View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War

by Samuel Lynn Hynes, Samuel Hynes

Published: 2003-03-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase ?before the war? calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, Samuel Hynes describes his midwestern boyhood during the lean times of the Great Depression: his...

View Reading GUide

* *

1 club review

Review This book

Growing Up Amish

by Ira Wagler

Published: 2011-06-23

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

New York Times eBook bestseller!One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

by Jean Sasson, Omar bin Laden, Najwa bin Laden

Published: 2009-10-27

Hardcover: 352 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. ?I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dream...

View Reading GUide

* * * Informative,
Interesting,
Insightful

3 club reviews

Review This book

Growing Up Laughing (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

by Marlo Thomas

Published: 2010-10-01

Hardcover: 515 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 3 members

Click on the ORANGE Amazon Button for Book Description & Pricing Info

View Reading GUide

* * * * *

1 club review

Review This book

Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny

by Marlo Thomas

Published: 2010-09-28

Hardcover: 400 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny is a book that only Marlo Thomas could write--a smart and gracious, witty and confident autobiographical journey. For as long as Marlo Thomas can remember, she's lived with laughter. Born to comedy royalty--TV and nightclub star Danny...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Growing Up With a Schizophrenic Mother

by Margaret J. Brown, Doris Parker Roberts

Published: 2000-08-01

Paperback: 207 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

An estimated two to three million people in the United States today were raised by a schizophrenic parent. Brown and Roberts offer a unique book based on interviews with over forty adult children of mothers diagnosed as schizophrenic. Such topics as the isolation their family felt, their chaotic home...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Growing Up X

by Ilyasah Shabazz

Published: 2003-01-14

Paperback: 256 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

?Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.??SPIKE LEEFebruary 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After su...

View Reading GUide

* * * *

Be the first to rate this book!

Grown Folks Business : A Novel

by Victoria Christopher Murray

Published: 2005-05-17

Paperback: 431 pages

3 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Sheridan's husband wanted to stop living a lie, but how was she going to live her life knowing the truth?"There's no other way to say this. I'm in love with someone else." With these words, Sheridan Hart's life as she knows it comes to a crashing halt. She thought she was living every woma...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

by Joshilyn Jackson

Published: 2012

Paperback: 334 pages

0 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Interesting,
Adventurous,
Fun

10 club reviews

Review This book

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty: A Novel

by Joshilyn Jackson

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 352 pages

8 members reading this now
18 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in...