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Amelia Earhart
The Sky's No Limit
Lori Van Pelt |
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As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once she even built a roller-coaster in her grandparent’s backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight... |
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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
Pat F. Garrett |
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Reputed to have killed his first man at the age of twelve, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend as Billy the Kid. When he was killed at the age of twenty-one, the Kid was famous... |
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin |
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Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia. In his own words he describes his... |
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The Battle for Las Vegas
The Law vs. the Mob
Dennis N. Griffin |
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In the 1970s and thru the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit was the dominant organized crime family in Las Vegas, with business interests in several casinos. During those years the Outfit and its... |
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Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
David Sheff |
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into... |
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David Crockett
Hero of the Common Man
William Groneman III |
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Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ("Davy") Crockett, the Tennessee frontiersman whose death at the Alamo in 1836 ensured his place in the... |
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George Washington
First In War, First In Peace
James A. Crutchfield |
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Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington... |
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I Am Potential
Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams
Patrick Henry Hughes |
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"I can't see, I can't walk, and can't do lots of other things. With all this, people might ask ‘How can I bear to live?' but I don't see it that way. Through my trials, God has given me experiences... |
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John Muir
Magnificent Tramp
Rod Miller |
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In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir emigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's... |
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Lion in the White House
A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Aida D. Donald |
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New York state assemblyman, assistant secretary of the Navy, New York City police commissioner, governor of New York, vice president and, at forty-two, the youngest president ever—in his own words,... |
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