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|  | Loving & Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing
Helen`s death in 1995 at the age of 92 marks the end of an era. Yet as Helen writes in her remarkable memoir, When one door closes, another opens . In 1932, after deciding that it would be better to be poor in the country, Helen and Scott moved from New York City to Vermont. Here they created their legendary homestead, described in Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World, which has sold over 250,000 copies and inspired thousands to move back to the land. With today`s new simplicity movement, the Nearings` books have been welcomed by a new generation of readers. The Nearings moved to Maine in 1953, where they continued to live their celebrated version of the good life : hard physical work (building stone houses and growing or gathering their own food) and intense intellectual work (writing several dozen books to promote self-reliance and social justice), all the while saving time for bouts of pure fun. Thirty years later, as Scott approached his 100th birthday, with characteristic purposefulness he decided that it was time to prepare for death. He chose to stop eating, and by fasting let the visible pass into the invisible . As we search for a new understanding of the relationships between death and life, Helen Nearing`s Loving and Leaving the Good Life provides profound insights into the question of how we age and die. AUTHOR: Helen Nearing
PUBLISHER: Chelsea Green Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Cher by Mark Bego, Mary Wilson
One of only two women to have had a Top-40 single in four successive decades, Cher is one of the most well-known singers in pop music. This biography covers everything from her childhood to her triumphant return to the top of the charts with her 1999 Grammy award-winning Believe. It includes a discography, a filmography, and a boyfriendography, listing everyone that she dated between 1962 and 1991. AUTHOR: Mark Bego, Mary Wilson
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Points Unknown by David Roberts
Stories by Jon Krakauer, Sebastian Junger, and Tim Cahill populate this collection of the 20th century`s most harrowing adventure writing. AUTHOR: David Roberts
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Napoleon & Josephine by Evangeline Bruce, Flo Gibson
Although there have been hundreds of biographies of Napoleon written since the Emperor's exile, and dozens of biographies of the Empress Josephine, Evangeline Bruce's work focuses on the relationship between the two and the age in which they lived. This history gives accounts of their informal life at Malmaison, while Napoleon was First Consul and liked to play games with children after dinner, as well as their residence in Fontainebleau a few years later, where he assumed a more formal air, befitting the court of an Emperor. Bruce explores the personalities of both Napoleon and Josephine in some detail, while drawing an engaging portrait of a fascinating era. AUTHOR: Evangeline Bruce, Flo Gibson
PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Huey P. Newton Reader by Donald Weise, Elaine Brown, Hilliard
American revolutionary and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton was an activist at the center of changing times who was admired by some and reviled by others. These writings by Newton focus on his encounters with, or thoughts on, personalities such as Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson, and Richard Nixon, as well as on issues such as the formation of the Black Panthers, Newton's later expulsion from the Panthers, the role of the FBI, feminism, affirmative action, and Newton's experiences as an exile in Cuba. AUTHOR: Donald Weise, Elaine Brown, Hilliard
PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Good-Bye to All That by Paul Fussell, Richard P. Graves, Robert Graves
Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I. AUTHOR: Paul Fussell, Richard P. Graves, Robert Graves
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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