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  The 39 Clues: Book 1

  The Maze of Bones

  by Rick Riordan

  Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one... (more)
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  Poor Richard's Almanac

  by Benjamin Franklin

  A faithful reproduction of the original Peter Pauper Press edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, circa 1950, the current version contains the same colorful woodcuts ('quaint Cuts by and Unknown Hand') and 18th century design of the original. Printed in hard cover on heavyweight paper stock, this is a great addition to any Franklin fan's collection. Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many... (more)
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  How Ben Franklin Stole The Lightning

  by Rosalyn Schanzer

  Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how... (more)
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  Ben Franklin

  by Blaine McCormick

  Inventor, Writer, Statesman, Military Leader…Businessman You are holding the only modern adaptation of Benjamin Franklin's 18th century autobiography. It is at its heart one of the greatest business stories ever told. “Franklin's autobiography is America's first great self-help book. It teaches in a delightful way how to win friends, influence people and succeed in business. Professor McCormick... (more)
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  What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Paperstar)

  by Jean Fritz

  A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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  Benjamin Franklin's the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living

  by Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin's The Art of Virtue consists of a collection of Franklin's writings organized around his timeless philosophy on such topics as: goal setting and personal achievement, obtaining wealth and preserving health, human relations and family living, religion and morality, aging and dying, and much, much more. Full of profound insights, delightful humor, quotable quotes, and plenty of common sense;... (more)
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  The Way to Wealth

  by Benjamin Franklin

  The first American book on personal finance, "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin is still the best and wisest money book ever written. Originally published in 1758 as the preface to "Poor Richard's Almanack, " this little gem has been through innumerable printings and sold millions of copies to those in search of smart but entertaining advice about hard work, earning and saving money and debt. As the 21st... (more)
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  The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

  by Joyce E. Chaplin

  Statesman, diplomat, Founding Father--Benjamin Franklin was all of these things. But it is Franklin's status as a scientific genius that is the key to understanding him and his world Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin--he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of... (more)
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  Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene S.)

  by Edmund Sears Morgan

  The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This best-selling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot.
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  Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)

  by Frank Murphy

  A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square." A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal! Teachers and kids will love finding out about this popular teaching tool that is still used in elementary schools today!
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  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

  by Walter Isaacson

  Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the... (more)
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  1776

  by David G. McCullough

  In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive... (more)
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  Bolt of Fate

  Benjamin Franklin and his Electric Kite Hoax

  by Tom Tucker

  Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? And did it determine the course of the American Revolution? Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and... (more)
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  Real Benjamin Franklin (American Classic Series)

  by Andrew M. Allison, W. Cleon Skousen

  The Real Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of America s Greatest Diplomat There are many Benjamin Franklins. Or at least he has taken on many different forms in the history books and conversations of the last two centuries. Some historians have shown us an aged statesman whose wise and steadying influence kept the Constitutional Convention together in 1787, while others have pictured a chuckling prankster who... (more)
• Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating, Together with Rules of Health and Long Life and the Rules to Find Out a Fit Measure of Meat and drink, with Several RecipesBenjamin Franklin

  

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  Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating, Together with Rules of Health and Long Life and the Rules to Find Out a Fit Measure of Meat and drink, with Several Recipes

  by Benjamin Franklin

• John, Paul, George, And BenLane Smith

  

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  John, Paul, George, And Ben

  by Lane Smith

  Once there were four lads... John <Hancock>, Paul <Revere>, George <Washington>, and Ben <Franklin>. Oh yes, there was also Tom <Jefferson>, but he was annoyingly independent and hardly ever around. These lads were always getting into trouble for one reason or another. In other words, they took a few...liberties. And to be honest, they were not always appreciated. ... (more)