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No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement
Calvin Craig Miller
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Jan. 30, 2005)Looks at the life of Bayard Rustin, an organizer behind the scenes of the civil rights movement whose ideas influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Great Explainer: The Story of Richard Feynman
III LeVine, Harry
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Sept. 15, 2009)Presents the life of the American physicist, discussing his early accomplishments in physics, his receipt of the Noble Prize in 1965 and his work in discovering the cause of the 1986 crash of the space shuttle Challenger.
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Johann Sebastian Bach and the Art of Baroque Music
Donna Getzinger, Daniel Felsenfeld
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, April 30, 2004)Traces the life of the German composer and musician, examines his contributions to baroque music, and discusses some of his most important compositions.
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John Lewis
Kerrily Sapet
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Sept. 15, 2009)Profiles the civil rights leader who was active in the Freedom Rides and other major events in the battle against segregation and later became a long-term congressman from Georgia.
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Profiles in Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Krista West
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Aug. 1, 2008)A series of biographies designed to lift mathematics off the page and out of the calculator, featuring individuals whose contributions were critical to the development of mathematics.
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A Velvet Revolution: Vaclav Havel And the Fall of Communism
John Duberstein
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, June 23, 2006)Describes how the most famous dissident of Czechoslovakia became president following the Velvet Revolution and the accomplishments that he made during his presidency.
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Madame Secretary: The Story of Madeleine Albright
Jeremy Byman
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Dec. 1, 1997)Focuses on the career of the former United States ambassador to the United Nations who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of State
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The European Colonization of Africa
Dan Nardo
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Sept. 30, 2010)Presents a history of the colonization of Africa by European countries, from the early invasions of the Portugese and the Dutch, to the establishment of the slave trade, to the extensive holdings of the British Empire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Gifted Sister: The Story of Fanny Mendelssohn
Sandra H. Shichtman, Dorothy Indenbaum
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, June 15, 2007)Two musically gifted siblings grew up in the Mendelssohn home in Hamburg, Germany, in the early years of the nineteenth century. One was a son, Felix Mendelssohn, who went on to become one of the most admired classical music composers of the day. The other talented Mendelssohn child was FelixÂ’s sister, Fanny, who was denied the opportunity to have a musical career because of the social and family restrictions that limited a woman's freedom during that era. Today, however, the compositions of Fanny Mendelssohn are finally receiving the attention they deserve, and this new biography for young readers will introduce this long neglected artist to a new generation.
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Catherine The Great: And The Enlightenment In Russia
Nancy Whitelaw
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Sept. 30, 2004)Presents the life of the German princess who became the empress of Russia, responsible for expanding the empire and introducing Enlightenment ideals and arts to her country.
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Cargo Planes
Jim Corrigan
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Oct. 1, 2013)Cargo planes transport goods and serve a variety of uses
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Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella Baker And The Civil Rights Movement
Lisa Frederiksen Bohannon
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Aug. 30, 2005)Presents the life and accomplishments of the equality activist who advised the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which influenced the sit-in movement of the early 1960s.
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