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HANA'S SUITCASE A True Story

By: Levine, Karen

Price: $2.45

Publisher: Scholastic: 2002

Seller ID: 7496

ISBN: 0-439-85123-8

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Light cover wear.

111 pages; This book tells the story of Hana Brady, a girl killed at Auschwitz, and how her suitcase came to be a part of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center. The story ends on a positive note by ultimately uniting Japanese schoolchildren fascinated by Hana's story with her brother George Brady, the only member of their immediate family to survive the war. The book alternates between past and present, one chapter telling the story of Hana's childhood in the Czechoslovakian resort town of Nove Mesto, and the next relating the experiences of Fumiko Ishioka, a teacher dedicated to educa...
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FRANCOIS VILLON

By: Lewis, D. Bevan Wyndham

Price: $3.49

Publisher: Garden City: 1928

Seller ID: 4576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Previous owners name and some notes written inside.

407 pages; A work of great scholarship and research wherein the author has discovered all that Villon was, within and without. - Hilaire Belloc.
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WE

By: Lindbergh, Charles A

Price: $3.95

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1937

Seller ID: 2081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

8vo; 318 pages; The famous flier's own story of his life and his Transatlantic flight, together with his views on the future of aviation.
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QUICKSILVER BOB A Story of Robert Fulton

By: Lowe, Corinne

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company: 1946

Seller ID: 5191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 273 pages
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BISMARCK The Story of a Fighter

By: Ludwig, Emil

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books: 1927, 1934

Seller ID: 3874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

661 pages
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CERVANTES

By: MacEoin, Gary

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Bruce Publishing Company: 1950

Seller ID: 1516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

A Bruce Fellowship Biography; 8vo; 223 pages; Miguel de Cervantes, father of the modern novel, was an amazing man as well as an amazing writer. He fought at Lepanto, spent several years as a slave in Algiers, helped to fit out the Spanish Armada, and was even thrown into jail a number of times. Poverty and abus e were his constant companions........................
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HAIL, NATHAN HAIL

By: Main, Mildred Miles

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Abingdon Press: 1965

Seller ID: 6175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 112 pages
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THE STORY OF ALBERT SCHWEITZER

By: Manton, Jo

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Abelard-Schuman: 1955, 1963

Seller ID: 3397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket

223 pages
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DEADLY COMPASSION The Death of Ann Humphry and the Truth about Euthanasia

By: Marker, Rita

Price: $4.99

Publisher: William Morrow: 1993

Seller ID: 4737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

0-688-12221-3 310 pages; Signed by Author
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WEST WITH THE NIGHT

By: Markham, Beryl

Price: $3.85

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1942, 1983

Seller ID: 7403

ISBN: 0-86547-304-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

261 pages; Beryl Markham, a pioneer aviator, was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to North America. In the late 20s after her first marriage failed, she returned to Kenya where she met and befriended Denys Finch Hatton, a well-known big-game hunter. Karen Blixen was a friend and confidant to Beryl Markham, seventeen years younger. Beryl first stayed at Karen Blixen's home in 1923. When she married Mansfield Markham
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CATHERINE OF ARAGON

By: Mattingly, Garrett

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Vintage Books: 1960

Seller ID: 4444

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings.

Ex-Library; 415 pages
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ELIZABETH BLACKWELL FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR

By: McFerran, Ann

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1966

Seller ID: 6426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings. Some wear to corners and edges. Good reading copy.

Ex-Library; 175 pages
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THE JOURNEY

By: McKelvie, Martha Groves

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Dorrance and Company: 1962

Seller ID: 2997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Inscription inside.

207 pages
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THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN Conductor of the Underground Railroad

By: McMullan, Kate

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Dell Publishing: 1991

Seller ID: 7043

ISBN: 0-440-40400-2

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket; Previous owners name stamped inside.

108 pages; This inspiring biography of Harriet Tubman tells how she helped free over 300 slaves as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad and how she became a nurse, a scout and spy for the Union Forces during the Civil War.
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ARMED WITH COURAGE

By: McNeer, May and Ward, Lynd

Price: $3.45

Publisher: Abingdon Press: 1957

Seller ID: 2545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket; Usual x-lib. Markings. Light corner wear.

Ex-Library; 112 pages; SUMMARY: Vivid, sympathetic Biographies of seven men and women with great physical and spiritual courage. Florence Nightingale, Father Damien, George Washington Carver, Jane Addams, Wilfred Grenfell, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Schweitzer.
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