biography

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Harry S. Truman

1988
Follows the life of the man who became president of the United States at a critical moment in history, after the death of Franklin Roosevelt in the final days of World War Two.

Queen Eleanor, independent spirit of the Medieval world

a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine
1983
A biography of the twelfth-century queen, first of France, then of England, who was the very lively wife of Henry II and mother of several notable sons, including Richard the Lionhearted.

Abraham Lincoln

1981
A biography of Abraham Lincoln showing how the backwoods boy became President.

Louisa May Alcott

1988
A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose own life was reflected in her famous novels including "Little Women" and "Little Men.".

George Washington and the birth of our nation

1986
A biography of our first President, from his growing-up years in Virginia to his death at Mount Vernon.

Adolf Hitler, a portrait in tyranny

1981
A biography of Adolf Hitler from his youth to his self-destruction in a Berlin bunker.

Georgia O'Keeffe

1988
A biography of the noted American artist who found much of her artistic inspiration in nature, especially the desert landscape of the Southwest.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

pilot and poet
1987
A biography of the poet, essayist, and pilot who flew with her husband, Charles A. Lindbergh around the world charting new routes for airlines.

Adolf Hitler

1982
A biography examining both the private and public life of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the head of the Nazi Party and, eventually, the German nation.

Mir?

earth and sky
1994
When a girl learns her sleeping bag, decorated with unusual marks in bright colors, is patterned after a painting by Miro, her class is eager to learn about his life and times.

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