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|  | My Sky Blue Trades by Sven Birkerts
Birkerts, a noted essayist, explores the history of his own Latvian ancestors in this memoir about the immigrant experience. AUTHOR: Sven Birkerts
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Crossing Over by John Edward
Description not available.The psychic television host talks about his life, his work, and his TV program, sharing stories of the people and spirits he has encountered, and discussing his efforts to bring peace and insight to those grieving for loved ones. AUTHOR: John Edward
PUBLISHER: Princess Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Old Gods Almost Dead by Stephen Davis
In this history of the Rolling Stones, bestselling biographer Stephen Davis draws on interviews with the band, their lovers, and their contemporaries, to chronicle nearly four decades of the band's extraordinary success, personal pursuits, and decadent lifestyle. Fans are invited to follow Mick Jagger and crew from their meager beginnings in the early 1960s--when Jagger, Richards, and Jones were begging for gigs and barely making the rent for their dilapidated flat in Chelsea--to the late 1990s when the aging rockers went high-tech, releasing their STRIPPED album with multimedia content and launching their website. Twenty-four previously unpublished photographs are included. AUTHOR: Stephen Davis
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Act & Being by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, H. Martin Rumscheidt, Wayne W. Floyd
Written in 1929-1930 a Dietrich Bonhoeffer`s second dissertation, this book deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology fro the perspective of the Reformation insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the heart turned in upon neither to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor . AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, H. Martin Rumscheidt, Wayne W. Floyd
PUBLISHER: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Katharine Hepburn by Sheridan Morley
This lavish pictorial biography celebrates the woman with whom cinema came of age--Katharine Hepburn. Married only once with no children, the three things that she most cared about were Spencer Tracy, her privacy, and her career. All her wit, style, and grandeur are in abundant evidence in this fitting tribute. 264 photographs. AUTHOR: Sheridan Morley
PUBLISHER: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Maya Angelou by Jayne Pettit
A biography of poet Maya Angelou from her childhood, through her career as a singer and dancer, and to her life today as a renowned writer and human rights activist. This book is based on Angelou's own five-volume autobiography and other research. Includes black-and-white photographs. AUTHOR: Jayne Pettit
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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