http://iplks.multiply.com/ All books listed in our blog are new releases available to check out at the Independence Public Library, 220 E. Maple, Independence, KS 67301. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:48:30 -0000 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:44:02 -0000 http://images.iplks.multiply.com/logo http://iplks.multiply.com 100 100 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLKLgoKCCEAABUcFeo1/24211557.jpg?et=ugzEq1vMA%2BoHJ1v%2B9TZlcA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">Larry Woiwode's literary fame began with his first novel, the 1969 classic <i>What I’m Going to Do, I Think,</i> and continued unabated through his brilliant 2000 memoir <i>What I Think I Did.</i> In this deeply affecting follow-up to the latter, Woiwode addresses his son as heir to his emotional interior. With vibrant wordcraft and a poetic sensibility, Woiwode begins his story by relating a near-death experience with a malfunctioning hay baler — the kind of mistake that can kill a novice farmer. This episode is the first skein in a rich tapestry of memories, from colorful snippets of Woiwode’s time in New York as a young writer working with the late, great William Maxwell, to his days as a young father, husband, and teacher trying to scrape enough together to buy a ranch in western North Dakota, and finally to the prospect of an empty nest and the step from death that he finds rapidly approaching. </p> <p>BIOG WOIWO</p> http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/206/A_Step_from_Death_by_Kate_Summerscale Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:44:02 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLJqgoKCCEAAAyx72E1/21671557.jpg?et=hLfaD0WQGZgbq53lM%2BHTUQ&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">Sometime in the wee hours of June 29, 1860, in Road Hill House in Wiltshire, England, Saville Kent, a child of three, was taken from his cot beside his nursemaid’s bed and murdered. His body was discovered hours later in the servants’ outdoor privy. His throat had been slit and his chest bore a deep knife wound; there were cuts on his hands and signs of smothering. An open drawing-room window might have suggested that the culprit had entered from the grounds, but police investigation showed that to be physically impossible. It was clear, alas, that the murderer was one of the family members or servants who slept in the house that fatal night.</p> <p>BIOG WHICHE</p> http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/205/The_Suspicions_of_Mr._Whicher_Murder_and_the_Undoing_of_a_Great_Victorian_Detective_by_Kate_Summerscale Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:41:50 -0000 <strong><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLJFwoKCCEAAAHP20A1/41vJ3ncnHxL__SL500_AA240_.jpg?et=lASsPpOd8iThRR%2B1%2CrhNxg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">&nbsp;</strong> <p>A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. <p>Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s. Their stories trace the arc of the now mythic sixties generation -- female version -- but in a bracingly specific and deeply recalled way, far from cliché. The history of the women of that generation has never been written -- until now, through their resonant lives and emblematic songs. <p>Filled with the voices of many dozens... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/204/Girls_Like_Us_Carole_King_Joni_Mitchell_Carly_Simon--and_the_Journey_of_a_Generation_by_Sheila_Weller Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:39:25 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLItwoKCCEAAHILr@E1/41sw2BDbRjUL__SL500_AA240_.jpg?et=Bdfdk2NgWxCqNWQ9VlEBiw&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: <br>“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”<br><br>And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life.<br><br>Barbara Walters’s perception of the world was formed at a very early age. Her father, Lou Walters, was the owner and creative mind behind the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub, and it was his risk-taking lifestyle that made Barbara aware of the ups and downs that can occur when someone is willing to take great risks.<br><br>The financial responsibility for her family, the fear, the love all played a large part in the ch... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/203/Audition_A_Memoir_by_Barbara_Walters Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:37:48 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLIXQoKCCEAAHJGsTg1/25830676.jpg?et=DSCsbngz5JHGr9ctmjjjbw&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In the early 1950s, Ted Sorensen began work in Washington in the bowels of the bureaucracy, and wound up with two job offers on Capitol Hill: one from Senator Henry Jackson and the other from Senator John Kennedy. For a self-described policy wonk, the logical choice would have been Jackson, but Kennedy dazzled Sorensen, and the rest, as they say, is not only history but also a series of books about that history. Sorensen penned <em>Decision-Making in the White House</em> near the end of the Kennedy presidency and a full-length biography of JFK a few years after the assassination. What more is there for him to write about the Kennedy presidency?</p> <p>BIOG SORENS</p> http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/202/Counselor_A_Life_at_the_Edge_of_History_by_Theodore_Sorensen Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:36:18 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLH9QoKCCEAAG59qNw1/41k5R2McvPL__SL500_AA240_.jpg?et=xMxN3Bc%2B%2CGEyPuBcOpZOEg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 consecutive weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking.<br><br>Until now.<br><br>In <i>A Champion’s Mind</i>, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this single-minded determination led to tennis domination, success didn’t come without a price. The constant pressure of competing on the world’s biggest stage—in the unblinking eye of a media machine hungry for more than mere athletic greatness—took its toll. <br><br>Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about what it was like to possess what ... