Kid is really an excellent history of the... |
 Too Close to the FallsBest Price: $6.16 I found the book to be excellent. I am from the area and as I read I found myself at the... |  Daddy's Apprentice: Incest, Corruption, and Betrayal-A Survivor's StoryBest Price: $6.37 Though meaning well, this book couldn't keep me wanting more. The story is riddled with poor... |  Yes MotherBest Price: $3.93 This book was not well written. It jumped back & forth through time in a disjointed,... | Daddy's Apprentice: Incest, Corruption, and Betrayal-A Survivor's Story Best Price: $6.37 Though meaning well, this book couldn't keep me wanting more. The story is riddled with poor... | Yes Mother Best Price: $3.93 This book was not well written. It jumped back & forth through time in a disjointed,... |
 The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's StoryBest Price: $1.37 The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer,is about Dave Pelzer's life as a teenager.Dave tells in... |  Colors of the MountainBest Price: $4.08 This review refers to the abridged audio version of this book -- UGH. I am fascinated with... |  Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in ChaosBest Price: $5.39 Feather in the Storm is a heart-wrenching and deeply moving story of a childhood lost in the... |  Not Even My Name: A True StoryBest Price: $8.36 This poignant memoir written in such astonishing detail is an unforgettable story that will... |  Bad Girl: Confessions of a Teenage DelinquentBest Price: $5.45 Just because Vona dabbled in drugs or other "bad" things as a teen, she's labeled a... |
 Paper Daughter: A MemoirBest Price: $3.95 Although much of the focus of Elaine Mar's memoir could be written by anyone who experienced... |  In the BloodBest Price: $16.34 William Faulkner's character Quentin in The Sound and the Fury repeatedly observes that... |  Where Rivers Change DirectionBest Price: $2.49 These are two feelings I got from reading this memoir. Life in NW Wyoming is not easy. Days... |  Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian BoyhoodBest Price: $2.99 Notes from the Hyena's Belly is a memoir that often reads like a novel. It depicts Nega's... |  Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and HopeBest Price: $14.88 What a suvivor. Wayne Theodore I appreciate this book. There are so many adults suffering today... |
 Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn ChinaBest Price: $11.47 Between 1938 and 1941, approximately 18,000 to 20,000 Jews found a safe haven from Hitler's... |  Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with StrangersBest Price: $3.00 Mary Cantwell's Manhattan Memoir is three books in one but you will never tell the difference. ... |  Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to IraqBest Price: $6.95 This is a compilation of war diaries from young people, about 12-20 years old, in wars from WWI... |  Somebody's Someone: A MemoirBest Price: $4.50 The story of such an intelligent, creative, insightful, imaginative girl and the obstacles she... |  The Coalwood WayBest Price: $3.95 Dr. Werner von Braun once said, "Matters of faith are not really accessible to our rational... |
 Tiny TitanBest Price: $11.45 The Mom's Choice Awards? honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An... |  The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere: a MemoirBest Price: $6.95 Like most of the other reviewers, I simply loved this book. The author has a wonderful sense of... |  Firebird: A MemoirBest Price: $7.47 I read (and met) Mark Doty while I was in college. On the grass at Sarah Lawrence, I memorized... |  The Unwanted: A Memoir of ChildhoodBest Price: $5.17 I realize there are tons of people out there who will disagree or not get what I am trying to... |  The Twelve Little CakesBest Price: $1.42 I will hold my thumbs for the sequel to Twelve Little Cakes, but with talent such as this, the... |
 A Bag of MarblesBest Price: $10.45 A bag of marbles was pretty good. If you are looking for an educational book about wwII and want... |  My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne FrankBest Price: $14.84 Jacqueline van Maarsen is a contemporary of Anne Frank, and only in recent years has begun... |  An Hour Before DaylightBest Price: $2.99 This is a very enjoyable book. I love to read about the true South. Jimmy Carter is a... |  Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A MemoirBest Price: $0.88 Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter is a powerful and poignant story of impoverished life as... |  Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried PastBest Price: $86.84 This was an amazing book. I am always interested in books about Jews who convert or who move... |
See also for Family & Childhood Books