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|  | The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney
The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times . New York Review of Books An extraordinary achievement. ... Solzhenitsyn`s reconstruction of this secret `country` within the country is itself a heroic accomplishment under Soviet conditions . New York Times Book Review AUTHOR: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney
PUBLISHER: Westview Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove, Phillip Bosco
This memoirist recalls growing up Jewish in mid-century Budapest, when adolescent growing pains were darkened by the historical context. AUTHOR: Andrew S. Grove, Phillip Bosco
PUBLISHER: Time Warner AudioBooks
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Unforgiven by L. Kay Gillespie
Since the days of frontier justice and blood atonement, Utah has struggled with issues of capital punishment. Years after the Mountain Meadows massacre, John D. Lee was shot to death seated on his coffin in a theatrical, media-conscious staging, while some fifty other perpetrators went unpunished. Despite pleas for clemency from the daughter of an LDS church president and others, labor reformer Joe Hill was executed, due as much to corporate indignation as to the merits of the case against him. One of Utah`s death row inmates was the first to challenge the constitutionality of his sentence as cruel and unusual ; another, Gary Gilmore, broke the ten-year, nationwide moratorium on state-supervised executions. Recently William Andrews became the second Utahn to be executed without having committed murder. As Paul Swenson wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune, This is the kind of stuff that makes you realize why we need Halloween -- because we can`t deal with real blood, real death, the ghosts of our actual past. AUTHOR: L. Kay Gillespie
PUBLISHER: Signature Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Alexander Graham Bell by Elizabeth MacLeod
Creative, curious and compassionate, Bell was a remarkable man with an amazing lifetime career. This book chronicles his life, from his childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, to his work with the hearing-impaired in Boston, up until his death in Nova Scotia in 1922. Full-color photos. AUTHOR: Elizabeth MacLeod
PUBLISHER: Kids Can Press, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | A Slave Family by Bobbie Kalman
Description not available.Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America. AUTHOR: Bobbie Kalman
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Threading the Currents by Alan S. Kesselheim
Over the past twenty-five years, Alan Kesselheim has spent countless hours paddling along the blue veins of the continent. He has taken trips ranging from afternoon jaunts to year-long journeys, from social outings to white-knuckle adventures, in landscapes stretching from the canyons of the Rio Grande to the shores of Hudson Bay. In Threading the Currents, he explores how his great love of the outdoors and his intense passion for paddling have shaped his life. In a lively and engaging style, Kesselheim describes the highlights of his paddling trips with friends, family, and lovers. Some, like being stranded naked alongside a river, are humorous. Some, like being stalked for more than a mile by a determined bear, are frightening. Others, like his and his wife`s surprise conception of their first child during a fourteen-month trek through the Canadian Arctic, are poignant. But all speak to the heart of things - to love and friendship, birth and death, anger and forgiveness, to the elemental joys and sorrows of life. AUTHOR: Alan S. Kesselheim
PUBLISHER: Island Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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