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  • Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

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  • Who Was Franklin Roosevelt?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression and served as president during World War II. Elected four times, he spent thirteen years in the White House. How he led the country through tremendously difficult problems, much like the ones facing America today, makes for a timely and engrossing biography. ... Read more

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  • Who Was Louis Braille?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Robert Squier ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea. ... Read more

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    Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

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    Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

    by Roberta Edwards ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    55 min

    Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages. ... Read more

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    Who Was Milton Hershey?

    by James Buckley Jr. ...
    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    54 min

    Discover the man behind the chocolate bar! Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation. As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard. Eventually, he learned the secret to mass-producing milk chocolate and the recipe that gave it a longer, more stable shelf life. He founded a school for those who didn’t have access to a good education and an entire town for his ... Read more

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    Who Was John F. Kennedy?

    by Yona Zeldis McDonough ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 5 min

    The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the age of two-and-a-half, when he was stricken with scarlet fever. Although his presidency was cut short, our nation's youngest elected leader left an indelible mark on the American consciousness and now is profiled in our Who Was...? series. ... Read more

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    Who Were the Beatles?

    by Geoff Edgers ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was...? book. Readers will learn about their childhoods in Liverpool, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-listen ... Read more

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    Who Was Isaac Newton?

    by Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ ...
    Narrated by Elliot Hill ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1665 he was forced to return home from college. It was during this period of so much death, that Newton gave life to some of the most important theories in modern science, including gravity and the laws of motion. ... Read more

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    Who Was Neil Armstrong?

    by Roberta Edwards ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    56 min

    On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a giant leap for mankind. This Eagle Scout built his own model planes as a little boy and then grew up to be a test pilot for experimental aircraft before becoming an astronaut. ... Read more

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    Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

    by Yona Zeldis McDonough ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    54 min

    Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old! Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five, Mozart left a legacy of more than 600 works. This fascinating biography charts the musician's extraordinary career and personal life while painting a vivid cultural ... Read more

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    Who Was Marco Polo?

    by Joan Holub ...
    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau ...
    Series series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    52 min

    Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young listeners ... Read more

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