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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by Leymah Gbowee Carol L. MithersWINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. Years of fighting destroyed her country--and shattered Gbowee's girlhood hopes and dreams. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts--and that the power ofwomen working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace--in the process emerging as an international leader who changed history. Mighty Be Our Powers is the gripping chronicle of a journey from hopelessness to empowerment that will touch all who dream of a better world.
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
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Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love
by Amy FerrisWhy are we so determined to be loved rather than to love ourselves? Why is it so hard to forgive our imperfections and remember that we’re extraordinary? Why are we so willing to listen to others’ voices when our own voice is right here, screaming to be heard?Full of the stories that have brought her to this moment and the accompanying wisdom those experiences have lent her, Mighty Gorgeous is Amy Ferris’s answer—tender, fierce, irreverent—to these questions, and much more.Why? Because we are not on this earth to master suffering; we are here to create magic. Because perfection is overrated; all of our flaws and imperfections and scars are our beauty marks. Because all women deserve to speak their truth, to be heard and seen, to awaken to their own greatness. Because life is so very hard and so very brutal at times, bitter and cruel and excruciatingly difficult to navigate, and sometimes we need a light to guide us through that darkness. Because it’s time for us all to come home to ourselves—and Amy’s here to cheerlead you all the way to your own front door.
Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree Katie McCabe&“Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.&” —Michelle ObamaIn Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation&’s capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister—in all these places, Roundtree sought justice. At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washington&’s white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of &“separate but equal&” and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence. Dovey Roundtree passed away in 2018 at the age of 104. Though her achievements were significant and influential, she remains largely unknown to the American public. Mighty Justice corrects the historical record.
Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
by Dovey Johnson Roundtree Katie McCabeA young reader’s adaptation of Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, the memoir of activist and trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, by Katie McCabe.Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the height of Jim Crow, Dovey Johnson Roundtree felt the sting of inequality at an early age and made a point to speak up for justice. She was one of the first Black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army; a fierce attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, DC; and a minister in the AME church, where women had never before been ordained as clergy. In 1955, Roundtree won a landmark bus desegregation case that eventually helped end “separate but equal” and dismantle Jim Crow laws across the South.Developed with the full support of the Dovey Johnson Roundtree Educational Trust and adapted from her memoir, this book brings her inspiring, important story and voice to life.A Junior Library Guild Selection
Mighty Man of Valor
by W. Phillip KellerThe book is short but leaves the reader with a classic picture of what it means to walk humbly with God. We also face the sobering view of a man who missed the mark when his personal preferences overruled God's will for his life.
Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary
by Rachel Swaby Kit FoxRachel Swaby and Kit Fox present Mighty Moe, the untold true story of runner Maureen Wilton, whose world record-breaking marathon time at age 13 was met first with misogyny and controversy, but ultimately with triumph.In 1967, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the women’s world marathon record at a small race in Toronto. This was an era when girls and women were discouraged from the sport and the longest track event at the Olympics for women was 25.6 miles shorter than a marathon. Thirteen-year-old Moe’s world-beating victory was greeted with chauvinistic disapproval and accusations of cheating—as were many of her achievements in the sport she had excelled at from the age of ten. Within less than two years, the controversy took its toll and Maureen quit running. Here is the untold story of Mighty Moe’s tenacity and triumph in the face of adversity as a young athlete—and of a grown-up Maureen finding her way back to the sport decades later. This inspiring biography for readers and racers of all ages showcases the truly groundbreaking achievements of an unassuming, amazing young athlete. Mighty Moe includes an introduction by Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially register and run in the Boston Marathon (and Maureen’s only fellow female competitor at the 1967 record-setting race), and an afterword by Des Linden, the first-place finisher of the 11,628 women who raced the 2018 Boston Marathon.
Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as A Mexican American Woman
by Mario T. García Frances Esquibel TywoniakBoth introduction and narrative illustrate the process by which Tywoniak negotiated her relation to ethnic identity and cultural allegiances, the ways in which she came to find education as a channel for breaking with fieldwork patterns of life, and the effect of migration on family and culture. This deeply personal memoir portrays a courageous Mexican American woman moving between many cultural worlds, a life story that at times parallels, and at times diverges from, the real life experiences of thousands of other, unnamed women.
Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography
by Marita GoldenIn her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back. Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D. C. , by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other, her parents instilled her with spirit and aspirations. Swept up in the heady Black Power movement of the sixties, Marita moved to New York to study journalism at Columbia--and fell in love with Femi Ajayi, a Nigerian architecture student. . Their passion led them to start a life together in Africa--a place Marita was eager to understand. Exhilarated by a world free of white racism, Marita quickly found work as a professor and embraced motherhood. But Femi's increasing expectations that she snap into the role of the submissive Nigerian wife were shocking and dispiriting. Her struggle to regain her footing and shape a black identity that was true to her spirit is suspenseful and inspiring, an uncommon tale of race, identity, and Africa.
Migré: El maestro de las telenovelas que revolucionó la educación sentimental de un país
by Liliana ViolaBiografía del creador de telenovelas célebres como Rolando Rivas, taxista, Piel naranja, Pobre diabla y Una voz en el teléfono, que moldearon la historia sentimental de generaciones de argentinos. Lo llamaron "el señor éxito", "el padre de la lágrima" y "el autor del amor". Escribió más de 700 títulos sin más colaboradores que su máquina Remington. Sus telenovelas fueron una verdadera factoría de galanes, parejas románticas y canciones inolvidables. Durante cuatro décadas tuvo en sus manos las emociones domésticas de las tardes y las noches. Con Rolando Rivas taxista, la ficción más recordada de la televisión argentina, conquistó al público masculino y marcó un nuevo estándar en el modo de producir y mirar tv. Se atrevió a plantear un final infeliz en Piel Naranja en vísperas de la dictadura de 1976 e impuso una palabra guaraní -"rojaiju"- en el lenguaje amoroso de los años 70'. Ultimo representante de la telenovela de autor, Alberto Migré sentó las bases de una industria de los sentimientos que se volvió global. En este libro apasionante Liliana Viola construye una biografía a la medida de su personaje donde cada secreto revelado abre las puertas de un secreto mayor. Actores y actrices, directores, admiradores y amigos íntimos aportan testimonios desopilantes y conmovedores para el retrato del hombre que patentó un modo de amar alternativo a la vida real y supo denunciar como ninguno la influencia nefasta del machismo en las relaciones humanas y el factor melodrama en los rencores que signan la política argentina.
Miguel Batista (Superstars of Baseball)
by Tania RodriguezMiguel Batista is a pitcher who can enter a game at a moment's notice. He's spent a long time on the field and knows baseball inside and out. He's also an interesting person outside of baseball. Batista spends his time reading, doing charity, and publishing poems and novels. Follow Batista as he makes his way through the game. He's had a long journey--one that isn't over yet!
Miguel Enríquez: Un nombre en las estrellas. Biografía de un revolucionario
by Mario AmorósEsta es la biografía del revolucionario que simboliza la Resistencia heroica frente a la dictadura en el momento más duro, cuando la DINA operaba con absoluta impunidad y crueldad, cuando el terror paralizaba a la sociedad chilena. Miguel Enríquez (Talcahuano, 1944), hijo de una ilustre familia de Concepción, médico, fue el líder del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria desde 1967 hasta su asesinato en aquel combate desigual de la calle Santa Fe el 5 de octubre de 1974. Con su liderazgo, y acompañado por una nueva generación de dirigentes y militantes, el MIR marcó una ruptura en la política nacional. Apoyó críticamente al Gobierno de Salvador Allende, movilizó a "los pobres del campo y la ciudad" por el poder popular, denunció la conspiración de la derecha y, después del golpe de Estado, fue golpeado terriblemente por la represión. A partir de abundante documentación inédita y de los testimonios de sus familiares y compañeros, Mario Amorós relata de manera acuciosa la apasionante trayectoria de Miguel Enríquez. Solo vivió 30 años, pero su nombre quedó grabado en la Historia y en la Memoria popular de Chile y de América Latina.
