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Campbell's memoir of her adolescence, specifically of her elusive father and the various surrogates she relied upon during her childhood in Philadelphia. AUTHOR: Bebe Moore Campbell
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Born to be a Cowgirl by Candace Sherk Savage
A factual look at the lives of cowgirls in the American West from the mid 19th century through the early part of the 20th century. Accounts of such well-known cowgirls as Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, and Fannie Sperry further illuminate factual information about what it was like to be an American cowgirl. Topics covered include what cowgirls wore, rodeos, branding cattle, and how cowgirls found a way to cross over into doing what was traditionally known as man's work. Illustrated with photographs and archival prints. AUTHOR: Candace Sherk Savage
PUBLISHER: Tricycle Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Mandela by Floyd Cooper
A picture book biography of the South African anti-apartheid crusader and political leader, Nelson Mandela. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Floyd Cooper
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Women & Flight
Women pilots took to the skies soon after the Wright brothers, but only a handful - Harriet Quimby, Amelia Earhart, and Sally Ride, for example - have been recognized for their contributions to aviation. Now, with this unique book, Carolyn Russo and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum set the record straight by celebrating America's unsung pilots. Ninety spectacular duotone photographs, accompanied by extensive interviews and biographical sketches, capture thirty-six women aviators and astronauts from all walks of airborne life. The range of the women included is inspiring, from an eighty-eight-year-old who still operates an airfield to the first woman assigned to fly a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force; from the only Eskimo woman aviator in Alaska, Ellen Paneok - or Owl Eyes to the Eskimo elders - to Shannon Lucid, the astronaut who set an American record for length of time in space. Here are women in commercial and military occupations: a skywriter, a crop duster, an aerial photographer, a cattle herder, a helitack pilot, sport aviators, and several women in the U.S. Armed Forces, including one of the first female Navy combat pilots. For anyone interested in aviation and space flight, women trailblazers, and photography, Women and Flight is a fascinating journey of discovery.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Beria by Amy Knight
This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalins notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career. AUTHOR: Amy Knight
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Journey to Peace by Alphonse P. Spilly, Jeremy Langford, Joseph Louis Bernardin
Description not available.Excerpts from the homilies of the late Archbishop of Cincinnati focus on the relevance of Jesus' suffering, death, and resurrection to the lives of modern believers. Reprint. AUTHOR: Alphonse P. Spilly, Jeremy Langford, Joseph Louis Bernardin
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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