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Alexander Graham Bell (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History)

Elizabeth Macleod

One would think that I had never done anything worthwhile but the telephone, complained Alexander Graham Bell. No wonder he was annoyed; Bell invented the phone when he was just 29 and went on to lead a long and inventive life. This biography in the... (read more)


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African-American Social Leaders and Activists (A to Z of African Americans)

Revised By G S Prentzas Jack Rummel

Praise for the previous edition: ..".balanced...useful and informative."--American Reference Books Annual... (read more)


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Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, & Other Female Villains

Jane Yolen

"Mother-daughter collaborators Yolen and Stemple, who previously partnered with Guay on The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories, revisit the lives and legendary misdeeds of 26 notorious women in this often witty chronological romp. Jezebel, Salome, Calamity... (read more)


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