Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Hardcover - Tanya Lee Stone

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Reducere. This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by open...

Reducere. In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could...

Reducere. A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist They became America s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tany...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanya Lee StoneIllustrator: Steven SalernoBoldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and St...

London, 1912. It is two years before WWI and the conflict which will change the role of women forever. But for now, young Mabel Oakley is caught be...

The extraordinary stories of six women who defied the spirit of their age

Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval Palestine

Debut by an exciting young narrative historian - a revisionist history of Medieval PalestinePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Katherine Pang...

Reducere. History is full of women who shook things up, broke through boundaries, and changed the world. Meet singers, engineers, explorers, warriors, and ma...

From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the impe...

Profiles 100 outspoken activists who have changed the world, including Emma Gonzalez, Adwoa Aboah, Peter Tatchell and Muhammad Ali. Covers topics f...

National Federation of Press Women National Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir Delaware Press Association Communications ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tanya Lee StoneIllustrator: Gerald KelleyLittle ones will love learning about Thanksgiving in Tanya Lee Stone's newest shap...

Reducere. Little ones will love learning American history in Tanya Lee Stone's latest alphabet book. Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kid...

Reducere. This inspirational book celebrates the lives and achievements of highly original, convention-defying scientists who trod the road less traveled, ov...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Emily HollandIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 128Collection: TrailblazersPublication date: 2...

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A biography focussed history of the working-class men and women who brought fresh ideas to Victorian British society.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kristen Wolf's audacious and timely fiction debut, an unusual girl in the heart of ancient Palestine escapes her life of oppression--...

Reducere. Originally written as a love poem, Dare to Dream is a vitalizing collection of mantras with electrifying paintings crafted to inspire your expansio...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

Reducere. Julie Husting began losing her hearing when she was a teenager in high school. For thirty years she wore hearing aids. During that time, her hearin...

Reducere. The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and l...

Reducere. Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining ...

A searing look at the birth of America's space program, and the men and women aviators who set its course.In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to ...

Reducere. Great moral leaders inspire, challenge, and unite us--even in a time of deep divisions. Moral Leadership for a Divided Age explores the lives of fo...

'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship...

DescriptionIn the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incr...

Reducere. In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

Walk in the shoes of the disciples, as New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin brings their stories to life with his storyteller's perspec...

Based on Mackenzi Lee's popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing wome...

Reducere. "A brilliant work of US history." --School Library Journal (starred review) "Gripping." --BCCB (starred review) "Accessible...Necessary." --Kirkus ...

An empowering guide to failures, flops and mistakes made by the greats!