CHOSEN: HALF BROKE HORSES by Jeannette Walls
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Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.
SARAH'S KEY
Notes: American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
CLEOPATRA
Reconstructs the life of Cleopatra, discussing her childhood, marriages, affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, the political scandals that plagued her, and other related topics.
THE MURDER OF KING TUT
The authors relate their findings from investigating the death of King Tut, and contend that the boy king was murdered and did not, as many believe, die of disease.
BILL WARRINGTON'S LAST CHANCE
After Bill Warrington learns he has Alzheimer's disease he takes his fifteen-year-old granddaughter on a road trip out to California to help her pursue her dreams of stardom, unbeknownst to her mother, and leaves clues along the way with the hope that his estranged adult children will follow the trail
