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 The Fourteenth YearBest Price: $11.23 "The Fourteenth Year" is an inspiring book that will touch your heart. As you read the... |  Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair with The Bay City RollersBest Price: $1.90 Another book I could not put down and went through in a few readings. Great stories. Really... |  Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot TreeBest Price: $7.96 I loved this book. While it told Annie's tale it also brought back many of my own childhood... |  Through the Burning Steppe: A Wartime MemoirBest Price: $3.45 This is a wonderful piece of writing. It is is written in clear and sparkling prose, testimony... |  Auntie Anne's: My StoryBest Price: $2.23 A storybook biography which spotlights the life of an Amish-Mennonite girl who later becomes the... |
 Ultimate Judgment : A Story of Emotional Corruption, Obsession and BetrayalBest Price: $10.00 Ms. Clairmonte is a severely disturbed woman, who, when she found out she had been left out of... |  Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town (Ohio History and Culture)Best Price: $1.70 As a former rubber worker who also grew up in the shadow of Harvey Firestone, I found the book... |  The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir (Bluestreak)Best Price: $8.90 Most of this book is thoroughly engrossing. It is a memory, pure and simple. No attempt to... |  Memoirs of Childhood and YouthBest Price: $11.95 Eloquently written, this small book is packed with stories and wisdoms that shaped this great... |  G.I. Joe & Lillie: Remembering a Life of Love and LoyaltyBest Price: $0.75 This book was more than I expected. Joe Bonsall's biography of his parents was beyond what I... |
 South to a Very Old PlaceBest Price: $8.55 If Langston Huges is the poet laureate of Jazz, then Albert Murray is its scribe. Murray's... |  From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside QueensBest Price: $0.75 This is a great book that shows the life of 50 (Curtis Jackson). It was written in a manner that... |  Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime YouthBest Price: $4.98 I first heard of Victor Brombert as a lecturer on Flaubert, Tolstoy, Sartre, Woolf, Conrad and... |  Now, When I Was a Kid . . .: Nostalgic Ramblings byBest Price: $14.34 Now, When I Was A Kid... is the personal and nostalgic autobiography of Dan McGuire's growing up... |  Once upon a FarmBest Price: $12.00 If you grew up on or currently live on a farm this is an interesting read. Even if a farm life... |
 The Price We Paid: A Life Experience in the Khmer Rouge Regime, CambodiaBest Price: $13.09 April 17, 1975?the Communist Khmer Rouge Regime seized power and forced Cambodians of all ages... |  The Stardust Lounge: Stories from a Boy's AdolescenceBest Price: $4.99 This book was difficult to put down. I enjoyed the story. For that reason I gave it 5 stars. ... |  First Words: A Childhood in Fascist ItalyBest Price: $31.41 Rosetta Loy's memoir of life in Italy during WWII, FIRST WORDS, traces a little girl's awakening... |  Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American FamilyBest Price: $5.00 I usually do not put aside a book before finishing it. In this case, I got about a third of the... |  The Book of Sarahs: A Family in PartsBest Price: $0.32 This book touched me to the core! Catherine's story is searingly honest, human, passionate and... |
 Memoirs of a 1000-Year-Old Woman: Berlin 1925 to 1945Best Price: $18.50 Memoirs of a 1000 Year Old Woman is a book that should be read by everyone. It details everyday... |  Vertigo: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)Best Price: $3.50 I found this memoir in one of my favorite bookstores and thought it would be good. The copy I... |  Redemption of the Shattered: A Teenager's Healing Journey Through Sandtray TherapyBest Price: $7.16 When was the last time you took a stroll along the beach at dawn, while there were very few... |  Half the HouseBest Price: $8.00 This book seems slightly shrouded by its sensational elements. 'Boy has troubled life - is... |  In the BloodBest Price: $12.39 William Faulkner's character Quentin in The Sound and the Fury repeatedly observes that... |
