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|  | Untitled Kurt Cobain Journals by Julie Grau, Kurt Cobain This volume provides fans with the first view of Cobain`s widely anticipated journals--the contents addressing everything from the rigors of fame to opinions of other people, stars and otherwise. AUTHOR: Julie Grau, Kurt Cobain PUBLISHER: Putnam Publishing Group, The FORMAT: Hardcover CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | 1,000 Years, 1,000 People by Anges H. Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers, Henry Gottlieb Description not available.From George Washington to Babe Ruth, Adolf Hitler to Mother Teresa, this fascinating study profiles--and rates--the one thousand individuals, including philosophers, artists, statesmen, inventors, and explorers, who have shaped the history of the last one thousand years. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Anges H. Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, Brent Bowers, Henry Gottlieb PUBLISHER: Kodansha America, Incorporated FORMAT: Paperback CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Breaking Faith Cornwell, a former-seminarian and author of the castigatory HITLER'S POPE, critiques the modern Catholic Church. From his outsider perspective, he summarizes the weaknesses and troubles of the Church but also makes suggestions for its reform. CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman This award-winning life of Paul Robeson--scholar, athlete, entertainer, political activist--by playwright/historian Martin Duberman stands out for its treatment of its subject and for the example it sets of biography as a genre. AUTHOR: Martin Duberman PUBLISHER: New Press, The FORMAT: Paperback CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Balto & the Great Race by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Nora Koerber It's 1925 and Balto, a Siberian husky, lives a quiet existence as a sled dog in Nome, Alaska, until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the remote town of Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without special medication, they will perish -- and the closest supply is 650 miles away. The only way to get the medication to Nome is by sled, but can the sled dogs get there in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life! AUTHOR: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Nora Koerber PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books FORMAT: Paperback CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Marcel Proust A best-seller in France, this biography by an authority on Proust draws on recently discovered material to tell the story of perhaps the greatest novelist of all time. Tadie illuminates Proust's life and also his art in a definitive critical reading that finds fascinating correspondences between them. Nominated in 2001 for a National Book Critics Award, and also a nominee for a 2001 Lambda Literary Award. CATEGORY: Biographies 
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