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|  | The Music Box by Donna Lacy, Suzanne Guy
Description not available.The story of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian harpsichord maker who invented the piano while working in the city of Florence about three hundred years ago AUTHOR: Donna Lacy, Suzanne Guy
PUBLISHER: Brunswick Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Love and Hatred - William L. Shirer
In Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage Of Leo Tolstoy and Sonya Tolstoy, we have a touching and brilliant biography of one of literary histories most famous couples.
In Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage Of Leo Tolstoy and Sonya Tolstoy, we have a touching and brilliant biography of one of literary histories most famous couples. William L Shrier's new book explores the passionate, highly charged and extraordinary lives of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The History of the Kings of Britain by Thrope Lewis
Description not available.The twelfth-century chronicle sets forth the deeds of Britain's rulers from the mythical Brutus, great-grandson of Aeneas, to Cadwallader in the seventh century AUTHOR: Thrope Lewis
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | 100 Greatest Letters by Soldie
Description not available.A touching, inspirational compilation of fifty letters from frontline soldiers, nurses, prisoners of war, generals, and spies provides a personal look at America's wars, from the American Revolution to today's Special Forces and includes epistles from such famous personalities as Robert E. Lee, the Marquis de Lafayette, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Theodore Roosevelt. 25,000 first printing.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was fascinated with Shakespeare's life and work, and this study provides unusual and provocative insights into both. AUTHOR: Anthony Burgess
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Till Freedom Cried Out by Julie P. Baker, Kermit Oliver, T. Lindsay Baker
This account, recorded as part of the Federal Writers` Project, describes life as a Texas slave - the family relations, entertainment, religion, work on the plantations, food-ways, and punishment. For decades the bondage of black slaves to white masters was part of everyday life in Texas, and by the eve of the Civil War almost one-third of the total population consisted of slaves. Most works about slavery have been written from the white viewpoint, since most slaves were kept illiterate. This collection offers a clear-eyed perspective on this institution from the slaves themselves - their recollections from being sold away from their parents, suffering the pain of the overseers` lash, and being chosen to gratify masters` desires, to finding emotional release in religious services, appreciating music and dancing, and enjoying a brief escape to the woods. Vignettes of daily life are sensitively brought to life in the skilled drawings of artist Kermit Oliver. Enriched by these illustrations and by an introduction and postscript commentary by editors T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, Till Freedom Cried Out presents vivid memories of lives and times inside the bonds of an institution that tried to break the tellers` bodies and souls. AUTHOR: Julie P. Baker, Kermit Oliver, T. Lindsay Baker
PUBLISHER: Texas A & M University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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