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/201/A_Champions_Mind_Lessons_from_a_Life_in_Tennis_by_Pete_Sampras Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:34:35 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLHeQoKCCEAAF-5haQ1/25892973.jpg?et=B0jTCvQYgOaTQdPSR%2Bvprg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In <i>Founding Mothers</i>, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in <i>USA Today</i> as a "custodian of time-honored values"—continues the story of early America's influential women with <i>Ladies of Liberty</i>. In her "delightfully intimate and confiding" style (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>), Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. </p> <p>Recounted with the insight and humor of an expert storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educat... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/200/Ladies_of_Liberty_The_Women_Who_Shaped_Our_Nation_by_Cokie_Roberts Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:32:55 -0000 <a href="http://iplks.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SGLG7goKCCEAAFsQflo1"><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLG7goKCCEAAFsQflo1/queller-pretty_changes.jpg?et=FzEuE%2CrFlA3Ih92rVnamdw&#x26;nmid=0" border="0"></a><strong>A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?<br><br></strong>Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller faces an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative—a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality. <br><br>Superbly informed and armed with surprising wit and style, Queller takes us on an odyssey from the frontiers of science to the private interiors of a woman’s life... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/199/Pretty_Is_What_Changes_Impossible_Choices_the_Breast_Cancer_Gene_and_How_I_Defied_My_Destiny_by_Jessica_Queller Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:31:14 -0000 <img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLGZwoKCCEAAEjhTFQ1/25531927.jpg?et=pvcvMbWQomCX37dwuzmyXA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."<br>—Randy Pausch <p>A lot of professors give talks titled "<i>The Last Lecture</i>." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?</p> <p>When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It w... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/198/The_Last_Lecture_by_Randy_Pausch Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:28:39 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLGGwoKCCEAAEY3Q2U1/25490915.jpg?et=FCuVt0ua%2BbKFkdU%2Bw0zfTA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">A vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of the personalities, the drama, and the passion at CBS News during its peak years, by one of its best newscasters </p> <p>BIOG MUDD</p> http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/197/The_Place_to_Be_Washington_CBS_and_the_Glory_Days_of_Television_News_by_Roger_Mudd Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:26:54 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLFzAoKCCEAAEmOT7w1/mediciprincessblog.jpg?et=Gv02rDk0lmONbU2GSyNMrA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany.<br>Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a<br>daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her<br>disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to mu... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/196/Murder_of_a_Medici_Princess_by_Caroline_Murphy Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:25:20 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLFEwoKCCEAADcaFmo1/1%29moosecovercreditharperc_1.jpg?et=BJqspRKxYMoKvyG7Ru26cw&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">The author of the dishy memoir Straight Up and Dirty returns to share the story of her adolescence. Long before she was a glamorous young divorceé and superstar blogging mistress, Stephanie Klein was a seventh grader with a weight problem. <br>At twelve years old, the boys at school call her "Moose," her only friends were the nerds and misfits of the school, and her nighttime beauty routine involved soothing "chub rub" on her inner thighs. After several unsuccessful attempts at dieting and many frustrating sessions with Fran, a nutritionist known as the "Fat Doctor" of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, Stephanie's mother enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to lose her stubborn weight and return thin and popular for the school year, Stephanie embarked on a journey that would teach her more than just how to shed pounds. <br>Wry, outspoken, and always entertaining, Klein describes her life as a chubby adolescent camper-getting weighed on meat scales, sneaking into other cabins for awkwar... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/195/Moose_A_Memoir_of_Fat_Camp_by_Stephanie_Klein Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:22:16 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLEgQoKCCEAACwYaHE1/15114453.jpg?et=uOG1N0Y0qj%2BM1jrsZpmHcA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for forty years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.</p> <p>BIOG JENKINS</p> http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/194/The_Reluctant_Communist_My_Desertion_Court-Martial_and_Forty-Year_Imprisonment_in_North_Korea_by_Charles_Jenkins Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:19:51 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLEBAoKCCEAACxWbvI1/25850478.jpg?et=JH7Q8itwbyGh7R2uq5xuug&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In <i>When Men Become Gods</i>, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism. He reveals a group of fundamentalists operating in the present-day United States, where teenage girls are kept in virtual bondage in the name of upholding the "sacred principle" of polygamy. <p>As the leader and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in isolated southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father’s widows. Television, radio, and newspapers were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else. <p>But in 2007, after a two-year manhunt that landed him on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs’s reign was forcefully ended. He was convicted of rape as an accomp... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/193/When_Men_Become_Gods_Mormon_Polygamist_Warren_Jeffs_His_Cult_of_Fear_and_the_Women_Who_Fought_Back_by_Stephen_Singular Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:17:45 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLDSgoKCCEAABk4@@A1/25772111.jpg?et=AmMVc1mQwcEzZNEPcGQKxA&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her.</p> <p>Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.