1929-

Lady Pamela Mountbatten Hicks is the youngest daughter of heiress Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten. Both of her parents were known for their extraordinary organizational and people skills and both held important posts during World War II and afterwards. As the last viceroy and vicerine of India, her father was charged with the task of transferring power to the newly created independent Indian government and her mother was instrumental in helping to bring about a smooth transition. A bridesmaid in Princess Elizabeth's wedding, she also served as lady-in-waiting to the young princess when she became queen. All of this meant that Pamela had a front row seat to many of the most important events in 20th century Britain.

In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague and she and her family endured the beginning of the Nazi invasion. Her father was denied work and she could not attend regular school. As she witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality she began a diary. In 1942, Helga and her parents were sent to Terezin where she continued her diary. In 1944 the family was moved to Auschwitz. But before Helga left Terezin, her uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. In one of the many miracles of Jewish Holocaust survivors, he was able to reclaim them for her after the war.

The author, an Indonesian woman, describes the three years she spent, beginning at age twelve, disguised as a boy in order to avoid becoming a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers in a prison camp during World War II.

Ursula Le Guin explores a broad array of subjects related to writing, reading, and the imagination.

A biography of the man who since 1969 has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a group working to establish an Arab state in what was once Palestine and is now mostly in Israel.

Relates how the author was torn from her happy home and sent to Birkenau by the Nazis, describing how she worked long hours and fought for survival before being set free at the end of the war and beginning a new life in America.

White House advisor Jon Bennett arrives in the Middle East in hopes of closing an Arab-Israeli peace deal which would require the historic enemies to work together to tap into a newly discovered tract of oil and natural gas deep beneath the Mediterranean--a venture the U.S. has promised to underwrite for billions of dollars, but there are those who do not want to see the plan succeed.

A biography of the former first lady describing her life and achievements.