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|  | The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon, G. W. Kitchin, Gerald Weinberger, Michael Kiernan
Description not available.Describes how scientific theories should be based on observations and facts rather than pure reason. AUTHOR: Francis Bacon, G. W. Kitchin, Gerald Weinberger, Michael Kiernan
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Boy with a Thorn in His Side by Keith Fleming
When he was 16, the author of this memoir was sent by his recently divorced parents from his home in Chicago to live with his uncle--the then-struggling novelist Edmund White--in his apartment in Greenwich Village. Though the Fleming was straight and his uncle Ed gay, the boy provincial in his tastes and his uncle conspicuously cosmopolitan, the two hit it off and Fleming found himself with what felt like his first real parent. AUTHOR: Keith Fleming
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Other Side of Ethel Mertz by Alvin Walker, Frank Castelluccio
A portrait of Vivian Vance, known for her portrayal of Lucy's next-door neighbor Ethel Mertz on I LOVE LUCY. The authors claim that, in reality, Vance despised William Frawley, who played her grouchy husband Fred on the show, and they describe how Desi Arnaz discovered Vance in California and cajoled her into entering 1951's unpopular television industry. AUTHOR: Alvin Walker, Frank Castelluccio
PUBLISHER: Boulevard Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Celine Dion by Celine Dion
Description not available.The world-renowned singer offers readers an intmate portrait of her life, her struggles to find success in the recording industry, her romantic life, and her 1999 decision to retire to start a family and spend time with her cancer-stricken husband, along with a new chapter on the birth of her baby. Reprint. AUTHOR: Celine Dion
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Myself When I am Real
Click on the link for a complete description.Santoro presents his story like a documentary film collage, with talking heads directing the discourse every page or two--Hentoff, the wives, Knepper, Mingus himself. While these italicized quotations are informative, they stagger Santoro's narrative. Rarely able to sustain the story line longer than a few paragraphs, he leaps fitfully from Mingus's private life to his music, from his checkbook to great moments in the civil rights movement. Each chapter breaks down into 40 or 50 sections, which crumble away into little paragraphs, eroded by tiny sentences. These fragments make for slow going. New York Times, 8/6/00
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | John Charles Fremont by Barbara Witteman
Description not available.Chronicles the life and career of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the western territories to settlers. AUTHOR: Barbara Witteman
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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