Biography | Biography and Memoir
Mar.06.2009
The inspiring story of Deanna Favre, wife to Brett Favre, as she struggled against breast cancer with faith and courage.
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Jan.13.2009
Scottish poet Robert Burns lived from 1759 to 1796, and during his short life wrote songs and poems still treasured today, like “Auld Lang Syne,” “My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose,” and “To a Mouse.” The Witching Voice covers the crucial years from 1784 to 1788, when he rose from poverty...
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Jan.07.2009
A young reader's (middle school/high school) biography of Linus Pauling, the great American chemist and only winner of two unshared Nobel Prizes.
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Jan.06.2009
Synopsis
"Fry was the American Schindler...with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes...[think] Casablanca."
--The New York Times
Varian Fry, the first of only three Americans honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who...
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Dec.05.2008
Their albums enter the charts at #1. Fans follow them around the country, soaking up the incredible energy of their sold-out live concerts. From gigging at an Earth Day celebration and more frat parties than anyone can remember, Dave Matthews and his phenomenal band have electrified rock 'n' roll...
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Dec.03.2008
"I'm not sorry I tried...if successful, the assassination...just might have triggered the kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." --Sara Jane Moore in 1976
President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office. One by a young woman in...
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Nov.06.2008
A biography of the legendary outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde. "Extraordinarily immediate, not to mention lurid," said the Los Angeles Times reviewer. "So intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism," said O, the Oprah Magazine.
Using a broad range of historical documents, including...
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Oct.31.2008
Book Description
Lady Caroline Lamb, among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out--vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac--her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with...
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Oct.20.2008
In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange. They were the country's first athletic pantheon, its Mount Rushmore, and for a few brief years Red Grange outshone them all. The Galloping Ghost tells the remarkable untold story of this fleet-...
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