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The Man Who Walked Between The Towers

CRITICS HAVE SAID

    • With its graceful majesty and mythic overtones, this unique and uplifting book is at once a portrait of a larger-than-life individual and a memorial to the towers and the lives associated with them.
      School Library Journal

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