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Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Scribner (Paperback)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Bantam (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-05-29)
I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and ...
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Macmillan Audio (CD) (Release Date: 2006-09-05)
Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Broadway (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-09-25)
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, ...
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Pantheon (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-06-01)
A New York Times Notable BookA Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year”A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-sellerWise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful ...
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

David J. Pelzer
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family
by Recorded Books (Audio Cassette)
The sequel to "A Child called 'It'", this second title in a planned trilogy continues the painful tale of the author's childhood. After surviving his abusive mother and alcoholic father, he lived in five different foster homes, spent time in juvenile detention and joined the ...
The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Dylan Thomas, Trina Schart Hyman
A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Holiday House (Hardcover)
Christmas treasure.
A Child's Christmas in Wales

Alexandra Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-03-11)
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there ...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Harry Bernstein
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)
“There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ‘Invisible ...
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Broadway (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2006-10-17)
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, ...
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

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