Janet Hubbard-Brown

Examines the life and accomplishments of the well-known ragtime pianist and composer who wrote hundreds of pieces of music, including a ballet and two operas.

In 1954, Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that Martin Luther King called the "most segregated city in America" in 1963. Rice's middle-class, college-educated parents instilled in their only child a sense that she could do anything if she put her mind to it, but that she would have to make sure that she was "twice as good" as whites in all her achievements. Rice became an accomplished pianist, student, and ice skater before...

This is a biography of Tina Fey, who pursued her dream of writing and performing for "Saturday Night Live," and once there, the successes followed, including her work on the critically acclaimed comedy "30 Rock."