Family & Relationships, Life Stages, Adolescence
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"I Had a Swell Time"
The Diary of a Young Girl Searching for Love in the 1930s
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Have you ever wanted to read someone else’s diary? What if the writer of that diary lived almost 100 years ago? Bernice Hodgins, born in 1916 in Seaforth, Canada, received a diary for her 12th birthday. She began to record her everyday...
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Over the Rail Fence
Lessons in Life from the Farm
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Life on the farm taught Ken MacKenzie many things: integrity, responsibility, generosity, and stewardship. In this compendium of childhood recollections, Ken shares these lessons through another farm tradition: storytelling. Guided by the wisdom...
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Storm Orphan
A Memoir
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When Marsha Barrett is six years old, her mother dies of cancer. The youngest of three sisters in a Jewish family, she goes through a turbulent youth during the 1960s and 1970s, rebelling against her demanding and often absent father. Barrett...
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A Letter to My Father
What Your Son Wants to Tell You But Doesn't
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Many books have been written about the father-son relationship. Most of the readers are well-meaning fathers looking for helpful advice on how to build a relationship with their sons and impact them in a real, meaningful way from older wise men,...
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Another Year On The Family Farm
With More Life Lessons Learned
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It’s 1970, mere months after the first man walked on the moon. The Vietnam War is raging on, drawing thousands of young American men into compulsory military service. Campus riots become commonplace, while Bridge Over Troubled Water tops the...
