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  • 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

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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

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  • 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

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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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

    $2.67 USD

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  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 1

    by Alastair Gunn, Dinah Maria Craik, Catherine Ann Crowe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Isabella Banks, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rhoda Broughton, Ellen Wood, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, Mary E. Penn, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee, Rosa Mulholland, Lettice Galbraith, Louisa Baldwin, Katharine Tynan, Gertrude Atherton, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Elizabeth Gaskell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and American. Includes tales by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 2

    by Alastair Gunn, William D. O’Connor, James Hain Friswell, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Amelia B. Edwards, Louisa May Alcott, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Ada Buisson, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Leonard Kip, Frank Cowper, John Kendrick Bangs, Letitia McClintock, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. B. Marriott Watson, Louisa Baldwin, Bernard Capes, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Charles Dickens ...
    Series Book 2 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas, and includes stories from a wide range of authors including Charles ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 17

    by Alastair Gunn, Louise Kirby Piatt, Anna M. Hoyt, Marian Carruthers, Mary Morrison, Emma B. Cobb, Esther Serle Kenneth, Mrs. Frank McCarthy, Elizabeth Bedell Benjamin, Elizabeth T. Corbett, Georgiana S. Hull, Emily Arnold, Alice Rea, Ellen L. Dorsey, Margaret Crosby, Sarah Catherine Budd, Lucy Hardy, Clarice Irene Clinghan, Miriam Forester, Mary Reynolds, Cara Berkeley ...
    Series Book 17 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Wimbourne Books presents the seventeenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 17 contains stories published between 1855 and 1900, all by obscure, little-known or unidentified female authors. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

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    Who Was Ben Franklin?

    by Dennis Brindell Fradin ...
    Narrated by Paul Michael ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by turns sad and funny, but always honest and awe-inspiring. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Who Was William Shakespeare?

    by Celeste Mannis ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. Celeste Davidson Mannis here puts together the pieces of Shakespeare's life and work for young listeners. ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Who Was Charles Darwin?

    by Deborah Hopkinson ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    48 min

    As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded for conducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Who Was Milton Hershey?

    by James Buckley Jr. ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    54 min

    Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation. As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard. Eventually, he learned the secret to mass-producing milk chocolate and the recipe that gave it a longer, more stable shelf life. He founded a school for those who didn’t have access to a good education and an entire town for his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook