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The author Avi has written more than 70 children s and young adult books and has fans young and old all over the world. Readers can t help but be inspired by Avi s life story, including his battle and ultimate triumph over dyslexia. Despite his problem being ignored and not diagnosed until late in his childhood, Avi was determined to make it as a writer. This author s story will hold readers as rapt as they are while reading one of his best-selling, award-winning novels. They ll find themselves eagerly flipping pages to find out what happens next. Bibliography, Detailed Table of Contents, For Further Information Section, Index, Glossary, Web Sites, Full-color photographs, Timelines, Biographies.

Examines the life of Billy Cannon, the only Louisiana State University football player to ever win the Heisman Trophy. Explores the well-deserved legend of Billy Cannon as well as his lesser-known "fall from grace" with an indictment for counterfeiting, as well as how he has tried to redeem himself since getting out of Louisiana State Penitentiary.

A biography tracing the friendship and joint love of fishing between James Prosek and ranger, Joe Haines, that began when Joe caught James fishing without a permit at the age of fifteen.

"The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The Predator itself was resisted at nearly every turn by the military establishment, but a few iconoclasts refused to see this new technology smothered at birth. The remarkable cast of characters responsible for developing the Predator includes a former Israeli inventor who turned his Los Angeles garage into a drone laboratory, two billionaire brothers marketing a futuristic weapon that would combat Communism, a pair of fighter pilots willing to buck their white-scarf fraternity, a cunning Pentagon operator nicknamed "Snake," and a secretive Air Force organization known as Big Safari. When an Air Force team unleashed the first lethal drone strikes in 2001 for the CIA, the military's view of drones changed nearly overnight. Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Predator is a groundbreaking, dramatic account of the creation of a revolutionary weapon that forever changed the way we wage war"--.

Comedian Bill Cosby shares humorous observations in stories about a number of characters such as Peanut Armhouse and Old Mother Harold.

Provides a biography of actor and comedian Bill Cosby that draws on research and interviews with Cosby and sixty of his friends and associates. Describes his upbringing, work as a comedian, rise to fame on the "Cosby Show," and personal life. Includes photographs.

This book describes the life and career of Walter Dean Myers, who writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry portraying the lives of African American men and boys struggling with important life choices in hostile environments.

Walter Dean Myers had trouble pronouncing words in high school, so he wrote them down instead.

Explores the role of art and human expression at the dawn of the twenty-first century, tracing the history of art in order to form a new assessment of its meanings in the human story.

Presents a collection of writings by British comic Peter Cook, a founding member of the legendary English comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe," featuring selections from throughout his career.