New biographies in the C.B. West library include:

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID        by Bill Bryson
    Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality - at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family. 11/07

DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
by Jennifer Traig
    The author discusses her troubled and somewhat bizarre childhood, her undiagnosed struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and her introduction to a set of religious rules she hadn't known existed before. 11/06