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Lillian Hellman, rebel playwright

1995
Biography of playwright Lillian Hellman, who was known for her compelling plays and political views.

Growing seasons

2000
Born into an Illinois farm family in 1906, Elsie Lee Splear describes how she, her parents, and her sisters lived in the early years of the twentieth century and how the changing seasons shaped their existence.

Maybe I'll pitch forever

a great baseball player tells the hilarious story behind the legend
1993
An autobiography of Satchel Paige, the first African-American pitcher in the American League, in which he tells of his struggles against poverty and racial discrimination, and shares stories from throughout his baseball career.

Satchel Paige

1988
Surveys the life and career of the Negro League's pitching phenomenon, the first baseball player in the Negro Leagues to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Satchel Paige

the best arm in baseball
2002
A biography of the first African American pitcher to join the American League.

Pentimento

a book of portraits
2000
Seven autobiographical essays on people and things that deeply influenced twentieth-century American playwright Lillian Hellman's youth.

Birthright

a novel
1997
An alternate history in which Joseph Shellenbach, the man who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby, raises the child to manhood, and faces a personal crisis when he must decide whether to tell the now fifty-year-old David the truth.

War within and without

diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939- 1944
1980
The 5th and last volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's diaries and letters record the Lindbergh's lives during the years of World War II.

Lillian Hellman

1979
Offers criticism and interpretation on the works of Lillian Hellman.

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