June biographies

Since someone expressed interest in what I decided to order in my newly exalted position as a selecting librarian, here are the biographies I ordered on behalf of Suburban Public Library last month, in alphabetical order by title. (No, I really have no idea whether this is of any interest to anyone.)

Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green (The library had a book about a male-to-female transsexual, so I figured turnabout was fair play.)
Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician by Alyn Brodsky (A forgotten Founding Father.)
Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men by Souad. (Requested by a library patron, believe it or not.)
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra (Likewise.)
John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him
Best by Michael Kranish (About as timely as a biography can be.)
Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life by Charles Calhoun. (Believe it or not, Suburban P.L. had not a single biography of this major nineteenth-century writer, despite his acquaintance with notible Michigander Henry Schoolcraft and the upper-peninsula setting of his ]est-known long poem, The Song of Hiawatha. This one received an excellent review from Booklist: "[W]onderfully readable, sympathetic biography.... Unitarian, antislavery, genuinely interested in and friendly toward other cultures, [Longfellow] lacked bad habits and was a good family man--in short, the very best kind of Victorian liberal.")
The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine by Andrea Stuart.
Saint Exupery: Art, Writing and Musings by Nathalie Des Vallieres.
Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon by Goudsouzian, Aram.
The Sparkling-Eyed Boy: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up by Amy Benson. (Memoir of the author's summer vacations in the upper peninsula, and her crush on a local boy. I'm reading this one now, and may have more to say about it in the future.)
The Stoning of Soroya M. by Sahebjam, Freidoune. (Discussed previously on this blog; I figured it might be of interest to the same reader(s) who pick up Burned Alive.)
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution by Ronin Ro. (Comics and graphic novels are popular with S.P.L.'s teens; can they be tempted to read up on the background of the genre? We'll see.)
This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff.

Next up: June fantasy/science fiction orders, and the July biography order (which will most definitely include this title.)

Edit, 7/12: corrected link in last line.