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Something for Joey
By Richard E Peck. 1978
Story of the relationship between John Cappelletti and his kid brother Joey, a victim of leukemia. When Cappelletti accepted the…
1973 Heisman Trophy, he dedicated it to Joey, whose courage and confidence inspired John's success on the gridironLa Amante inmortal
By Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen. 1967
The biography of Manuela Saenz, mistress of the South American liberator, Simon Bolivar. An intelligent and lovely woman, she accompanied…
Bolivar on his military and political campaigns and ended up as the object of controversy and hate because of her influence on him. Spanish languageLos hombres de la tierra prometida
By Claude Brown. 1969
The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Stresses the hardships of his…
contemporaries and his own escape from a poverty-stricken background. Strong language. Spanish languageCrazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas: a biography
By Mari Sandoz. 1961
Evita, First Lady: a biography of Eva Peron
By John Barnes. 1978
Account of the illegitimate, mediocre actress who became one of the most powerful, feared, and idolized women in the world.…
Contends that as Col. Peron's wife "Saint Evita" carried him to the presidency by enlisting the Argentinian workers--her beloved "shirtless ones"--in a campaign for economic justice and women's rightsGolden lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon, and their friends
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1975
A lively account of the Bacons and their circle of friends, including the Earl of Essex, in Elizabethan England. Emphasis…
centers on Anthony Bacon, a mysterious figure who was a spy charged with sodomy in FranceA little boy in search of God: mysticism in a personal light
By Isaac Bashevis Singer. 1976
One step at a time: living with arthritis
By Marie Joseph. 1977
Light-hearted and courageous accounts of the author's struggle to live with rheumatoid arthritis from the age of twenty-five and her…
determination not to be thought of, and treated as a crippleFirst Lady's lady: with the Fords at the White House
By Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld. 1979
Intimate, human portrait of the first post-Watergate presidential family, written by a Washington insider who was White House Press Secretary…
to former First Lady Betty Ford. Weidenfeld relates numerous anecdotes, and records the trials of life at the political pinnacle. Some strong languageSoul on fire
By Eldridge Cleaver. 1978
The continued autobiography of Eldridge Cleaver and sequel to his "Soul on Ice" (RC 11484). With flashbacks to his childhood…
and life as a revolutionary during the 1960s, he recounts the events which led up to his conversion as a born again Christian and his return to the United States after seven years as an exile in Cuba, Algiers, China, Russia, and FrancePeter's people
By Laurence J Peter. 1979
The author celebrates the wit and wisdom of humorists past and present. Includes some who are little known, and some…
who are well known, and some who are celebrities such as Richard Nixon and Will Rogers. Also expounds Murphy's and Parkinson's laws and lists related laws on the human condition. Dr. Peter is the author of the bestseller "The Peter Principle" (TB 2932)John Wesley and his world
By John Pudney. 1978
Portrays the founder of Methodism as a stern, strong-willed, and compassionate human being not without his own problems, such as…
troubled relationships with women. He had to endure strong, even physically violent, resistance to his religious teachingsWomen in the Middle Ages
By Frances Gies. 1978
Presents a graphic picture of the accomplishments of seven medieval women. These include an abbess, a reigning queen, a "great…
lady," a peasant, a textile worker, the wife of a prosperous Italian merchant, and a gentlewomanConfessions of a muckraker: the inside story of life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson years
By Jack Anderson, James Boyd. 1979
Account of the long and productive association between the author and the controversial Drew Pearson that ended in 1969 with…
Pearson's death. Anderson reveals the hidden side of life in Washington and relates their battles with such prominent figures as Forrestal, Nixon, McCarthy, and MacArthurA private battle
By Cornelius Ryan. 1979
Author of "A Bridge Too Far" (RD 7489) and "The Longest Day" (TB 1935) and World War II historian secretly…
records on tape his private battle with cancer. After his death, his novelist wife discovers the tapes and reconstructs her own version of his battle with the disease, alternating her chapters with his. A courageous record of a tragic time. Some strong languageGetting off the ground: the pioneers of aviation speak for themselves
By George Vecsey. 1979
Reminiscences about the early days of aviation by men and women now in their seventies, eighties, and nineties who were…
a part of it. The twenty-nine pioneers interviewed include women who broke endurance records and the man who built and flew a plane with flapping wings that could collapse like a sparrow'sA place for Noah
By Josh Greenfeld. 1978
Six-year journal of life with the author's braindamaged son. Covers unhappy experiences with experts and therapists. Tells of the hopes…
and understanding needed for dealing with a severely retarded child. Some strong languageIn the shadow of the white plague: a memoir
By Elizabeth Comstock Mooney. 1979
Describes the effects of the "white plague" on victims and their families during the 1920s before the advent of antibiotics.…
The author was four when tuberculosis struck her young mother, Bess Comstock, and sent her to a sanitarium. Also the moving tale of a daughter's search for a mother she never really knewThe small woman
By Alan Burgess. 1957
Gladys Aylward, a London parlor maid who is determined to become a missionary in China, travels across Siberia to Northwest…
China. Establishing her mission, she becomes involved with prison riots, child-dealers, and spies, and leads 100 homeless people to safetyAbraham Lincoln's world, 1809-1865
By Genevieve Foster. 1944
Episodes from Lincoln's life are related to events taking place in other parts of the world, such as the unification…
of Germany, the freeing of serfs in Russia, and Commodore Perry's opening of Japan. For grades 6-9