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The Things He Could Have Been: Stories of Babe Ruth by W Nikola-Lisa

A smart, rollicking narrative that delivers on all fronts… Nikola-Lisa’s latest book celebrates off-the-field shenanigans of the American professional baseball player, George Herman “Babe” Ruth, who largely because of his home-run hitting between 1919 and 1935, became, and perhaps remains…
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Love’s Labour’s Won: The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

A brilliantly constructed and superbly executed historical tale… Gray skillfully makes use of the scant biographical resources, bringing a sensible eye to Shakespeare’s life story in his debut. As Gray tells it, William Shakespeare was his parent’s first child to…
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Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives) by Danielle Jawando

  Informative, well-crafted… Jawando brings African-American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s biography as the second book in Little Guides to Great Lives series: small guides introducing children to the most inspiring figures from history in a…