Century Girls, Paperback

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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...

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...

"The Story of Beowulf Told to Children" is an Anglo-Saxon saga retold in excellent English prose, with the heroic qualities emphasized. H. E. Marsh...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been re...

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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...

*Includes quotes from Anne Frank's diary about life, love, religion, persecution, and more. *Includes pictures of important people and places in An...

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

DescriptionThis American classic is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it was first written in the mid-nineteenth century. Largely based ...

Reducere. DescriptionBestselling author Suzanne Selfors brings heart and humor to Wish Upon a Sleepover, a middle-grade novel about a group of misfits who fi...

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

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DescriptionIt's the classic girl detectives like you've never seen them before Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley have a terrifying new mystery to solv...

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...

A new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera, book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret series.It had a smell...

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...

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

"Respectful, unflinching, and eye-opening." --Kirkus Reviews "Historical fiction that not only depicts a cruel, horrifying reality but also the str...

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

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...

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...

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...

'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, ...

In the early 19th century, when it was the policy of many of the poorhouses and workhouses to deter paupers from applying by making the conditions ...

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

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 ...

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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...

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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Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

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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 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 ...

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

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...

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

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"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...

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The first, authorized biographical tribute to Charles Pierce, the foremost "male actress" of the 20th Century. Born in 1926, Pierce went from playi...

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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...

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