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Miracle man

Nolan Ryan, the autobiography
1992
Sports Illustrated calls him a living legend--the miracle man of baseball with an incredible forty-eight major league pitching records. Nolan Ryan talks about professional athletes, his image, and family in this candid memoir.

Selected from Giant steps

1990
The autobiography of the basketball legend describing his journey from Harlem to UCLA to the NBA.

Secret windows

essays and fiction on the craft of writing
2000
This is an exlcusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of hard-to-find non-fiction pieces, little-known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own "windows"-or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King's humor and wisdom.

Steven Spielberg

Hollywood filmmaker
2005
Explores the life and career of the successful filmmaker beginning with his childhood and including discussion of his projects as a director, writer, and producer.

O. J. Simpson

the juice is loose
1977
A biography of the record-setting running back of the Buffalo Bills who won the Heisman trophy in 1968.

Keeping hope alive

one woman, 90,000 lives changed
2013
An autobiography of Dr. Hawa Abdi who founded a camp for displaced people from Mogadishu, Somalia saving countless women and children whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty.

Nolan Ryan

hall of fame baseball superstar
2014
Profiles the legendary pitcher who played twenty-seven seasons in the major leagues, following his journey from living in a small town in Texas to becoming a Hall of Fame pitcher and owner of the Texas Rangers.

Architecture of authority

2007
Contains color photographs by Richard Ross of places of confinement or detainment, including a Montessori classroom, a jury box, prison cells, and others, and includes an explanatory essay.

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