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2. Keeper of the Moon
by Tim McLaurin
McLaurin offers a book that allows us to reaffirm our own commitments as we read. Faced with the possibility of dying, after being diagnosed with ... More
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3. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
by Judith Ortiz Cofer
A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family ... More
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5. One Writer's Beginnings
by Eudora Welty
"Beguiling as autobiography and . . . profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write serious fiction. . . . In these few pages, ... More
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8. Memory of a Large Christmas
by Lillian Smith
As a young child in the early 1900s, writer and civil rights crusader Lillian Smith (1897-1966) lived an idyllic, small-town life. With a ... More
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14. Dancing in Chains: The Youth of William Dean Howells
by Rodney D Olsen, Graham Cunningham
""Dancing in Chains" is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and ... More
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15. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle
by Marcel Pagnol
Bathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by ... More
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16. Tales from the Iron Triangle: Boyhood Days in the Bay Area of the 1920s
Delightful and authentic stories from a bittersweet time and place in America's history.
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17. Tales from the Iron Triangle: Boyhood Days in the Bay Area of the 1920s
by James Polese, Richard Polese (Editor), Elizabeth Morales (Illustrator)
Delightful and authentic stories from a bittersweet time and place in America's history.
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21. The Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Sensitive account of growing up female and Chinese-American in a California laundry.
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22. Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood
by John Jenkins Espey
"John Espey writes of his boyhood days in China with irony and slicing wit, a sort of Tom Sawyer and the missionaries, compassionate and yet honestly ... More
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23. Paper Shadows
by Wayson Choy
This startlingly vivid memoir by author Wayson Choy details his discovery at the age of 56 that he was adopted.
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