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Tigerland

1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing
"[Tells the] inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year.

Duty

a father, his son, and the man who won the war
2000
While visiting his dying father, the author meets Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the "Enola Gay" and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and learns about his father's generation's sense of honor and duty.

A street called home

1997
A lift-the-flap accordian book depicting African-American life in the 1940s on Mount Vernon Avenue, the main street in Poindexter Village, a metropolitan housing development in Columbus, Ohio.

A Tibetan family

1998
Presents an overview of Tibetan history before relating the story of a refugee family who fled their homeland in 1959 and eventually moved to Columbus, Ohio where they became American citizens.
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