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“I am a changeling–a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . .”
The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age...
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’ s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Funny in...
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In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa... Read more >
Essential Histories
by Osprey Publishing
Using the Essential Histories for a deeper examination of
key wars.
Essential Histories, published by Osprey Publishing, is a series of books on the history of war. These books can be used in courses on military history or, as would be more typical in a high school classroom, they can supplement discussions and activities in survey courses in United States or world history classes...Read more >