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| Minister and best-selling Christian author Max Lucado was educated at Abilene Christian University. He has been pastor of the Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas since 1988. He also hosts UpWords, a fifteen minute radio show that can be heard in thirty states. Lucado has authored over twenty books, three o....[more] |
| Alma Flor Ada, Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. A former Radcliffe Scholar at Harvard University and Fulbright Research Scholar she is an internationally r....[more] |
| NY Times bestselling author of over fifty books of humor and inspiration.
Emmy-nominated staff writer for Bob Hope (both personal appearances and television specials). Recipient of four Angel awards and a Dove award nomination.
Scriptwriter of hundreds of comedy sketches and other scripts. Her books include Didn'....[more] |
| Katherine A. Gleason has approximately thirty books to her credit, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft (co-authored with Denise Zimmermann). In addition to adult books, she has written numerous books for young people. She particularly enjoys researching books about animals, science, and far awa....[more] |
| Steve Gray has illustrated 9 children’s books. “Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows”’ is an Arkansas Diamond Honor Book and “There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea” is the winner of the Grand Canyon Reader Award. His new book “There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog” will be released this coming March. |
| Loretta is a Charleston, South Carolina native who has been writting since early childhood. She finds that poetry is a way to express, motivate and inspire herself as well as others. Writting has been a love of hers for most of her life. Loretta has published three book: Open Your Heart And Be Inspired, Love Letters an....[more] |
| For many, an illustrated version of Aesop’s Fables is ubiquitous with childhood. Born a slave, Aesop and his fables have become a staple of popular culture for generations. While his birthplace is a matter of much scholarly debate with Egypt, Ethiopia and Athens being presented as possibilities, some facts about his li....[more] |
| Louisa May Alcott was born November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott, a well-known transcendentalist philosopher and educator, and Abigail May Alcott. In 1834, the Alcott family moved to Massachusetts, where they became acquainted with writers and ....[more] |
| A knight, a lawyer and philosopher among other titles, Sir Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London, England, where he was tutored at home due to his poor health. Eventually, at age 12, he was deemed well enough to attend Trinity College where he excelled and soon caught the eye of Queen Elizabeth, who took to calling ....[more] |
| Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the sixth of the eleven children born to Hannah Apthorp and Charles Bulfinch. He attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating in 1814. He was an avid reader and amassed a large library over ....[more] |
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