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Description not available.The author of China Boy describes the coming together of his parents--his mother, the daughter of a forward-thinking father who shuns ancient Chinese tradition, and his father, a young pilot who tried to kill Mao Tse-tung and fled China in search of his screen idol, Katherine Hepburn--in a memoir about the clash between cultural ties and a traditional way of life. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Gus Lee
PUBLISHER: Harmony in Your Environment
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Backstreet Boys by Sam Hughes
Description not available.Describes the production and impact of the Backstreet Boys' second album, profiles each of the group's members, and discusses their future projects. AUTHOR: Sam Hughes
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Babe by Susan E. Cayleff
woman who was a great athlete at a time when it was extremely difficult for a woman to be her own person. Cayleff caringly reveals Babe's life, including her involvement with young golfer Betty Dodd, whose for-the-record discussion of their relationship is included. Photos. AUTHOR: Susan E. Cayleff
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Life Is So Good by George Dawson, LeVar Burton, RICHARD GLAUBMAN
This memoir recalls the long, difficult life of a man who insisted on seeing things optimistically, as his title attests. 101 at the time of the book's publication, George Dawson had been reading for only three years when he set his story down, recalling a childhood in a viciously segregated town in Texas and a life spent butting up against the institutionalized racism of the South. AUTHOR: George Dawson, LeVar Burton, RICHARD GLAUBMAN
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Blood & Splendor by Daniel Myerson
Description not available.A study of human evil at work presents in-depth, compelling profiles of five notorious tyrants--Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein--detailing their individual lives, describing how their obsessions were played out through their political actions, and the consequences of their actions. Original. AUTHOR: Daniel Myerson
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Kerouac & Friends by Fred W. McDarrah, Timothy S. McDarrah
Description not available.A revealing collection of photographs, essays, and pop culture depictions captures the Beat Generation writers and their prince, Jack Kerouac, in all their glory, behind the typewriter and on stage in America in the 1950s and 1960s. Original. AUTHOR: Fred W. McDarrah, Timothy S. McDarrah
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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