Miguel de Unamuno (Colección Españoles Eminentes #Volumen)
by Jon JuaristiLa última biografía de Unamuno, una nueva mirada a su vida y obra. Elegida mejor biografía de 2012 por los lectores de El País. El escritor vasco Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo fue el primer intelectual verdaderamente moderno del país. Su vida, su obra y su muerte, en plena guerra civil, ilustran las contradicciones del decisivo periodo histórico que le tocó transitar. Ningún otro miembro de la generación española del fin del siglo XIX -la llamada «generación del 98»- buscó con tanto ahínco como don Miguel transformar su vida en metáfora del destino nacional. Ésta se convirtió en el resultado de un compromiso entre las circunstancias inevitables y aleatorias de la España de su época y el empeño personal de construirse, a la manera quijotesca, desde una voluntad autónoma y opuesta a todo conformismo. En esta biografía, Jon Juaristi analiza con rigurosa minuciosidad (no exenta de distancia irónica y paradójica simpatía) las influencias que Unamuno asimiló en un pensamiento tan asistemático como profundamente original, así como la que el propio escritor ejerció en los españoles de su tiempo, siguiendo el hilo de una existencia agónica, en permanente lucha con su entorno histórico y en un inacabable debate interior entre la razón desencantada y el ansia de eternidad. Reseñas:«Juaristi, con una de las mejores prosas que se escriben hoy en España, repasa todos los aspectos de Unamuno, los amables y los odiosos... Una biografía soberbia.»Félix de Azúa, El País «Las biografías convierten en libros a los hombres. Miguel de Unamuno, de Juaristi es un buen ejemplo.»Álvaro Cortina, El Mundo «Excelente libro... Una biografía crítica, bien documentada y mejor escrita... Términos como cainismo, intrahistoria, "nivola" o casticismo adquieren aquí el renovado sentido de un análisis inteligente y pormenorizado, ameno y riguroso.»Jesús Ferrer, La Razón
Miguel de Unamuno: Biografía
by Jean-Claude Rabaté Colette RabatéLa primera biografía de Unamuno en más de cuarenta años, basada en documentos inéditos. Esta biografía de Unamuno redefine la personalidad de un intelectual comprometido cuyas vivencias y acciones estuvieron estrechamente vinculadas a la vida política y cultural de España durante más de cinco décadas. Gracias a nuevas fuentes como sus cuadernillos autobiográficos de juventud y vejez, su abundante epistolario -en parte inédito-, centenares de colaboraciones periodísticas en España y América Latina e innumerables discursos rescatados de la prensa, se destaca la figura pública y privada de una personalidad polifacética.
Miguel Ángel: Una vida épica
by Martin GayfordLa biografía definitiva de Miguel ÁngelA los treinta y un años ya se le consideraba el mejor artista de Italia, y probablemente del mundo; pero para sus enemigos Miguel Ángel era arrogante, zafio y extravagante. Durante décadas, se movió en el centro de la vorágine en la que la historia de Europa se vio sumida durante el paso del Renacimiento a la Contrarreforma.Como un héroe de la mitología clásica #similar al Hércules que esculpió en su juventud#, fue sometido a constantes pruebas. Esta biografía, fruto de una investigación minuciosa y capaz de englobarlo todo #desde las cartas de la época y aquellas primeras biografías repletas de chismes, hasta las últimas investigaciones acerca de Miguel Ángel# tiene también, en sí misma, algo de epopeya.Para Martin Gayford , el mayor logro de Miguel Ángel no estriba tanto en sus mejores obras como en su inmensa personalidad, que transformó para siempre nuestra noción de lo que puede llegar a ser un artista. La crítica ha dicho...«Una muestra de la magnitud del personaje, y de la habilidad de Gayford a la hora de captarla, es que uno termina este libro deseando que Miguel Ángel hubiera vivido más tiempo y creado más.»Financial Times «Un libro cautivador, increíblemente bien contado y con un gran escritor al mando de un inmenso cuerpo de investigación.» Mail on Sunday«Sólo el más ambicioso biógrafo puede aceptar el desafío de reflejar el talento de Miguel Ángel Buonarroti.»The Times«Gayford capta el acto sutil y efímero de la creación artística con una habilidad y sensibilidad que pocos escritores poseen.»The Guardian«Una biografía perspicaz y finamente matizada, cuya lectura es tan irresistible como la de los anteriores libros de Gayford. A pesar de su tamaño, la obra es maravillosamente sintética y se precipita con elegancia a través de décadas repletas de acción que vieron a Miguel Ángel ir y venir de Florencia a Roma, pasando por las canteras de mármol de Carrara.»The Spectator«Es muy difícil abrirse paso en la espesura de años de estudios y decir algo nuevo sobre David, la Capilla Sixtina, El Juicio Final o muchas otras obras maestras de Miguel Ángel, pero Martin Gayford lo consigue, y nos invita a pensar y ver más allá de lo obvio.»Sunday Telegraph
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
by Margarita EngleMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight.This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel. The son of a vagabond barber-surgeon, Miguel looks to his own imagination for an escape from his family's troubles and finds comfort in his colorful daydreams. At a time when access to books is limited and imaginative books are considered evil, Miguel is inspired by storytellers and wandering actors who perform during festivals. He longs to tell stories of his own. When Miguel is nineteen, four of his poems are published, launching the career of one of the greatest writers in the Spanish language.Award-winning author Margarita Engle's distinctive picture book depiction of the childhood of the father of the modern novel, told in a series of free verse poems, is enhanced by Raúl Colón's stunning illustrations. Back matter includes a note from both the author and illustrator as well as additional information on Cervantes and his novel Don Quixote.
