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Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira is offered a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hosting duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Yet, alongside her dearest friend in the Black...
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Lincoln and Speed mystery volume 1
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"When an orphaned girl from a neighboring town is found murdered and suspicion falls on her aunt, Speed makes it his mission to clear her good name. Of course, he'll need the legal expertise of his unusual new friend. Together, Lincoln and Speed fight to bring justice to their small town. But as more bodies are discovered and the investigation starts to come apart at the seams, there's one question on everyone's lips: does Lincoln have what it takes...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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xii, 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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On the eve of his fifty-second birthday, February 11, 1861, the president-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, walked onto a train in Springfield, Illinois , the first step of a 1,900 mile journey to the White House, and his rendezvous with destiny.--from book jacket.
46) The Lincoln myth
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Cotton Malone novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose...
47) Abraham Lincoln
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2012
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31 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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There are some things you might not know about the man responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation. Kids learn about Abraham Lincoln through timelines, quotes, and peculiar facts.
49) After the rain
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Scholastic
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2002
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108 p. ; 20 cm.
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In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
50) Becoming Lincoln
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University of Virginia Press
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[2018]
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x, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"A biographical account of Abraham Lincoln's rises and falls on his improbable path to becoming the president who ended slavery"--
52) Abraham Lincoln
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Times Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
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184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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"Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many times, but never by a man who himself sought the office...
55) Lincoln
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Colección Grandes biografías volume 14
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Edimat Libros
Pub. Date
[2003]
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187 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Imagination station volume 23
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Cousins Beth and Patrick work with detective Allan Pinkerton to prevent a plot to kill Abraham Lincoln before his inauguration.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xx, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. he power of Lincoln?s personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he disagreed with....
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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When two brothers visit a museum in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, with their grandmother, they find themselves in a very realistic Civil War setting where they see the Antietam battlefield and meet historical figures from the aftermath of that momentous battle. Includes author's note on the Battle of Antietam.
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