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Description not available.A biography of one of the top female soccer players in the world, Mia Hamm, who helped the United States win a gold medal in soccer in the 1996 Olympics AUTHOR: Mark Stewart
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Tessie & Pearlie: A Granddaughter's Story
A loving granddaughter tells the story of her two beloved Bubbes--last of a breed of women still close to the immigrant experience, the Depression, and the experience of overt anti-semitism.
In this powerful memoir overflowing with warmth and humor, Horowitz, a freelance journalist, illuminates the lives of her two bubbes (Yiddish for grandmothers ). Over the course of 18 months, she interviewed Pearlie, her mother's 93-year-old mother, in Santa Monica, Calif., and 94-year-old Tessie, her father's mother, in Queens, N.Y. Both women live alone and share an immigrant past and the physical impairments of old age; their personalities are very different. An orthodox Jew, Tessie boycotted Horowitz's wedding to a gentile, does not fear death, advocates a pragmatic approach to life and is a dynamite gin player. The more emotional Pearlie loves to dance, is still a great cook, wants to go on living and believes that religion is in the heart. Horowitz intersperses her grandmothers' accounts of their childhood poverty and reminiscences of love, sex and childbirth and her own struggle to come to terms with her dying father's lung cancer and her yearning for a spiritual comfort that she receives, in part, from talking to Tessie and Pearlie, the smartest women I know. Photos.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | America's First Families by Carl Sierrazza Anthony
Packed with more than 300 photographs from archives and private collections -- many published here for the first time--entertaining anecdotes, political analysis, the dynamics of family relationships, and behind-the-scenes gossip, AMERICA'S FIRST FAMILIES offers the first up-close look at the families--from John and Abigail Adams in 1800 to Bill and Hillary Clinton--who have intrigued and entranced the American public for two centuries. Carl Sferrazza Anthony opens the door to the world's most famous residence to reveal life as it was actually lived there. He takes readers into the heart of loyalties and estrangements, and the emotional pressures that politics brings to bear upon the forty White House families, from their arrivals to their notices to vacate. Readers will enjoy an unprecedented tour of the previously unseen private rooms as used and decorated by each family. Revealed too are the personal proclivities of the presidents and how their families both sustained them through public crises and were used for political advantage. They'll get a firsthand look at the preparations for White House weddings and other occasions; meet the parents and children of the presidents--as well as eccentric relatives; and discover the patterns of working, resting, and relaxing that shaped the nuts and bolts of family life. A magnificent combination of visual delights and insider information, AMERICA'S FIRST FAMILIES is an irresistible invitation to spend some time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. AUTHOR: Carl Sierrazza Anthony
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Liberated Through Submission by Henry Soles, Philomina B. Wilson
Submission. It's an uncomfortable word, and a confusing issue. But does submission really mean what people think it does? While God intended submission to promote order and freedom in all relationships, the world has misused it for power and personal gain. Yet God's design for freedom in relationships is still practical and timely. Submission is worth taking another look at. As a strong woman married to a strong man, Bunny Wilson struggled to understand the biblical emphasis placed on submission. Yet when she studied and began to understand what God has to say about the subject, the truth liberated her -- submission is for everyone, men and women alike. Biblical submission doesn't tear down relationships; it builds them up by destroying anger and rebellion while setting people free to love and give. AUTHOR: Henry Soles, Philomina B. Wilson
PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Coalwood Way by Homer H. Hickam
In 1959, Homer Sonny Hickam and his Rocket Boy friends are seniors in high school, immersed in the pleasures and pains of the town they grew up in--Coalwood, West Virginia. When it comes time for the Coalwood Christmas Pageant, the tensions in the town threaten to explode, and Sonny has to take some important steps toward growing up. AUTHOR: Homer H. Hickam
PUBLISHER: Random House Large Print
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Susan Sontag by Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
This critical biography of critic, novelist, essayist, and all-round intellectual Susan Sontag reveals many little-known facts about her, including her lesbianism, her struggles with cancer, and her relationship with her son. AUTHOR: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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