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|  | Citizen Soros by Michael Kaufman
A biography of the Hungarian-born philanthropist who made his millions on Wall Street after a youth of hardship under the Nazi regime and a rigorous education at the London School of Economics. AUTHOR: Michael Kaufman
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Black Like Me by John H. Griffin
In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like to be a Negro in the Deep South, as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and gripping chronicle of that odyssey, Black Like Me , helped ignite public opinion in support of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. AUTHOR: John H. Griffin
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris, Kimberly Schraf
Kathleen Norris spent the better part of a year living among Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, closely observing their customs, dress, ceremonies, and even their sexuality. The men and women who have chosen the cloistered life provide a counterpoint to the secular world that is often misunderstood. Norris uses the example of the monastic life to reexamine the life she has led. AUTHOR: Kathleen Norris, Kimberly Schraf
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Ricky Martin by Christian Noble, Karessa McElheny, Kathleen Tracy
Description not available.A profile of the Latin heartthrob's life starts with his childhood in Puerto Rico and chronicles his early singing career in Menudo, his stint on General Hospital, and his Broadway debut in Les Miserables AUTHOR: Christian Noble, Karessa McElheny, Kathleen Tracy
PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Teacher by Mark Edmundson
Author Mark Edmunson shares memories of a teacher who profoundly influenced his life. Edmunson first met Frank Lears when he was a student at Medford (Massachusetts) High School in the 1960s. Coming of age during the turbulent 60s, Edmunson found a role model in Lears, a man he respected for his honesty, self-acceptance, and unique view of life. AUTHOR: Mark Edmundson
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Sergeant in the Snow by Archibald Colquhoun, Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern was barely twenty-one -- and already a battle veteran -- at the time of the hallucinating World War II disaster searchingly described in this book. In July 1942, the Italian forces in Russia totaled 230,000 men. They included three divisions of Alpini troops, specially trained for winter warfare; the author of this book belonged to one of these, the Tridentina. In December, the troops began retreating, entirely on foot, with no supplies, at a temperature of 30-40 degrees below zero. Many of the troops, overcome by exhaustion, broke away from the column, others were cut off and captured by the Russians, and others got lost in the steppes. In the end, about 90,000 were missing or dead; about 45,000 frostbitten and wounded. This narrative, together with his novel The Story of Tonle and several other works, paints a broad fresco of Italy's history in this century, chronicling social and political change so radical and profound that it has touched even those in such secluded provincial communities as those Rigoni Stern has so masterfully described. AUTHOR: Archibald Colquhoun, Mario Rigoni Stern
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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