biography

Presents an irreverent and tongue-in-cheek tour of Austin, Texas, and some of its inhabitants.

Kim Reid recalls two tense years in her life when she was torn between her desire to fit in and feel safe in her private Catholic school in an all-white part of Atlanta, Georgia, and her loyalty to her African-American neighborhood and the responsibilities and burdens placed on her by her mom, a cop on the task force searching a serial killer targeting young African-American boys in 1979.

A biography of the last Tsar of Russia and his family with a reconstruction of what happened during their imprisonment and murder by the Communists in 1918.

Contains autobiographies of both wellknown and little-known Americans from the Pilgrims to the present day.

A history of the first 150 years of European settlement in North America, combining the author's narrative with first-person accounts of events by William Penn, Captain John Smith, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, and many others.

A collection of over one hundred of the most touching and entertaining obituaries and farewells that have appeared in "The New York Times," since the early 1980s, focusing on people who, while not celebrities, have made a significant, or interesting contribution to American life.

An unabridged republication of the 1920 memoirs of Colonel William F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, in which he recalls his life in the American frontier, as well as his experiences with the Wild West Show.

A biography of Wyatt Earp, drawing from newspaper stories as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances to separate the facts from the fictions about the legendary frontier lawman.

Andrea Ashworth discusses how the events in her childhood affected her life.