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Articles originally published in "National Geographic" chart the expansion of travel by automobile and railroad in the 1920s and its effects on American society.

Lonely and isolated, twelve-year-old Oliver Parker's longing for friendship and a little adventure materialize one winter Paris evening when he looks into a mirror and is swept away to the Palace of Versailles and into the court of the Window Wraiths, where he becomes their ruler.

An eager young American channels economic aid to a "third force", but when a British journalist intervenes his motives are suspect because the American takes his Vietnamese mistress away from him.

A graphic novel memoir detailing the author's exploration of Israel during a "Birthright Israel" tour and the rediscovery of her Jewish heritage.

Scott, abandoned by his girlfriend and having lost his dream of playing professional football, is offered a position in a Japanese sumo training "stable," where he seems to find himself again.

After a possible suicide enlivens her tenure as the tutor for princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, MI-5 prospect Maggie Hope uncovers a conspiracy to take out Enigma, England's critical code-breaking machine during World War II.

When World War II breaks out Betty, an American studying in England, trains as a spy and parachutes into German-occupied France to join the Resistance, but after meeting an American pilot she begins to realize fully the brutality of the war and their dangerous position.

After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the access her position demands to try to unravel an assassinate plot.