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|  | Remembering Jim Crow by Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, Behind the Veil Project Staff
Using testimony gathered as part of an oral history research project initiated by Duke University in the 1990s, the author examines the experience of people under Jim Crow--after Reconstruction and before Civil Rights--when segregation was legal. AUTHOR: Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, Behind the Veil Project Staff
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Divided Lives by Cynthia Crane
In monologues about their experiences, 10 women who were products of Jewish-Christian marriages, and who survived the Holocaust, reveal the history of mixed-heritage children under Nazism. AUTHOR: Cynthia Crane
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Playwrights at Work by George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff
This collection of 15 interviews with playwrights, sensitively conducted by various staff members of the famed Paris Review between the years 1956 and 1999, offers insight into the creative processes of major playwrights Thorton Wilder, Wendy Wasserstein, Samuel Beckett, Lilian Hellmann, and others. AUTHOR: George Plimpton, Paris Review Staff
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Red Scarf Girl by Christina Moore, Ji-Li Jiang
A memoir by Ji-li Jiang who was a 12-year-old girl living in China when Chairman Mao launched the 1966 Cultural Revolution. Ji-li was an excellent student with the promise of a great future, but with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, intelligence was seen as a crime and her family's wealthy background meant that they were persecuted by their former friends, neighbors, and colleagues. When Ji-li's father was arrested, Ji-li had to decide if she should protect herself and denounce him or refuse to testify against him and put her own future in danger. AUTHOR: Christina Moore, Ji-Li Jiang
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Descent into Darkness by Edward C. Raymer
Description not available.The leader of the U.S. Navy team that dived for survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor recalls those harrowing days with remarkable clarity and excitement. Original. AUTHOR: Edward C. Raymer
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ralph Nader by Justin Martin
Description not available.A fascinating, fully written account of one of the great living Americans retraces the remarkable career of public advocate Ralph Nader and his powerful impact on everything from auto safety to x-rays. 60,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Justin Martin
PUBLISHER: Perseus Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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