Career Biographies at LTHS :::
Activism - Human/Social
Eleanor Roosevelt: a life of discovery
B Roosevelt F
Escape from slavery : the true story of my ten years in captivity
B Bok B
Failure is impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her own words
B Anthony S
Margaret Sanger: her life in her words
B Sanger R
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
B Nafisi R
Rosa Parks: my story
B Parks P
The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey
B Geuvara G
362.196 Wo
Animals
Beautiful Jim Key: the lost history of a horse...
B Key R
The man who listens to horses
B Roberts R
Architecture/Construction
Frank Lloyd Wright, his life and his architecture
B Wright T
Art & Photography
Andy Warhol: prince of pop
B Warhol G
Dreaming with his eyes open: a life of Diego Rivera
B Rivera M
Good grief: the story of Charles M. Schulz
B Schulz J
High exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
796.52 Br
Mary Cassatt: a life
B Cassatt M
Portraits of guilt: the woman who profiles the faces of America's deadliest criminals
B Boylan B
Shutterbabe: adventures in love and war
770.92 Ko
Aviation
Amelia: a life of the aviation legend
B Earhart G
Heart of the storm: my adventures as a helicopter pilot and commander
358.4 Fl
The spirit of St. Louis
B Lindbergh CL
Business/Marketing
Bill Gates speaks: insights from the world's greatest entrepreneur
B Gates L
Carolyn 101: Business lessons from The Apprentice's straight shooter
NEW
Masters of doom: how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture
B Carmack K
The prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less
B Ryan R
Reallionaire: nine steps to becoming rich
332.024 Gray
The road ahead
B Gates G
On her own ground: The life and times of Madame C.J. Walker
B Walker B
Sam Walton, made in America: my story
B Walton W
Time to make the donuts
B Rosenberg R
Trump: the art of the deal
B Trump T
Trump: think like a billionaire: everything you need to know about success, real estate and
life
B Trump T
You're hired: how to succeed in business and life
650 Rancic
Cars/Motorcycles/BMX/Racing/Mechanics
Driver #8
B Earnhardt G
Evel Knievel: an American hero
B Knieval C
Real Men Work in the Pits: a life in NASCAR racing
796.72 Ha
The ride of my life
B Hoffman H
Wheels: a season on NASCAR Winston Cup circuit
796.72 He
NC
Wide open: a life in Supercross
796.7 Mc
Cooking/Food/Hospitality
Emeril! Inside the amazing success of today's most popular chef
NEW
Jamie Oliver: the biography
B Oliver H
The making of a chef: mastering heat at the Culinary Institute of America
B Ruhlman R
Criminology/Forensics
Portraits of guilt: the woman who profiles the faces of America's deadliest criminals
B Boylan B
Teasing secrets from the dead: my investigations at the most infamous crime scenes
363.25 Cr
Education/Teaching/Childcare
Educating Esme: diary of a teacher's first year
372.11 Co
NC
Jaime Escalante: sensational teacher
B Escalante B
Ms. Moffett's first year: becoming a teacher in America
B Moffett G
One day, all children – the unlikely triumph of Teach for America and what I learned along the
way
372.11 KO
NC
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
B Nafisi R
Seven days of possibilities: one teacher, 24 kids, and the music that changed their lives
forever
372.87 Ha
Teacher: the one who made the difference
B Lears E
There are no shortcuts here
372.11 Es
NC
True notebooks
364.36 Sa
You'll never nanny in this town again: the true adventures of a Hollywood nanny
NEW
Environment/Nature
The sea around us
551.46 Ca
Stargazing: memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper
B Hill H
Exploration
Archaeological
Disclosing the past: Mary Leakey
B Leakey L
Arctic/Antarctic
Ice bound: a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole
B Nielsen N
Robert Peary and the quest for the North Pole
B Peary H
True north: Peary, Cook and the race to the Pole
B Peary H
Ocean
Eight men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
910 Th
Green was the earth on the seventh day
B Heyerdahl H
Titanic adventure: one woman's true life voyage down to the legendary ocean liner.
