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|  | Life among Savages by Shirley Jackson
One of America's most celebrated writers takes you home to a family and a small town so funny and unpredictable, you'd wish it were your own. As warm as it is hilarious and believable . . . Never has the state of domestic chaos been so perfectly illuminated .-- The New York Times Book Review . AUTHOR: Shirley Jackson
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | GUEST FROM THE FUTURE--Isaiah Berlin
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When the British intellectual Isaiah Berlin and Russian poet Anna Akhmatova met in 1945, their lives changed from that point on. Both figured prominently--both directly and indirectly--in the other's work. This is their story, with insightful portions devoted to their dealings with suspicious Soviet officials who questioned their political leanings both before and after the Cold War.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries. She firmly believed in the divine providence of her sovereignty and exercised supreme authority over the intrigue-laden Tudor court and Elizabethan England at large. Brilliant, mercurial, seductive, and maddening, an inspiration to artists and adventurers and the subject of vicious speculation over her choice not to marry, Elizabeth became the most powerful ruler of her time. Anne Somerset has immortalized her in this splendidly illuminating account. AUTHOR: Anne Somerset
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm
The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'. Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?' So begins Pete Fromm's seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness guarding salmon eggs. After blundering into this forbidding errand as a college lark, Fromm gradually comes face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. Brutal cold, isolation, and fearful risks balance against the satisfaction of living a unique existence in modern America. This award-winning narrative is a gripping story of adventures, a rousing tale of self-sufficiency, and a modern-day Walden. From either perspective, Fromm lives up to his reputation as one of the West's strongest new voices. AUTHOR: Pete Fromm
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Angel on My Shoulder by Charles Patterson
Marian Filar has been a performing pianist since 1917, when he was 12 and made his debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic. In this memoir of a colorful career, he looks back on his life as a musician and as a man--including his parents' deaths at the hands of the Nazis, his own incarceration in Buchenwald where he almost lost a hand, his subsequent study with Walter Gieseking (refusing to believe Gieseking was a Nazi), and his immigration to New York in the 1950s. AUTHOR: Charles Patterson
PUBLISHER: University Press of Mississippi
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Untitled Autobiography by Eric Seaborg
A researcher of plutonium as World War II broke out, Seaborg found himself in the center of the scientific community--a key player on the Manhattan Project--as the war ensued. This autobiography documents his view of those years and his subsequent career as a nuclear scientist, for which he earned the Nobel Prize in 1951. Here he discusses his ethics and illuminates many points of his research in a manner accessible to nonscientists. AUTHOR: Eric Seaborg
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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