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|  | Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Clarence A. Andrews, Louis R. Harlan, Walter Covell, William L. Andrews
Long considered one of the most inspiring autobiographies in American literature, UP FROM SLAVERY chronicles the author's beginnings as a slave to his success as an educator, writer, and speaker. Noted for his leadership of the Tuskegee Institute, Washington promoted economic progress through vocational education. AUTHOR: Booker T. Washington, Clarence A. Andrews, Louis R. Harlan, Walter Covell, William L. Andrews
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
An overview of American independent rock music, this book focuses on several important bands, giving short histories of each, and establishing their place in the pre- alternative rock landscape. The bands covered include Black Flag, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, and Fugazi. AUTHOR: Michael Azerrad
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Philip V of Spain by Henry Kamen
Philip V, who reluctantly assumed the Spanish throne in 1700, was the first of the Bourbon dynasty which continues to reign today. Philip?s forty-six-year reign, briefly curtailed in 1724 when he abdicated in favor of his short-lived son, Louis I, was one of the most important in the country?s history. This highly readable account is the first biography of Philip V in English. Previous writing on Philip has been largely negative, dismissing him as comic, stupid, and indolent. Henry Kamen demonstrates here, however, that the king initiated significant developments in politics, imperial policy, finance, government, and the army that laid the basis of the modern Spanish state. Philip also encouraged literature, the creative arts, and music in ways that brought Spanish culture closer in touch with Europe, and he dealt authoritatively with issues concerning the autonomy of the provinces of Spain and the role of the monarchy itself. Drawing on both contemporary sources and fresh archival sources, Kamen discusses Philip?s character, decisions, and policies. Kamen?s account of Philip as king provides an essential introduction to the study of early eighteenth-century Spain and the Bourbon monarchy. AUTHOR: Henry Kamen
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Bourke-White by Margaret Bourke-White, Time-Life Books Editors
Drawing from Bourke-White's archives, this book includes images which span the career of the American photographer. Initially an industrial photographer working in Cleveland, Ohio, Margaret Bourke-White shot now-famous images of World War II during the early days of Life magazine as one of its first photojournalists. AUTHOR: Margaret Bourke-White, Time-Life Books Editors
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | My Guru & His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
In the course of Isherwood's spiritual discipleship to the Swami Prabhavananda in California in the 1940s he pursued a dramatic devotion to both spirituality and sensuality. Sexual sprees and all-night parties one moment, celibacy and fasting the next. His account emerges as a profoundly modern struggle with the nature and role of spirituality today. AUTHOR: Christopher Isherwood
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Walking with Thomas Merton by Robert Waldron
Author Robert Waldron reflects on the virtues of Thomas Merton's writings as a spiritual guide. AUTHOR: Robert Waldron
PUBLISHER: Paulist Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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