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Olympic Gold Medalist Picabo Street is once again on the rise, ready to face the 2002 Olympics and tell her extraordinary story Picabo Street...is the kind of athlete for which the Olympics were invented. --USA Today Street...has been performing at Porsche speed...dominating women's downhill... [a] comeback queen. --Glamour Picabo rules... America's irrepressible ski champion. --Skiing Olympic Champion Picabo Street is golden once again The moment she burst onto the world stage at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, 23-year-old speed demon Picabo Street ignited a fire of excitement in the media and in the hearts of fans that continues to burn today. Free-spirited and outspoken, Street was a new kind of female athlete and a new kind of role model. Street followed her silver medal win with two straight World Cup downhill titles--a feat unmatched in American skiing--and finally, the ultimate Olympic gold medal win in Nagano in 1998. But success had its price. Just one month after her gold medal win, Street careened off course in a race in Switzerland, snapping her left femur in two, shredding the ligament in her right knee, and leaving her future in peril. Now, after two years of excruciating pain, grueling rehabilitation, and stunning personal growth, Street is making a comeback, ready to face the 2002 Winter Olympics and ready to tell her inspiring story. In this powerful, honest autobiography, Street shares her coming-of-age experience, revealing how adversity shaped a rebellious tomboy into a champion athlete and compassionate woman, in harmony with her family and at peace with her fear of failure. Here, for the first time, Street addresses the pressures exerted on her by her ski sponsors that may have been partly to blame for her terrible crash; the scandals surrounding the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee; and how AUTHOR: Dana White, Picabo Street
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The OrchidThief by Jennifer Meyers, Susan Orlean
Inspired by a short, bizarre newspaper article, a journalist embarks on an amusing journey to understand a passionate, yet somehow principled crook and one of his ephemeral obsessions--wild orchids. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999. AUTHOR: Jennifer Meyers, Susan Orlean
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | On the Field With . . . Mia Hamm by Matt Christopher
A biography of the female soccer star. AUTHOR: Matt Christopher
PUBLISHER: Little Brown Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Wendy's Got the Heat by Wendy Williams
Now, it's Wendy's turn to talk about herself; a chance to laugh, cry, and reflect on the woman she was to becoming the woman she is now, the Queen of Urban Radio.
Known as a shock jock diva and a radio gossip guru, Wendy Williams has had a following in the nation's number one media market, New York City, and across the nation from the time she became a top-rated radio personality and It Girl in the mid-1990s. Whether she's doing color commentary for the VH1 Fashion Awards or giving advice on her daily drive-time show on New York's WBLS, her fans know that Wendy's Got the Heat. She's the kind of media personality that artists love--because she builds them up--and fear--because she can bring them down. She's interviewed many of the biggest names in entertainment--including Jennifer Lopez, Ice-T, and Queen Latifah--and is known for her ability to disarm and get them to reveal their secrets. Known also as the biggest mouth in New York, she is candid as well in discussing her own drama-filled life--including her public struggles to recover from drug addiction, miscarriages, being fired from her job, and rehired to the top spot in radio. Her story begins in a conservative middle class black family in predominately white Ocean Township, New Jersey, far from the glitz and grit of urban and hip hop culture. Her family sent her to college more with the intention of seeing her marry well than launch a successful career in one of the most male-dominated and competitive media industries of all. Now, it's Wendy's turn to talk about herself; a chance to laugh, cry, and reflect on the woman she was to becoming the woman she is now, the Queen of Urban Radio.
AUTHOR: Wendy Williams
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
This history of the reign of King Henry VIII of England is told through the lives of his wives--Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr. AUTHOR: Alison Weir
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Paper Daughter by M. Elaine Mar
Born in Hong Kong, the author immigrates to America at the age of 5, where the family lives in Denver and Elaine tries desperately to fit into an alien culture. Finally, faced with her mother's devotion to tradition, she must leave home in order to find out who she is. AUTHOR: M. Elaine Mar
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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