</p> <p>The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/192/Mean_and_Lowly_Things_Snakes_Science_and_Survival_in_the_Congo_by_Kate_Jackson Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:15:54 -0000 <p><b><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLC@goKCCEAABU7z8M1/22568787.jpg?et=VdDcPrg8PhgcOFUyRz9g1w&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD."</b> <p>In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn. <p>Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, starvation, beatings...How could Mama and her two younger brothers bear that? She made a decision: She would go home and be deported with her family. Despite the horrors she faced in eight labor and concentration camps, Hannelore met and fell in love with a Polish POW named Dick Hillman. <p>Oskar Schindler was their one hope to survive. Schindler had a plan to take eleven hundred Jews to the safety of his new factory in Czechoslovakia. Incredibly both she and Dick were added to his list. But survival was not that simple. Weeks later Hannelore found herself, alone, outside the gates of Auschw... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/191/I_Will_Plant_You_a_Lilac_Tree_A_Memoir_of_a_Schindlers_List_Survivor_by_Laura_Hillman Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:13:21 -0000 <p><em><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLCnQoKCCEAAAbLX4k1/51DyQjaZVlL__SL500_AA240_.jpg?et=tUfbH5X8MLP8O8xZSsOTXg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.<br><br></em>The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur.<br><br><i>The Translator</i> is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world–an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Using his high school knowledge of languages as his weapon–while others around him were taking up arms–Daoud Hari has helped inform the world about Darfur.<br><br>Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman, grew up in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. As a child he saw colorful weddings, raced his camels across the desert, and played games in the moonlight after his work was done. In 2003, this traditional life was shattered when helicopter gunships appeared over Darfur’s villages, foll... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/190/The_Translator_by_Daoud_Hari Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:11:46 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLB@goKCCEAAAawjeM1/25786372.jpg?et=2Xn2Bp4lWhxxIFJpEZiAlg&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">William F. Buckley Jr.'s first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir of the first champion of the conservative movement. <p>If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley's <i>National Review</i> was at the center of conservative political analysis from the mid-fifties onward. But the policy intellectuals knew that to actually change the way the country was run, they needed a presidential candidate, and the man they turned to was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. <p>Goldwater was in many ways the perfect choice: self-reliant, unpretentious, unshakably honest and dashingly handsome, with a devoted following that grew throughout the fifties and early sixties. He possessed deep integrity and a sense of decency that made him a natural spokesman for conservative ideals. But his flaws were a product of his virtues. He wouldn't bend his opinions to make himself mor... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/189/Flying_High_Remembering_Barry_Goldwater_by_William_F._Buckley Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:09:04 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLBlQoKCCEAAAbLXzE1/Books0702ColinGrant.jpg?et=DQPhCzwW5WaeUzSSZtM53Q&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">Marcus Mosiah Garvey was once the most famous black man on earth. A brilliant orator who electrified his audiences, he inspired thousands to join his "Back to Africa" movement, which aimed to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration. At the pinnacle of his fame in the<br>early 1920s, Garvey was a power to be reckoned with. His Universal Negro Improvement Association boasted millions of members in more than forty countries, and he was an influential champion of the Harlem Renaissance, publishing Claude McKay and Langston Hughes in his newspaper The Negro World.<br>To his admirers, Garvey was the "Black Moses," though he made enemies almost as easily as friends: early in his career both Winston Churchill and J. Edgar Hoover deemed him enough of a threat to warrant continual surveillance. Indeed, so alarmed by Garvey was Hoover that he labored for years to<br>discover a way to prosecute him, finally settling on dubious charges of mail fraud, for which Garvey served several years ... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/188/Negro_with_a_Hat_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Marcus_Garvey_and_His_Dream_of_Mother_Africa_by_Colin_Grant Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:07:24 -0000 <p><img class="alignleft" src="http://images.iplks.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGLAsQoKCCEAAG4XgEI1/27476088.jpg?et=NT7c4HGsK8tclHsBakWi5g&#x26;nmid=0" border="0">No contemporary athlete is as admired among peers and beloved among fans as Brett Favre. Over 16 seasons, the Green Bay Packers quarterback has made his inimitable mark on the NFL, thrilling fans with his exemplary talent and passionate playing style, and inspiring them with his courage in confronting personal challenges. <i>Sports Illustrated: Brett Favre: The Tribute</i> presents the definitive story of Favre's remarkable career, assembling the finest stories and photographs from the pages of <i>SI</i> to chronicle Favre's rise from the humble coach's son from tiny Kiln, Miss., to the premier passer of his generation and the personification of the American sporting ideal. <p>The product of SI's unparalleled NFL access and insight, the 224 pages of <i>Sports Illustrated: Brett Favre: The Tribute</i> include 17 of <i>SI'</i>s finest Favre stories, by such respected writers as Peter King, Michael Silver, Leigh Montville, Jeff MacGregor and Alan Shipnuck, as well as hundreds of pictures from the recognized leader in ... http://iplks.multiply.com/journal/item/187/Brett_Favre_The_Tribute_ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:03:34 -0000 http://iplks.multiply.com/photos/album/1/Fun_Times_in_the_Independence_Public_Library Wed, 3 Oct 2007 21:48:09 -0000