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The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartók
A gorgeous memoir about the 17 year estrangement of the author and her homeless schizophrenic mother, and their reunion.
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Minds of Billy Milligan
by Daniel Keyes
A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. Reissue.
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Bending Toward the Sun
by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and her mother, Rita Lurie, provide powerful—and inspiring—evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the world. By turns unimaginably... (more)
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A childhood at Green Hedges
by Imogen Smallwood
To live with a phenomenon during childhood years must present an intolerable burden on any child. So many things want to be said, but should they? Imogen Smallwood , the younger of Enid Blyton's two daughters, has written a part of the story that was her childhood with her mother at the family home, Green Hedges in Beaconsfield. It is the first time any member of the family has spoken out, and is a candid account... (more)
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The Unwanted
A Memoir of Childhood
by Kien Nguyen
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Euclid Avenue, Our Scars Mean Something
by R. K. Rytaran
A young boy discovers the cold, motionless body of his younger brother. He is only four years old yet the innocent child becomes victim to a world filled with abuse, neglect, thievery, and illicit drugs. Raised by an insecure and deceitful mother and a shallow, hollow excuse of a father, he wanders the streets with an empty heart and a head full of unanswered questions. Left to his own devices, he grows up in a... (more)
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Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe, boring life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge... (more)