Here you will find biographies of the famous, infamous and the extraordinary. Read about Presidents,
their wives, heros and ordinary people under extraordinary cirumstances.
American Scoundrel
By Thomas Keneally
Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with
the deposed Queen of Spain - among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was
his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and
neglected wife, Teresa.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose
up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh
rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography,
we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind
his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both
his own time and ours.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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Burned Alive
By Souad
Souad was a 17-year-old girl living in a small village in Palestine when she had the misfortune of
falling in love. It was an emotion that would lead to an unspeakable act of violence-to near-death
and to a lifetime of exile from her homeland.This is Souad's true story of a childhood filled with
hard labor and physical abuse at the hands of a father humiliated by the birth of many daughters and
only one son.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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The Bushes
By Peter Schweizer
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really
know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the
first full-scale biography of the Bushes, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer trace the extraordinary
trajectory of their rise to power.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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Every Second Counts
By Lance Armstrong
The four-time Tour de France winner and number 1 New York Times bestselling author returns with an
inspirational account of his recent personal and professional victories - and some failures - and
an intimate glimpse into how almost dying taught him to really live.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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Hillary's Choice
By Gail Sheeky
This is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over,
we think we know everything there is to know. But Hillary's Choice renders
America's First Lady fully human for the first time. The biographical portrait that emerges
here is a tour de force of hard reporting shaped by the intimate contour
of the author's unique insights.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: eBook
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I Love You, Ronnie
By Nancy Reagan
The letters that Ronald Reagan wrote to Nancy Reagan, from their courtship in 1950 to his Alzheimer's
letter to the nation in 1994, are collected in this touching book, accompanied by Mrs. Reagan's
reflections on the life they have shared for almost half a century. The author's proceeds from the
book will go to The Alzheimer's Foundation and to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan; Women Of Camelot
By J. Randy Taraborrelli
Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel, and Joan Bennett married into the Kennedy
family and became forever linked in legend. This book offers a rarely-seen
look at these women's lives during the "Camelot" years and beyond, as they
dealt with infidel husbands, stumped for political campaigns, and confronted
death.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: eBook
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John Adams
By David Mccullough
In his first book since "Truman", one of America's most distinguished and
popular biographers breathes life into history with this compelling look
at the second president of the United States, John Adams. More than just
a biography, this book looks at the birth of a young republic and explores
the extraordinary factors that transformed 13 colonies into a united
nation. of illustrations, many in color.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: eBooks
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Living History
By Hillary Rodam Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and
political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up
with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She
charted her own course through unexplored terrain - responding to the
changing times and her own internal compass - and became an emblem for some
and a lightning rod for others.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: eBooks
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My Life
By Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton's "My Life" is a portrait of a global leader who decided early
in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts to serving the public. President Clinton's book
is a full, detailed, nuanced account of a presidency, encompassing not only the high points and crises
but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities,
conflicts, setbacks, achievements.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Adobe, Microsoft, Palm
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See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
By Robert Baer
In See No Evil, one of the CIA’s top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career
running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling
picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington
politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists.
Genre: Biography eBooks
Format: Palm, Microsoft, Adobe
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