Product Description: Author Silvia Anne Sheafer relates the entertaining life and career of this legend of soul music, from her childhood in Detroit, through her struggles with personal heartache and racial prejudice, to her continued success as a major force in the music industry...read more

Product Description: This series looks at leaders who guided armies to victory and ruled over vast domains. As one empire fell, another would rise, led by charismatic and powerful commanders.

Product Description: Roh Moo Hyun, a farm boy from humble beginnings, became president of the Republic of South Korea in December 2002. Elected to the country's highest position, Roh confronted a shadowed past of political and economic obsessives, catastrophic wars, and a global nuclear crisis...read more

Product Description: A series that examines the lives of people who have had a major impact on the history or current practice of religion. This volume follows the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, famed for her tent revivals in America.

Product Description: The time is the late 1880s. The setting is the lawless, rough and tumble West. The women are: Lotta Crabtree, Fairy star of the Mother Lode; Charlie Parkhurst, A lifetime of disguise; Lola Montez, Courtesan and Grass Valley socialite; Cassie Hill, Wells Fargo agent; Donaldina Cameron, Missionary who rescues Chinese slave girls; Emma Wixom, Nevada City girl captivates the European stage, and Elanor Dumont, Madam Moustache...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the personal life and artistic career of painter Georgia O'Keeffe, discussing her early years, her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, and the development of her art.

Explores the life and career of the soul and gospel singer, from her musical upbringing in Detroit to her current stardom (view table of contents)

A collection of ten biographies of women who have served in the military when America was at war, including Molly Pitcher, Sarah Emma Edmonds, and Megan Jans