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This brief biography in the Penguin Lives series recounts Martin Luther King's public life, with emphasis on his leadership role in the Civil Rights movement and his relations with key political figures of his time, such as Kennedy, Johnson, and Hoover. Journalist Marshall Frady has written acclaimed biographies of Jesse Jackson and George Wallace. AUTHOR: Marshall Frady
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Revelations of Divine Love by A. C. Spearing, Elizabeth Spearing, Julian Norwich
Julian of Norwich, an English mystic who took her name from the church where she lived and prayed in seclusion, wrote these expressive religious statements during a period of widespread illness and fear in medieval England. Remarkably, she envisioned a loving and generous God at a time when there was little evidence in the world of a compassionate deity. AUTHOR: A. C. Spearing, Elizabeth Spearing, Julian Norwich
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Stranger Passing by Douglas R. Nickel, Ian Frazier, Joel Sternfeld
Some of the portraits in this collection go back to the 1980s, but most are from the very early 21st century, and most of them contain an element of comedy, such as a photograph of a woman in a chiffon sari pumping gas. AUTHOR: Douglas R. Nickel, Ian Frazier, Joel Sternfeld
PUBLISHER: Bulfinch Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | If I Live to Be 100 by Neenah Ellis
In this memoir, a former National Public Radio producer describes her experience interviewing centenarians for a radio project. She recalls encountering fascinating individuals who recount their various secrets of longevity. AUTHOR: Neenah Ellis
PUBLISHER: HighBridge Company
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Indira by Katherine Frank
Here is the first popular biography of one of the most powerful women in the twentieth century, Indira Nehru Gandhi. India?s third prime minister, she was voted ?Woman of the Millennium? by the BBC. Now the acclaimed biographer Katherine Frank uncovers the personal Indira, drawing from unpublished sources and more than a hundred interviews with people who knew her. The result is a beautifully drawn, complete, and balanced portrait. Steeped in the volatile history and exotic locale of the world?s largest democracy, Indira tells a tale of epic proportions about a life marked by surprising contradictions. Wary at ?rst of the political spotlight, Indira eventually played an important role in many of the major events of India?s past century. An Indian who was ?uent in English, she rose to power in a country with more than 850 million people who spoke scores of indigenous languages. She was born to a wealthy, westernized family, but her real constituency was the poor of the countryside and the urban slums, the illiterate, the dispossessed. From the powerful influence of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, to her misguided relationships with her two sons and political heirs, to the fateful decision that led to her assassination, Indira shows us a figure who was brave, shrewd, isolated, sometimes ?awed, and always fascinating. It is certain to be the definitive biography of this charismatic leader. AUTHOR: Katherine Frank
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Promises of Change by Roger Morris
A dual biography of President & Mrs. Clinton, exploring each of their careers and the driving ambition that they share. AUTHOR: Roger Morris
PUBLISHER: Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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