biography

Williams chronicles her efforts to build an eighty-four-square-foot house following a near-death experience, and discusses how living in a small space with few possesses has transformed and enriched her life.

When the Arab Spring began in 2010, author Malek returned to her family home in Damascus, Syria, to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which the family had to abandon in 1970, when Hafez al-Assad came to power. Exploring the apartment, Malek recalls the multigenerational story of her family, reaching from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present. She also relates the stories of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Armenian, and Kurdish Syrians who lived and worked in close quarters with herself and her family, and who experienced the horrors of war under a dictatorial regime.

Edith Hahn tells how she survived the Holocaust, first by going underground, using a Christian friend's identity papers, and eventually marrying Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who knew she was Jewish.

A memoir in which Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Advisor and as Secretary of State during the George W. Bush administrations, looks back over her life, discussing her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, her career in education, and her service in the government, and sharing stories of her family.

Edna Wilder recounts a year of her mother's life, Minnie Nedercook, who grew up in a Native village in Alaska's Norton Sound, and describes the culture, traditions, family values, and daily life.

Presents a picture book biography of Junius G. Groves, who as a young man left his impoverished life on a plantation in Kentucky and headed west to Kansas, where he planted and farmed potatoes and made a greatly successful business out of it.

Describes the life of Michelle Obama, discussing her childhood in Chicago, education, career as a lawyer, marriage to Barack, and other related topics.

Profiles twelve men and women who had a significant impact on the American Revolution.

A brief biography of Michelle Obama that chronicles her childhood and heritage, education, marriage, and becoming First Lady of the United States.

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-six significant activists, politicians, authors, musicians, artists, and other figures of the 1960s, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Timothy Leary, Bob Dylan, and Andy Warhol.