 The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the WarBest Price: $1.16 I was hooked from line one of this book. Hynes' simple and direct style of writing quickly... |  East of the ChesapeakeBest Price: $3.98 East of the Chesapeake continues the themes and story lines of Chesapeake Boyhood, William... |  Wonderful Passaic: Memories and RecollectionsBest Price: $6.84 The book provided an interesting picture that reminded me of the town I knew, but the... |  Hard CandyBest Price: $6.00 Carroll's book is hard to put down once you start reading it. I was shocked at how easily... |  A Bag of MarblesBest Price: $11.25 A bag of marbles was pretty good. If you are looking for an educational book about wwII and want... |
 An Open Book: Coming of Age in the HeartlandBest Price: $10.98 I read this book a year or two ago, but remembered it again recently while reading Wendy... |  Hooligan: A Mormon BoyhoodBest Price: $8.92 This is a fun book that talks about life in small-city Utah in the 1910s and 1920s. This author... |  Of Men and MountainsBest Price: $4.75 Author: Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898- Title: Of men and mountains. ... |  My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin KingBest Price: $16.92 I'll keep this short: My Bloody Life was not a very thoughtful book. I don't want to disparage... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $23.42 From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic... |
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 The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A MemoirBest Price: $2.98 Keith Fleming is a pretty good storyteller. He really makes you picture the times, places and... |  Surviving Babylon: A Journey Through Repressed Memories of Sexual AbuseBest Price: $11.95 BE CAREFUL OF REPRESSED MEMORY THERAPY OF ANY KIND!!!! IT CAN CREATE FALSE MEMORIES AND RUIN... |  When Katie Wakes: A MemoirBest Price: $1.92 What a brave woman this author is. She bears her soul for all to read. Her heart wrenching... |  Appalachian Mountain GirlBest Price: $7.12 I couldn't put this book down. Very well written personal stories and vignettes. The author's... |  Of Men and Mountains: The Classic Memoir of Wilderness AdventureBest Price: $39.95 This book is a wonderful and gentle journey of one man who loved to be in the mountains! As an... |
 The Boyhood Memoirs of A. E. Hotchner: King of the Hill and Looking for MiraclesBest Price: $12.29 King of the Hill is A. E. Hotchner's memoir of his impoverished childhood in St. Louis,... |  Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in AmericaBest Price: $0.29 This is the story of a young man raised in the quiet reflection of a Zen monastery, but thrown... |  Facing The Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi EuropeBest Price: $250.00 I deducted one star because she uses Roman Catholic religious terminology that I wasn't familiar... |  44: Dublin Made MeBest Price: $1.45 When I bought 44: Dublin Made Me, it was primarily because my mother had been born on the same... |  A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by HBest Price: $2.00 This book works on many levels: 1. OK, if you just want a good read, Clancy tells the story of... |
 Orphan: A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse, and RedemptionBest Price: $7.63 I must have said "Oh my Goodness" or it's equivalent at least 10 times throughout this... |  Looks Like HowardBest Price: $8.06 One of the best and most entertaining reads I've had in quite some time. Sure, it was... |  The Body of Brooklyn (Sightline Books)Best Price: $2.99 This is a truly wonderful and unique book. Lazar's voice--conversational but concentrated,... |  Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's MemoirBest Price: $3.87 This has been one of the few excellent books i have ever read. It is actually real, it really... |  Falling Leaves: 2Best Price: $129.18 Although there are hundreds of reviews, I had to review this book because it had such an impact... |
 Don't Throw the Bread: A Young Girl's Journey During World War IIBest Price: $5.91 I found this warm, down to earth story about an eleven-day period during WWII easy reading.... |  Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)Best Price: $7.50 Nearly everyone who has some decent experiance with chess has heard about Bobby Fischer and his... |  A Daughter of the SamuraiBest Price: $25.46 A great book if you are interested in old Japanese ways. Well written, but not hard to... | ||
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