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Describes the institutions and daily life of towns in fourteenth-century western Europe, including home life, guilds, schools, the Church, and the ravages of the plague.

This book provides illustrations and fold-out pictures of machines that are used in a city.

Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as "Texas" in search of black gold.

Northpole, the magical home to Santa and Mrs. Claus, has grown into a huge city powered by the magic of holiday happiness around the world. Yet as people everywhere get too busy to enjoy festive time together, the city is in trouble. Who can help save the cherished traditions of Christmas? One young boy, Kevin, might have a chance if he can convince his protective mom, Chelsea, to rediscover the magic of the season.

Discusses the wide range of plants and animals that have adapted to changing urban environments.

"From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human...

A young widow opens a chocolate shop in a French village, transforming its normally austere inhabitants into unabashed sensualists. The event coincides with Lent, and the villagers' rejection of traditional self-denial angers the parish priest who declares war. A first novel.

Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.