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Childhood and youth

Eastern Sun, Winter Moon

Gary Paulsen

In this memoir of a World War II childhood, Gary Paulsen paints a powerful, haunting self-portrait of a young boy drawn helplessly into the physical and emotional violence of the adult world.

Space

Jesse Lee Kercheval

In this perceptive narrative, the author artfully describes growing up in Cape Canaveral during the 1960s and '70s and the impact of the era's social and political issues on her family.

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched onthe swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religous ones and the

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The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched onthe swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religous ones and the

818.540
Kar
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