Biographies & Memoirs Books


Boss Of Me: The Keyshawn Johnson Story	They Had a Dream (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Epoch Biographies) This book has given me a broader look into the life and times of blacks in America. It has...	Breaking Through Best Price: $5.99 "Breaking Through" is an excellent follow-up for those of us hungering for more after...	Willa Cather (Classic American Writers) Best Price: $0.01 The life and writings of Willa Cather, one of America's leading writers of the early 20th...	Biography Today Scientists & Inventors: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Scientists and Inventors Series) Best Price: $17.60



Willa Cather: American Writer (Lives of Notable Gay Men & Lesbians) Best Price: $8.99	To Heal the Heart of a Child: Helen Taussig, M.D. A biography of the woman who overcame learning difficulties, sex discrimination, and other...	We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust (Edge Books) Best Price: $7.12 I recently bought this book and I've been reading it during my lunch break at work and so...	Dynamic Modern Women:Athletes	Douglas MacArthur and the Century of War (Makers of America) Best Price: $311.88



Sterling Point Books: Teddy Roosevelt: American Rough Rider Best Price: $7.32 I liked this biography and I didn't need much help with the words. I picked this book...	Corazon Aquino (World Leaders Past and Present, Series II) Best Price: $95.02 A biography of the woman who rose to political prominence after the death of her husband and was...	Escape From Botany Bay Best Price: $15.96 Condemned to a penal colony in Australia for stealing a woman's bonnet, young Mary Bryant...	Between Two Junes Is a Forest: A Journal of Everything Best Price: $0.01 .... by Truc Doan, age 15, Teen Editor Haven't we all wondered at some point what it would...	Shaquille O'Neal (Champion Sports Biography) Best Price: $8.95 When Shaquille O'Neal burst on the national basketball scene in l992, he was widely touted...

My Own Two Feet (An Avon Camelot Book) Read this for book club and thought it was pretty good. I think there is a book about her life...	The King's Rose Excellent read full of drama and discriptions of the life at the Tudor court. Felt like crying...	Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de' Medici (Young Royals) Best Price: $6.63 Young Catherine de' Medici is the sole heiress to the entire fortune of the wealthy Medici...	Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book Best Price: $3.49 Royal Praise for Doomed Queen Anne The trite love story of a princess meeting her true...	Mark Twain (Paperback Edition) (People Who Made History) Best Price: $7.10

American and Canadian Women Poets 1930 - Present (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Best Price: $51.39 The second of two volumes on American and Canadian women poets, this volume attempts to look at...	Zora Neale Hurston (Bloom's Biocritiques) Best Price: $2.99 Zora Neale Hurston was a flamboyant individual who loathed any attempt to subsume her work under...	Alice Walker's the Color Purple (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) Best Price: $44.78 The status of Alice Walker as a period writer or permanent figure in American literature remains...	Forbidden Love (Edge Books) Best Price: $45.53 Forbidden Love is a pathbreaking book that only a master historian could write. The first work...	Nineteenth-Century Writers (American Profiles) Best Price: $3.80 Contains profiles of ten nineteenth-century American literary giants, from Washington Irving to...

Encyclopedia Of British Writers: 16th-20th Centuries (Encyclopedia of World Literature) Best Price: $320.00	Gandhi (World Leaders Past & Present) Best Price: $59.43 Recounts the life of the Indian leader who helped gain independence for his country through...	Elizabeth I (World Leaders Past & Present) Best Price: $21.95	Robert Pattinson: Fated for Fame Best Price: $2.89 Here is some things about Robert Pattinson Robert Thomas Pattinson[3] (born 13 May 1986)[4] is...	Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Creator (Barnard Biography) Best Price: $7.76 Couldn't resist the temptation to write that headline. It's true that this book brings...

Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You Best Price: $7.25 Hanna Jansen's OVER A THOUSAND HILLS I WALK WITH YOU is a touching tribute to her adopted...	Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Justice (Black Americans of Achievement) Best Price: $21.90	Escape From Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Bryant Best Price: $14.99 Condemned to a penal colony in Australia for stealing a woman's bonnet, young Mary Bryant...	Wayne Gretzky (Champion Sport Biographies)	Tiger Woods (Champion Sport Biographies) Best Price: $94.69

Extreme Faith: Twelve Radical Young Believers in the Bible Who Changed Our World Some young people today are indifferent about the Christian faith because they don't...	The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss: A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel Best Price: $190.37 Theodor Seuss Geisel, creator of Horton the Elephant, the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, and a...	MacMillan Profiles: Rescue & Resistance/ Holocaust (1 Vol.) Best Price: $74.52	Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-1948 Best Price: $0.84 (Actually, this is a 4.5 star rating.) This is a very memorable book, like the first book...	Real Teens, Real Stories, Real Life The teens in this book are not fictitious characters. Their stories are not made up. They have...

Albert Einstein (Oxford Portraits in Science) Albert Einstein did not impress his first teachers. They found him a dreamy child without an...	Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady and Humanitarian Best Price: $20.80 In Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady and Humanitarian, award-winning author Michael A. Schurman...	Anonymously Yours Best Price: $11.99 This book was a joy to read! The streets, the houses, the friends, the terrifying...	First In Peace Best Price: $4.99 A biography of the first president of the newly formed United States, George Washington, from...	Norman Schwarzkopf (Chelsea House Library of Biography) A biography of the popular military leader, tracing his rise through the ranks of the army and...

Norman Schwarzkopf (Chelsea House Library of Biographies) Best Price: $47.50 A biography of the popular military leader, tracing his rise through the ranks of the army and...	Caribbean Women Writers (Pbk)(Oop) (Women Writers of English Lives and Works) Best Price: $371.46 The past few decades have seen an explosion of writing by women from the Caribbean. From...	Herman Melville (Bloom's BioCritiques) Best Price: $5.00 Herman Melville, though possibly at his best as a poet, wrote what some consider to be the 19th...	Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944 After many years of using The Diary of Ann Frank, teachers now have a chance to use an equally...	On My Own: The Journey Continues Best Price: $13.41 I myself have a blind sibling and this book was a great insight into the challenges a blind...

Sword And The Hummingbird (Napoleon & Josephine) As Josephine grows up on the tropical island of Martinique, she dreams of moving to Paris to...	First Person Fiction Flight To Freedom (relatos En Primera Persona First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to...	The Beatles: Music Was Never the Same ((Impact Biographies Ser.)) Best Price: $321.74 I thought this book was pretty good. I learned a lot of stuff I didn't know about the Fab...	Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown Best Price: $10.59 This book does an excellent job of tracing not only John Brown's travels through...	We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust Best Price: $7.95 I decided to actually read this book after taking Boas' History of the Holocaust course and...

Grace in the Wilderness: After Liberation 1945-1948 Following the horrors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Piri Davidowitz and her sister are...	Tara Lipinski: Teen Skating Sensation	Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics Best Price: $20.00 Charles Ludwig retells Michael Faraday's remarkable life story in fictionalized form. Here...	James Baldwin: American Writer (Lives of Notable Gay Men & Lesbians)	John Russwurm (Black Americans of Achievement) Best Price: $7.00 Black Americans Of Achievement Series: John Russwurm was a pioneering journalist and ardent...

