The story of a bedraggled white feline who came for Christmas and took over the heart of Cleveland Amory.

This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.

Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land. A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula. To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light--these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With...

Biography of writer Damon Runyon emphasizing his life on the Broadway scene during the 1920s and 1930s.