biography

A biography of Italian sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti, discussing his career as a sculptor and painter from the from Renaissance to the Counter Reformation.

Shares the story of the war correspondent Marie Colvin, the woman who never gave up reporting in the war-torn Middle East, even after losing her left eye, witnessing many deaths, and more.

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his commitment to defending Israel and securing its future.

Shares the life of Frederick Douglass, focusing on his birth, his time as a slave, and to his career as a statesman and equal treatment spokesman.

Nicholas Dawidoff recounts his troubled childhood, focusing on how his love of baseball helped him cope with his father's abandonment and social awkwardness.

"In this . . . memoir, Hannah [Pick-Goslar] shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a . . . look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate . . . portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

A memoir in which the Jewish author recalls his life and describes the events that led him to make Vienna--a city with an anti-Semitic legacy--his home.

"Introduces 50 of the world's most influential engineers of all time and a selection of their groundbreaking inventions, showcased with full-colour photography"--Amazon.

Text and photographs look at fifty of the world's most influential architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Joan Soane, Jan Gehl, and others.

"'Invisible Child' follows eight . . . years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. By the time Dasani comes of age in the twenty-first century, New York City's homeless crisis is exploding amid the growing chasm between rich and poor. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani must lead her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental addiction, violence, housing instability, pollution, segregated schools, and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system. When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. As she learns to 'code-switch' between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?"--Provided by publisher.