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The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp. Includes several of her original poems.

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia.

The author recounts how she gradually lost her sight from retinal hemorrhages, and describes her experiences in a training program for blind adults.

Suggests how to set goals and achieve your dreams, using such tools as discipline and maintaining a positive attitude.

A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.

In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall.

A biography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write

Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive.

Feel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and women who lived it.

Experience 20 great moments in American history, from the 1631 quest of Christian libertarian Roger Williams to the 1988 ordeal of Sudanese refugee Peter Malual.

Krull presents a vivid and highly accessible portrait of a true renaissance man--an artist, scientist, and inventer of unparalleled genius. Themes include homosexuality.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history.