biography

A photographic introduction to the life and experiences of Anne Frank, who along with her family and others lived in hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex from July 1942 until their capture in August 1944.

Author Maureen Stanton describes her difficult childhood watching her parents divorce and her now-single mother turn to shoplifting and grand larceny. Stanton herself begins a life of crime that includes vandalism, breaking and entering, and drugs before finally finding a path away from self-destruction.

Tells the stories of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who spent time in Paris between 1830 and 1900, pursuing knowledge that would help them excel in their careers, including Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, author James Fenimore Cooper, pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others.

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

A collection of nineteen essays on the life and experiences of Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel.

A collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam.

"Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the life and career of Ramesses II, an Egyptian pharaoh.

Explores the life of Alexander the Great, including the author'sjudgement against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions.