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John F. Kennedy: Young Man of Destiny (American Geographical Society - Know Your America Program)

By: Hanff, Helene

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 10007

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled, pictorial booklet, 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Light wear along the spine. Sticker on rear cover (1965 Topps Ugly, no. 19, with name Laurie). 64 pages with black and white photos and a section of numbered color stamps that can be adhered to the corresponding numbered space within the text. None of the stamps have been applied to the text. For a juvenile audience.
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Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

By: Krull, Kathleen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Children's Books: 1993

Seller ID: 08548

ISBN: 0152480102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

96 pages, including Musical Terms, Index of Composers, and Further Reading. Watercolor illustrations, one for each musician. From the publisher: "Here are the life stories of such diverse figures as Vivaldi, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Nadia Boulanger, and Woody Guthrie. Readers will learn of both their musical natures and the personal, humorous characteristics that make their lives so fascinating. Living, breathing anecdotes--the stuff of which the best biography is made."
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The Boy from Nine Miles: The Early Life of Bob Marley

By: Marley, Cedella and Gerald Hausman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, Virginia, Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.: 2002

Seller ID: 09241

ISBN: 1571742824

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Fifty-five pages, including Glossary, Chronology, and a Discography of Bob Marley's music. One of the publisher's Young Spirit Books for young readers.
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At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England

By: Myers, Walter Dean

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press: 1999

Seller ID: 10251

ISBN: 0590486691

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The dust jacket is price-clipped, otherwise a fine copy. 140 pages plus Selected Bibliography. Illustrated. Aimed at a juvenile audience, this is the biography of an African princess saved from execution and taken to England, where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. In England she was christened Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The author's discovery of a group of letters written by and about her led to the research that became this book. Her image is on the front of the dust jacket.
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Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light

By: Schur, Maxine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society: 1986

Seller ID: 05348

ISBN: 0827602510

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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Category: Biographies

John F. Kennedy: Young Man of Destiny (American Geographical Society - Know Your America Program)

Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

The Boy from Nine Miles: The Early Life of Bob Marley

At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England

Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light