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Abraham Lincoln the Writer:

Abraham Lincoln

A collection of speeches and letters of Abraham Lincoln, with brief introductions that provide historical background. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white archival photographs.

973.3

Tomie dePaola

Barbara Elleman

Barbara Elleman, a critic in her own right, explores Tomie dePaola as artist and storyteller.

92
Dep

Sir Isaac Newton

Natalie M Rosinsky

A biography of the famous seventeenth-century English physicist, Sir Isaac Newton, who formulated the laws of gravity, force, and motion

530.092
Ros

Parents aren't supposed to like it

David P. Bianco

Profiles over 100 contemporary musicians and bands in the categories of alternative rock, rap, folk music, and others

REF
780.92
KNI

A man named Dave

David J Pelzer

The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life

92
PEL

Maus

Art Spiegelman

A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself.

920
SPI

Stephen Hawking's universe

John Boslough

523.1
BOS

To be a slave

Julius Lester

326
LES

John F. Kennedy

Howard S Kaplan

Contains a biography of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, and includes information on his childhood, military career, and politcal life.

92
KEN

Weeds in Bloom

Robert Newton Peck

Presents the autobiography of successful author Robert Newton Peck as he recalls his childhood and the people who influenced him the most as well as his illustrious writing career.

92
PEC
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