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|  | A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. I started out searching for myself and my country, Peter Jenkins writes, and found both. In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore. AUTHOR: Peter Jenkins
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Murderers & Other Friends by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer
Mortimer, author of the 'Rumpole' books, continues the memoirs he began in Clinging to the Wreckage. Murderers and Other Friends is his summing up of himself and his friendships. As a defending barrister, he found himself establishing profound, if short-term, friendships with persons accused of various crimes. As writing took precedence in his life, it brought with it friendships with people such as Tony Richardson, John Gielgud, Harold Pinter, David Niven and Neil Kinnock. Mortimer combined these two worlds in the character of Rumpole, accounting for the similarities between the creator and his creation. AUTHOR: John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Now by Lauren Bacall
A frank, funny autobiography in which two-time Tony Award-winning actress Lauren Bacall shares the details of her life as a movie star, the wife of Humphrey Bogart, a mother, a friend to the likes of Laurence Olivier, Slim Keith, John Huston, and Leonard Bernstein, and a grandmother. Candid thoughts on romance, possessions and other subjects. 25 photographs. AUTHOR: Lauren Bacall
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
This memoir covers the bizarrely opposed sides of Chuck Barris`s life. On one hand, he was the host of the freakishly popular television program, THE GONG SHOW, while on the other, he claimed to be a trained CIA assassin with 30 notches to his name. AUTHOR: Chuck Barris
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | William Marshal by Georges Duby, Richard Howard
Description not available.Recreates the life of William Marshal, the Earl of Pembroke from a thirteenth century poem and describes medieval daily life AUTHOR: Georges Duby, Richard Howard
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Black 100 by Columbus Salley
Who are the most influential African-Americans that ever lived? Any such list is subject to passionate discussion and debate. It is within this controversy that readers are educated about the full breadth and depth of the African-American experience. After extensive thought and research author and educator Dr. Columbus Salley has selected the 100 most influential African-Americans of all time, and then ranked them according to their contributions to the struggle for equality. As a result, the Black 100 is a unique compendium of the most significant African-Americans, past and present. Dr. Salley identifies 100 black women and men as the collective giants on whose shoulders African-Americans stand in their unending quest for full economic, political and social equality. The Black 100 is not a debate on the most talented or most famous Black Americans, but is a listing - and ranking - of those who have had the greatest impact on the progress toward complete participation in our society. Here are the 100 who have fundamentally altered the ways in which millions of Americans - of all races - live today. It is fascinating to read how the author ranks the influence of some personalities as opposed to others. Who is first? Who is last? And why? The list of names in The Black 100 reads like a history of African-Americans over nearly 400 years. To name just a few: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby. Dr. Salley reveals the unique contributions of each of the 100 to African-American history. The Black 100 is one of the mostprovocative and informative books ever written on this subject. It will be endlessly debated, discussed and scrutinized. A compellingly readable contribution to an understanding of our history, it will prove to be an essential book for all students and teachers in the field - as well AUTHOR: Columbus Salley
PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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