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The war that saved my life

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

Rider in the sky

how an American cowboy built England's first airplane
2003
Presents the life of the Texas cowboy who, after a varied career performing in and running his own Wild West show, became interested in aviation and eventually built and flew England's first airplane in 1908.

Stephen Hawking

get to know the man behind the theory
Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest minds of our time. His theories about the universe have changed the way we think about black holes and the Big Bang. Learn more in this biography about the physicist on wheels who traveled the world.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

1969
Told in comic book format, the Connecticut Yankee, a nineteenth-century mechanic, suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Britain.

The path to power

1995
Autobiography of Margaret Thatcher in which she discusses her upbringing in Grantham, her years as a research chemist in Oxford, her marriage, her service in the House of Commons, and her election to the office of Prime Minister in 1979.

Ada Lovelace

Presents information about Ada Lovelace, her life in science, who became known to those who knew her as the "enchantress of numbers.".

The people's princess

a memorial
1997
Relates aspects of Princess Diana's life through photographs from her adolescence to her final days as an ambassador to the world.

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