New Releases by Pamela D. Pollack

Who doesn''t love Lucy'' The legendary actress, producer, and comedian steps into the Who Was'' spotlight. Much like her hit TV show, I Love Lucy, Americans in the 1950s fell in love with Lucy. Born in New York in 1911, Lucille Ball was always a natural performer. She danced in the chorus of Broadway shows and acted in small parts in Hollywood movies. But Ball''s true gift was comedy. She found a way to showcase her gifts in 1951 when CBS gave her the chance to star in a sitcom. She based the show on her life and called it I Love Lucy. Over sixty years later, it is still one of the most loved television shows of all time. Lucille Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, and her comedic genius has kept people laughing for generations.

A biography of nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens.

Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British filmmaker known for his distinctive style of directing and films that featured suspenseful plots.

A biography of director and screenwriter George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars" and Indiana Jones.

A biography of Susan B. Anthony, discussing what life was like for women of the nineteenth century, and describing how Anthony''s vision for equality between men and women led to the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the United States.