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Books in Great Lives series

  • Mother Teresa

    Vanora Leigh

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1986)
    Discusses the contributions of the Albanian nun who travelled to the slums of Calcutta to ease human suffering and continues to travel around the world caring for those in need.
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  • Marie Curie

    Edwina Conner

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1987)
    Traces the life of the Polish-born scientist who discovered radium and became the only person to receive two Nobel Prizes.
  • Queen Victoria

    Dorothy Turner, Martin Salisbury

    Hardcover (Hodder Wayland, Dec. 1, 1988)
    A biography of the nineteenth-century British monarch whose sixty-three year reign over one-quarter of the world's population covered a period of great industrial and social change
  • Winston Churchill

    Rupert Matthews

    Hardcover (Hove UK, Wayland, 1988, Dec. 1, 1988)
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  • Helen Keller

    Nigel Hunter

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, April 1, 1986)
    Recounts the achievements of the woman who overcame the handicaps of being blind and deaf.
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  • Richard the Lionheart

    Joanne Jessop

    Hardcover (Wayland, March 15, 1989)
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  • Great Lives: William Shakespeare

    Dorothy Turner, Richard Hook

    Paperback (Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division, May 18, 1994)
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  • Julius Caesar

    Rupert Matthews

    Hardcover (Wayland (Publishers) Ltd, March 15, 1988)
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  • Louis Braille

    Stephen Keeler, Richard Hook

    Hardcover (Hodder Wayland, Jan. 1, 1987)
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  • John Lennon

    Vanora Leigh, Richard Hook

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1986)
    A life of the Liverpool boy who, together with his band, revolutionized popular music is illustrated with artwork and photographs from throughout his career
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  • William Shakespeare

    Dorothy Turner

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1985)
    Follows the life and career of the English playwright and poet, from his youth in Stratford to his success in London's theater world and recognitionas a great writer.
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  • Gandhi

    Nigel Hunter, Richard Hook

    Hardcover (Hodder Wayland, Sept. 30, 1986)
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