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Black excellence : the entrepreneurs

1991
Three interviews/profiles of noted & respected Afro-American entrepreneurs: John H. Johnson, Joshua Smith, & Oprah Winfrey. All are role models for Afro-American youth and stress the importance of self-esteem, motivation, perseverance, education, and dedication to hard work as a foundation for success.

The avengers

a Jewish war story
2001
Chronicles the experiences of a band of Jewish guerrillas who joined the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, in 1944.

Mandela

a critical life
2006

Ted Williams

a baseball life
1991

The man who flew the Memphis Belle

memoir of a WWII bomber pilot
2002
A story of war above 20,000 feet is told by the leader of the first bombing crew to survive twenty-five daylight missions over the danger-filled skies of occupied France and Nazi Germany and return to the United States.

Talking walls

1995
An illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.

Pablita Velarde

1971
A biography of a Pueblo Indian artist whose prize winning-work reflects the heritage of the American Indian.

Nelson Mandela

Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.

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