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By John Roseboro. 1978
After a twenty-year association with major league baseball, a former all-star catcher candidly tells what life in his sport is…
really like. Account takes Roseboro from his lower middle-class childhood in Ohio to his years on the mound. He reflects "I was only prepared for a life on sports and didn't prepare properly for the rest of my life." His playing days over, be found himself filing for bankruptcy and divorce. Some strong languageBy Margery Facklam. 1978
Portraits of eleven women who have collected animals or watched their behavior in the wild. Includes such well-known scientists as…
Jane Goodall, who has made astounding discoveries about chimpanzees; Ruth Harkness, who brought the first giant panda from the Himalayas; and Eugenie Clark, the "shark lady." For grades 5-8 and older interested readersBy Yukio Mishima. 1970
By Gerda Lerner. 1978
The author, a history teacher at Sarah Lawrence College, offers an eloquent account of the eighteen months it took her…
vigorous and beloved husband of thirty-two years to die of a brain tumor. Portrays the courage and humiliation of a self-reliant, gifted man facing dependency as the disease worsensBy David A Redding. 1978
By George Whitney Martin. 1976
Biography of the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the United States government. Perkins served as Secretary of…
Labor from 1933 to 1945. The author cites her abilities as an administrator, legislative guide, and public spokesman for the working manBy Peter Collier. 1976
By Russell B Adams. 1978
An account of the inventor of the safety razor blade in 1895 who founded the vast American corporation that bears…
his name. Chronicles Gillette's struggles to build a Utopian world, and his extraordinary success as the head of one of the world's most productive organizationsBy Kenneth Clark. 1977
Distinguished English art historian and critic recounts his activities and achievements since the beginning of World War II. He recalls…
his career as art scholar, public servant, businessman, and television personality, and such friends as Henry Moore, Edith Sitwell, and Sir Thomas BeechamBy Bill Russell. 1979
The former Boston Celtics basketball player offers the story of a contemporary American black man who has spent his adult…
life in the public eye. He writes candidly about his observations on family ties, racism in the United States, women, the competitive instinct, and other facets of human experience. Strong language. BestsellerBy Farley Mowat. 1979
The distinguished Canadian author recalls his experiences in World War II when he was nineteen years old and full of…
patriotic fervor and idealism. Mowat joined the Canadian army and saw the horrors of the war in Sicily and Italy. In searing battle scenes he conveys the toll war wages upon men. Some strong languageBy Mieczysław Maliński. 1979
An admiring biography of Pope John Paul II by a boyhood friend who is now a chaplain at the University…
of Krakow. Demonstrates how Polish life and culture have shaped the man, revealing the "Polish factor" in the new Pope's attractive yet enigmatic personalityBy Thomas Braun. 1976
By Malcolm Muggeridge. 1971
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz…
Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer from his church married to the church sexton, the story shocked locals and sent the scandal ricocheting around the country, fueling the nascent tabloid industry. This provincial double murder on a lonely lover's lane would soon become one of the most famous killings in American history—a veritable crime of the century. The bumbling local authorities failed to secure any indictments, however, and it took a swashbuckling crusade by the editor of a circulation-hungry Hearst tabloid to revive the case and bring it to trial at last. Blood & Ink freshly chronicles what remains one of the most electrifying but forgotten murder mysteries in U.S. history. It also traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of love, sex, money, and murder. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.By Ria Thundercloud. 2022
In her debut picture book, adapted for audio, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path…
to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage. At four years old, Ria Thundercloud was brought into the powwow circle, ready to dance in the special jingle dress her mother made for her. As she grew up, she danced with her brothers all over Indian country. Then Ria learned more styles—tap, jazz, ballet—but still loved the expressiveness of Indigenous dance. And despite feeling different as one of the only Native American kids in her school, she always knew she could turn to dance to cheer herself up. Follow along as Ria shares her dance journey—from dreaming of her future to performing as a professional.By Lucy Worsley. 2022
"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her…
career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why-despite all the evidence to the contrary-did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was-truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.By Robert Meyers. 1978
Account of the effects of mental retardation on one family. The author, a Washington Post reporter, tells of his parents'…
life-long support and care for his twenty-nine-year-old brother Roger, who has been mentally retarded since birth. He describes the marriage of Roger and his bride Virginia Hensler, who is also mildly retardedBy Charlotte Sanford. 1979
The story of a woman's faith, hope, humor, and courage. Charlotte Sanford lost her vision three months after the birth…
of her first child. Some years later her husband left her with a failing business and three children. Charlotte's religious faith sustained her, and after seventeen years of blindness, her sight was restoredBy Evan S Connell. 1979
Narratives of extraordinary travelers whose wanderlust has taken them beyond the safe and familiar to the unknown. Includes seekers of…
Atlantis, the Northwest Passage, and the seven cities of Cibola; the victims of the Children's Crusade; the legendary Prester John; and the alchemist Paracelsus