St. George, Judith

Summary: Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 LIN

Van Lente, Fred

Summary: "We all know that Abraham Lincoln gave the historic Gettysburg Address and ended the Civil War. But did you also know that he pardoned the first White House turkey, once snuck into Washington in disguise, and grew his famous beard because an eleven-year-old girl said it made him look less ugly?! Rad all about the radical rail-spliter, supreme speaker, and paramount president Abraham Lincoln in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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Kendrick, Paul

Summary: Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEN

Abrams, Dan

Summary: The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign. At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018

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Larson, Edward J. (Edward John)

Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important--yet almost always overlooked--chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE LAR

Winters, Kay.

Summary: Describes how Abe Lincoln used books to change his life, and how he, in turn, changed the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 Lin

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Kunhardt, Philip B.

Summary: Photographic biography of Abraham Lincoln with more than 700 illustrations, most of them drawn from the Meserve collection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992

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