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Gray Otis, publisher <strong>of</strong> The Los Angeles Times--a battle for the future<br />

<strong>of</strong> Los Angeles. 1992.<br />

Breast Cancer: What You Should Know (But May Not Be Told) about<br />

Prevention , Diagnosis, and Treatment CBB-1632<br />

by Steve Austin and Cathy Hitchcock<br />

A step-by-step approach to breast cancer patients' diagnosis, treatment<br />

and prevention. 1994.<br />

Breath <strong>of</strong> the Sun: Life in Early <strong>California</strong> as Told by a Chumash<br />

Indian, Fernando Librado to John P. Harrington BRB-10856<br />

edited by Travis Hudson<br />

This first-hand description <strong>of</strong> Mission Indian life in Southern <strong>California</strong><br />

before and after the secularization <strong>of</strong> the missions in 1834 is narrated<br />

by Fernando Librado Kitsepawit, a Chumash Indian who personally<br />

witnessed more than a century <strong>of</strong> contact between Spanish and native<br />

<strong>America</strong>n cultures in the Ventura-Santa Barbara area. 1980.<br />

Bret Harte, a Biography BRB-10871<br />

by Richard O'Connor<br />

This lively, anecdotal biography <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> <strong>America</strong>'s foremost regional<br />

writers, is critical but understanding, and successfully humanizes an<br />

enigmatic and unsympathetic literary figure who played an elegant and<br />

sometimes dubious role in British high society. 1966.<br />

A Brief History <strong>of</strong> Dog Guides for the Blind CBB-0207<br />

by Nelson Coon<br />

The Perkins Blindness Library has cooperated with the Seeing Eye, Inc.<br />

in making available the material in their collection on the association <strong>of</strong><br />

blind men and keen-eyed dogs through the centuries. 1959.<br />

The Broken Mirror CBB-1777 / BRB-11761<br />

by Kirk Douglas<br />

Young Moishe loves to hear his sister, Rachel, read him a fairy tale<br />

about an evil mirror broken and scattered by Satan. He wonders<br />

whether shards <strong>of</strong> that mirror have the power to turn people's hearts<br />

cold. He knows that they do when the Nazis imprison his family in a<br />

concentration camp. 1997.<br />

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