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|  | Castro & Cuba by Angelo Trento
This concise history, which begins with the seizing of independence in 1898 and reaches to the present day, synthesizes the events that have made Cuba a singular case in the history of communism: the choice of socialism by Fidel and the missile crisis of 1962; the internationalism of Ernesto Che Guevara and Havana's maverick foreign policy; tile adoption of the Soviet model and its effect on Cuba's social and economic life; the forms of the poder popular; the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break with Moscow; and the difficulties created by the continuing economic embargo and the historical hostility of the United States. AUTHOR: Angelo Trento
PUBLISHER: Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
A classic of American journalism from the aftermath of the `60s. Hunter Thompson`s chronicle of his life on the road and on drugs was originally published serially in Rolling Stone in 1971, and earned him the title of Gonzo journalist. AUTHOR: Hunter S. Thompson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Inside the Halo & Beyond by Maxine Kumin
Description not available.This journal recounts the story of a celebrated poet's astonishing recovery from traumatic injuries suffered in a horseback-riding accident and the emotional trip she took from despair to hope to unshakable determination. Reprint. AUTHOR: Maxine Kumin
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Tammy Wynette by Jackie Daly, Tom Carter
In this memoir, country singer Tammy Wynette's second-oldest daughter, Jackie Daly, illustrates the role reversal that she experienced with her famous mother. In doing so, Daly reveals the ways in which Wynette's vices--including a dependence on men and an addiction to prescription medication--corrupted her relationship with her children. AUTHOR: Jackie Daly, Tom Carter
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The World Don't Owe Me Nothing by David Honeyboy Edwards
From sharecropper's son to itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's life reads like a distillation of the classic blues legends. His good friends and musical partners were blues pioneers Charlie Patton, Big Walker Horton, Tommy McClennan, Sunnyland Slim, and Robert Johnson, among many others. He saw some of the first blues musicians in the Delta: Tommy Johnson, Son House, and older artists unrecorded and lost to us. Honeyboy went on the road to play guitar at age seventeen with Big Joe Williams. He hopped the freight trains of blues lore - the Pea Vine, the Southern, and the Yellow Dog - and played the riverboats, juke joints, and good-timing houses along the dusty roads of the Delta. In the thirties, Honeyboy was playing in Handy Park on Beale Street during that seminal era of Memphis's music scene. Eventually the blues led him to Texas, to Deep Ellum in Dallas and to Houston, where he and the blues took on a new sound. In the late forties he brought a teenaged Little Walter to Chicago and together they played on Maxwell Street. Eventually, Honeyboy made Chicago his home, as did the blues we know today. In addition to providing a precious link to the origins of the blues, Honeyboy gives us a unique perspective on American history. You will marvel at his firsthand accounts of plantation life, the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, the racial problems and economics of southern blacks, and the Depression. AUTHOR: David Honeyboy Edwards
PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lure of the Quest by John Balzar
This story of the Yukon Quest, a grueling 1,000-mile-plus sled dog race, looks at the men and women, and their dogs, who challenge themselves and nature as well, as at the issues of animal rights and corporate sponsorship. AUTHOR: John Balzar
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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