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What Does It Mean to Be a Person?
Jim Averill

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Robots
Ronald Klausewitz

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The Progressive Era
Larry Ambs
Dean Poli

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The United States in the 1930s
Neil Novik
Rich Szlosek

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Writing your own story
Henny Lewin
Steffi Schamess

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Zina Tillona
Ellen Peck

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Watercolor Class
Turi MacCombie

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The Emergence of Life
Dorothy Rosenthal

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From Mosses to Mistletoe
Janet Price
Bev von Kries

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Food in Contemporary America
Allison Ryan
Nancy D’Amato

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The Immigrants
Dean Poli
Larry Ambs

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Oscar Wilde
Troubled genius
Michael Woolf

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Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
The invention of a genre
Neil Novik

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Ernest Hemingway
The man, the myth, and the work
Gerald Goldman

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The Stories of Andrea Barrett
David Neelon

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Thieves of State
Why corruption threatens global security
Joan Wofford

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1000 Foods to Eat Before You Die
Katy van Geel
Nina Scott

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Public Health, Private Rights
John Armstrong
Elizabeth Armstrong

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Big Bands of the 30s and 40s
Jean-Pierre Berwald

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Personal Narrative to Public Issues
Six memoirs
Ruth Elcan
Joan Laird

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Classics of American Nature Writing
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Jonathan Jay
Miriam Whitney

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Poetry Out Loud
Bob Barker
Nancy Denig

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Broadway Musicals
Hill Boss

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Explore the Valley & the Berkshires
through reading
Wunderley Stauder
Ruth Kosiorek

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Leaders of the American Revolution
Biographies of the leaders of the American revolutionary war.
Rich Szlosek

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People Who Changed America
Jim Harvey

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Presidents at the Law’s Edge
Tyll van Geel
Jay Russell

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The Silk Roads
The world’s first globalization
Marybeth Bridegam

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Write your own story
Henny Lewin
Steffi Schamess

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Zina Tillona
Ellen Peck

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Your Past and Present Memoirs
Patricia Tillona

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We’re All Artists Now
Ruthie Kosiorek
Martha Brouwer

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The James Family
Genius and neurosis closely allied
Jim Averill

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Broken Systems
Why do so many of our systems seem to be broken?
Joan Wofford

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Who’s on First
Biographies of American Comedy
Neil Novik
Richard Szlosek

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Climate Change Modeling
A Primer
Sandy Muspratt

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The Dismal Science: Economics!
Hy Edelstein
Richard Hamilton

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Lesbians in American Cinema
Politics and the representation of Lesbians in North American cenema, 1960s to the present
Roberta Pato

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The Illustrated Book
Its art and history
Ellen Kosmer
Betsy Siersma

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Mathematical Puzzles in Life
Gary Roodman

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Photography
Expressing your artistic spirit through photography
Martin Espinola

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
His relation to Victorian Times: does he relate to ours?
Saul Kent
Helene Lambert

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T.S. Eliot’s London
and/or London’s T.S. Eliot
Michael Woolf

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Poetry Out Loud
Nancy Denig

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Reading Beowulf
Elizabeth Armstrong

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2016 Primary and Caucus Season
Presidential Election, Part 1
Jay Russell
Chuck Gillies

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Internet Privacy & Security
Issues and tools for protection
John Armstrong

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Structures and Inventions
Memorable structures and inventions since 1800
Larry Ambs
Bob Romer

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Broadway Musicals
Hill Boss

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The Old Days
The 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s
Patricia Tillona

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The Golden Age of the Arabs
Jim Harvey
Pete Reitt

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Writing your own story
Henia Lewin
Carol Jolly

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Zina Tillona
Ellen Peck

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Craft Revealed
Learning to appreciate a handcrafted item through its history and creation process
Gail Gaustad
Nancy Young

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Printmaking
Process and practice
Ellen Kosmer
Honoré David

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Watercolor Class
Turi MacCombie

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Do You See What I See?
Light, vision and perception
Janet Price
Jim Scott

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Cooked in the Pioneer Valley
Cooking with Fire, Water, Air and Earth, with four field trips
Fran Volkmann
Joan Davis

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Let’s Talk About Sports
Richard Szlosek
Larry Gutlerner

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Play-reading for the Fun of It
Approaching Drama as Performers
Kitty Florey

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Shakespeare
His world and his work
Ruthie Kosiorek

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The Vikings
The influence of Scandinavians from the time of the Romans until 1200 CE
Larry Ambs
Bob Romer

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Literary Portrayals of Illness
The realism and the myth
Bobbie Reitt
Laura Price

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Stories of Aging
Contemporary novels
Ruth Elcan
Joan Cenedella

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When Love Becomes Obsession
Two major novels
Gerald Goldman

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The Commons
Past, present and future
Katherine Campbell
Susan Beer

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17th Century England
Jim Harvey

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Making American Television
The history of TV programming from its beginnings as a “spin-off” of radio
Dean Poli

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The New Golden Age of Astronomy
Discoveries and images from the recent generation of telescopes and robotic space probes
John Armstrong

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Don Quixote, Part I
Nina Scott

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Nature Imagery in Poetry
How poetry that employs nature imagery speaks to us personally and universally
Martha Nelson

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November 2016 Elections
Presidential (Part 2), Congressional and State
Jay Russell
Chuck Gillies

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Theism and Atheism
Jim Averill

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First Ladies
Their public and private lives
Ann Hartmann
Joan Laird

