Gail Herman
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The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s. Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated valedictorian from her high school before becoming one of the first African American students at Antioch College in Ohio. It was there that she became...
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"A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution. She presents...
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
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[2015]
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English
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Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover the history of baseball's greatest series. With triumphs, heartbreak, and superstitious curses, this action-packed book brings America's Pastime to life.
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Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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[2013]
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English
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"Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction? Find out the real story of this folk hero, who did love to hunt bears, served as a congressman for Tennessee, and fought and died at the Alamo"--
"An illustrated biography of famous frontiersman Davy Crockett,...
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Penguin Workshop
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2020.
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English
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As the Opening Ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympic Games commenced in London, a similar sporting competition was taking place a few miles away. But the men at Stoke Mandeville weren t your typical athletes. They were paralyzed World War II veterans. The games at Stoke Mandeville were so successful that they would eventually lead evolve into the Paralympics.
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Penguin Workshop
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2023.
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Español
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Los hispanohablantes pueden ahora conocer m�as sobre la serie m�as famosa del campeonato de b�eisbol: �la Serie Mundial! "Tercer strike, ponchado". "Quieto". "Jonr�on". Cada octubre, millones de aficionados al b�eisbol de todo el pa�is esperan ansiosamente ver qu�e equipo gana la mayor competencia del b�eisbol. Pero los partidos originales de la d�ecada de 1900 dif�icilmente se parec�ian a los de hoy. Echa un vistazo a m�as...
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