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the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion prove lasting comrades

and perform field research in their own backyard

Inspiring a long line of detective stories and Whodunnits

The gripping Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom duology

Shepherd's Drawings

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Healthy Food the Tin Woodman and theIn this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter gatherer stage, and then developed religion as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A