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First Encounters

by Nancy Caldwell Sorel

Young Adult

1994

The Sorels present an illustration and a synopsis of each of such first meetings as those between Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, Frederick the Great and Voltaire, Fats Waller and Al Capone, Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday, and Willie Mays and Leo Durocher.

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