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The Galloping Ghost by Gary Andrew Poole
In the 1920s four athletes defined American sports: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Red Grange.
Jamaica's Find (illustrator) by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Jamaica finds a stuffed dog at the playground and after taking him home without trying to find the owner discovers...
Traveling Man by James Rumford
In the days when the earth was flat and Jerusalem was the center of the world, there was a boy...
The Cloudmakers by James Rumford
The secrets of Chinese papermaking are disclosed to the Arabs in this intriguing piece of historical fiction. Chinese annals give...
Beowulf by James Rumford
Superb on all counts--from the elegant bookmaking to the vigorous, evocative prose . . . to the pen-and-ink and watercolor...
The Vanishing Point by Louise Hawes
"Paint first with your eyes." these are words Lavinia Fontana hears again and agein as she eavesdrops on her father's...
Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal
During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her...
The American Resting Place: Four... by Marilyn Yalom
"The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History through our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds" is a "curious, interesting, and...
The Best American Travel Writing... by Susan Orlean
The extraordinary popularity of books and magazines dedicated to travel comes as no surprise, given that more and more Americans...

