These books all offer a window onto lives that are different from our own, but no less interesting, important or special.

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Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

With so many advances in technology, today's students don't get to experience many of the things their parents did.