The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West)
In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransp…
Into the Arms of Strangers: For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children-90 per cent of them Jewish-from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. Most of the children never saw their families again.
The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco, From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of 13 to 15, and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness …
"In the years leading up to & after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London’s East End. Despite long hours, hard & often hazardous work, factory life afforded exciting opportunities for independence, friendship & romance. Of all the factories that lined the docks, it was at Tate & Lyle’s where you could earn the most generous wages & enjoy the best social life, and it was here where The Sugar Girls worked." #nonfiction
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