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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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 | Khomeini by Baqer Moin
Description not available.Explores how an octogenerian, dressed in the traditional robes of a Muslim cleric, overthrew the secular Shah of Iran and became the spiritual leader of a new and militant Islamic regime, in the first full-length biography of the controversial leader. AUTHOR: Baqer Moin
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Great Philosophers by Edith Ehrlich, Karl Jaspers, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Michael Ehrlich, Michael Ermarth
Karl Jaspers died in 1969, leaving unfinished his universal history of philosophy, a history organized around those philosophers who have influenced the course of human thought. The first two volumes of this work appeared in Jasper's lifetime; the third and fourth have been gathered from the vast material of his posthumous papers. This is the fourth volume. AUTHOR: Edith Ehrlich, Karl Jaspers, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Michael Ehrlich, Michael Ermarth
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Rings of Saturn by Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald
This novel, which has secured W. G. Sebald a reputation as one of the most original literary figures of his time, combines historical fact with fiction as the narrator, who has recently suffered a mysterious and paralyzing breakdown, travels backward in time while he wanders through Suffolk, England. It includes photographs of people and places mentioned in the text. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald
PUBLISHER: New Directions Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Alandra's Lilacs by Tressa Bowers
Description not available.The hearing mother of a deaf child recounts her experiences and provides advice for other parents in a similar situation. AUTHOR: Tressa Bowers
PUBLISHER: Gallaudet University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | War Book by Anita Lobel
Anita (Kempler) Lobel, the illustrator of such books as On Market Street and the author-illustrator of Away from Home , tells the story of her childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hidden by a Catholic family, the Jewish Lobel (then Kempler) and her brother were eventually discovered by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. After the war, the siblings were rescued by the Swedish Red Cross and sent to Stockholm, where they were reunited with their parents. The Kempler family lived in Sweden until Anita was 16, at which point they immigrated to the United States. Illustrated with photographs. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Anita Lobel
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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