John C. Brown
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The Revolutionary War comes alive in this contemporary classic for young adults. The War had no clear-cut loyalties - it divided families, friends and towns. Young Tim Meeker's 16-year-old brother goes off to fight with the Patriots while his father remains a reluctant British Loyalist in the Tory town of Redding, CT. Tim's always looked up to his brother, who's smart and brave. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he'll have to make a choice - between...
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It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people-and other famous musicians-really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad habits? And what did their neighbors think of it all? Here are the fascinating and often humorous stories of...
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From Da Vinci to Warhol, each of these 20 artists is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of art. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
ARTISTS INCLUDED:
- Da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Bruegel
- Anguissola
- Rembrandt
- Hokusai
- Cassatt
- Van Gogh
- Kollwitz
- Matisse
- Picasso
- Chagall Duchamp
- O'Keeffe
- Johnson
- Dali
- Noguchi
- Rivera
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From Cervantes to Langston Hughes, each of these 19 writers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the world of literature. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
WRITERS INCLUDED:
- Shikibu
- Cervantes
- Shakespeare
- Austen
- Anderson
- Poe
- Dickens
- Brontë
- Dickinson
- Alcott
- Twain
- Burnett
- Stevenson
- London
- Sandburg
- White
- Hurston
- Hughes
- Singer