B Carter C
Space
I touch the future: the story of Christa McAuliffe
B McAuliffe H
Schirra's space
629.45 Sc
NC
Fashion/Cosmetics
Estee: a success story
B Lauder L
Genuine authentic: the real life of Ralph Lauren
B Lauren G
Love always, Petra
NEW
FBI/CIA/Intelligence
Blowing my cover: my life as a CIA spy
Moran, Lindsay
FBI Girl: How I learned to crack my father's code
B Conlon C
Special agent: my life on the front lines as a woman in the FBI
B DeLong D
Standing next to history: an agent's life inside the Secret Service
B Petro P
Firefighting
Firefighter
B Williams W
Working fire: the making of an accidental fireman
B Unger U
Journalism/Reporting
All over but the shoutin'
B Bragg B
The glass castle
B Walls W
Growing up
921 Baker
NC
Kingdom of fear: loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American
century
921 Thompson
NC
Kup: a man, an era, a city
B Kupcinet K
A long way from home: growing up in the American heartland
B Brokaw B
Law Enforcement
Armed and dangerous: memoirs of a Chicago policewoman
B Gallo G
Blue blood
B Conlon B
Catch me if you can: the true story of a fake
B Abagnale A
No lights, no sirens: the corruption and redemption of an inner city cop
B Cea C
Legal/Judicial
Bloodsworth: the true story of the first deathrow inmate exonerated by DNA
364.66 Ju
Courtroom 302
345.773 Bo
The death of innocents: an eyewitness account of wrongful executions
364.66 Pr
The death penalty on trial: crisis in American justice
364.66 Ku
Hurricane: the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter
B Carter H
A lawyer's life
B Cochran C
Lazarus and the Hurricane: the freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
921 Carter C
NC
B Wapner W
Medical/Healthcare
Baby doctor
618.92 Kl
NC
The burn journals
B Runyon R
Hot lights, cold steel: life, death and sleepless nights in surgeon's first years
NEW
Ice bound: a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole
B Nielsen N
Mountains beyond mountains
610.92 Ki
Still me
B Reeve R
To the edge and back: my story from organ transplant survivor to Olympic snowboarder
B Klug K
The true history of the Elephant Man
B Merrick H
We beat the street: how a friendship pact helped us succeed
920 Da
Military
Biggest brother: the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the band of brothers
B Winters A
Honoring Sergeant Carter: redeeming a Black World War II hero's legacy
C Carter C
One soldier's story
B Dole D
Spare parts: A Marine reservist's journey from campus to combat in 38 days
B Williams W
When I was a soldier
B Zennatti
Oceanography/Fishing
The sea around us
551.46 Ca
Sea legs: tales of a woman oceanographer
B Crane C
Performing Arts; Acting/Drama
Audrey Hepburn
B Hepburn P
Bruce Lee, fighting spirit: a memoir
B Lee BT
Homesick: a memoir
B Ward W
Lost in Hollywood: the fast times and short life of River Phoenix
B Phoenix G
Lucky Man: a memoir
B Fox F
Still me
B Reeve R
There and back again: an actor's tale
B Astin A
Comedy
Cosby: the life of a comedy legend
B Cosby S
Leading with my chin
B Leno L
Lost in the funhouse: the life and mind of Andy Kaufman
B Kaufman Z
Dance
Attitude: eight young dancers come of age
792.8 Fi
The shape of love (ballerina)
B Kirkland K
Magic/Illusion
Houdini: the untold story
B Houdini C
Music/Singing/Songwriting
Blackbird: the life and times of Paul McCartney
B McCartney G
The boy who would be king
B Presley G
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' own story
B Charles C
Dark horse: the private life of George Harrison
B Harrison G
Dark star: an oral biography of Jerry Garcia
B Garcia G
Don't block the blessings
B LaBelle L
Dream brother: the lives and music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
B Buckley B
Forever yours, faithfully: my love story
B Morgan M
John Lennon : all I want is the truth; a photographic biography
B Lennon P
Kurt Cobain
B Cobain S
The lizard king: the essential Jim Morrison
B Morrison JH
Only the lonely: Roy Orbison's life and legacy
B Orbison C
Ozzie unauthorized
B Osbourne C
Remembering Buddy: the definitive biography
B Holly G
Riders on the storm: my life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
B Morrison JD
Scars of sweet paradise
B Joplin JE
Tori Amos, piece by piece: a portrait of the artist
B Amos A
Miscellaneous
All the Sundays yet to come (ice skating show)
B Bertine B
Politics
The day John died
B Kennedy A
Dear Senator: a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond.
B Washington Williams W
Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance
B Obama B
First in his class: a biography of Bill Clinton
B Clinton M
Gore: a political life
B Gore Z
Harold Washington: the mayor, the man
B Washington M
Hillary Rodham Clinton: a first lady for our time
B Clinton R
Janet Reno: doing the right thing
B Reno A
Jesse Jackson: a biography
B Jackson JF
Legend: the only inside story about Mayor Richard J. Daley
B Daley S
Living History (Hillary Clinton)
B Clinton C
My life (Bill Clinton)
921 Clinton M NC
One brief shining moment: remembering Kennedy
B Kennedy M
The presidency of George Bush
921 Bush G
NC
Prince Charming: the John F. Kennedy Story (Jr.)
B Kennedy L
Ronald Reagan: his life and rise to the Presidency
B Reagan B
Seasons of her life: a biography of Madeline Korbel Albright
B Albright B
Product Design/Manufacturing
The man who changed how boys and toys were made
B Gilbert W
Psychology/Counseling/Therapy
Child Abuse
Becoming Anna: the autobiography of a sixteen-year-old
B Michener M
Twilight children: three voices no one heard till a therapist listened
618.92 Hayden
Slips: a memoir of music and healing
B Cutting C
NC
Eating Disorders
All the Sundays yet to come
B Bertine B
Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia.
