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|  | Moving Violations by John Hockenberry
Biographical stories about the professional and personal life of a reporter who at age 19 became a paraplegic after a car accident. The author writes of his experiences as a reporter in the Middle East, his attempts to become the first journalist to report from space, and the horrors of being wheelchair-bound on the inaccessible New York City subway system. AUTHOR: John Hockenberry
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Diaries of Dawn Powell 1931-1965 by Dawn Powell, Tim Page
Dawn Powell's incomparable diaries provide a tough-minded, witty, courageous account of her days in New York City, when she was trying to succeed as a writer, cope with her difficult son, and remain a vital part of the city's literary milieu. AUTHOR: Dawn Powell, Tim Page
PUBLISHER: Steerforth Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Long Walk to Freedom by Duncan Morgan, Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa`s anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account of the unforgettable events since his release that produced AUTHOR: Duncan Morgan, Nelson Mandela
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Daddy Must Die by William O. Brown
The true story of a wife and child abuser of the worst sort. The man is so very evil that once his wife dies of his abuse, his children get together and plot his death. Do they do it? Read the true story! AUTHOR: William O. Brown
PUBLISHER: Holloway House Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Gift of Peace by Joseph C. Besnardin
Description not available.In a series of personal reflections, the late Chicago cardinal shares his experiences over the last three years of his life AUTHOR: Joseph C. Besnardin
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Out of Darkness by Kate Kiesler, Kate A. Kiesler, Nelson Runger, Russell Freedman
The story of Louis Braille, blinded as a child, who created the alphabet of raised dots that enables blind people to read. Illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Kate Kiesler, Kate A. Kiesler, Nelson Runger, Russell Freedman
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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