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Memoirs of the twentieth-century American combat general whose fifty-year career brought him both glory and condemnation. His service spanned the…
administrations of eight presidents and provides a view of military history in this century
Eleven interviews, two essays, and an excerpt from Haley's Roots (DB 53160). Subjects of the interviews, conducted by Haley and…
originally published in Playboy between 1962 and 1990, include Miles Davis, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Martin Luther King Jr., George Lincoln Rockwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Carson, and Quincy Jones. Some strong language
Recounts the personal and professional life of the Clinton appointee whose forthright statements led to her resignation after fifteen months.…
Tells how she came to her stands on issues like teen pregnancy and drug abuse and describes political tactics she witnessed
A humorous memoir of bizarre and absurd experiences with family, friends, and strangers. The title essay recounts the author's visit…
to a nudist colony, where he painfully faces coming to terms with his naked self. Strong language. Bestseller
The producer of such movies as "Sleepless in Seattle" and "One fine day" describes her film career, which began with…
the hit "Flashdance." She provides tips on dealing with actors, directors, and executives and talks about friends she has made in the business. 1996.
A portrait of the Leakeys, the "first family of anthropology." Traces the lives of parents Louis and Mary and son…
Richard, describing their many discoveries, including the Olduvai Gorge fossils, which confirmed the African origins of the human species. Recounts the dysfunctions and tragedies that plagued the family
Arnold looks at the bumpy sides of her life as daughter, mother, wife, and star. She discusses the abuse she…
suffered at the hands of her parents, disagreements with her siblings, giving up a child for adoption, marriage, the birth of three other children, divorce, marriage to Tom Arnold, and her desire to control her own television shows. Companion to Roseanne (RC 30341). Strong language. Bestseller
Life of one of Hollywood's most popular actors who appeared in nearly two hundred films over his fifty-year career. The…
authors detail his rise in Hollywood and his enormously successful roles in western and war films, as well as his three troubled marriages and criticism for his outspoken conservative views. Some strong language. 1995.
Memoir of the controversial older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Recounts the brothers' hardscrabble youth in the…
racist South, their rise to success in separate worlds, Medgar's death, and Charles's ascent to political prominence. Strong language
Designed for people who want to know more about their family tree but don't know where to begin. Croom suggests…
the initial source be the immediate family. She covers topics such as the meaning of names, looking beyond the family, and checking state and federal sources. Companion to Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook (DB 44198)
Memoir of Christian conservative Mel White, who, after fifty years, came to terms with his homosexual nature. Formerly a ghostwriter…
for leaders of the religious right, White became so antagonized by its gay bashing that he came out publicly and embraced the cause of gay liberation
A professor critically examines her life in academia. Unhappy both as a pupil and a teacher, she indicts the existing…
educational system as overly structured and authoritarian, and advocates a more holistic, low-stress pedagogy that relates closely to the interests of the student
In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom…
moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovering a packet of family mementos, Kostash begins questioning what she knows about her extended families’ pasts and whose narrative is allowed to prevail in Canada.This memoir, however, is not just a personal story, but a public one of immigration, partisan allegiance, and the stark differences in how two sets of families survive in a new country: one as homesteaders, the other as working-class Edmontonians. Working within the gaps in history—including the unsolved murder in Ukraine of her great uncle—Kostash uses her remarkable acumen as a writer and researcher to craft a probable narrative to interrogate the idea of straightforward and singular-voiced pasts and the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from.Rich in detail and propelled by vital curiosity, Ghosts in a Photograph is a determined, compelling, and multifaceted family chronicle.
Amy Tan is a Chinese American bestselling writer who grew up in California. This biography describes her own difficulty in…
accepting the heritage her parents brought with them from China, an experience shared by characters in her novels. Explains how she became an author of adult and children's fiction and describes the books. For grades 6-9
Sarah Ferguson says that she was not prepared for the reality of becoming a member of the British royal family.…
Here she explains how the "breath of fresh air," as she was reported to be, was snuffed out by the dark forces both within herself and within the palace
In this companion to Having Our Say (DB 37258), the remaining Delany, Sarah, tells her late sister Bessie what life…
has been like since her death in 1995. Glad that she, instead of Bessie, suffered the loss, Sarah vows to make life pleasant, knowing that's what her sibling would want
Examines the history of the Bosket family and its legacy of violence, beginning with the first-known slave ancestors. Butterfield focuses…
on recent generations, particularly Willie Bosket, who is considered the most violent criminal in New York state history. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex
The personal story and family history of a son of Jewish refugees from the Nazi regime. Recounts his parents' meeting…
and marriage in Germany, their flight to England in 1938, his childhood in a troubled home, and his youth exploring America during the turbulent 1960s. Strong language
Campbell recalls his rise from an impoverished Arkansas childhood through working as an on-demand studio musician to becoming a recording…
star in the 1960s and hosting his own television show in the 1970s. He discusses the negative impact of drugs, alcohol, and womanizing on his life and the spiritual rebirth that ultimately saved him. 1994.
A woman's wry account of her childhood as a Jewish fugitive in Hungary during World War II. In 1939, her…
father abandoned his family for America, leaving them in poverty and peril. The author relates the harsh ordeal of wartime persecution and their eventual escape to Cuba. Violence