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Albert Schweitzer, great humanitarian
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
A biography of the musician, minister, and teacher who gave up a comfortable teaching career to become a missionary doctor in the African jungle. |
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Alexander Graham Bell, man of sound
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
A biography of the scientist and educator who invented the telephone. |
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Chief Joseph, guardian of his people
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
An easy-to-read biography of the nineteenth-century Nez Percé chief who suffered many wrongs and much humiliation in his attempts to achieve peace and equality for his people. |
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Duke Ellington: king of jazz
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
Biography of an internationally acclaimed jazz musician who as a young man was torn between a career in art and music. |
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Gandhi; peaceful fighter
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
The life of the twentieth-century Indian leader who helped gain independence for his country through passive resistance and non-violence. |
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Old Ben Franklin's Philadelphia
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
Descriptions of life in Philadelphia in 1787, the time of the Constitutional Convention covering customs, travel, dress, market, and fire fighting. |
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Will Rogers, cowboy philosopher
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
The life of the Oklahoma cowboy of Indian descent who became a well-known writer and comedian. |
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A world explorer: Hernando De Soto
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Elizabeth Rider Montgomery |
A biography of the New World explorer who unsuccessfully sought gold in Florida and led the first expedition of white men across the Mississippi River. |
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