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Description not available.A portrait of a Raquela Prywes, gifted, ninth-generation Jerusalemite woman, examines her youth under the troubled rule of the British mandate, her service as a nurse and midwife during and after the struggle for independence, and the personal tragedies of her life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Faye Kellerman, Ruth Gruber
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Blues Odyssey by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
The evolution of blues music, here charted from the early 1600s through the early 2000s, has encompassed an enormous number of changes and stylistic adaptations. This volume, peppered with trivia and quotes, explores the lives and works that most influenced Wyman, best known as the Rolling Stones bassist. AUTHOR: Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Great African Americans in the Olympics by Shawn Hunter
Gail Devers, George Foreman, Rafer Johnson, Florence Griffith Joyner, Edwin Moses, Michael Johnson, Debbie Thomas, and many other famous Olympians are featured here for young readers to learn about. Full-color photos. AUTHOR: Shawn Hunter
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Rice Room by Ben Fong-Torrees
This memoir, published to coincide with Asian-American history month, explores the issues associated with growing up Chinese in America. This thoroughly engaging and unique personal history is distinguished by Fong-Torres' rare insight into the complex politics within and between Asian-American communities, and enlivened by the breakthroughs of the pop/music culture. AUTHOR: Ben Fong-Torrees
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Confederate Admiral by Craig L. Symonds
A leading historian of both the American Civil War and American naval history takes a fresh look at Franklin Buchanan, the U.S. Naval Academy's first superintendent who went on to become the Confederate Navy's first admiral. Buchanan's resignation from the U.S. Navy in April 1861 as the nation teetered on the brink of Civil War is one of the many dramatic episodes in this revealing biography. Convinced that his native state of Maryland was about to secede from the Union, Buchanan gave up his commission but, when Maryland did not secede, desperately tried to get it back. Unsuccessful, he eventually went South where as the Confederacy's only full admiral, he helped mold Southern naval strategy and took command of both the Virginia (Merrimack) in the battle of Hampton Roads in 1861, and the Tennessee in the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864 when Farragut damned the torpedoes. While Buchanan's Civil War experiences helped define the drama of the period, his fifty-year naval career illuminates the sweeping changes in the U.S. Navy of the antebellum years. This stimulating and authoritative biography chronicles Buchanan's life as a midshipman on the square-rigged sailing frigate Java and as a commander at the helm of the coal-burning side-wheel steamer Susquehanna. It examines his pivotal role in the establishment of the Naval Academy and his experiences as the first American to set foot in Japan and the first to corm a U.S. Navy warship up the Yangtze River. More than a record of events in Buchanan's career, this biography helps readers understand Buchanan's character and appreciate the broader issues of politics, slavery, loyalty, and professionalism in the era of America's greatest nationaltrauma. AUTHOR: Craig L. Symonds
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Frederick the Great
This biography of Frederick the Great depicts him as one who distinguished himself not only in politics--as a ruler and a reformer of systems--but also as a man of letters who championed the arts. Frederick is credited with moving Germany into the modern world.
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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