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One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism: The Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro
$18.99 Read more“This is not just a story of the violence of fascism, but of the burning joy of freedom, and the exhilaration of shaping, with sweat and blood, a better world.”**
From critically acclaimed author Kip W
- Author: Wilson, Kip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 006325168X
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse’s Vision
$12.95 Add to cartThe true story of the great Sioux warrior who, as a young boy, defies tradition and seeks a vision on his own in hopes of saving his people.
Crazy Horse is among the best known Native American heroes.
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1584302828
- Language: English
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Tatae’s Promise: Based on the true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz
$34.99 Add to cartThis never-before-told true story of a young woman’s escape from Auschwitz with her sister is a remarkable tale of unimaginable courage, family, faith and enduring love.
“…readers will admire Hinda’s
- Author: Maysonave, Sherry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 195909694X
- Language: English
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Mrs Van Gogh
$19.99 Add to cart“As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting…MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time.” New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor
“All the characters jump off the page…what we have here i
- Author: Cauchi, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008641536
- Language: English
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The Paris Wife
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0345521315
- Language: English
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Madre de Los Tiburones
$19.99 Add to cartLa cient?fica de tiburones galardonada como una de las 30 menores de 30 de Forbes en 2021 entre otros honores y mundialmente reconocida Melissa Cristina M?rquez se une a la premiada ilustradora Devin … [more below]
- Author: M?rquez, Melissa Cristina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0593659864
- Language: Spanish
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$27.00 Read moreAn autobiographical novel from ?douard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation–about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.
One question t- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0374606803
- Language: English
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The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.
“A gripping, fascinating read.” –Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bes… [more below]
- Author: Gable, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1525811479
- Language: English
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Betty Before X
$8.99 Add to cartBetty Before X is a powerful middle-grade fictionalized account of the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s wife, written by their daughter Ilyasah Shabazz.
In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-o- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250294185
- Language: English
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Wound
$27.00 Read moreFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mothe- Author: Vasyakina, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221443
- Language: English
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The Women of the Copper Country
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” (Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”–the courageous woman who… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Mary Doria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1982109599
- Language: English
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The Water Princess
$18.99 Add to cartBased on supermodel Georgie Badiel’s childhood, a young girl dreams of bringing clean drinking water to her African village
With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie’s kingdom is a beautiful- Author: Verde, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 13, 2016
- ISBN10: 0399172580
- Language: English
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La RidÃcula Idea de No Volver a Verte
$9.95 Read moreCuando Rosa Montero ley? el maravilloso diario que Marie Curie comenz? tras la muerte de su esposo, y que se incluye al final de este libro, sinti? que la historia de esa mujer fascinante que se enfre… [more below]
- Author: Montero, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 6070752155
- Language: Spanish
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Inseparable
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize
A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays “Beauv
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063075059
- Language: English
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All My Puny Sorrows
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Women Talking, a “wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel” (Entertainment Weekly).
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda’s life is enviable (she’s a wor- Author: Toews, Miriam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1635574978
- Language: English
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The Dreamer
$12.99 Add to cartPura Belpré Award Winner
A tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter SÃs!
From the time he is a young boy, Nef
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 1, 2012
- ISBN10: 0439269989
- Language: English
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El Último Sueño / The Last Dream
$22.95 Add to cartEl libro m?s personal de Pedro Almod?var: un autorretrato articulado en doce relatos que revelan su pasi?n secreta por la escritura
«Un libro de hallazgos. Que Almodovar era un gran escritor ya … [more below]- Author: Almod?var, Pedro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8419437360
- Language: Spanish
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Stronger Than She Thinks
$18.99 Read moreIn her first book for children, two-time Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan shares scenes from her childhood as she learns how to work hard, to believe in herself, and to land her first axel jump.
Nancy (
- Author: Kerrigan, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1638192073
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
$18.00 Add to cartJack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums st- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 27, 1971
- ISBN10: 0140042520
- Language: English
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Idia of the Benin Kingdom: An Empowering Book for Girls 4 – 8
$19.99 Add to cartJoin Idia of the Benin Kingdom as she molds herself from the young and curious daughter of a village warrior to becoming the Queen of the ancient African Kingdom of Benin. Discover the journey of a yo… [more below]
- Author: Aire, Ekiuwa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1777117909
- Language: English