Wilma Rudolph (Women of Achievement) The AMERICAN WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT SERIES is an excellent choice for libraries. The story of...	Edna St. Vincent Millay(oop) (Women of Achievement)	Deborah (Young Reader's Christian Library) Best Price: $1.39 In Israel, God would choose the leaders of His people. Once God chose a woman. Now she must...	Women of the American Revolution (History Makers Series) Best Price: $20.00 Discusses the contributions of various women who helped the American colonies break free of...	Ancient Mathematicians (Profiles in Mathematics) Best Price: $15.92

Echo: Scandinavian Stories about Girls Best Price: $12.95 Echo: Scandinavian Stories About Girls is a collection of short stories, excerpts from novels...	Randolph Caldecott: An Illustrated Life (Avisson Young Adult Series) Best Price: $27.55 Randolph Caldecott: An Illustrated Life (Avisson Young Adult Series)	Father Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament, O.C.D	John Russwurm (Black Americans of Achievement) Best Price: $7.00 Black Americans Of Achievement Series: John Russwurm was a pioneering journalist and ardent...	Wilma Rudolph (Women of Achievement) The AMERICAN WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT SERIES is an excellent choice for libraries. The story of...

Edna St. Vincent Millay(oop) (Women of Achievement)	Deborah (Young Reader's Christian Library) Best Price: $1.39 In Israel, God would choose the leaders of His people. Once God chose a woman. Now she must...	Women of the American Revolution (History Makers Series) Best Price: $20.00 Discusses the contributions of various women who helped the American colonies break free of...	Ancient Mathematicians (Profiles in Mathematics) Best Price: $15.92	Echo: Scandinavian Stories about Girls Best Price: $12.95 Echo: Scandinavian Stories About Girls is a collection of short stories, excerpts from novels...

Randolph Caldecott: An Illustrated Life (Avisson Young Adult Series) Best Price: $27.55 Randolph Caldecott: An Illustrated Life (Avisson Young Adult Series)	Father Aurelian of the Blessed Sacrament, O.C.D	Robert Hutchings Goddard: Pioneer of Rocketry and Space Flight (Makers of Modern Science) Best Price: $10.49 Discusses the life and achievements of a pioneer in the fields of rocketry and space flight.	Encyclopedia of British Writers: 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (Facts on File Library of World Literature) Best Price: $29.99	The 20th Century: Post - 1945 (Who & When) Best Price: $6.50 Introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe and the...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (World Leaders Past & Present) Best Price: $4.96 Part of an illustrated series entitled "World Leaders Past and Present" which sets out...	The Goat Lady Best Price: $4.43 Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker Have you ever drunk goat's milk? Noelie Lemire Houle is an...	Lucy Maud Montgomery (The Canadians) Best Price: $2.68 Lucy Maud Montgomery is known to millions of readers the world over as the creator of Canada_s...	Edith Wharton (Woa) (Women of Achievement) Best Price: $16.65 A biography of the American author known for her psychological examination of the moral and...	Ronald Reagan (World Leaders--Past and Present) Best Price: $23.95 There is no doubt this author doesn't like the man! I don't know about other books in...

Mao Zedong Best Price: $6.00 A biography of Mao Zedong, founder of a communist state in China in 1949, hailed by some as a...	Wild Heart: The Story of Joy Adamson, Author of Born Free I enjoy the simplicity and ease of purchase at Amazon. This book was not easy to find and to...	Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal (Oxford Portraits) Best Price: $2.93 book was in great condition was suppose to be new but had a name written on the first page. ...	After the Holocaust: The Long Road to Freedom Best Price: $2.89 Having survived Auschwitz, the author and her three sisters try to begin life anew in wartorn...	Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager Best Price: $2.48 From the reviews on here, it looks like some people are automatically criticizing this book just...

Mikhail Baryshnikov (Genius! Series) Best Price: $7.37 A biography of the brilliant ballet dancer who went on to become a choreographer, film actor,...	Meet The Stars Of Roswell Best Price: $1.03 This book was the first book (to my knowledge) to be written about the Roswell cast. It gives...	Teen Angst? Naaah... A Quasi-Autobiography (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) He's into Magic (I never even heard of it), doesn't have much luck with girls and scored...	Martha Berry: A Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams Best Price: $19.60 The life of Martha Berry, who devoted herself to the establishment of schools for...	Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science) The scientific innovations of Galileo Galilei are pivotal to our understanding of the laws of...

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