616.85 Ho
Drug Abuse
Rolling away : my agony with Ecstasy
B Smith B
Alcoholism
The glass castle
B Walls W
Smashed: story of a drunken childhood
B Zailckas Z
Terry: my daughter's life-and-death struggle with alcoholism
362.29 Mc
Mental Health
Autobiography of a fact
B Grealy G
Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic
B Williams W
Somebody, somewhere: breaking free from the world of autism
921 Williams NC
Science
Electric dreams: one unlikely team of kids and the race to build the car of the future
629.2 Ke
The radioactive boy scout: the true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor
621.48 Si
Sky of stone
B Hickam H
Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio
B Salk K
Sports - Coaching
Bob Knight: his own man
B Knight M
Breaking the ice (woman hockey player)
B Ruggiero R
Counting Coup: a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn
796.32 Co
Ditka: an autobiography
B Ditka D
The miracle of St. Anthony: a season with Coach Bob Hurley and basketball's most improbable
destiny
796.323 Wo
Never before, never again
B Robinson R
Sacred hoops: spiritual lessons of a hardwood warrior
B Jackson J
A season on the reservation: my sojourn with the White Mountain Apache
796.323 Ab
Shooting from the outside: how a coach and her Olympic team transformed women's basketball
796.323 Va
Sports - Professional
Baseball
Babe Ruth: the legend comes to life
B Ruth C
Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer
B Jackson BJ
Hitter: the life and turmoils of Ted Williams
B Williams L
The life you imagine: life lessons for achieving your dreams
B Jeter J
I love this game! My life and baseball
B Puckett P
Jackie Robinson
B Robinson W
Juiced
796.357 Ca
Just call me Minnie: my six decades in baseball
B Minoso M
Ron Santo, for love of ivy: the autobiography of Ron Santo
B Santo S
Stan "The Man" Musial: born to be a ballplayer
B Musial L
Ty Cobb
B Cobb A
Basketball
David Thompson: Skywalker
B Thompson T
Driven from within: Michael Jordan
B Jordan J
John Starks: my life
B Starks S
Living the dream: my life and basketball
B Olajuwon O
Manute: the center of two worlds
B Bol B
Never to young to die: the death of Len Bias
B Bias C
Only the strong survive: the odyssey of Allen Iverson
B Iverson P
A season on the reservation: my sojourn with the White Mountain Apache
796.323 Ab
Shaq attack!
B O'Neal O
Biking
Every second counts (Lance Armstrong)
796.6 Ar
It's not about the bike: my journey back to life
B Armstrong A
LeMond: the incredible comeback of an American hero
B LeMond A
Long way round: chasing shadows around the world
910.4 McG
Boxing
The soul of a butterfly: reflections on life's journeys
B Ali A
Football
All-American: the rise and fall of Jim Thorpe
B Thorpe C
Favre
B Favre F
LT over the edge: tackling quarterbacks, drugs, and a world beyond football
B Taylor T
Golf
Caddy for life: the Bruce Edwards story
B Edwards F
Raising the bar: the championship years of Tiger Woods
796.352 Ro
NC
Tiger: a biography of Tiger Woods
B Woods S
Tiger Woods: the making of a champion
B Woods R
Hockey
Gordie, a hockey legend: an unauthorized biography of Gordie Howe
B Howe M
Gretzky: an autobiography
B Gretzky G
Ice Skating
All the Sunday's yet to come: a skater's journey
B Bertine B
My Sergei: a love story
B Grinkov G
NASCAR
Real Men Work in the Pits: a life in NASCAR racing
796.72 Ha
Sailing
Maiden voyage
910.4 Ae
Snowboarding
To the edge and back: my story from organ transplant survivor to Olympic snowboarder
B Klug K
Soccer
Beckham: both feet on the ground
B Beckham B
Track and Field/Running
All-American: the rise and fall of Jim Thorpe
B Thorpe C
How she runs: Marion Jones and the making of a champion
B Jones R
Wilderness Survival/Exploration
Between a rock and a hard place
B Ralston R
High exposure: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
796.52 Br
The kid who climbed Everest
796.52 Gr
NC
The other side of Everest
796.52 Di
Touch the top of the world
B Wiehenmayer W
Touching the void
796.5 Si NC
Within reach: my Everest story
B Pfetzer P
Writing
All over but the shoutin'
B Bragg B
Angela's ashes
B McCourt M
Bad boy: a memoir
B Myers M
The biography of JRR Tolkien: architect of Middle-Earth
B Tolkien G
A circle of quiet
B L'Engle E
C. S. Lewis: images of his world
B Lewis CS G
Going solo
B Dahl D
Hole in my life.
B Gantos G
J. M. Barrie and the lost boys
B Barrie B
Jane Austen: her life
B Austen H
King of the mild frontier
B Crutcher C
Maya Angelou
B Angelou S
My losing season
B Conroy C
One generation after
B Wiesel W
The opposite of fate: a book of musings
B Tan T
Something to declare
B Alvarez A
This boy's life
B Wolff W
Three weeks with my brother
B Sparks S
When I was cool: my life at the Jack Kerouac school
B Kashner K
Last updated: March 02, 2006