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Growing up Snook    by David Snook
Price: $2.99 USD. 39710 words. Published on June 15, 2011. .

Growing up Snook is the story of my life from my earliest memory to that of the end of my Senior year in high school. It is a humorous memoir, and it deals with a very large family of 11 children sharing one bathroom and a kindred spirit. It is about friendships, childhood and memories that endure a lifetime.
High Bridge    by Troy Aaron Ratliff
Price: Free! 1610 words. Published on June 17, 2011. .

A short heartfelt story of childhood memory and how even the smallest, incidental experiences can have the biggest effects on us when we don't even know it.
Dancing in Heaven — a sister's memoir    by Christine M Grote
Price: $2.99 USD. 50060 words. Published on October 3, 2011. .

Born with severe brain damage, my sister Annie never out grew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Our parents fed her, changed her clothes, and lifted her from her bed to her wheelchair and back for her entire life of 51 years. A window into my family’s life with a severely disabled member, Dancing in Heaven is a testimony to the basic intrinsic value of human life.
Armazém Colombo    by Carlos Gentil Vieira
Price: $2.49 USD. 48340 words. Published on January 26, 2012. .

Short stories about the gorgeous life of a boy who was born and raised in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In Portuguese only. Este livro é um pequeno tributo às raízes de uma pessoa. De qualquer pessoa. Mostra a vida de um menino e suas interações com o mundo que o cerca, representado por sua família, amigos e colegas de escola.
Escape to an Orphanage    by Marvin Dorfman
Price: $2.99 USD. 76630 words. Published on April 16, 2012. .

In the early 1940s a family is embroiled in scandal and a boy’s life turned upside down when his Orthodox Jewish mother leaves his father for her lesbian lover and becomes a Pentecostal Christian. Cruelly abused at the hands of his mother's sadistic lover, he is returned to a father who no longer wants him. Rejected by both his parents, he finds acceptance and dignity in an orphanage.
Not An Angel    by William T. Moyer
Price: $0.99 USD. 2200 words. Published on May 19, 2012. .

I discovered that I liked girls one afternoon that summer. I was on my way home after mowing a couple of yards, when I ran into two older girls from my elementary school. I could tell that they were far wiser than I was. They were very pretty and I was impressed, because they were both smoking cigarettes. I thought that was very cool. They actually stopped and started a conversation with me.
Memoirs: Early Childhood 1929-1943    by Bette James
Price: $0.99 USD. 15150 words. Published by laserlaura on November 5, 2012. .

Bette James shares with us her early childhood memories of growing up during the Great Depression. Bette writes candidly about the events of her life and her feelings towards her parents, grandparents and her siblings. Memories: Early Childhood, 1929-1943, includes numerous photographs of Bette and her family, and the house where they all lived, in Mt. Wayte, Framingham, MA.
Another Time    by Patricia Merlino
Price: Free! 1070 words. Published on January 18, 2013. .

A granddaughter comes to understand her childhood memories of her grandfather told from the point of view of adulthood relating to the Great Depression and Prohibition.