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The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons From a Life in Feathers
by Caroll Spinney J. MilliganMemoir of the man inside Big Bird from Sesame Street.
What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace
by Walter MosleyBestselling author of mysteries and other novels challenges African Americans to take a decisive role in bringing about world peace.
One Year Off: Leaving it All Behind for a Round-the-world Journey with Our Children
by David Elliot Cohen[book Excerpt] In the end, I wrote twenty-three of these e-mail updates. They described our travels by airplane, ship, bus, car, van, train, camel cart, oxcart, and elephant howdah through sixteen countries on six continents. They recounted the times we got hopelessly lost in Rome and Cape Town, how we rushed our daughter to the emergency room in Bangkok, how we escaped a charging hippo in Botswana, how Kara nearly died in Australia, and how I stumbled upon a bit of enlightenment in a cave in rural Laos. They described what it was like to live out of a suitcase for more than a year and how we managed to coexist as a family in tight quarters twenty- four hours a day. As you read these adventures, anecdotes, and minor epiphanies, I hope you get the sense that these letters were sent to you, or better yet, that you traveled with us during our one amazing year off.
Gettysburg: The Meade-Sickles Controversy
by Richard A. SauersThe book examines in depth the dissension among Federal generals that threatened the union's army ability to defeat the Confederacy.
Against Tall Odds: Being a David in a Goliath World
by Matt Roloff Tracy SumnerRon and Peggy Roloff looked on in shock at the tiny baby before them. What will become of this boy with a stubby body and malformed limbs? As a dwarf, Mathew will have little to look forward to... except dozens of surgeries, years of painful rehabilitation, and daily encounters withthe pitying stairs of strangers. Matt Roloff wouldn't want life any other way.
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen NoorA dramatic and inspiring story of Arab-American Lisa Halliby, her marriage to King Hussein, humanitarian activist in a court where women are only expected to keep their husbands happy.
The Gate
by Francois Bizot Euan CameronWhat one man saw and did in a land of pristine beauty on the eve of one of the twentieth century's most barbaric spectacles.
Billyball
by Billy Martin Phil PepeBilly Martin, talented, opinionated, hotheaded, and winning player and manager recollects his days in baseball, with anecdotes about players, games, and club owners.
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
by Bill GertzBook about our intelligence failures and waste
The Best Lawyer In A One-Lawyer Town
by Dale BumpersAutobiography of the former Arkansas governor and legislator.
Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women
by Nancy WachowichThrough the oral histories of three Inuit women - mother, daughter, and granddaughter - we witness a people in transition. Appia Agalakti Awa, born in about 1931, grows up in a traditional Inuit community, living off the land and traveling by dogsled. Her daughter, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, attends a government school and learns English, but still feels deeply connected to her Inuit roots. Rhoda's daughter, Sandra Pikujak Katsak, lives much like other urban young people, with concerns about school, drugs, alcohol, and peer pressure. The stories of these three women humanize the enormous issues faced by pre-industrial peoples as they move into industrial society.
Nelson Mandela: South Africa's Silent Voice of Protest
by Jim HargroveBiography of Nelson Mandela and his quest to abolish apartheid in South Africa.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography
by Chuck BarrisAutobiography of creator of game shows including The Dating Game and The Gong Show.
Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
by Sydney Biddle Barrows William NovakAn inside view of how the world's oldest profession adapted to the management methods of the 1980s
Funny Letters from Famous People
by Charles OsgoodCharles Osgood provides humorous and informative commentary to put these letters in context. It's a fun peek at real correspondence! A very enjoyable read!
John F. Kennedy
by Judie Millsdescribes the life of the 35th president and also biographical sketches of the members of his family.
Karla Faye Tucker Set Free: Life And Faith On Death Row
by Linda StromKarla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years, became an evangelist for Christ during her fourteen-year imprisonment on Death Row. This is the story of Karla's spiritual journey, the women and men she reached, and the God who offers redemption and hope to the hardest of hearts.
The Palace Guard
by Dan Rather Gary Paul GatesAnalysis of the people and events around Nixon's White House and the Watergate scandal
Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
by Shirley Idelson Sue Levi Elwell Rebecca T. AlpertStories of eighteen lesbian rabbis.
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
by Robert Kanigellandmark biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor--the man whose ceaseless quest for "the one best way"--changed the very texture of twentieth-century life. "In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first." These are the words of Frederick Winslow Taylor, who in 1874, at the age of eighteen, abandoned his wealthy family's plans for him to attend Harvard and instead went to work as a lowly apprentice in a hot, dirty Philadelphia machine shop. As he rose through the ranks of management, he became the first efficiency expert, progenitor of all the stopwatch-clicking engineers who stalk the factories of the industrial world. Taylor's famous industrial philosophy--Scientific Management--influenced Ford's assembly line and Lenin's Soviet Russia. Management guru Peter Drucker has ranked him with Freud and Darwin as a maker of the modern world. The One Besf Way is the compelling story of this driven man-and a fascinating re-creation of the vanished era of steam and steel in which he lived and worked.
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
by Warren ZimmermannAmerican history around 1900 with a focus on five figures.
Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman
by Queen Latifah Karen HunterAutobiography of a rap star.
The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates: An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901-1987
by Irwin AbramsHistory of the Nobel Peace Prize itself as well as those who have won it through 1987.