**Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrant's beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time**The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960.
MORE STUFF contains "e;Virginia City,"e; a reminiscence of the author's three-month stay in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1976; eight poems; and "e;That Was New York,"e; an essay based on a trip to New York City in 1983.
A dazzling, devastating memoir about one woman's search for her wayward mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of their home, Hawaii.
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why Rick Stein's childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic.
My roots - from my grandfather born in poverty in India, migrating as a child with his uncle to South Africa the discrimination he encounter, then my father + my experiences in S.
A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha Val Hennessy, Daily Mail[An] eloquent and innovative memoir The TimesThe extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japans foremost geisha.
This brilliantly written memoir takes the reader on a journey into the past, to a rural England long gone, when horses worked the fields and small boys spent most of their time outdoors.
My book is an autobiography about a period of my life when my whole world changed, some of it for the better, some of it for a lot worse, but through all of it, I have learned much about myself and am a better person as a result.
The record of military service of Gerald Glyn Griffiths, who served with the Grenadier Guards from August 1, 1961, until July 31, 1970 (discharged on July 31, 1973; service number, 23862933; rank, lance/corporal).
This is Joseph Kiszka's autobiography describing his childhood in Poland, being rounded up and sent to Siberia by the Russians during World War II, then the long struggle to freedom by way of Iran, England, and finally the United States where he worked as a mechanical engineer, and finally for many years as an Imagineer at Disney.
Domestc violence does not end with the last punch, it remains a part of you, it affects how you live in your physical, emotional and psychological world.
Railway Man begins with author Mitchell Deaver paying a nostalgic visit to Bickle signal box, base of boyhood adventures described in his first book Railway Boy.
The Life of Odinga Bapfumo is an auto biography about a young man from the Caribbean born of a large family in a time were slavery was gone but not forgotten and the quality of impoverish.
Trolls, Snakes and Shadow People details an adoptive mother's journey through the frustration of dealing with the mental health networks and eventually through the CPS and Juvenile court system.
I have been planning on writing this autobiography for quite some time to leave information on the events that happened during my life, for later generations inquiry.
Reminiscing the events from many decades ago and putting them into words, structuring to reflect the chronology and nuances of human interactions, especially between parents and children who share many facets of their lives together, was the easiest part of this endeavor.
