Biographies & Memoirs

Steeples and Spires, Part 3
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
He was a diligent student at Oxford. His three-year degree course saw him following in his father's and his elder brother's footsteps in law. The young Blair found plenty of time for rock music and girlfriends, but he also worked hard to secure a good

Part 2
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
In his account of the breakup of the marriage, written years later, after his mother's death, Wright accepted her claim of abandonment, although he had to have been keenly aware of what was really going on.

Part 5
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
by Eileen Warburton
As a child John longed to escape alone into the natural green world introduced to him by his uncle and probably by his mother. Reading by this time had become an escape as well.

Separation
The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy
by Sandy Weill, Judah S. Kraushaar
The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 in borrowed cash in 1960, and relying on uncanny entrepreneurial instincts, Sandy created one of the leading securities firms in the U.S. and became one of the best known businessmen

Dante the Florentine, Part 2
Dante
by R.W.B. Lewis, Ph.D.
Dante was one year old in 1266, and he grew up in a city that was at last fully realizing itself. It had been moving fitfully toward that goal for a good many years, in a series of developments that led both to prosperity and to a gathering self-image.

Part 2
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
by Lesley Downer
Young Japanese steamed off on P & O liners to Europe and America to study and foreign experts came to teach-British engineers to share the secrets of the industrial revolution; French to explain their system of law and military affairs

You Have the Power Within, Part 2
Barefootin'
by Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris
The men parked their pickups on the street around the courthouse, hemming us in. There were half a dozen trucks, as I recall. They hollered at us from inside their trucks: 'Niggers, niggers. Go home, niggers.' The sheriff came walking by again.

9/11
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
by Carmen Bin Ladin
The New York Times bestseller by Osama bin Laden's sister-in-law that provides a penetrating look inside the Bin Laden family, Saudi society, and the treatment of Saudi women. She married Osama Bin Laden's brother. Now she dares to tell her story.

Part 1
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
The life starts with a lie: a changed birth date, from 1867 to 1869, the sort of small, white vanity lie usually embraced by women but common also among men. Like most age changes, it was done later in life.

Introduction
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
On March 18, 2003, the atmosphere in the ornate wood-paneled chamber of Britain's House of Commons crackled with electricity. The green leather benches of the nation's legislative chamber were packed to overflowing.

Flying High
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
by Andy Behrman
Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality.

Part 3
Borges: A Life
by Edwin Williamson
The Conquest of the Desert made General Roca the strongman of Argentina. Anxious to avoid the instability that had plagued the country since independence, he created a political machine that secured power through systematic electoral fraud

A Surreal Halloween
Microsoft Rebooted
by Robert Slater
I have been thinking about writing a book on Bill Gates and Microsoft for a very long time. As part of the research I conducted for Portraits in Silicon (MIT Press, 1987), a book about computer pioneers and developers.

The Last Picture Show
The Diana Chronicles
by Tina Brown
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she the people's princess, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?

Chapter One
Stuart
by Alexander Masters
'It was cutting me throat what got me this flat.' Stuart pushes open the second reinforced door into his corridor, turns off the blasting intercom that honks like a foghorn whenever a visitor presses his front bell, and bumps into his kitchen to sniff

Hotel Rwanda, Part 2
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
I remembered all too well what had happened at a place called Official Technical School in a suburb called Kicukiro, where nearly two thousand terrified refugees had gathered because there was a small detachment of United Nations soldiers staying there.

Prelude
Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
by Russell Martin
Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death.

My Life in the Kennedy White House, Part 3
A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
by Letitia Baldridge
Nana wore a pale gray silk dress, ghostlike, with a fresh rose at the V-shaped neckline. I was sure that it would stay fresh all the way to heaven, and of course she was wearing her pearl necklace. I never saw her without that.

Hotel Rwanda, Part 5
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
After the two enemies had finished speaking, the elders would give their opinions, one by one, on what should be done to remedy the problem. It usually involved compensation.

Chapter One, Part 2
Stuart
by Alexander Masters
In order to keep track of his newly busy life, Stuart has devised a special colour-coding for this book: green highlighter for family, yellow for social, orange for duty. His handwriting is not excellent.