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Winter 2005

Waiting for snow in Havana: confessions of a Cuban boy by Carlos M. N. Eire - A & S

The promise: how one woman made good on her extraordinary pact to send a classroom of first graders to college by Oral Lee Brown - A

The truth about Hillary by Edward Klein - A & S

Luckiest man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig - S

One magical Sunday by Phil Mickelson - A

Leaving the Saints: how I lost the Mormons and found my faith by Martha Nibley Beck - A

Martin Van Buren by Edward L. Widmer - A

Fantastic: the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Lawrence Leamer - A & S

Chief Joseph by Candy Moulton - A

Pocahontas by Frances Mossiker - A

Do you hear what I hear: religious calling, the priesthood and my father by Minna Proctor - A

The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the beginnings of superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry - A

Tender at the bone; growing up at the table by Ruth Reichl - S

Wild swans by Jung Chang - A & S

Lipstick jihad: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni - A

Elvis by the Presleys by Priscilla Presley - A

Churchill: the unexpected hero by Paul Addison - A

The color of love: a mother's chioce in the Jim Crow South by Gene Cheek - A

American soldier by Tommy Franks - A

Roger Williams by Edwin S. Gaustad - A

Abraham Lincoln by Tanya Lee Stone - S

Never have your dog stuffed: and oht e things I've learned by Alan Alda - A & S

My detachment: a memoir by Tracy Kidder - A & S

No such thing as over-exposure: inside the life and celbrity of Donald Trump by Robert Slater - A

By myself and then some by Lauren Bacall - A

A man without a country by Kurt Vonnegut - A & S

The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less by Terry Ryan - A

What remains: a memoir of fate, friendship, and love by Carole Radziwell - A & S

My friend Leonard by James Frey - S

Room full of mirrors: a biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross - S

The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion - A

Isaac Newton by James Gleick - A

Under and alone: the true story of the undercover agent who infiltrated America"s most violent outlaw motorcycle gang by William Queen - A

Symptoms of withdrawl: a memoir of snapshots and redemption by Christopher Kennedy Lawford - A

Between you and me: a memoir by Mike Wallace - A & S

Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin - A

The other side of me by Sidney Sheldon - A

700 Sundays by Billy Crystal - A

Teacher man by Frank McCourt - A & S

The Beatles: the biography by Bob Spitz - A

Benjamin Harrison by Charles W. Calhoun - A

The doryman's reflection: a fisherman's lofe by Paul Molyneaux - S

Nell Gwyn: mistress to a king by Charles Beauclerk - A

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be by Simone Signoret - A

Mao: the unknown story by Jung Chang - A

Alexander the Great by Norman F. Cantor - S

President Reagan: the triumph of imagination by Richard Reeves - S

Warren Beatty by Suzanne Finstad - S

Memories of John Lennon - A

The education of a coach by David Halberstam - A

George Washington by Lenny Hort - S

The devil drives: a life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn McKay Brodie - A

Melville by Andrew Delbanco - A

One bullet away: the making of a marine officer by Nathaniel Fick - S

Night by Elie Wiesel - A & S

Dean & me (a love story) by Jerry Lewis - A

Lincoln's melancholy by Shenk, Joshua Wolf - A

An unreasonable woman: a true story of shrimpers, politocos, polluters, and the fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson - S

The legacy of John Paul II by Benedict XVI - A

Michael Moore by Emily Schultz - S

James Monroe by Gary Hart - A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2005

After the wall: confessions from an East German childhood by Jana Hensel - S

Sharing good times by Jimmy Carter - A

Hot lights, cold steel: true stories from a surgeon's first years by Michael J. Collins - S

Luckiest man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig - A

All American: the rise and fall of JimThorpe by Bill Crawford - S

Old Hickory: Andrew Jackson and the American people by Albert Marrin - A

Small mediums at large: the true tale of a family of psychics by Terry Iacuzzo - S

Johnny Unitas by Lou Sahadi - S

Oliver Cromwell by Peter Gaunt - A

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald by Linda Wagner-Martin - A

Searching for the sound: my life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh - A & S

Ullyses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting - A

Tallulah!: the life and times of a leading lady by Joel Lobenthal - A

Smart money: the story of Bill Gates by Aaron Boyd - S

Before we get started: a practical memoir of the writer's life by Bret Lott - S

Kim Il Sung by Scott Ingram - S

Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio by Jeffrey Kluger - A

If I knew then...by Amy Fisher - A & S

American monsters: 44 rats, blackhats and plutocrats (920) - A

The Seuss, the whole Seuss, and nothing but the Seuss by Charles d. Cohen - A

Down came the rain by Brooke Shields - A

A lotus grows in the mud by Goldie Hawn - A & S

 

 

Winter 2005

Between a rock and a hard place by Aron Ralston

The Zen of Zim: baseballs, beanballs, and bosses by Don Zimmer

Inside a thug's heart: with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur by Angela Ardis

In his own words by Nelson Mandela

Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford

When corruption was king: how I helped the mob rule Chicago, then brought the outfit down by Robert Cooley

More than petticoats: remarkable Connecticut women by Antonia Petrash

The life and work of Muhammad by Yahiya Emerick

Ella: a biography of Governor Ella Grasso by Susan Bysiewicz

The encyclopedia of explorers and adventurers by Justine Ciovacco

Alexander: destiny and myth by Claude Moss

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi

Will in the world: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Current biography yearbook, 2004

Yao: a life in two worlds (basketball player) by Yao Ming

John James Audubon: the making of an American by Richard Rhodes

It's my America too: a leading young conservative shares his views on politics and other matters of importance by Ben Ferguson

