Little Wonder. Lottie Dod, the First Female Sports Superstar, New in B-Paperback, Paperback - Sasha Abramsky

Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champio...

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Reducere. Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona during the Truman Administration, one year after World War Two ended. She grew up listening to a wide ar...

Reducere. Napoleon who? Often called the Emperor of the Diamond, he was baseball's first superstar. Cy Young called him "the Babe Ruth of our time." When he ...

When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young ...

Packed with words of wit and wisdom from Prince Rogers Nelson, you'll find more than 170 amusing and inspiring sound bites inside.

The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer who was responsible for the ghastly deaths of ...

The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrag...

The first ever biography of slave turned bare-knuckle boxing legend Bill Richmond (1763-1829).

When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert's home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a G...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. The dramatic events that followed have long been ign...

In Tiny Tales Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness and happiness in thirty short stories that range in length from the short...

Reducere. "Pat is one of the greatest mentors I've ever had in the world of sports-entertainment." -- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Find the never-before-seen of...

This is the inspiring story of a Highland estate, which was rescued from the catastrophic effects of decades of human interference, and is now one ...

Reducere. The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

From the multi-award-winning Denise Mina comes a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history - the bloody assassination of ...

Can Lee and Nick get a goal? This football-based fiction story was written by Sasha Morton.

Cassius X is the remarkable story of the transformation of Cassius Clay into global icon Muhammad Ali, pivoting on the year that he converted to Is...

Set on a farming estate in the upper reaches of the River Spey, Of Stone and Sky follows several generations of a shepherding family in a paean to ...

Reducere. Meet the World's Funniest First Grader—Junie B. Jones! Yikes . . . It's a looth tooth! With over 50 million books in print, Barbara Park's New York...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

The story of how Stephen and his brother William played against each other at the top of the Football League for Aston Villa and Wolves respectivel...

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.Publisher: The Uni...

Brings together records in Latin, Scots, Gaelic and English (some new) for the first time in their original form, with transcriptions and translati...

Sherlock Holmes returns in a brand new adventure, pitting the world's greatest detective against a new incarnation of its most notorious killer. Th...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Fiona RobinsonIllustration(s): Full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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Publisher: Imagine & WonderAuthor(s): ANumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 230 x 227 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Reducere. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a ra...

The first book in an uplifting, lively saga series centered around women entering the world of policing for the first time, set at the outbreak of ...

Paperback of the standard biography of Gold Meir, the first elected female leader in the West.

A lyrical celebration of the power you have to shape your life.Publisher: Little Tiger Press GroupAuthor(s): Sasha QuintonNumber of pages: 36Public...

Publisher: Imagine & WonderAuthor(s): ANumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 231 x 228 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Publisher: Birlinn GeneralAuthor(s): Mary MillerIllustration(s): 8 Plates, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128...

This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe - and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its ba...

From the star of The Duchess and the host of 'Telling Everybody Everything', the debut book from superstar comedian Katherine Ryan.Publisher: Bonni...

Considered a classic by many, A First Course in Abstract Algebra is an in-depth introduction to abstract algebra. Focused on groups, rings and fiel...

The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carol WulffContribution by: Margaret R. MauzeIllustrator: Clare WillettIt's the first day of school and William is sure it ...

Reducere. The poems in Balancing were inspired by the experiences of women who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the Upper Midwest. ...

Reducere. In book seven of the Tales of Sasha series, Sasha, Wyatt, and Kimani travel to the royal island of flying horses Sasha, Kimani, and Wyatt are flyin...

The first mystery in a new classic crime series from Frances Brody, the bestselling author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries. Set in HMP Brackerley,...