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Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
ix, 161 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's...
3) Joan of Arc
Author
Series
Publisher
Lipper/Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxv, 180 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For more than five hundred years, the story of Joan of Arc has been an inspiration and a mystery. The least likely of heroines, a peasant girl with no education and no prospects, Joan turned herself into the legendary Maid of Orleans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following a voice she knew was God's, she led an army to victory in battle and crowned the king of France, only to be captured by her English enemies and burned at the stake as a heretic -...
4) Buddha
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xxix, 205 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
5) Jane Austen
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Stone Diaries focuses on the life and fiction of Jane Austen in a critical biography of the reclusive author of Pride and Prejudice and other great novels. Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. Jane Austen reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and...
7) Napoleon
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xii, 190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
196 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Winston Churchill, examining his family and youth, his life as a soldier, his entry into politics, and his leadership as British Prime Minister during World War II, and discussing his place in history."
10) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Lipper/Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
12) Martin Luther
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
xv, 199 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A minister, historian, and scholar reassesses the life and times of Martin Luther, describing his seminal role in the Reformation; his religious beliefs and fresh interpretation of the human relationship with God; his conflict with Church leaders; and his lasting influence on world history and religion. Martin Marty--professor, author, pastor, historian, and journalist is, in Bill Moyer's words, the most influential interpreter of American religion....
13) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2005, c2000
Physical Desc
ix, 246 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
14) Mozart
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
177 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
15) Branch Rickey
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball. The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With humor and honesty, and guided by the influence of her inspiring and professional troublemaking grandmother, Funmilayo Faloyin, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we've been silencing--because truth-telling is a muscle. The point is not to be fearless. It is to know we are afraid and to charge forward...
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