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|  | The Courage of Their Convictions by Peter Irons
Peter Irons introduces 16 Americans who had the courage and perseverance to pursue a belief in their constitutional rights all the way to the Surpreme Court. Their cases, decided by the Surpreme Court between 1940 and 1986, raise four major issues of our time -- religion, race, protest, and privacy. AUTHOR: Peter Irons
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Patient by Ben Watt
In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of British pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken into a London hospital complaining of chest pain. He didn't leave for two and a half months. Still only twenty-nine, Watt had developed a rare life-threatening disease that initially baffled doctors. He needed two months of hospital treatment and four risky operations to remove dead internal tissue before the condition was stabilized. By the time he was allowed home, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. But Patient is more than a diary of Watt's hospital days. As he awakens bewildered and disoriented in a hospital bed between bouts of surgery, Watt injects pathos and humor into his medical nightmare, writing about his childhood and reflecting on his family and on his shared life with bandmember and partner Tracey Thorn. The result is a provocative and affecting memoir about life, illness, and survival. AUTHOR: Ben Watt
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Memories of God by Roberta C. Bondi
Devoting each chapter to a Christian lesson such as the incarnation, the resurrection, and the cruxifiction, Bondi reflects on her own life and the role that the teachings of the church have played in it. AUTHOR: Roberta C. Bondi
PUBLISHER: Abingdon Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Napoleon's Lost Fleet by Ellen Blue Phillips, Laura Foreman
Featuring more than 200 full-color illustrations--including dramatic photos of the current undersea exploration to discover Napoleon's fleet, lost off the coast of Egypt--this book provides a fascinating social and military history that reads like a Patrick O'Brian novel. Discovery Channel Special airs August 29, 1999. AUTHOR: Ellen Blue Phillips, Laura Foreman
PUBLISHER: Discovery Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Having Our Say by A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, Iona Morris
In this compelling oral history, the Delany sisters recall their formative years, growing up as members of a distinguished middle-class black family in Raleigh, North Carolina, and their years in New York, where Bessie became a noted dentist in the Harlem community, and Sadie was the first African-American teacher of science employed by the New York City Board of Education. Their two personalities come out as they recall difficult times and times of triumph with candor and wit. AUTHOR: A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, Iona Morris
PUBLISHER: Kodansha America, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Young Jackie Robinson
Description not available.A biography of the first black player in modern American major league baseball, emphasizing the prejudice he had to overcome by sheer courage.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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