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Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise blasted off for the Moon on April 11, 1970. But after a disastrous explosion damaged their spacecraft, the three men had only one goal: to get back home safely.

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Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.

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From the first ill-fated attempts by Mallory in 1924 to the ultimately successful expedition of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 30 years later, this book chronicles the preparations, setbacks, and often sad misfortunes of climbers in their quest for the summit.

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"During the Revolutionary War, General George Washington (AKA "Agent 711") was the leader of a ring of spies! The group--called the Culper Ring--used secret names, codes, invisible ink, and more to spy on the British and pass along information. Nobody knew about it at the time (and few do so today), but those sneaky heroes risked their lives to help win the American Revolution!"--

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"Early Spanish explorers heard a story about El Dorado. It was a lost city in the Americas made of "gold." The explorers believed it was real and they believed they could find it! Soon the story became a legend, and the legend changed the world. But the city of El Dorado has not been found... yet"--