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Canadian authors Janet Lunn, Dorothy Joan Harris, Brian Doyle, Roch Carrier, Monica Hughes, Jean Little, Christopher Chapman, Joy Kogawa, and Timothy Nakayama share their memories of war-time fears, u
A nostalgic anthology of recollections on WWII includes first-hand observations by now well-known North American writers, educators, and film producers who were then old enough to remember this extrao
An original and humorously illustrated guide to 100 historically accurate medieval careers. Sidebars expound on intriguing elements of medieval life such as medieval cosmetics and torture techniques.
Describes the experiences of Xuanzang, a seventh-century pilgrim looking for Buddhist scriptures, the twelfth-century Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, and the thirteenth-century merchant Marco Polo as the
