A biography of the aviator who made the first solo flight acrossthe Atlantic Ocean.

Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

In the 1930s, the Black Joke is the the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast, with Jonathon Spence owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes the boat and her crew in danger, and involves the fiercely independent people of the island of Miquelon. -- adapted from Amazon

A biography of the record-setting baseball player who is one ofthree in the game's history to hit 600 home runs.