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 The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow SouthBest Price: $3.00 What a riveting story of an era that I, too, was born into but on the other side of the fence... |  Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A MemoirBest Price: $6.00 I grew up in neighboring Illinois not far from `Pig Boy'. So, in reading this lovely memoir I... |  The Next Better Place: A Father and Son on the RoadBest Price: $1.45 This is a wonderful book. "A road trip with an alcoholic father and a child? Must be a... |  Clear Springs: A Family StoryBest Price: $1.85 I'd never read any of Bobbie Ann Mason's work before reading Clear Springs for a book club. I... |  The Silent Stars Go By: A True Christmas StoryBest Price: $24.70 "The Silent Stars Go By" is a Christmas story we all wish we could tell, but don't... |
 Odyssey of a Romanian Street ChildBest Price: $8.23 I got involved working with older orphans in Romania back in 2000. I came across this wonderful... |  Journey to a New Land: An Oral HistoryBest Price: $10.34 What a wonderful family history to share with our children and grandchildren! My husband came... |  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... |  My Brother's VoiceBest Price: $12.96 What a great read! Mr. Nasser's incredible and heart-wrenching experiences during the Holocaust... |  The Assault of LaughterBest Price: $12.99 Melissa Hart takes us along for the ride as she and her siblings cope with having her mother... |
 Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit: A Culinary MemoirBest Price: $7.65 The more acquainted you are with the food rituals of West Indians (and Bajans in particular),... |  A Child's Christmas in WalesBest Price: $2.00 A Child's Christmas In Wales CD: And Five Poems Hurrah! Now I won't have to wait for the radio... |  Dining at the Lineman's ShackBest Price: $36.00 The cookbook as memoir probably began in 1959, when Alice B. Toklas' collection of recipes... |  Displaced Person: A Girl's Life in Russia, Germany, And AmericaBest Price: $12.33 Ella writes what she remembers about her childhood and gives us a chance to understand what life... |  Are You Happy?: A Childhood RememberedBest Price: $0.36 Emily Fox Gordon may well become known as The Great American Memoirist for ARE YOU HAPPY? A... |
 The Secret Life of a SchoolgirlBest Price: $0.01 This memoir kept me interested the whole time I was reading (and when I was not reading it) |  Missing Pieces: My Life As a Child Survivor of the Holocaust (Legacies Shared)Best Price: $12.02 |  Botchki: When Doomsday Was Still TomorrowBest Price: $3.98 David Zagier wrote this book over a period of sixty years. It was first drafted in the thirties... |  Scuffletown: Adventures of a Boy Growing up In the Rural SouthBest Price: $19.90 A.T. Hope grew up in another world where there were no video games or cable television, no... |  Hard Candy: Nobody Ever Flies Over The Cuckoo's NestBest Price: $22.53 Carroll's book is hard to put down once you start reading it. I was shocked at how easily... |
 Half the HouseBest Price: $8.00 This book seems slightly shrouded by its sensational elements. 'Boy has troubled life - is... |  Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling GirlBest Price: $1.37 I usually only review books that I absolutely love- but in this case I wanted to read this tome... |  Love from BlodwenBest Price: $15.94 This is a wonderful book, Margaret Wyles spins the magical tale of her childhood set in rural... |  Girl Walks into a Bar: A MemoirBest Price: $1.00 Dude, this book is pretty awful. I know that sounds really...not nice? But it's not nice that... |  Becoming Ann: A Baltimore ChildhoodThis is a basic biography of the author, Ann Hennessy. Of course as with all biographies of... |
 Anna Plus Tales from a Town Called WellsBest Price: $12.47 Somehow Anna captures that peculiar feeling of knowing that your hometown is special and unique.... |  Childhood to Womanhood: A Memoir--Seattle and Juneau, with Stops along the WayBest Price: $14.95 Childhood To Womanhood" is an Autobiographical Memoir about a young girl growing up in... |  A Child's Christmas in BrooklynBest Price: $5.00 Reading this beautifully packaged book will give you a Proustian experience. Regardless of your... |  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... |  Looks Like HowardBest Price: $8.06 One of the best and most entertaining reads I've had in quite some time. Sure, it was... |
 Black Days, Black Dust: The Memories of an African American Coal MinerBest Price: $8.95 One of the joys of life is the opportunity to have a conversation with someone whose life... |  East of the ChesapeakeBest Price: $3.98 East of the Chesapeake continues the themes and story lines of Chesapeake Boyhood, William... |  A Bag of MarblesBest Price: $11.31 A bag of marbles was pretty good. If you are looking for an educational book about wwII and want... |  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... |  Meyebela: My Bengali GirlhoodBest Price: $12.48 I'll be brief since one reviewer elucidated my points quite well. There's no doubt that Taslima... |
 Chewing Gum in Holy Water: A Childhood in the Heart of ItalyBest Price: $3.77 One of the most enjoyable books I have read in quite a while. I loved it |  Up on the RimA man's memory of his boyhood days on a homestead in central Montana told so well it will leave... |  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... |  The Coterian Retreat: Growing Up in Hamilton, OhioBest Price: $12.98 This is an easy to read, very real autobiographical story -- a "memoir" -- of an... |  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... |
 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... |  The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A MemoirBest Price: $5.03 This is a nicely written book, a beautiful memior of chilhood on a farm. It starts slowly but by... |  As I Walked Out One Midsummer MorningBest Price: $48.77 Along with Laurie Lee's other prose, among the most lyrical and magical travel memoirs, with... |  She's All Eyes: Memoirs of an Irish-American Daughter (Reading Group Guides)Best Price: $3.30 I found this memoir to be very moving. The last 1/2 to 1/4 of the book I read without stopping.... |  The Last Marlin: The Story of a Father and SonBest Price: $14.60 As an ardent sport fisherman, I did not expect to find the great read that I did when I picked... |
 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... |  The Territory of Men: A MemoirBest Price: $0.99 Joelle Fraser writes a very honest, sweet memoir that is a pleasant change from the usual brag... |  The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire ChildhoodBest Price: $19.90 One thing that poverty didn't diminish is Woodruff's powers of recall. Though, as soon as he... |  Falling Leaves: 2Best Price: $131.85 Although there are hundreds of reviews, I had to review this book because it had such an impact... |  First and Last Seasons: A Father, A Son, and Sunday Afternoon FootballBest Price: $3.74 While I applaud the author's honesty, I am saddened by his unnwillingness to grow and change... |
 Voice of an Angel : My Life (So Far)Best Price: $0.01 Charlotte Church can sing. what she Can't do is write. in fact I'm not all that sure she wrote... |  BroadmoorBest Price: $14.95 Home? Why must there be a place called Home? Why is there, somewhere in each human soul, a void... |  Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's MemoirBest Price: $6.99 This has been one of the few excellent books i have ever read. It is actually real, it really... |  Dear Medora: Child of Oysterville's Forgotten YearsBest Price: $5.00 If you have a bibliophile or a Washington State history buff on your Yuletide shopping list or... |  Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an OptimistBest Price: $15.98 Finding My Way: The Autobiography Of An Optimist is the self-told life story of Evelyn... |
 As It Was: Sin Mar a Bha : A Ulva BoyhoodThis slim volume is a pleasant history of Ulva, off the coast of Mull, and the memories of... |  Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious PassionsBest Price: $8.25 Once, jazz was a real and pervasive presence in Boston and in the dim and scruffy clubs of the... |  Storkbites: A MemoirMarie Etienne's Storkbites about her childhood growing up in a loving, yet verbally and... | ||
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