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1) The compleated autobiography

Author

Franklin, Benjamin

Publisher

Regnery Pub

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

2) 13 art illusions children should know

Author

Vry, Silke

Series

Children should know

Publisher

Prestel

Pub. Date

[2012]

Language

English

Description

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Children love to be fooled--and artists are some of the greatest tricksters around. This collection features artworks that incorporate a variety of methods for tricking our eyes: including trompe l'oeil, clever uses of color and perspective, Surrealism, and Photo-Realism. Arranged thematically, each work is presented in a two-page spread. Lively texts explain the methods the artists employed to shape their illusions. Reproduced in vibrant color, these...

3) His truth is marching on: John Lewis and the power of hope

Author

Meacham, Jon

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

Description

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"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...

4) Founding gardeners: the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation

Author

Wulf, Andrea

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Description

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"From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary...

5) Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies: The patriots

Author

Fisher, David

Series

Legends and lies volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, Playaway

Description

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The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, to the Continental Army's first victory...

6) Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives

Author

Radzinskiĭ, Ėdvard

Language

English

Description

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Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky has broken down the iron curtain of myth, secrecy, and lies that has surrounded Stalin's life and career, painting a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion. Even the very first thing we know about Joseph...

7) Mythology

Author

Philip, Neil

Series

Eyewitness books

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Surveys the treatment of gods, goddesses, the heavens, creation, death, and evil as expressed in various mythologies around the world--

8) Dad's book of awesome projects: 25 + fun do-it-yourself projects for families, from stilts and superhero capes to tinker boards and seesaws

Author

Adamick, Mike

Publisher

Adams Media, a division of F+W Media

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Description

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Get step-by-step instructions details projects from wooden "swords" to circus stilts, and other projects that are sure to spark everyone's creative spirit --

9) I am providence: a novel

Author

Mamatas, Nick

Publisher

Night Shade Books

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

Description

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"For fans of legendary pulp author H.P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hobnobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God...

10) The lessons of history

Author

Durant, Will

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1968]

Language

English

Description

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Includes material on the influence of biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, socialism, government, and war on history. In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The result is a survey of human history, full of dazzling insights...