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|  | Warriors Don't Cry by Anne Greenberg, Julie Rubenstein, Melba P. Beals
The author reflects on her role in the 1957 integration of Little Rock Central High School. A 16-year-old girl at the time, the author was among the first nine black students to attend that school--a situation that brought out the best, and the worst, in her neighbors and fellow students. The integration of Central High School was, and continues to be, an important turning point in the American civil rights movement. AUTHOR: Anne Greenberg, Julie Rubenstein, Melba P. Beals
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Learning True Love by Cao Ngoc Phuong, Chan Khong
Sister Chan Khong's Learning True Love stands alongside great spiritual autobiographies of our century. Its anecdotal style presents an intensely personal portrait of a woman with astonishing courage, offering us a perspective on the suffering of the Vietnamese people, and shedding much light on the historical background of Thich Nhat Hanh's life and teachings. AUTHOR: Cao Ngoc Phuong, Chan Khong
PUBLISHER: Parallax Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Saving Monticello by Marc Leepson
SAVING MONTICELLO offers the first complete post-Jefferson history of this American icon and reveals the amazing story of how one Jewish family saved the house that became a family home to them for 89 years--longer than it ever was to the Jeffersons. With a dramatic narrative sweep across generations, Marc Leepson vividly recounts the turbulent saga of this fabled estate. Twice the house came to the brink of ruin, and twice it was saved, by two different generations of the Levy family. United by a fierce love of country, they venerated the Founding Fathers for establishing a religiously tolerant and democratic nation where their family had thrived since the founding of the Georgia colony in 1733, largely free of the persecutions and prejudices of the Old World. Rich with memorable, larger-than-life characters, beginning with Thomas Jefferson himself, the story is cast with such figures as James Turner Barclay, a messianic visionary who owned the house from 1831 to 1834; the fiery Uriah Levy, he of the six courts-martial and teenage wife; the colorful Confederate Colonel Benjamin Franklin Ficklin, who controlled Monticello during the Civil War; and the eccentric, high-living, deal-making egoist Jefferson Monroe Levy. Pulling back the veil of history to reveal a story we thought we knew, SAVING MONTICELLO establishes this most American of houses as more truly reflective of the American experience than has ever been fully appreciated. AUTHOR: Marc Leepson
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Enigma of Al Capp by Alexander Theroux
Theroux delves into the well-known, yet glossed over, dark side of Li`l Abner Creator, Al Capp. Compassionately, but with a keen eye, Theroux traces Capp`s degeneration from a brilliantly funny creator of American myth into a bitter, disillusioned, radical conservative ego-maniac. By juxtaposing his art with his Life, Theroux often a rich and compelling analysis of this complex icon of American culture. AUTHOR: Alexander Theroux
PUBLISHER: Fantagraphics Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Citizen Soldiers by Barrett Whitener, Smith Cotter, Stephen E. Ambrose
An oral history of the last European campaigns of the Second World War, from the landings at Normandy to the final surrender of the Axis powers. Ambrose, who has already chronicled the Second World War in UNDAUNTED COURAGE and D_DAY, concentrates on the experiences of the ordinary soldier in the ranks, and makes use of hundreds of interviews conducted over several years of research. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Barrett Whitener, Smith Cotter, Stephen E. Ambrose
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Nietzsche
This classic biography presents a stimulating English-language account of Nietsche`s life and thought, serving as both an introduction for students and a book for the general reader.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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