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Syria and Lebanon, 1916-2016
Factors contributing to today’s conflict and social upheaval
Eleanor Johnson
Joan Wofford

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Fiction Writers Workshop
A place for fiction writers to gather, exchange, read, and constructively comment on their work
David Neelon

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Writing your own story
Penny Johnson
Nancy Denig

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Zina Tillona
Ellen Peck

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American Impressionism
Revolt of the Ten
Saul Kent
Helene Lambert

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Chaim Potok
Asher Lev, the artist in conflict with community
Robert W. Barker

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My Favorite Painter
Emily Hurn

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Basic Drawing
Madeleine Fay

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Watercolor Class
Turi MacCombie

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String Quartet Composition
Contemporary trends
Mike Brooks

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Every Dog Has Its Day
Dogs in human history and culture
Margaret Manson
Sandy Sladen

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Oh, Canada! Who Art Thou?
Richard Hamilton
Hy Edelstein

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Inequity in the New Golden Age
David Entin
Dick Stonberg

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Reading Piketty
Capital in the 20th Century
Kathy Campbell

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20th Century American Short Fiction
Joanne Creighton

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History’s Mysteries
Revisiting classic crime novels
Joan Laird
Ann Hartman

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From Silent Films to the Talkies
Patricia Tillona

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A Favorite Children’s Book
Its impact on our adult life
Pam Daniels
Janice Dore

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Mathematical Puzzles
In everyday life
Gary Roodman

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Don Quixote, Part II (1615)
Nina Scott

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Poetry and the American Civil War
Elizabeth Armstrong

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What in the World?
What is going on in today’s disrupted world?
Joan Wofford

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Broadway Musicals
Hill Boss

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The American West, 1850-1900
Dean Poli
Larry Ambs

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High Water and Power Politics
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
David Neelon

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The US, 1912-1920
Rich Szlosek
Glenn Swanson

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British India
Jim Harvey

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Writing your own story
Henia Lewin
Carol Jolly

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Zina Tillona
Ellen Peck

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Basic Drawing
Madeleine Fay

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Watercolor Class
Turi MacCombie

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The Immigrants Revisited
Dean Poli
Larry Ambs

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The Playwright and the Preacher
Gerald Goldman

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Our Maturing Ecological Perspective
Seeing beauty in bogs, compost piles, clotheslines, and solar arrays
Martha Nelson

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18th Century England
Jim Harvey

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The Sultan and the Queen
The untold story of Queen Elizabeth and Islam
Joan Wofford

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Have an Inkling
Tolkien, Lewis and their Oxford colleagues
Pam Daniels

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Jane Austen
Her books and her world
Sherry Wilson
Laura Price

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Marriage in Literature
Late 20th-century portrayals
Bobbie Reitt
Joan McKelvey

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Modern Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
Explorations of conscience, morality and culture
Neil Novik

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US Foreign Policy in the Mideast
Linda Lau

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Going with the Grain
Katy van Geel
Nina Scott

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The U.S. Supreme Court
Lives and notable opinions of the Justices
Jay Russell

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The Arithmetic of Symmetry
John Armstrong

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Radiation and You
The good, the bad, and the unknown
Monroe Rabin

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Reading “The Odyssey”
Homer’s epic story of homecoming
Elizabeth Armstrong

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Nana & Papa 101
Understanding child development for grandparents
Fred Bogin

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New Technologies
Janet Price

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Hamilton the Musical & History
How accurately does the Broadway show represent Alexander Hamilton’s world?
Linda Honan

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A Walk in the Park
Cities, parks and people in the United States from 1900 to the present
Ellen Kosmer
Betsy Siersma

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The US, 1912-1920
Rich Szlosek
Betsy Loughran

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Hitler and Nazi Germany
The man and the times; the challenge in the 20th century
Glenn Swanson

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Writing to Remember (Blue)
Writing your own story
Henia Lewin
Carol Jolly

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Writing to Remember (Purple)
Writing and reading for the self and others
Stephanie Levin
Ina Luadtke

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Writing to Remember (Red)
Autobiographical writing
Ellen Peck
Catharine Porter

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Wish You Were Here!
Vacations then and now
Linda Honan

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The Refugee Experience
Diaspora, settlement, adjustment
Wunderley Stauder

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The Renaissance in Italy
The early 14th through the early 16th centuries
Richard Hamilton
Hy Edelstein

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Europe in the 13th Century
A time of great turmoil and promise
Jim Averill

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fiction
How Hawthorne’s Puritan New England ancestry affected his writing
Rich Szlosek

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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust on memory and art
Nancy Denig
Penny Johnson

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Early Massachusetts
Jim Harvey

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Defensive Statistics
John Armstrong

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Medicine in the 19th Cetury
Medicine in 19th century Massachusetts
Paul Berman

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Music and Social Change in America
Robert Dorin

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The Great American Songbook
I like a Gershwin tune; how about you?
Nancy Clune
Ruthie Kosiorek

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The Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer
A study of selected stories from The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron
Henry Barton

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Prehistory of the Americas
Prehistoric Native American cultures and civilizations
Larry Ambs

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From Fundamentalism to Extremism
The evolution of the Salafi movement in Islam
Gene Fisher

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Broadway Musicals
Hill Boss

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Great Rivers of the World
Dean Scott

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Our National Parks
Knowing and loving these perfect places
Wendy Parrish
Rich Parrish

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Arctic and Antarctic Explorers
Gail Gaustad
John Gaustad

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A Return to Timbuktu
Joan Wofford

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The Crusades
Dean Poli
Chuck Aulino