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Jill Newton
Jill Newton has illustrated many books for children, including Buzz Bumble to the Rescue by Lynn E. Hazen and The Growing Reader Phonics Bible by Joy MacKenzie. She is also the author-illustrator of Gordon in Charge and Bored Claude. Jill lives ... [... more]
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Jill Newton
Things get a bit prickly when Larry the porcupine dances with Rita the chipmunk - or when they engage in beach adventures, bubble-blowing, or bottle tossing at the fair. Meet a brand-new... Larry and Rita Jill Newton Jamie Michalak [... more]
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Robert Newton Peck
Robert Newton Peck is the author of more than sixty books, including Horse Thief, Cowboy ghost, and A Day No Pigs Would Die. According to Newsweek, Mr. Peck "manages to evoke a sense of vanished America -- when neighbors were neighborly, when ... [... more]
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Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington, an enormously prolific novelist, playwright, and short story writer who chronicled urban middle-class life in the American Midwest during the early twentieth century, was born in Indianapolis on July 29, 1869. He was the ... [... more]
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Janet Wilson
The hymn's composer, John Newton, led a successful life as a seafaring trader, sailing from Liverpool to Africa and on to Antigua. His cargo was a lucrative one, for he traded in human beings. It was the height of the slave trade, and he made ... [... more]
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Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant is the author of six books about Jewish life, including The New Jewish Wedding, Living a Jewish Life, and Saying Kaddish. She is also the author of three novels, including The Red Tent. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts. A Handbook ... [... more]
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James Gleick
James Gleick (www.around.com) was born in New York City in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times, founded an early Internet portal, the Pipeline, and wrote three previous books: Isaac Newton was born in a ... [... more]
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Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, is a past president of the Organization of American Historians. He is the author or editor of numerous works, including People of Paradox: An ... [... more]
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Philip Ashley Fanning
Isaac Newton was a dedicated alchemist, a fact usually obscured as unsuited to his stature as a leader of the scientific revolution. Author Philip Ashley Fanning has diligently examined the evidence and concludes that the two major aspects of ... [... more]
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Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch was born on July 15, 1796, in Newton, Massachusetts. He was descended from a distinguished New England family; his grandfather was a well-known surgeon, and his father, Charles Bulfinch, was one of the foremost architects of his ... [... more]
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Dan Shaughnessy
Dan Shaughnessy is a columnist for the Boston Globe and appears regularly on television and radio. He is the author of five books, including The Curse of the Bambino and Seeing Red: The Red Auerbach Story. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with ... [... more]
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Robert Newton Peck
Robert Newton Peck comes from generations of Yankee farmers. Like the Vermont folk he writes about in his novel, he was raised as a boy in the Shaker Way, which endured even after the sect itself had died out. Its view of life is embodied in the ... [... more]
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