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|  | Eleanor Roosevelt Vol. 2 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Kate Reading
Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies, and by reviewers everywhere. Now this seminal work depicting the life and achievements of an inspiring First Lady is available in trade paperback. Photographs. AUTHOR: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Kate Reading
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Angelhead
This memoir begins in the 1980s when the narrator's brother suffers an LSD-induced hallucination. This is the first psychotic episode of many chronicled in this moving portrayal of Bottom's brother's descent into schizophrenia. The various emotional responses felt by the family are vividly described.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Striving into 2000 by Stuart A. Kallen
Description not available.Discusses major events in African American history from the 1970s to the present, along with the defeat of apartheid in South Africa, and offers brief biographies of Nelson Mandela and other notable figures in various fields. AUTHOR: Stuart A. Kallen
PUBLISHER: ABDO Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Description not available.In the fourth volume of her autobiography, the author describes her experiences as a singer-dancer in New York and her impressions of the Civil Rights movement AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Lejeune by Merrill L. Bartlett
This well-documented and hard-hitting biography succeeds in converting John A. Lejeune from a near mythical figure in Marine Corps history to a flesh and blood officer who became the thirteenth commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. AUTHOR: Merrill L. Bartlett
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Vivien by Alexander Walker
'This is the best book we have had on Vivien Leigh, the most thoroughly and shrewdly researched, the most acute in its realization that Leigh was an actress who had to find herself in her parts if she was to do well, but who invariably began to destroy herself in the process.'--The Boston Sunday Globe AUTHOR: Alexander Walker
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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