friends and associates

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn?t have known how important the new kid with the guitar?the boy named Elvis?would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone extraordinary. During Elvis?s rise to fame and throughout the wild swirl of his remarkable life, Klein was a steady presence and one of Elvis?s closest and most loyal friends until his untimely death in 1977.

Discusses the author's experience at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were pastors, recounting his efforts, during the Civil Rights Movement, to set up meetings between white and African-American youth groups, which was met with resistance by white clergy.

A true story of the lifelong friendship between award-winning journalist Bob Greene and his best friend Jack Roth who died of cancer at age fifty-seven.

The author chronicles the lives of various people of Haines, Alaska, a small obscure village about ninety miles north of Juneau, and describes native Tlingit Indians, fishermen, gold miners, and other interesting characters.

A collection of stories and vignettes about the famous and obscure, in which the author combines the writing techniques of film scripts, plays, journalism, poetry, the short story, novellas, and the novel.

Mark Christensen chronicles his life-long dream to build a 600-horsepower car with the ability to accelerate from zero to sixty faster than any other car.

Composer-performer David Amram chronicles his friendship with author Jack Kerouac, discussing how they helped inspire one another through their friendship and work.

"A Peter Davison book." The author recalls people she has known on the stage, behind the curtain, and in her private life.

Presents a behind-the-scenes look into the relationship between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Roosevelt's political advisor Louis Howe, who was a major player in promoting FDR to the presidency.