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|  | Madam Secretary by Madeline Albright
One of the most admired women of our era and the first in American history to serve as Secretary of State shares her life story for the very first time.
One of the most admired women of our era and the first in American history to serve as Secretary of State shares her life story for the very first time.
AUTHOR: Madeline Albright
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Doctors of the Church by Bernard McGinn
An introduction to the Doctors of the Church designed to tell readers everything they always wanted to know who to ask. AUTHOR: Bernard McGinn
PUBLISHER: Crossroad Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Nadia Boulanger by Leonie Rosenstiel
A biography of Boulanger (1887-1979), who was the composition teacher of Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and other eminent composers, and a friend of Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, and Dmitri Kabalevsky. She was the first woman to conduct the Royal Philharmonic of London and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. AUTHOR: Leonie Rosenstiel
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Gather Together in My Name by Lynne Thigpen, Maya Angelou
This second volume in Maya Angelou's autobiography opens in the 1930s, when she is the teenage mother of a 2-month-old son. AUTHOR: Lynne Thigpen, Maya Angelou
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Fritz Von der Schulenburg, Hugh Vickers
The story of King Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, who abdicated the English throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, the women I love , an American who was twice divorced, is perhaps the most romantic saga of the twentieth century. While the dramatic events involving this famous couple may be familiar, this fascinating book provides a fresh look at their lives through the extraordinary collection of private photographs recently discovered in the Windsor residence in Paris, many of which have never been published before. In 1986 Mohammed Al Fayed, who revitalized two venerable institutions, Harrods in London and the Ritz Hotel in Paris, purchased the Paris mansion that had been the last home of the Duke and Duchess; he also acquired the contents of the house. As the residence was being restored, a few photographs emerged from drawers and chests, together with old scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other mementos of the couple's life together. But it was not until 1988 that the mahogany lid covering the bathtub in the Duke's bathroom was lifted to reveal the most exciting find - an additional hoard of some ten thousand photographs. The staff had hidden the pictures in the bathtub to keep them safe from acquisitive visitors during the Duchess's long illness, when many private papers were disappearing from the house. The photographs range from family snapshots to formal portraits by such well-known photographers as Cecil Beaton and Karsh of Ottawa. This remarkable cache of photographs, scrapbooks, and other objects from the house reveal the Windsors' very different backgrounds - the Duke as a royal prince, brought up to be heir to a worldwide empire, the Duchess growing up in anunremarkable family in Baltimore. The photographs show them as young adults, portray their romance, and reveal their thirty-five years of married life in exile following the Abdication. AUTHOR: Fritz Von der Schulenburg, Hugh Vickers
PUBLISHER: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Best Intentions by Robert S. Anson
Description not available.Explores the paradoxes of the life of Edmund Perry, a lonely, vulnerable Black honor student at Phillips Exeter Academy, who preached Black nationalism and who was shot and killed on a Manhattan street by a policeman AUTHOR: Robert S. Anson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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