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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $3.63
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: F. Robert Van Der Linden::Dominick A. Pisano::Reeve Lindbergh
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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13092
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Publication Date: 2002-05-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: In 1927, 25-year-old American aviator Charles Lindbergh earned international fame by making the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (and won a prize of $25,000 in the bargain). This lively book, a publication of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, celebrates that great accomplishment in words and images. Museum curators Dominick Pisano and F. Robert van der Linden draw on the Smithsonian's holdings (among them Lindbergh's then-state-of-the-art monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis) to offer a portrait of the famed pilot in the context of his time. They emphasize Lindbergh's calculated daring--he did not carry a parachute or heavy radio, for instance, reckoning that neither would be useful should he have to ditch at sea--and his abilities, unusual for a man of his age and the time. They also chart Lindbergh's progress from young flyer to world hero, considering his later career without shying away from its unpleasant aspects--notably, his early embrace of Adolf Hitler's regime and his insistence that the United States not take the side of England and France in the impending global war, at considerable cost to his reputation. Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's flight and the centenary of his birth, this book makes a fine gift for aviation and history buffs. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Susan Hertog
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Publisher: Nan A. Talese
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 921
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Publication Date: 1999-11-30
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: Susan Hertog managed to obtain 10 separate interviews with her very private subject (though not access to Anne Morrow Lindbergh's unpublished papers), and her personal involvement shows in every line of this impassioned biography. Hertog's searching account of the Lindbergh marriage explores the complex union of two people who loved each other deeply yet were emotionally ill-suited. Charles "saw the rebel heart inside the timid girl" and liberated a confined daughter of privilege into a world of adventure, but "[the] price she paid for her Prince" was high, including painful loneliness during his frequent absences and, most agonizingly, the 1932 death of their baby son. Though he was killed by kidnappers, in the Lindberghs' view he was equally a victim of the relentless publicity surrounding them. As the couple withdrew to protect their other children, Anne experienced a sense of isolation, but she was also liberated to explore her inner life and to delineate it in her writing--which was always supported by Charles. Hertog, who read Gift from the Sea (1955) as a new mother without knowing anything about its author, enthusiastically assesses that bestseller and other books in which Anne asserted that "a woman must come of age by herself," reminding readers that Anne Morrow Lindbergh is not the wife of a famous aviator, but a source of inspiration in her own right. --Wendy Smith
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles A. Lindbergh
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Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13092
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Publication Date: 2002-04
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Lindbergh's personal and intimate recollection of his boyhood days on his family's Minnesota farm on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles A. Lindbergh
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.130924
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Publication Date: 1970-06
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Reading Level: 1038
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Sale: $5.36
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Von Hardesty
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Edition: 1st
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Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: Charles A. Lindbergh astounded the world on May 21, 1927, with his successful solo flight from New York to Paris in The Spirit of St. Louis. Upon his return to the United States, he received an unprecedented welcome and was regarded as a hero to a generation of Americans who looked to the skies as a field of promise and progress. Lindbergh has been the subject of scrutiny and controversy ever since.
Reflecting America's faith in technological advancement, Lindbergh saw The Spirit of St. Louis as "a lens focused on the future, a forerunner of mechanisms that would conquer time and space." This youthful optimism was later tempered by personal tragedy-the kidnapping and murder of his first-born son-and by the threat of American involvement in a war abroad. But Lindbergh confronted these challenges, often at odds with his supporters, with the same daring and boldness of character that inspired him to undertake his fabled flight.
In Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero, Von Hardesty, curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, takes another look at Lindbergh's life and offers new insights into the man and the myths that surrounded him. Drawing from a variety of sources, he reveals how Lindbergh, though stubborn and absolutist in many ways, evolved in his outlook and world view. With hundreds of full-color images and illustrations taken from a rich variety of private and public collections, Hardesty has produced a visually stunning and fascinating biography of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.
Published in Conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of Lindbergh's Historic Transatlantic Flight
More than 250 photographs, illustrations, and maps
Never-before-published images and artifacts from Lindbergh archives and private collections
Eight-page gatefold illustration
Detailed map of Lindbergh's fabled flight
Illustrated timelines from Lindbergh's life
"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." -Charles A. Lindbergh
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Manufacturer: ISIS Large Print Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Reeve Lindbergh
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Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2001-03
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Reading Level: 386
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Description: Reeve Lindbergh's memoir offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her family led by her intensely private father, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and mother, writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Under a Wing captures both her parents' complex personalities with immediacy and intimacy. Reeve explores the contrast between a loving father who "would parade imaginary animals across our backs" and the exacting patriarch who, upon return from his frequent absences, called each of his five children into his office to peruse a handwritten list of their achievements and failures. She seems anguished in her response to one of Charles's notorious, bigoted speeches: "How could someone who spoke the words my father did in 1941," she asks, "how did such a person then raise children who by his instruction and his example, day after day and year after year, had learned from him ... that such words were repellent and unspeakable?" She offers too a blunt but tender portrait of Anne in old age--she has been physically and mentally impaired by a series of stroke--that proves she has a mature understanding of a deeply loving woman who nonetheless always held some part of herself in reserve for her writing. This impressive memoir brings readers close to the private people within two legendary public figures.
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $3.82
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Manufacturer: Saddleback Educational Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13092
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Publication Date: 2008-01-23
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Reading Level: 32
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these softcover 32-page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures: those who lead us into new territory, pursued scientific discoveries; battled injustice and prejudice; and broke down creative and artistic barriers. These biographies offer a variety of rich primary and secondary source material to support teaching to standards. Using the graphics, students can activate prior knowledgebridge what they already know with what they have yet to learn. Graphically illustrated biographies also teach inference skills, character development, dialogue, transitions, and drawing conclusions. Graphic biographies in the classroom provide an intervention with proven success for the struggling reader. Features: Full-color drawings engage the reader. Each biography is complete in 32-pages. Speech bubbles and nonfiction text on every page. Powerful graphics capture and hold student interest. Highlights: Fast-paced nonfiction stories. Strong characters and powerful role models.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: Capstone Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lucile Davis
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Publisher: Capstone Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2003-08
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Reading Level: 24
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, led to a boycott of public buses in 1955 that lasted 381 days! Read about the impact and contributions made by each of these leaders, innovators, and pioneers.
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Price: $3.99
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Sale: $1.13
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Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: S. A. Kramer
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Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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Dewey Decimal Number: 629.1309111
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Publication Date: 2002-02-18
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Reading Level: 48
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Seventy-five years ago, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic. Newspapers called him "the flying tool" and called his tiny propeller plane "the flying cotton." But Lindbergh was determined to fly across the Atlantic all by himself. And he did. S. A. Kramer captures all the excitement of the 33 1/2-hour flight and explains to Level 2 readers exactly why it was so amazing.
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Price: $12.50
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Sale: $58.10
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Manufacturer: Putnam Pub Group (T)
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Anthony Scaduto
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Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1540924
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Publication Date: 1976-11
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Reading Level: 512
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