Dancing Under The Red Star by Karl Tobien
Between 1930
and 1932, Henry Ford sent over one hundred of his Detroit employees and their
families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility.
This is the true story of one of those families--Carl and Elisabeth Werner and
their young daughter Margaret--and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal
dictator Joseph Stalin. –Summary
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is an incredible true account of
Kamila Sidiqi who, when her father and brother were forced to flee Kabul,
became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and
determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving
business of her own and held her family together. –Summary
No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman
No One Here Gets Out Alive recounts the life and tragic death of
singer-songwriter Morrison, examining his recordings and performances with the
Doors, as well as his poetry. –Summary
The Sleeping Buddha by Hamida Ghafour
“As Hamida is
drawn deeper into her country's present, other members of her family come to
life for us – her great-grandfather the Sufi mystic, her poetess grandmother
who urged women to unveil, her great-uncle who wrote the first democratic
constitution, her brace cousin Bahodine who paid for his views with his life.
In her family's past she finds the story of Afghanistan itself. She finds its
future in people like the American Beautician teaching women a new kind of
independence and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization
– in the form of a giant Sleeping Buddha.” –Amazon
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
A teen idol
at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and
one of Hollywood's top stars, Stories I
Only Tell My Friends chronicles Rob Lowe’s experiences. The actor,
political activist and now writer looks back on his travails as a fledgling and
misunderstood child actor in Ohio, his transition to the rough, counter-culture
free-for-all that was Malibu in the mid-1970s, his wild ride from as teen idol
to movie star to his current status as one of Hollywood's top actors. –Summary