| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14323 | USA1 | USA1 | |||
| 14324 | USA2 | Borrowed Finery | Paula Fox, Flamingo An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2001 | A memoir detailing Paula Fox being placed in a Manhattan Orphanage a few days after birth. Rescued by her Grandmother, she was passed from one place to another. | |
| 14325 | USA3 | Children of Hope | Elsie E. Vignec, Readers Digest Association Pty Ltd & Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1966 | A chapter in a Readers Digest Condensed Book of 1966 recounts Elsie Vignec's experience of volunteering her services at the New York Foundling Hospital. | |
| 14326 | USA4 | Girlbomb – A Halfway Homeless Memoir | Janice Erlbaum, Villard Books & Bantam, 2006 | The compelling story of a teenage runaway who survived underage sex, drugs and homelessness to get sober to go to college and turn her life around. | |
| 14327 | USA5 | The Home – A memoir of growing up in an Orphanage | Richard McKenzie, Basic Books a division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1996 | A memoir of Richard's time in The Home with orphans but mostly victims of poverty and abandonment. The Home provided them with a shelter that their own families could not. | |
| 14328 | USA6 | Life is so good | George Dawson & Richard Glaubman, Harper Collins Publishers, 2000 | A memoir of George Dawson's life. | |
| 14329 | USA7 | “Mommie Whats an Orphan?” – Stories of what life is like for kids growing up in an orphanage | Harry Edward Hicks, Koinonia Press, 1993 | The author entered the Oklahoma Methodist Home for orphans at age six and remained at the Home until he graduated high school. The book takes the reader on a journey in the daily life in the orphanage. | |
| 14330 | USA8 | In the Belly of the Beast – Letters from Prison | Jack Henry Abbott, Random House, 1981 | Letters written with clarity, vividness and ferocity by Jack Abbott. Jack was raised in foster homes and ended up in Utah State Industrial School for Boys. | |
| 14331 | USA9 | Nobody’s Child – A Courageous Story of Hope and Healing | Marie Balter & Richard Katz, Merloyd Lawrence Book, 1991 | This vivid account of Marie Balter's mental illness. Her story is an extraordinary example of her return to health from a seemingly hopeless state of permanent mental illness. | |
| 14332 | USA10 | Orphan – A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse and Redemption | Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. Adams Media Corporation, 2001 | Kiser's recollections of his painful childhood abandoned by his parents, then his grandparents and placed into a Florida orphanage. | |
| 14333 | USA11 | Sleepers – A True Story When Friendship Runs Deeper Than Blood | Lorenzo Carcaterra, Century, 1995 | An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge. Four boys who shared everything until one prank went awry, a man nearly died and they were sent away to a reformatory school subsequently, a year of rape, torture and abuse followed. | |
| 14334 | USA12 | The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother | James McBride, Sceptre, 1996 | A memoir on growing up, a mediation on race and identity and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother. | |
| 14335 | USA13 | They Cage The Animals At Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child’s Struggle for Emotional Survival | Jennings Michael Burch, A Signet Book, 1984 | Burch was left at an orphanage and never stayed at any one foster home long enough to make any friends. This is the story of how he grew up and gained the courage to reach out for love. | |
| 14336 | USA14 | The Jury is Still Out | Irwin Davidson & Richard Gehman, A Panther Book, 1959 | A fifteen-year old polio victim is stabbed, beaten and kicked to death. The presiding Judge of the case tells the inside story of this unprecedented murder trial and reconstructs the shocking crime which precipitated it. | |
| 14337 | USA15 | Why She Left Us | Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Flamingo, 1999 | A novel of uncommon emotional power of three generations of a Japanese-American family. The book revolves around a Japanese-American woman's abandonment of her illegitimate child during WWII. | |
| 14338 | USA16 | Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood | Julia Scully, Souvenir Press, 1998 | When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra. Later, she revelled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II. | |
| 14339 | USA17 | Not The Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim’s Orthogenic School | Stephen Eliot, St Martin's Press, 2002 | A charming memoir of Stephen Eliot's time in Bruno Bettelheim Orthogenic School. Sent at age eight to Bruno Bettelheim's School among autistics and schizophrenics, Eliot found himself in a world without drugs or locks on the doors. | |
