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A life in our times: memoirs
By John Kenneth Galbraith. 1981
The well-known economist recalls his experiences on the political and socioeconomic fronts of his century. Beginning with his youth and…
education in Canada, he then peruses his careers as academic, government appointee, ambassador, political advisor, and author. Portraits of such personalities as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jawaharhal Nehru, Albert Speer, Bernard Baruch and Henry Luce are includedBall four plus ball five
By Jim Bouton. 1981
The author tells of his efforts to make a comeback as a professional baseball pitcher in the late 1960s and…
gives a candid, often humorous account of what ball players, coaches, and managers are really like. Includes a postpublication update that summarizes the author's later life and career. Some strong languageGrant: a biography
By William S. McFeely, William S McFeely, William Mcfeely. 1981
A history professor attributes Grant's successes to luck, common sense, and self-confidence. He shows Grant's single-minded concentration as general, escalating…
the brutality of the war, his dangerous innocence as president, and his loving nature as husbandThe last Christian
By Peter Heinegg, Adolf Holl. 1980
Translation of an Austrian Catholic theologian's interpretation of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. Holl depicts Francis as a…
man of privileged background in revolt against the bourgeoisie, as a threat to the church and society in the Middle Ages, and as the 'last Christian' who tried to live as he believed Christ had livedA President in love: the courtship letters of Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt
By Woodrow Wilson. 1981
Collection of letters records the 1915 courtship between President Woodrow Wilson and the Washington widow who became his second wife.…
Romantic and exuberant in style, they reveal the affection and growing intimacy between themAmerica's foreign policy, 1945-1976: its creators and critics
By Thomas Parker. 1980
A very brief history of U.S. postwar foreign policy up to the end of the Nixon/Ford administration precedes political and…
philosophical profiles of the men who exercised the greatest influence on foreign policy during this period. Appendixes consist of a chronology of events and a foreign affairs bibliography for each of the presidential administrationsBigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's
By Sunny Nash. 1996
Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's because black shoppers were not welcome in such stores on the Main Streets of towns…
like Bryan, Texas in the pre-civil rights era. Bigmama was author Sunny Nash's grandmother, a wise and practical woman who taught Sunny what life was and how it should be. Ms. Nash's memoir of growing up in the 1950s in Candy Hill, a segregated neighborhood in Bryan, describes the love and warmth of the community as well as the many obstacles people facedThe presidential fringe: questing and jesting for the Oval Office
By Mark Stein. 2020
Mother Teresa: in my own words
By Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Teresa, Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, José Luis Gonzalez-Balado. 1997
The collection of quotes, stories, and prayers in this book are all her own words and experiences. They were compiled…
from various sources. Her undying faith and concern of the human spirit is reflected in these passages. In her years of work, Mother Teresa has brought God to millions in places of darkness. Let her share her hope, faith, and love with you. UnratedTo free a family: the journey of Mary Walker
By Sydney Nathans. 2012
The remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent…
the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price-remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family's fate. Adult. UnratedOne slow high flying target survivor
By Adolph J Dobek, Adolph Dobek. 2003
An autobiography by WWII B-17 Bombardier and POW A. J. Dobek. The now 94 year-old Dobek was 20 and living…
in Dunkirk, NY when he received his induction into military service in 1942. The book recounts his training days as a U.S. Army Air Cadet, his 14 missions and being shot down over Berlin on March 6, 1944. UnratedZarathustra's sister: the case of Elisabeth and Friedrich Nietzsche
By H. F Peters. 1977
I became alone: five women poets, Sappho, Louise Labe, Ann Bradstreet, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Emily Dickinson
By Judith Thurman, James McCrea, Ruth A. McCrea. 1975
Five passionate women poets from varying times and cultures are explored through sketches of their lives and selections from their…
poetry. Includes Sappho, Anne Bradstreet, and Emily Dickinson. For high school and adult readersThe admiral's daughter
By Victoria Fyodorova. 1979
True story of the World War II romance between Russian actress Zoya and American naval officer Jackson Tate. Tells of…
their beautiful daughter Victoria's search for the father she had never known and of her mother's false imprisonment for treasonThe lawmen
By James David Horan. 1976
The story of the men who tried to preserve law and order in the Old West, based on eyewitness accounts,…
newspaper reports, memoirs, and other primary sources. Stresses the reality of the careers of Bill Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman, and others over the myths that have sprung up about themFather in a fix
By Neil Boyd. 1980
The comic saga of a green curate in a parish in West London. The congregation includes a bookie who falls…
madly in love with a pig, a rich widowed kleptomaniac, and a former con-man who is the only parishioner the young priest can really trust. Sequel to "Bless Me, Father" (RC 12889)Going home
By David Tulman. 1977
Memoir of a travelling Talmudic scholar and his pilgrimage of self-discovery during the World War I period in Hungary. At…
the age of eight, he begins his journey into the world--where he endures physical hardships, falls in love with a Christian nun, and withstands the many temptations to give up his Jewish faith. Some explicit descriptions of sexThe Court years, 1939-1975: the autobiography of William O. Douglas
By William O Douglas. 1980
Personal record of the controversial Justice who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for over thirty-six years,…
the longest term of any Justice. Douglas relates the judicial history of the great issues of American life and describes how these issues were dealt with in the conference room and "among the Brethren."John D: the founding father of the Rockefellers
By David Freeman Hawke. 1980
Portrait of one of the most envied and reviled men in American history. Based on material from the voluminous Rockefeller…
archives, this study probes the apparently contradictory character of the man who was both a generous philanthropist and a ruthless financierTokyo Rose, orphan of the Pacific
By Masayo Duus. 1979
Iva Toguri, stranded in Japan by World War II, takes a job there although she wanted to return to her…
family in California. After the war the U.S. government tried her as Tokyo Rose, the temptress with the sultry voice who lured GIs to desert their posts on the Pacific battlefront. She served five years in jail, but the author believes she is innocent