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|  | Peter the Great by Frederick Davidson, Robert K. Massie, Wolfram Kandinsky
Description not available.This meticulous biography of the notorious Russian ruler examines his background and accomplishments, detailing the armed conflicts during his reign and scrutinizing his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia AUTHOR: Frederick Davidson, Robert K. Massie, Wolfram Kandinsky
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Doctors and Discoveries by John Galbraith Simmons
DOCTORS AND DISCOVERIES tells the story of Western medicine through the lives and works of the people who created it. John Galbraith Simmons shows us the real people behind the great discoveries--their inspirations and doubts, successes and failures. Well-known figures, from Hippocrates of ancient Greece, to Louis Pasteur in the nineteenth century, to masters and Johnson in the twentieth, are profiled alongside lesser-known figures, including Louise Bourgeois, sixteenth-century midwife and author, and Elie Metchnikoff, a brilliant but eccentric nineteenth-century scientist known both for his revolutionary theories of immunity and for his obsession with longevity. Contemporary profiles include Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo, whose race to discover the virus that causes AIDS (and the patent dispute that followed) is described in exciting detail. Simmons also ventures beyond the realm of traditional medicine to profile people such as Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, and Lydia Pinkham, whose cure-all Vegetable Compound set a new standard for the marketing of drugs. AUTHOR: John Galbraith Simmons
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Voice of Hope by Alan Clements, Aung San Suu Kyi
Alan Clements interviews Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Suu Kyi, a Burmese activist and dissident. AUTHOR: Alan Clements, Aung San Suu Kyi
PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | General Thomas Gage by Bonnie Hinman
Description not available.Details the life and accomplishments of the British general who ordered 700 soldiers to march to Concord to destroy the patriots' supplies and organized the British assault on Bunker Hull. AUTHOR: Bonnie Hinman
PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Geronimo's Kids by H. Henrietta Stockel, H. Herietta Stockel, Robert S. Ove
Arriving on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in 1948, Robert Ove, a naive young school teacher, began his first teaching job at Whitetail, unaware of the culture and history of his Chiricahua students, descendants of the great chief Geronimo. The Chiricahuas gradually accepted this well-intentioned outsider into their community and shared parts of their history and culture with him. Living among this reminder of America`s past, Ove glimpsed a way of life that few non-Indians had been allowed to know. He saw Apache mothers still carrying their infants in cradleboards, grandmothers and mothers still sewing traditional beaded buckskin dresses for their daughters` puberty ceremonies, and men still making traditional Apache bows and arrows. Through the stories of the elders, he also learned how this way of life had changed since their capture, as many of the traditional ways of the Chiricahuas were altered or lost in the ensuing decades after Geronimo`s people surrendered to the U.S. Army in 1886. Decades of incarceration followed - first in Florida, then in Alabama, and finally in Oklahoma. More than half died in hot, humid prison camps because the Chiricahuas had no inborn resistance to the virulent diseases brought to North America by Europeans. Then in 1913, with fewer than three hundred left, the Chiricahuas were released and received land allotments near their last prison site, Fort Sill, or on the Mescalero Apache Reservation where Ove arrived thirty-five years later. In Geronimo`s Kids, Robert Ove gives a stirring account of his life from 1948 to 1950 when he taught day school at the community on the reservation. His personal observations as well as past and recent photographs, against Henrietta Stockel`s background of historical reference, help to preserve this fragment of history to give insight into those who became his students, neighbors, and friends. AUTHOR: H. Henrietta Stockel, H. Herietta Stockel, Robert S. Ove
PUBLISHER: Texas A & M University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | One More Valley, One More Hill by Linda Lowery
Description not available.Chronicles the life of the woman called Aunt Clara Brown, who was born into slavery and became a pioneer and entrepreneur, earning money to buy herself out of slavery and bring other former slaves to a new start in Colorado. AUTHOR: Linda Lowery
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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