Central Kansas Library System

Highlights the life of the first President, known as the Father of His Country.

A biography stressing the childhood of the woman who overcame the handicaps of being blind and deaf.

A brief biography of Ehrich Weiss, who gained renown as Harry Houdini, master magician and escape artist.

Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. Then, as they start to settle into a new world, the discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy.

Follows the life and career of the man who revolutionized photography by developing a camera simple enough for anyone to use.

A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.

Brief biographies of three Indian chiefs who struggled to save their people from the white man's oppression.

A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable for its preciseness.

In the 1870's, surgery was a crude affair performed on the patient's kitchen table. In the frontier town of Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. W. W. Mayo brought his young sons, Will and Charlie, to assist him with operations. Fifty years later, Rochester became a medical mecca as the Mayo brothers were established as world-class surgeons. With a firm belief in sharing information and learning from others, the Mayo brothers proved the benefits of cooperation...

Traces the life of the immigrant Jewish peddler who went on to found Levi Strauss & Co.