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  • Who Was Louis Braille?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Robert Squier ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea. ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously difficult problems, much like the ones facing America today, makes for a timely and engrossing biography. ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

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    Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 16

    by Alastair Gunn, Albert Richard Smith, Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton, Emma Watts Phillips, Ada Buisson, William Kingston Sawyer, Edward Eggleston, Charles Maurice Davies, Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Margaret Oliphant, Henry Frith, Annie Trumbull Slosson, John Ferguson Nisbet, Frank Fullerton Brumback, Hume Nisbet, Mabel Collins, M. E. Greene ...
    Series Book 16 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Wimbourne Books presents the sixteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 16 contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the ... Read more

    $2.72 USD