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|  | Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
The memoir of an American boy of the 1950s and 1960s discovering his Armenian past. Balakian is a highly regarded poet whose family fled the Turkish massacres in Armenia during World War I and settled in the United States. Winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. AUTHOR: Peter Balakian
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Across America by David Antram, David Salariya, Fiona MacDonald, Jacqueline Morley
Across America: The Story of Lewis and Clark follows the exploration of North America and the search for the Northwest passage by Lewis and Clark. AUTHOR: David Antram, David Salariya, Fiona MacDonald, Jacqueline Morley
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | A Transatlantic Love Affair by Ellen G. Reeves, Nelson Algren, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Vanessa King
In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago. The two fell in love and began an affair that was to act itself out over 20 years and several continents. This is the first published collection of more than 300 of de Beauvoir's love letters (written in English) to Algren. AUTHOR: Ellen G. Reeves, Nelson Algren, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Vanessa King
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Heartbeat by Jim McGrath
Description not available.A seminal selection of writings, including letters, speeches, public papers, interviews, and other excerpts offers an intimate portrait of America's forty-first president that conveys many of his private beliefs and fundamental values in such chapters as Friends, Family, and Faith. 100,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Jim McGrath
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Off to the Side by Jim Harrison
Description not available.The critically acclaimed novelist and poet shares the story of his own life in an intriguing memoir that chronicles growing up in Michigan during the Depression and Second World War, his love of literature, his career as a screenwriter and author, and the obsessions that have shaped his life. 65,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. AUTHOR: Jim Harrison
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Craft Rubin
In this overview and study of Winston Churchill, Gretchen Rubin collects the sometimes contrasting views of Churchill`s contemporaries and commentators in order to bring out the many facets of Britain`s great, though complex, prime minister. AUTHOR: Gretchen Craft Rubin
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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