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|  | Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, Robert Edward Ball
A personal history of slavery in the South, written by a descendant of South Carolina slaveowners who traced the histories of the slave families owned by his ancestors and searched out their descendants. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Edward Ball, Robert Edward Ball
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Hoop Roots by John Edgar Wideman
Novelist John Edgar Wideman finds meaning and remembrances of things past in his lifelong connection to basketball. He recalls the lessons learned in his youth, explores his identity as an African American, and decodes the etiquette of the court. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: John Edgar Wideman
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Hemingway by Michael S. Reynolds
This biography covers Hemingway's career during the 1930s, when he matured as a writer, pushing his limits with such works as DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Reynolds's book illuminates not only Hemingway's turbulent life but the equally turbulent era in which these events took place. AUTHOR: Michael S. Reynolds
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Michelle Kwan by Rosemary Wallner
Description not available.Traces the personal life and career of the world-championship figure skater from the time she expressed interest in skating after watching her brother at hockey practice through her United States, world, and Olympic championships. AUTHOR: Rosemary Wallner
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Inside the Gemstone File by David Childress, Kenn Thomas
A mesmerizing page-turner, Inside the Gemstone File tells the whole story about Bruce Roberts, the inventor of the synthetic ruby commonly used in laser technology, and his secret correspondence revealing his relationship with Howard Hughes, Aristotle Onassis, the Mafia, the CIA, and the Kennedy. According to Roberts, Onassis and the Mafia kidnapped Howard Hughes and held him prisoner for ten years so that Onassis could take control of Hughes' vast aviation business, including TWA (the airline of choice among CIA operatives). Utilizing new information and expert journalistic tactics, Thomas and Childress offer a fresh analysis of this notorious document that cloaked the richest of the rich and the most powerful men in the world in the shroud of conspiracy. AUTHOR: David Childress, Kenn Thomas
PUBLISHER: Adventures Unlimited Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Main Events by Martin Amis
Martin Amis's amusing, insightful, and occasionally heartbreaking memoir does not flinch from tackling the difficult subjects in his life, including his relationship with his famous father, his troubled first marriage, his media-celebrity friends, and--not least--his new and much-publicized teeth. (Among other things, he compares his teeth to those of his mentors, Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov.) A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. AUTHOR: Martin Amis
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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