biography

A memoir by Roma Ligocka focusing on her childhood, surviving World War II, encountering postwar anti-Semitism and communist repression, and struggling for artistic freedom.

The author, a junior U.S. Senator, draws on personal experience to call the nation to greater compassion, solidarity, and hope.

A biography of Britain's King George III, the king from whom Americans won their independence and known as "the mad king," discussing his family and their flaws, and his aspirations to be a moral example by staying faithful to his wife, Queen Charlotte, and raising loving, educated children.

"A biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I."--Dust jacket.

"Describes the life and career of chef Bobby Flay"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of Suzy Wright, a Quaker poet and political activist who helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier and exerted considerable influence in the highest circles of Pennsylvania goverment.

"[A collection of thirteen stories recounting] the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America."--Provided by publisher.

"Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor"--Amazon.