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c1992., HarperCollins Call No: 635 .21 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the history, effects, and current uses of the potato in the world marketplace.
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1985., Viking Kestrel Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of our timeSummary Note: Focuses on the childhood and youth of the writer, thinker, and activist Betty Friedan.
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1984., T.Y. Crowell Call No: 973.01 MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A history of African Americans in the United States, as told through letters, speeches, articles, eyewitness accounts, and other documents.
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c2002, Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish Call No: 325.73 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeys
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[1969], Knopf Call No: 309.1 73 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Living history library
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c1999., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B SANDBURG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.
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1990., F. Watts Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the voyages of Columbus, the terrible impact of the Spaniards on the Indians, and the ultimate cultural influence of the Native Americans on their white conquerors.
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c2004, Benchmark Books/M. Cavendish Call No: 633.5 156 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great inventionsSummary Note: Explains the mechanics of the cotton gin, invented in the late eighteenth century by Eli Whitney, and describes how it enabled, tragically, the vast expansion of the American slave trade.
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2000., Syracuse University Press Call No: B Edition: 1st Syracuse Univer Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the photographer best known for her photographs of rural Americans who were victims of the Depression of the 1930's.
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2000., Pre-adolescent, Benchmark Books Call No: 978 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.
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[1999], c2000., Benchmark Books Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeys (Benchmark Books (Firm))Summary Note: Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.
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c2006, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: American literary greatsSummary Note: Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
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-- Magellanc2002., Benchmark Books Call No: B MAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great explorationsSummary Note: Pictures and text chronicle fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's famous voyage around the world in which he proved the Earth is round.
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c1993., HarperCollins Call No: 553.4 1 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the value of gold and how it has been sought after and used in countries around the world throughout history.
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-- How the railroad changed the worldc2004, Random House Call No: 385 .0973 09 034 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark booksSummary Note: Takes a look at the history of rail transportation, focussing on how it transformed societies from isolated communities which rarely communicated or traded into unified nations.
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c2007., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Summary Note: Presents a biography of the life and works of nineteenth-century author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau that chronicles his childhood, family, education, and achievements.
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-- Andrew Carnegiec1997., Franklin Watts Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel industry and used much of it for philanthropic causes.