Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Innovators The Innovators Walter Isaacson Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… OL17074268W
Between the World and Me Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling… OL17201654W
Born a Crime Born a Crime Trevor Noah Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that … OL17824318W
Granville Bradshaw Granville Bradshaw Barry M. Jones Explores the life of Granville Bradshaw, one of Britain's most prolific inventors whose designs for early aeroplanes, engines, cars and motorcycles brought him fame. This book places Bradshaw's engin… OL27972864W
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave Frederick Douglass Published in 1845, this pre-eminent American slave narrative powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escap… OL69181W