Century Girls, Paperback

The lives of six women born in 1918 are explored in storied and revealing detail, with the examples of these centenarians presenting a sense of the...

On the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls are trying to escape their past.

Reducere. A century after it s first publication, Mother Janet Erskine Stuart s classic The Education of Catholic Girls is back, and it s as relevant and use...

Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys was a global phenomenon. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs, parents loved its clarity an...

Reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an a...

Painting a portrait of high society in the 20th century, it has all the charm and fascination of Lovell's previous and bestselling titles, }The Mit...

For fans of Century Girls comes a new book by Tessa Dunlop.Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tessa DunlopNumber of pages: 384Publicati...

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The Bloomsbury Girls is a compelling and heart-warming story of post-war London, a century-old bookshop and three women determined to find their wa...

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This Coloring Book features 30 pin up girls in various poses. Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads. Check out the companion coffee table book to see and...

"It is no accident that the places in the world where we see the most instability are those in which the rights of women and girls are denied. Isha...

Reducere. The Golden Girls made its prime-time debut in 1985 on NBC, and the critically acclaimed show has been a constant television companion through cable...

Reducere. The Definitive Golden Girls Cultural Reference Guide is an in-depth look at the hundreds of topical references to people, places, and events that m...

Discover the Truth About God's Sovereignty from the Bible's Really Bad Girls. Eight of the Bible's most notorious females strut across the pages of...

Edited by Peter Hunt, this new edition of the classic novel is published to celebrate its centenary. Features a fascinating introduction on the rel...

Hashtag or trademark, personal or collective expression, #BlackGirlMagic is an articulation of the resolve of Black women and girls to triumph in t...

Reducere. Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a s...

Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback Prudence Galewski doesn't belong in Mrs. Browning's esteemed...

This is the story of a century of punishment and crime at HM Prison Holloway, western Europe's largest women's prison until its 2016 closure. This ...

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of cou...

Reducere. The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections dra...

Reducere. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-w...

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Reducere. American Girl Samantha(TM) stands up for what's right in this all new Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader that takes place at the Turn of the C...

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As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes ...

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'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, ...

Reducere. In the 21st century, radical feminist theory and activism is more important than ever. Hence, this new anthology, which brings together the best in...

Reducere. The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls an...

Reducere. In eighth century India, Andal is born into a world where girls are married and with child by fourteen. Defying the mores of her time, she refuses ...

" A] tart, funny, lurid little bomb of a book. It's all p.c., of course, but not at all predictable, and a lot of righteous information gets disper...

Description"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to...

Reducere. Meet the All-of-a-Kind Family -- Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie -- who live with their parents in New York City at the turn of the centu...

Bobbie Kalman's acclaimed Historic Communities Series provides a close-up view of how people lived more than two hundred years ago. Colorful photos...

Reducere. This ``evocative and beautiful`` (School Library Journal) novel ``vividly imagines the lives of three girls`` (Booklist, starred review) in three d...

Reducere. Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Ch...

Reducere. Babylon Girls is a groundbreaking cultural history of the African American women who performed in variety shows-chorus lines, burlesque revues, cab...

Against the picturesque coastal Maine setting that she evokes so well, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt story of family bond...

Reducere. A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of "digging up medicines" - of redisc...

Ikram Hawramani's Traditional and Modern Arabic Baby Names is the definitive English-language work on Arabic baby names, spanning thousands of name...

American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) found enduring fame as the creator of the Gibson Girl -- the beautiful, independent, and so...

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Reducere. Set in Ireland during the turbulent early 20th century, Patricia Falvey's sweeping novel explores an unlikely friendship between two girls of vastl...

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Reducere. From the author of The Green Phoenix comes a riveting tale of female friendship, honor, and sacrifice for love, set in 17th Century China and featu...

Reducere. Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931) 1] was an American artist and illustrator. Sterrett received her first commission at the age of 19 (shortly a...

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Reducere. While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small to...

Reducere. Recent years have seen a huge explosion in the popularity and commercial viability of women's sports -- with new professional leagues for women to ...

DescriptionAn unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century Reading for Reform ...

Reducere. Founded in the late 1800s as the hub of the burgeoning plains cattle trade, Ogallala serves as a microcosm of western history. The town typified we...

For fans of the Royal Diaries series and of Gail Carson Levine, here is the second adventure in a middle grade time travel series from Newbery Hono...

Reducere. Tattoos have been around for thousands of years. (The ancient Egyptians seemed to have favored geometric figures.) Regarded by many who wear them t...

Lura Grisham Myer lives a perfect life until her world is ripped apart. Reborn, forged of pain and misery, she battles to recapture happiness with ...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris. For one woman in the aftermath of World War I, the City of Light harbors dar...

Reducere. DescriptionAre you the pursuer or do you let men pursue YOU? The answer is the difference between you becoming a side toy for a man to play with or...

Reducere. The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st ...

The rites of passage entering into adulthood can feel like re-entering the Earth's atmosphere-dangerous and pressure fueled, desolate, with intensi...

Reducere. Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas, these stories tell tales of the woebegone, their obsessions with decay, and the haunting ache of the region itse...

Reducere. With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displac...

Reducere. Meet Sophie LaCroix, a creative soul with a desire to become a great film director someday, and she definitely has a flair for drama Her overactive...

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by...

Return to the days of the Norman invasion of England and fight alongside a nobleman serving the last of England's Anglo-Saxon monarchs. Wulf of Ste...