Runner Alberto Salazar describes some of his most significant experiences, including his miraculous return to health after his heart stopped beating for fourteen minutes.
Jennifer Boylan discusses how she spent the first forty years of life knowing she was a woman trapped in a man's body and explores how her physical, emotional, and spiritual life was changed after a sex-change operation.
Paul Burrell, butler to Princess Diana from 1987 to 1997 describes her personality; their friendship; her relationships with Dodi Al Fayed, Sarah Ferguson, and other major figures in her life; and other related topics.
Artist Thomas Kinkade presents color reproductions of nearly one hundred of his paintings and describes their inspirations, and provides an introduction on his life and career.
A brief biography of producer and director Tim Burton, discussing his childhood and early interest in horror films that led to his success in the film industry.
A biography of a young cancer patient with an artificial leg who determined to run 5300 miles across Canada in his own Marathon of Hope in order to raise money for cancer research.
how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale
Maushart, Susan
2011
The author describes her crusade to improve communication within her family by ridding their lives of twenty-first-century technologies and explains how her family--with three teenagers--was strengthened after six months of being "unplugged.".
