Hi erikx,
Here you go -
1) [South Dakota] A LONG WAY HOME: Growing Up in the American Heartland
by Tom Brokaw
"In A Long Way Home Brokaw turns inward to focus on his own
experiences growing up in South Dakota, his early years a broadcaster
working in a then-novel medium, and his still-deep connection to the
Midwestern people, places, and values that shaped him. In this bluntly
effective and homespun memoir, Brokaw argues that, no matter how far
one may travel--say, to New York and through five decades of a
successful broadcast journalism career--it's possible to remain a true
creature of the heartlands."
http://www.bookfinder.us/review7/0375507639.html
Used: $12.50
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2) [Indiana] A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
by Haven Kimmel
"When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy
little hamlet of three hundred people."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767915054/qid=1078838213/br=1-17/ref=br_lf_b_17//102-8059994-2411356?v=glance&s=books&n=3048891
Used: $3.98
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3) [Ohio] AN OPEN BOOK: Coming of Age in the Heartland
by Michael Dirda
"A sentimental journey back to his 1950s and '60s childhood in the
Midwestern steel town of Lorian, Ohio."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393057569/qid=1078841832/br=1-2/ref=br_lf_b_2//102-8059994-2411356?v=glance&s=books&n=3048891
Used: $13.95
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=262367152
4) [Canada] BORN NAKED: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat
"Mowat begins with a well-written account of his first 12 years spent
in various towns in southern Ontario, where his father served as a
public librarian. Then they moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the
setting for most of this book."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395735289/qid=1078840933/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8059994-2411356?v=glance&s=books
Used: $2.00
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=61572778
5) [Boston] ALL SOULS: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacDonald
"In this plainly written, powerful memoir, MacDonald, now 32, details
not only his own story of growing up in Southie, Boston's Irish
Catholic enclave"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034544177X/qid=1078841548/br=1-8/ref=br_lf_b_8//102-8059994-2411356?v=glance&s=books&n=3048891
Used: $3.00
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=250959352
6) [Nebraska] Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie
by Andrea Warren
"In the little Nebraska town where I grew up, everything centered
around farmers and farming."
http://andreawarren.com/Books/Pioneer.html
Used: $3.00
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=103280464
7) [Great Plains] PLAINS FOLKS: Growing Up
by Dorothy Schwieder
"The deepest impressions" of memory, Dorothy Schwieder tells us in her
book about growing up on the Great Plains, "concerned family,
friendships, school, and work." Despite these emphases on family and
community, she wonders, the memories "all are clothed or colored by
the context of some larger physical feature of the area."
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extnews/newsrelease/2003/082803/04plains.htm
Search at the following websites for comparison shopping:
http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.tomfolio.com
http://www.zshops.com
http://www.bibliophile.net
http://www.bookavenue.com
http://www.antiqbook.com
http://www.biblion.com
http://www.usedbookcentral.com
http://www.choosebooks.com
http://www.bookfinder.com Searches forty sites but often doesn't show all results.
http://used.addall.com/ Also searches many sites but often doesn't
show all results.
I hope I have found appropriate titles for you - if you have any
questions or if I've misunderstood your quesion, please post a
clarification request before closing/rating my answer.
Thank you,
hummer
Search Strategy:
I browed Amazon's "Memoirs" category.
Google Search Terms: book memoir "growing up" town |
