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|  | If I Live to Be 100 by Neenah Ellis
In this memoir, a former National Public Radio producer describes her experience interviewing centenarians for a radio project. She recalls encountering fascinating individuals who recount their various secrets of longevity. AUTHOR: Neenah Ellis
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | From Sugar Daddies to Uncle Sam by Linda Chavez
Description not available.A stirring account of the Secretary of Labor's rags-to-riches, liberal-to-conservative story follows Linda Chavez from her work in the civil rights movement to her recent appointment to President Bush's cabinet. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Linda Chavez
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Never Too Late by John Holt
Best known for his brilliant insight into the way children learn, John Holt was also an intrepid explorer of adult learning. At the age of forty, with no particular musical background, he took up the cello. His touching and hilarious account of his passionate second career demolished the myth that one must start an instrument (or a sport, or a language) in early childhood, and will inspire any reader who dreams of taking up a new skill. AUTHOR: John Holt
PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Diving Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt
At the age of 44, after a catastrophic stroke and several weeks in a coma, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of Elle magazine, became a victim of what is known as ''locked-in syndrome.'' Unable to move or speak, though he continued to feel pain, Bauby found eventually that he could move only his left eyelid. Using a specially constructed alphabet based on letter-frequency, he dictated this extraordinary memoir of his ordeal by blinking his good eye. Bauby died in March 1997. AUTHOR: Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Mute's Soliloquy by Pramoedya A. Toer, Willem Samuels
Pramoedya is Indonesia's most celebrated writer and was a prisoner of the Suharto regime from 1965 to 1979, on undefined charges. This memoir, written as a series of letters to his eight children, is a chilling account of his ordeal. AUTHOR: Pramoedya A. Toer, Willem Samuels
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Variations to a Self Portrait by Angela Jianu, Norman Manea
Norman Manea`s memoir chronicles his childhood in Romania, and that country`s later years under the Ceausescu dictatorship--a story of family life, exile, and death in the camps told not only in the author`s own voice but in those of his relatives and friends. AUTHOR: Angela Jianu, Norman Manea
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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