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|  | Betsy Ross, Patriot of Philadelphia by Judith S. George
A biography of the woman best known for creating the first American flag. Betsy Ross was a determined woman who defied convention by marrying a man outside of her Quaker faith, and opening her own upholstery business. Widowed at a young age, Ross fought to keep her business open, married two more times, and gave birth to seven daughters. Illustrated with b&w drawings. AUTHOR: Judith S. George
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh
A daughter's memoir of growing up in the family of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Reeve Lindbergh
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ambrose Bierce's Civil War by Ambrose Bierce, William McCann
A collection of Bierce`s Civil War stories, as well as his vivid factual writings. AUTHOR: Ambrose Bierce, William McCann
PUBLISHER: Random House Value Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Mountain Man & the President by Charles Shaw, David Weitzman
Description not available.Shows how the friendship between Muir and Roosevelt brought about government protection of America's wilderness AUTHOR: Charles Shaw, David Weitzman
PUBLISHER: Raintree Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Suze Orman, Terry Ryan
The vacations, appliances, and automobiles of the Ryan family were the spoils of Terry Ryan's mother's skill at writing just the right jingle. Twenty-five words or less won bicycles, televisions, a jukebox, and trips to New York and Switzerland for her family. This memoir shares the details of Terry Ryan's childhood, as it draws a moving picture of a mother who defied her alcoholic husband, her church, and the judgement of other housewives to provide for her family by entering--and winning--dozens of contests. AUTHOR: Suze Orman, Terry Ryan
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Dancing in the Water of Life by Thomas Merton
The fifth volume of Merton's journals reflects the curiously divergent, yet twinned paths of the cloistered monastic and celebrated author. As the pull of vocation draws him to relinquish even the limited society of the monastery for the hermetic life of a solitary religious, the pull of his American conscience requires increasingly public peace activism amidst the nation's growing struggles over Civil Rights and the Viet Nam War. AUTHOR: Thomas Merton
PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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