Continues Beata's touching story of a childhood in rural Poland, with 47 new recipes. This beautiful memoir/cookbook includes the food, festivals and Christmas traditions that sustain Poles through long, cold winters -- from St Nicholas Day to the 'vigil' of Christmas Eve and the mid winter revelry of a Sylwestern New Year's Eve ball.

“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood
This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in...

A posthumously published self-assessment by the former president of the Academy of Arts and Letters includes coverage of such topics as his father's depression and the dynamics of life inside and outside of his society circles.

Shares stories of childhood as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian boy in Fresno, California.

Describes the childhood and youth of the first president to be born west of the Mississippi River.

Based on a little-known tale from Abraham Lincoln's childhood, this deeply researched book tells the true story Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by a dog named Honey. "Based on primary sources, the true story of Abraham Lincoln being rescued from a cave by his rescue dog"--

Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.

As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.

"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt....