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Powell's is rightly famed as a destination for book lovers, and I finally made my pilgrimage last weekend. The perils of air travel limited the inevitable splurge -- I had to fit my haul into a single backpack -- but I wound up with some nifty ...

The perils of air travel limited the inevitable splurge -- I had to fit my haul into a single backpack-- but I wound up with some nifty volumes. The books themselves don't credit an author; they just say "Copyright 2018 by HMH IP Company" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Given the extreme brevity of the text, it hardly counts as a nuanced portrayal, but at least it mentions real First People nations and it doesn't make them bad guys.

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