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By: Andrew Bridge
Format: Hardcover
$49.90
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother Hope shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. But as her...
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By: Richard B. Pelzer
Format: Paperback
$31.90
In A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer shocked the world with the horrifying tale of the abuse and neglect he suffered at the hands of his mother and his brother, Richard. Fortunately for Dave, he was removed from the household at 12. Richard was not so lucky....
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By: Sandy Wilson, S. L. Bolton
Format: Paperback
$23.90
Sandy Wilson immerses you in the horrific, true account of her childhood. You travel the labyrinth of incest, crime sprees, and exploitation. Her struggle captures your heart and fuels your outrage. How does Sandy end a decade of her father's psychopathic...
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By: Margaret Gomez
Format: Paperback
$19.90
Imagine small children never having parental supervision or normal food to eat, and being beaten and abused by their own mother. This is the author's true story.
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By: Emily Wu, Larry Engelmann
Format: Paperback
$33.90
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu...
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By: M. Elaine Mar
Format: Paperback
$31.90
Born in Hong Kong to parents who immigrated there from the Toishan region of mainland China, Elaine Mar came to America in 1972, when she was not quite 6. Colorado was quite a shock to a girl who had previously shared a five-room apartment with four other...
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By: Andrew Motion
Format: Hardcover
$53.90
William Faulkner's character Quentin in The Sound and the Fury repeatedly observes that "temporary" is "the saddest word of all." Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even grief, reverberate at the heart...
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By: Stephen Nasser, Sherry Rosenthal
Format: Paperback
$33.90
Stephen "Pista" Nasser was 13 years old when the Nazis whisked him and his family away from their home in Hungary to Auschwitz. His memories of that terrifying experience are still vivid, and his love for his brother Andris still brings a husky tone to hi...
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By: Wayne Theodore
Format: Hardcover
$53.90
This book is a story that sends the reader careening through episodes of childhood abuse, teenage drug addiction, and as an adult the compulsion to repeat the sins of his father.
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By: Mary Cantwell
Format: Paperback
$41.90
The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the...
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By: Debra Marquart
Format: Hardcover
$51.90
In the tradition of John McPhee and Kathleen Norris, a wry, moving memoir about a family farm, a father, and a daughter, and why it's so hard to go home again Debra Marquart grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota-on land her family had worked for...
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By: Mark Doty
Format: Paperback
$29.90
"Childhood's work is to see what lies beneath," Mark Doty writes in his memoir, Firebird. And adulthood's work, he suggests, is to make sense of what the child-self once saw. Doty, a poet, does this remarkably well, capturing the peculiar talismans of you...
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By: Aimee Liu
Format: Paperback
$33.90
The ground-breaking first-hand account of a young girl's passage through anorexia nervosa. Aimee Liu's true account is also a portrait of middle-class adolescence in early 1970s America.
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By: Joseph Joffo
Format: Paperback
$39.90
When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out of print, this book is a captivating and memorable stor...
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By: Barbara Robinette Moss
Format: Paperback
$33.90
In the tradition of Bastard Out of Carolina and Angela's Ashes, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter chronicles a child's coming of age in an abusive and dirt-poor environment. With the gripping narrative drive of both of those bestselling books, Barbara Robine...
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