| 14340 | USA18 | Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans | Louis Armstrong, The Harborough Publishing & first published by Peter Davies Limited, The Windmill Press, 1955 | The King of jazz retells his story coming up the hard way from the slums of his childhood, his experience in the Waif's Home to the time he left the fabulous Mississippi city heading out trumpeting for Chicago. | |
| 14341 | USA19 | Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements | Malcolm X & George Breitman, Grove Press New York, 1994 | These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life. In this short period of time, his vision for abolishing racial inequality in the United States underwent a vast transformation. Breaking from the Black Muslims, he moved away from the black militarism prevalent in his earlier years only to be shot down by an assassin's bullet. | |
| 14342 | USA20 | Louis Armstrong and the Jazz Age | Dan Elish, Children's Press, 2005 | Presents the life and accomplishments of the famous jazz musician known for his cornet playing. A book on the American legacy that has been passed on from one generation to the next. An exceptional and indispensable social studies resource for young readers. | |
| 14343 | USA21 | A Boy from C-11 Case # 9164 | A memoir by Harvey Ronglien, Graham Megyeri Books, 2006 | A memoir that takes the readers into the world of American orphanages that no longer exist. This is an honest, heart wrenching account of one boy's struggles to overcome his difficult childhood. | |
| 14344 | USA22 | Crackers and Milk | Arlene Nelson & Char Valters (Editor), Graham Megyeri Books, 2006 | Arlene retells her mother's amazing story of unusually tarnished childhood. The eldest of five children growing up in the early 20th Century in the rural Midwest. Her and her siblings attempt to survive illness, abandonment, abuse, neglect, hunger, institutionalisation and loss. | |
| 14345 | USA23 | While the Locust Slept – A Memoir | Peter Razor, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001 | First time author Peter Razor chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the 1930s and the brutal farm indenture that followed. | |
| 14346 | USA24 | In God’s House: A Novel About One Of The Great Scandals of Our Time | Ray Mouton, Head of Zeus, 2012 | Is a story of one man's crusade to bring justice to the victims of child abuse. It's a journey through the dark corridors of the oldest, richest, most powerful religious institutions on earth: the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| 14347 | USA25 | Happy Baby | Stephen Elliot, McSweeney's Books, 2005 | A novel told in reverse order, Happy Baby is an edgy and powerful novel about an orphan in foster care. | |
| 14348 | USA26 | The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir | Victoria Rowell, William Morrow, 2007 | Made a Ward of the State of Maine after she was born, in her memoir Victoria lovingly remembers the foster parents, teachers, mentors and true friends who made a difference in her life. | |
| 14349 | USA27 | Breakneck | Erica Spindler, St Martin's Press, 2009 | This book is by the international bestselling author Erica Spindler who writes about detective partners at the Rockford Violent Crimes Bureau who are working on catching a killer on the loose, someone who is systematically working his way down a seemingly unconnected list of victims. | |
| 14350 | USA28 | USA28 | |||
| 14351 | USA29 | Myrtle Fillmore – Mother of Unity | Thomas E. Witherspoon, Unity Books, 1977 | This is a biography of the dynamic co-founder of the Unity movement and gives a moving account of Myrtle's life as well as a history of the Unity movement. | |
| 14352 | USA30 | If I Knew Then… | Amy Fisher and Robbie Woliver, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004 | The woman known as the Long Island Lolita talks about her crime, her life of abuse in prison and starting over. | |
| 14353 | USA31 | The Memory Keeper’s Daughter | Kim Edwards, Penguin Group, 2005 | Number One New York Times Bestseller and a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets and the redemptive power of love. | |
| 14354 | USA32 | Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church: The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight | The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe, 2015 | With this exposé, the Boston Globe presents the single most comprehensive account of the cover-ups, hush money and manipulation used by the Catholic Church to keep its history of sexual abuse secret. The findings of the investigation that inspired Spotlight. | |
| 14355 | USA33 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett, first published by Amy Einhorn Books, Penguin Books, 2009 | In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humour, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. |