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By Kitty Hart. 1982
By Honoria Murphy Donnelly. 1982
Biography of a memorable family, Sara and Gerald Murphy and their three children. The Murphys were quiet benefactors of artists…
and writers, and residents of Paris and the French Riviera in the 1920s. Close associates of MacLeish, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, they were dedicated to all the arts of living well. Their daughter's account of their glamorous and star-crossed livesBy Michael Whitney Straight. 1983
A member of the wealthy, prominent Whitney family reveals his experiences as an editor and publisher of the "New Republic,"…
a government official, and a young radical. At Cambridge University in the 1930s, he became a communist, and his friends ranged from John Maynard Keynes to the spies Guy Burgess and Anthony BluntIntensely human story of the courtship and marriage, through letters, of the mid-nineteenth-century founder of the American woman's suffrage movement,…
Lucy Stone, and businessman, Henry B. Blackwell. Both protested the injustice of marriage laws that made a woman subservient to her husbandBy Philip J Hilts. 1982
A science writer explores the private and professional lives of Fermilab cyclotron designer-builder Robert Wilson; Harvard biologist Mark Ptashne, who…
worked on the genetic functions of DNA; and John McCarthy, inventor of the computer language LISP. Hilts brings clarity and humor to these profilesBy Paul I Murphy. 1983
The controversial biography of the Bavarian-born nun who rose from peasant beginnings to become the most influential woman in the…
Catholic Church. For more than forty years she served as housekeeper, confidante, and soul-mate to Monsignor Pacelli, who became Pope Pius XII. The account also reveals the inner workings of the Church itself during a crucial periodBy Eddie Rickenbacker. 1943
By James Fox. 1982
True crime story of a group of decadent upper-class English colonials living in Kenya during World War II, and of…
the murder that exposed their pleasure-seeking way of life. The earl of Erroll (Josslyn Hay) was shot soon after he announced his love for the wife of Sir Delves Broughton. The arrest and subsequent acquittal of Sir Broughton, and the revelations of drug abuse, adultery, greed, and racism created a scandalBy Mary Lou Shields. 1981
Episodes of the author's past and present life, with verbatim exchanges between Shields and her analyst. Together they attempt to…
dispel her fears of repeating her mother's schizophrenic pattern. They seek also to help her recover from a sordid childhood spent under the care of stern relatives during her mother's confinement in a state mental hospitalBy David Kherdian. 1981
Continues the story of the author's mother, an Armenian orphan who sailed for America at sixteen to become a mail-order…
bride for an immigrant twice her age. Though she was ill-prepared for a new country and community and the pressures of her new family, she made a place for herself from the beginning. Sequel to "The Road from Home" (RC 16607). For high school and adult readersBy William Wright. 1983
Behind-the-scenes account of a highly publicized and scandal-ridden trial that was covered worldwide. Gives the bizarre sequence of events, beginning…
with the childhoods of the beautiful, rich Sunny and Claus Von Bulow, that led to Claus's conviction for twice attempting to murder his heiress wife with overdoses of insulinBy Augustine. 1942
Religious fervor and psychological insight characterize the spiritual autobiography of the distinguished fifth-century churchman. Writing some years after his conversion…
to the Catholic faith, Augustine praises God's grace during his years of spiritual wonderings, laments his sins, and describes his youth in North AfricaBy John Bierman. 1981
Tells the story of Swedish attache Raoul Wallenberg's heroic mission during World War II and its subsequent tragic aftermath. In…
1944, Wallenberg, the scion of a wealthy, distinguished Swedish family went to Budapest to extend the protection of Swedish neutrality to as many of Hungary's Jews as possible. He was arrested by the Russians on suspicion of spying, and his fate is still unknown. 1981By Malcolm C Jensen. 1979
The facts and the mystery about the Viking adventurer and sailor believed to be the first European to discover North…
America. Based on old Norse legends, traditional myths, and recent archaeological discoveries. For grades 6-9 and older readersBy Jeffrey K Hadden. 1981
Analyzes the power and influence exercised by American religious leaders who use television and the computer to broadcast their messages…
to the public. Features surveys of the careers and personalities of famous evangelists such as Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts, James Robinson, Robert Schuller, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and othersBy Susan Allen Toth. 1981
Nostalgic recollections of a young girl growing up during the 1950s in Ames, Iowa, with brief notes on the author's…
perspectives of the past. Toth asserts that life was good, and relates stories about girlfriends, her first kiss, menial jobs, progressing to a job on the local newspaper, and finally, to the world outsideBy Ted Schwarz. 1981
Psychological investigation of Ken Bianchi, the victim of a multiple personality disorder, who, as the Hillside Strangler, is known to…
have raped and murdered over a dozen young women on the West CoastBy M. Morgan Estergreen. 1962
Biography of the wiry man who became a legend of the Old West. Based on unpublished notes and primary source…
materials, the biography includes interviews and letters from Carson's family and friendsBy Frederick E Werbell. 1982
Tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a businessman, playboy, and member of one of Sweden's most wealthy and aristocratic families,…
who in 1944 volunteered to go to Budapest as a diplomat for the purpose of saving Hungarian Jews. During the next six months he managed to rescue tens of thousands of Jews and disappeared after a mysterious meeting with Soviet officersBy Mike Tomkies. 1982