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Jeff Gordon

NASCAR driver
2007
Traces the life and achievements of race car driver Jeff Gordon, discussing his early racing career and NASCAR success. Includes a glossary and a list of awards.

In the goal with-- Briana Scurry

2000
A biography of the soccer goalkeeper whose play on the United States National Team earned her the nickname "the Rock.".

Jeff Gordon

1999
A biography of the race car driver who, at the age of twenty-seven, has captured three NASCAR Winston Cup titles.

Julie Foudy

soccer superstar
1999
A biography of the young woman from southern California who starred at Stanford University and was a co-captain of the gold medal winning U.S. women's Olympic soccer team in 1996.

Derek Jeter

2011
Profiles the life and career of professional baseball player Derek Jeter, describing his family, childhood, awards and accomplishments, becoming a New York Yankee, and related topics.

The kids are all right

a memoir
2009
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.

Rebel land

unraveling the riddle of history in a Turkish town
2011
Explores the history of Turkey in the twentieth century, from the 1915 deportation and murder of half a million Armenians in the country to the death of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the modern Turkish nation.

A million miles in a thousand years

what I learned while editing my life
2009
Donald Miller tells of the depression and anxiety he suffered following the success of his first memoir, and discusses how he was launched into a whole new series of adventures when he learned his book was going to be made into a movie, presenting him with what he saw as an opportunity to edit his life.

Rebel for the hell of it

the life of Tupac Shakur
1997

Pedro Mart?nez

1999
Presents a biography of the professional baseball pitcher from the Dominican Republic who won the National League's Cy Young Award in 1997.

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