Mikaela Shiffrin (Amazing Athletes Ser.)
by Jon M FishmanAlpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her first world championship in slalom in 2013. She was just getting warmed up. In 2014, she won a gold medal in the same event as a member of Team USA at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Mikaela was the youngest person to ever win an Olympic slalom competition. At an event a few weeks later, she was named world champion for the second year in a row. Learn more about this young star with an incredibly bright future.
Mike
by Rt. Hon. Pearson Rt. Hon. ChretienOne of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry into politics in 1948.This volume, completed after Pearson's death under the supervision of his son Geoffrey, recounts his involvement in Canadian politics and diplomacy as a MP and Secretary of State for External Affairs during the early years of the Cold War. It offers his perspective on issues such as the formation of NATO, Canada's involvement in the Korean War, and the diplomacy that ended the Suez Crisis and earned Pearson the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Two appendices, taken from his diaries, show him hard at work at the United Nations during the Korean crisis.Mike captures Pearson's intellect, his sense of humour, and his humanity, offering an inside look at the moments that shaped the twentieth century. This new edition features a foreword by Pearson cabinet minister and former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
Mike
by Rt. Hon. Pearson Rt. Hon. ChretienOne of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his memoirs follows him from his years of triumph as a Canadian diplomat to his retirement from politics and the passing of the Liberal torch to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.Completed after Pearson's death under the supervision of his son Geoffrey, this volume of Mike covers Pearson's election as leader of the Liberal Party, his years in opposition to the Diefenbaker government, and his achievements as prime minister: a list that included the establishment of the Canada Pension Plan, universal medicare, the Auto Pact, and a new Canadian flag.Mike captures Pearson's intellect, his sense of humour, and his humanity, offering an inside look at the decisions that shaped Canada in the twentieth century. This new edition features a foreword by Pearson cabinet minister and former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
Mike
by Rt. Hon. Cretien Rt. Hon. PearsonOne of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a Methodist preacher to his decision to enter politics in 1948.In this volume of Mike, Pearson recalls his university years at the University of Toronto and St. John's College, Oxford, his military service in the First World War, and his return to the University of Toronto in 1923 to teach history and, in his spare time, coach football and hockey. In 1928, Pearson joined the Department of External Affairs, rapidly rising through the ranks to become ambassador to the United States by 1945.Mike captures Pearson's intellect, his sense of humour, and his humanity, offering a charming look at the youth of a great statesman. This new edition features a foreword by Pearson cabinet minister and former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
by Joyce PurnickMichael Bloomberg is not only New York City’s 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success-and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known and admired, few people know the man behind the carefully crafted public persona. In Mike Bloomberg, Joyce Purnick explores Mr. Bloomberg’s life from his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, to his rise on Wall Street and the creation of Bloomberg L. P. , to his mayoral record and controversial gamble on a third term. Drawing on her deep knowledge of New York City politics, and interviews with Bloomberg’s friends, family, colleagues, and the mayor himself, she creates a textured portrait of one of the more complex men of our era.
Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen
by Steve Steinberg Lyle SpatzMike Donlin was a brash, colorful, and complicated personality. He was the most popular athlete in New York and was a star on the powerful New York Giants teams of 1905 and 1908. Though haunted by tragedy, including the deaths of both of his parents as a boy, Donlin was a charming, engaging, and kind-hearted man who also had successful careers on the stage and in film. One of the early &“bad boys&” among professional athletes, Donlin&’s temper and combativeness—compounded by alcoholism—led to battles with umpires and fans, numerous suspensions from the game, and even jail time. In 1906, when Donlin married vaudeville actress Mabel Hite, his life changed for the better, and their love story captivated the nation. Donlin left baseball after his sensational comeback for the dramatic 1908 season and joined Mabel on the stage, likely losing a Hall of Fame career. Then in 1912, at the age of twenty-nine, Mabel died of intestinal cancer. After making a final comeback as a player in 1914, Donlin starred in baseball&’s first feature film. He became a drinking buddy of actors John Barrymore and Buster Keaton and married actress Rita Ross. The couple moved to Hollywood, where Donlin became a beloved figure and appeared in roughly one hundred movies, mostly in minor roles. Despite his Hollywood career, Donlin stayed connected to the game he loved and was seeking a coaching job with the Giants when he died of a heart attack in 1933. At the dawn of the celebrity era of sports, Donlin was one of the nation&’s first athletes to capture the public&’s attention. This biography by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz shows why.
Mike Leigh (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Sean O'SullivanIn this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a straightforward crafter of social realist movies, O'Sullivan illuminates the visual tropes and storytelling investigations that position Leigh as an experimental filmmaker who uses the art and artifice of cinema to frame tales of the everyday and the extraordinary alike. O'Sullivan challenges the prevailing characterizations of Leigh's cinema by detailing the complicated constructions of his realism, positing his films not as transparent records of life but as aesthetic transformations of it. Concentrating on the most recent two decades of Leigh's career, the study examines how Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Vera Drake, and other films engage narrative convergence and narrative diffusion, the tension between character and plot, the interplay of coincidence and design, cinema's relationship to other systems of representation, and the filmic rendering of the human figure. The book also spotlights such earlier, less-discussed works as Four Days in July and The Short and Curlies, illustrating the recurring visual and storytelling concerns of Leigh's cinema. With a detailed filmography, this volume also includes key selections from O'Sullivan's several interviews with Leigh.
Mike Nichols: A Life
by Mark HarrisA magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and followed it with The Graduate, which won him an Oscar and became the third-highest-grossing movie ever. At thirty-five, he lived in a three-story Central Park West penthouse, drove a Rolls-Royce, collected Arabian horses, and counted Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Bernstein, and Richard Avedon as friends. <P><P>Where he arrived is even more astonishing given where he had begun: born Igor Peschkowsky to a Jewish couple in Berlin in 1931, he and his younger brother were sent to America on a ship in 1939. The young immigrant boy caught very few breaks. He was bullied and ostracized--an allergic reaction had rendered him permanently hairless--and his father died when he was just twelve, leaving his mother alone and overwhelmed. <P>The gulf between these two sets of facts explains a great deal about Nichols's transformation from lonely outsider to the center of more than one cultural universe--the acute powers of observation that first made him famous; the nourishment he drew from his creative partnerships, most enduringly with May; his unquenchable drive; his hunger for security and status; and the depressions and self-medications that brought him to terrible lows. It would take decades for him to come to grips with his demons. In an incomparable portrait that follows Nichols from Berlin to New York to Chicago to Hollywood, Mark Harris explores, with brilliantly vivid detail and insight, the life, work, struggle, and passion of an artist and man in constant motion. Among the 250 people Harris interviewed: Elaine May, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Lorne Michaels, and Gloria Steinem. <P>Mark Harris gives an intimate and evenhanded accounting of success and failure alike; the portrait is not always flattering, but its ultimate impact is to present the full story of one of the most richly interesting, complicated, and consequential figures the worlds of theater and motion pictures have ever seen. It is a triumph of the biographer's art. <P><P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Mike Trout: Baseball's MVP (Sports Illustrated Kids Stars of Sports)
by Matt ChandlerAmerican-League superstar Mike Trout moved through the minors at record speed to become a breakout star his rookie year. From Rookie of the Year to All-Star appearances to record-setting feats and MVP Awards, Trout has earned his place as one of the best centerfielders in baseball history. Is a World Series ring next? Get all the facts on Trout’s rise to the top and his future plans in this hard-hitting sports biography.