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|  | Oxford Essential Biographical Dictionary; The World's Most Trusted Dictionaries by Press Boulevard Company Staff
From every period of history and every part of the world, the prominent people listed in this A-to-Z compendium range from physicists to politicians, emperors to entertainers. Featured facts include birth and death dates, occupations, notable achievements, pronunciation, nicknames and pseudonyms, and more. AUTHOR: Press Boulevard Company Staff
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Spiritual Innovators by Ira Rifkin
This biographical reference outlines the lives and works of 75 thinkers who have made indelible marks on modern day spirituality. Includes bibliographies for each highlighted author. AUTHOR: Ira Rifkin
PUBLISHER: SkyLight Paths Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Reluctant Saint by Donald Spoto
Donald Spoto`s biography of Francis of Assisi adds new detail to the well-known story of the young wastrel who heard the call to Christ, providing context for what is known about Francis and emphasizing the saint`s integrity and selflessness. AUTHOR: Donald Spoto
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Will Rogers Says by Reba Collins
Read by the most sophisticated audiences in the world, Will Rogers also spoke to and for the great normal majority. He tackled the most complex ideas and cut them down to size. A flying reporter, he traveled the world and wrote about events as if they were happening in the next county. Since the Will Rogers Memorial opened in November, 1938, many of the 25 million visitors to the shrine have asked for his gags , his jokes or his sayings . Thousands of other folk have written to ask what Rogers had to say on particular topics - what sage remarks he made on Hoover, taxes, the depression or Hollywood, among other things. Choice bits of his wit and wisdom on many subjects fill the pages of this book. Selected by the Memorial staff members from collected writings of Will Rogers (in 22 volumes), the sayings will make you nod your head and say, You know, he's right about that! You will want to repeat them to friends over coffee. You can use them to spice up a speech or a column. Or to do your heart good as you chuckle to yourself on a long plane trip. AUTHOR: Reba Collins
PUBLISHER: Neighbors & Quaid
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Dickinsons of Amherst by Barton Levi St. Armand, Christopher E. G. Benfey, Jerome Liebling, Polly Longsworth
This collection of photographs depicts the details of Emily Dickinson's storied environment in Amherst, Massachusetts. Essays describe the images and elucidate the significance of the subjects in her life and work. AUTHOR: Barton Levi St. Armand, Christopher E. G. Benfey, Jerome Liebling, Polly Longsworth
PUBLISHER: University Press of New England
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | War Within & Without by Anne M. Lindbergh
The story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life, begun in Bring Me a Unicorn, continues in this fifth and final published volume of her diaries and letters. This record of the Lindberghs' wartime years is emotionally charged by the struggle between the American isolationists, who counted among their membership Charles Lindbergh, and the interventionists, who included Anne's mother and sister. In her introduction, the author sets the historical record of these years straight, fairly and equitably, before letting the diaries and letters speak with the voice of anguished immediacy. A gentle, intensely responsive woman and a pacifist, Anne experienced the conflicts of the war years -- within her own family as well as in the world -- with excruciated sensitivity. She speaks here of the many aspects of her life -- supporting an embattled husband, creating several new homes, bearing and raising children, pursuing her writing career -- and the reader sees her as she was, valiant and vulnerable, loving and beloved. What emerges from these pages is the story of the bond between Charles and Anne: two extraordinary people, tested in stress and found not wanting. AUTHOR: Anne M. Lindbergh
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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