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|  | Jack by Jack Welch, John A. Byrne
Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, is one of the most respected leaders in the corporate world and beyond. Here, he shares his experiences and tells of the lessons he has learned over 20 years. He includes an appreciation of Six Sigma--the much-admired quality-control approach that has been central to the GE Way. AUTHOR: Jack Welch, John A. Byrne
PUBLISHER: Time Warner AudioBooks
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Alexander the Great by Robert Green
This book describes the life, battle, campaigns, influence on the ancient world, and mythological status of the champion of the Greeks who marched his armies as far as India. AUTHOR: Robert Green
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Geometry of Love by Margaret Visser
Tired of the slingshot tours of medieval churches that only provide building dates and photo-ops, Visser takes her time examining one quaint, Christian church on the outskirts of Rome--the church of Saint Agnes--in meticulous detail. Her book explores the chapel's architecture from front to back and top to bottom, lingering on stories behind key pieces. AUTHOR: Margaret Visser
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Walden by Bill McKibben, Christopher W. Bigsby, Dan Lazar, Edward Hoagland, Franklin B. Sanborn
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts. AUTHOR: Bill McKibben, Christopher W. Bigsby, Dan Lazar, Edward Hoagland, Franklin B. Sanborn
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Fighting Back by Harold Werner
Why didn`t the Jews resist being rounded up and sent to concentration camps? Why did they go like lambs to the slaughter? were the questions Harold Werner`s sons asked about the Holocaust while they were growing up. Written to dispel the myth of Jewish passivity, Fighting Back is more than the tale of survival: it is the extraordinary memoir of a survivor who outlasted Hitler`s Holocaust, not in a concentration camp but in the woods of eastern Poland as a fighter in a successful Jewish resistance group during the Second World War. In this book Harold Werner recounts his experiences as a member of a large Jewish partisan unit that aggressively conducted military missions against the German army in occupied Poland. The unit of young Jews--both men and women--received air drops from the Russians, wiped out local German garrisons, blew up German trains, and even shot down German planes. In addition to engaging in military sabotage, these partisans rescued Jews from ghetto imprisonment and slave labor detail, and provided a safe haven in the Parczew Forest for other Jews who escaped the Nazi extermination camps. By the time the Russians liberated eastern Poland, the unit consisted of about four hundred fighters and four hundred noncombatant Jews under their protection. Few accounts of Jewish survival during the Holocaust describe such a rare combination of victorious military activities and humanitarian efforts in successful large-scale Jewish resistance against the Nazis. Not only is Fighting Back a way of understanding Jewish struggles against terrifying odds, it provides rare vignettes of life in Jewish shtetls, or small towns, before the Holocaust wiped them out. In describing hischildhood years, Werner provides a flavor of that extinct society--as rich in tradition, religion, and learning as it was poor in material possessions. Harold Werner`s compelling work is a moving portrayal of the difficulties faced by Eastern European Jews trying to fight the Nazi campaign AUTHOR: Harold Werner
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | My Dog Skip by Frank Muller, Willie Morris
A dog and his boy. AUTHOR: Frank Muller, Willie Morris
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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