Oskar Shindler by David Crowe

Sir Francis Drake by Peter Whitfield

Webster's dictionary of American women

The image of Lincoln in the south by Michael Davis

One matchless time: a life of William Faulkner by Jay Parini

Men of mathematics by Eric Temple Bell

Builders of England by Shirley Barker

The Hapsburgs by Dorothy McGuigan

Johnson and Boswell by Hesketh Pearson

Our country's Presidents by Frank Burt Freidel

Women of courage by Margaret Truman

What shall we name the baby? by Winthrop Ames

Finding your roots by Jane Westin

The Stars and Stripes: the American flag as art and as history by Boleslaw Mastai

The name game by Christopher Anderson

Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House years by Mary Van Renssleer Thayer

My life with Jacqueline Kennedy by Mary Bare Gallagher

Plan B: further thoughts on faith by Anne Lamott

Mark Twain by Larzer Ziff

Newsmakers, 2005

Howard Hughes: aviator by George J. Marrett

Soren Kierkegaard by Joakim Garff

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

Confessions of a dangerous mind: an unauthorized autobiography by Chuck Barris

Juiced: wild times, rampant 'roids, and how baseball got big by Jose Canseco

Clyde the glide by Clyde Drexler

My life by John Starks

Humor after the tumor: one woman's look at her year with breast cancer by Patty Gelman

A brother's journey: surviving a childhood of abuse by Richard B. Pelzer

Chronicles: volume one by Bob Dylan

My life so far by Jane Fonda

Kiss me like a stranger: my search for love and art by Gene Wilder

No mountain high enough: raising Lance, raising me by Linda Armstrong Kelly

 

 

Summer/Fall 2004

The family: the real story of the Bush dynasty by Kitty Kelley - S

Sports great Allen Iverson by Glen Macnow - S

George Washington by James M. Burns - A

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, and American slave by Frederick Douglass - S

Extraordinary explorers and adventurers by Judy Alter - A

James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler - A

Skywriting: a life out of the blue by Jane Pauley - A

Those drinking days: myself and other writers by Donald Newlove - A

Racing in the street: a Bruce Springsteen reader - S

A pirate of exquisite mind: the life of William Dampier by Diana Preston - S

Sports great Keith Van Horn by Carl W. Grody - S

Pull me up: a memoir by Dan Barry - S

A walk on the beach by Joan Anderson - S

Warren G. Harding by John W. Dean - A

Truth & beauty: a friendship by Ann Patchett - A&S

Bed number ten by Sue Baier - A

Finding Annie Farrell: a family memoir by Beth J. Harpaz - A

Confessions of a tax collector: one man's tour of duty inside the I.R.S. by Richard Yancey - S

Blindsided: living a life above illness by Richard Cohen - S

Farewell Jackie: a portrait of her final days by Edward Klein - S

My name is Bill: Bill Wilson: his life and the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous by Susan Cheever - A&S

Three weeks with my brother by Nicholas Sparks - A

'Tis herself by Maureen O'Hara - S

No backup: my life as a female FBI special agent by Rosemary Dew - S

The perfect wife: the life and choices of Laura Bush by Ann Gerhart - S

Give me a break: how I exposed hucksters, cheats, and scam artists by John Stossel - A&S

Tour of duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley - A

The other man: John F. Kennedy Jr, Carolyn Bessette, & me by Michael Bergin - A

Ted Williams: the biography of an American hero by Leigh Montville - S

Sidney Poitier: man, actor, icon by Aram Goudsouzian - S

The everything baby names book by Lisa A. Shaw - A

Ramblin' man: the life and times of Woody Guthrie - S

American Jezebel: the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson by Eve LaPlante - A

Mark Brunell, star quarterback by Paul Steenkamer - S

How tough could it be? the trials and errors of a sportswriter turned stay-at-home dad by Austin Murphy - S

Father Joe: the man who saved my soul by Tony Hendra - A&S

The sons of Camelot: the fate of an American dynasty by Laurence Leamer - A

Blue blood by Edward Conlon - S

My life by Bill Clinton - A&S

Geronimo: his own story by Geronimo - A

The Carpenters: the untold story by Ray Coleman - A

Four trials by John Edwards - S

Defending Baltimore against enemy attack: a boyhood year during World War II by Charles Osgood - A

Winter 2003-2004

My prison without bars by Pete Rose - A&S

Hope dies last: keeping the faith in difficult times by Studs Terkel - A

Natalie Wood: a life by Gavin Lambert - A&S

Wide open: a life in supercross by Jeremy McGrath - S

John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy by Samuel F. Bemis - A

Finding Fish by Antwone Quenton Fisher - A

The privilege of youth by David J. Pelzer - A&S

Every second counts by Lance Armstrong - S

Motherhood and hollywood by Patricia Heaton - A

Little girl lost by Drew Barrymore - A

Fall 2003

A royal duty by Paul Burrell - A&S

Margaret Sanger: her life in her words by Miriam Reed - A

Brinkley's beat: people, places and events that shaped my time by David Brinkley - S

Sweet Caroline: last child of Camelot by Christopher Anderson - S

Audrey Hepburn, an elegant spirit: a son remembers by Sean Hepburn Ferrer - A

Under the Tuscan sun: at home in Italy by Frances Mayes - A&S

What I've always known: living in full awareness of the earth by Tom Harmer - S

The Windsor story by J. Bryan - A

Sickened: the memoir of a Munchausen by proxy childhood by Julie Gregory - A

The flyers: in search of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Noah Adams - S

Benjamin Franklin: an American life by Walter Isaacson - A&S

Father figures: three wise men who changed a life by Kevin Sweeney - A

The brass wall: the betrayal of undercover detective #4126 by David Kocieniewski - S

The prince of Providence: the life and times of Buddy Cianci by Mike Stanton - A&S