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Child of the Mountains
Published: 2012-04-10
Hardcover: 272 pages
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"Unfolds in pitch-perfect regional dialect. . . . For fans of Ruth White's and Kerry Madden's Appalachian-inspired fiction."--Kirkus ReviewsIt's about keeping the faith.Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her ti...
Child of the Northern Spring: Book One of the Guinevere Trilogy
Published: 2010-11-01
Paperback: 552 pages
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"An absorbing portrait of the Arthurian age." -San Francisco Chronicle Among the first to look at the story of Camelot through Guinevere's eyes, Woolley sets the traditional tale in the time of its origin, after Britain has shattered into warring fiefdoms. Hampered by neither fantasy nor ...
Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom
Published: 2007-04-26
Paperback: 192 pages
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This book tells the remarkable story of Soname's triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen Soname risked death in a freedom trek across the Himalayas,...
The Child Thief: A Novel
Published: 2009-09-01
Hardcover: 496 pages
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Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief?and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life. He appears to lonely, lost children?the broken, hopeless, and sexually ab...
The Child Who Never Grew
Published: 1992-01
Paperback: 107 pages
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Originally published in 1950, Buck's account of her struggle to help and understand her daughter with mental retardation was perhaps the first disclosure of its kind by a public figure. New material written for this edition amplifies her story and gives the book a historical perspective.
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Published: 2003-10-15
Paperback: 212 pages
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In Stuart Dybek's Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places?in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek's adolescent heroes, these grimy urban backw...
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Published: 1995-10-01
Hardcover: 192 pages
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A Childhood is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him--and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper's cabin at...
Childless: The Hurt and the Hope (Pocketbooks Series)
Published: 1989-08
Paperback: 48 pages
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Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools
Published: 2006-08-30
Paperback: 166 pages
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"Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools is a must read. Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy the culture and spirituality of generations of Indian children. ...
Children of God
Published: 1999-02
Paperback: 509 pages
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