biography

A biography of Julian Assange the founder of WikiLeaks a website that has published millions of classified documents causing him to become a controversial figure in the debate on transparency versus secrecy.

Dan Emmett recounts his years as a Secret Service agent in charge of protecting the president of the United States.

A biography about Thurgood Marshall who was a lawyer, judge, and civil rights leader.

A brief biography of professional baseball player Aaron Judge, an outfielder for the New York Yankees.

Photographs and text profile some of the greatest basketball players in NBA history, with information on their statistics, career highlights, and playing history.

"The...story of a secret FDR-approved prisoner exchange program run during World War II from Crystal City, Texas, an American internment camp where thousands of families were incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

Draws on interviews and focus groups with child soldiers to examine how they were initiated into the civil war in Sierra Leone and the challenges they faced after the war.

The author describes how she struggled as the child of two drug addicts, and was homeless at age fifteen but still managed to graduate from high school in two years, and win a "New York Times" scholarship that took her to Harvard University.

Follows the lives of three women over the course of twelve years, exploring their service in the military, experiences in overseas combat, challenges with maintaining connections with their families, and difficulties with resuming life as civilians.

At age nine, Reyna crossed the Mexico-America border to seek out her lost family. She was bitterly disappointed to find, however, an indifferent mother and an alcoholic, abusive father. She takes refuge in words and becomes a voracious reader and writer. As she enters college she dreams of becoming a writer, but quickly learns that she doesn't know how to turn her dream into reality. Here, she reflects on her journey from undocumented immigrant to successful writer, and growing up feeling alienated from a culture she tries to hang on to.