Biographies
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Daniela Y Las Mujeres Pirata de la Historia
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the history of real female pirates and learn about their lives on the high seas!
Conoce las vidas y aventuras de diez de las mujeres pirata más importantes de la historia.
Daniela discovers her… [more below]- Series: Egalitè
- Author: Isern, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 841925309X
- Language: Spanish
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Wat Kept Playing: The Inspiring Story of Wataru Misaka and His Rise to the NBA
$19.99 Read moreMeet Asian American basketball hero Wataru Misaka. His story will inspire young readers to challenge barriers, dream big, and keep playing.
As the child of Japanese immigrants, Wataru “Wat” Misaka of- Author: Huey, Emily Inouye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639932089
- Language: English
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Bright Stars of Black British History
$19.95 Add to cartCarefully researched and eloquently written by children’s author J.T. Williams, Bright Stars of Black British History brings to life historical figures from Tudor England to the present day. Written i… [more below]
- Author: Williams, J. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0500652929
- Language: English
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Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of Nasa’s Johnson Space Center
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have cha
- Series: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leade
- Author: Ross-Nazzal, Jennifer M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1623499933
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher Volume 6
$18.99 Read moreThe third title in our Conversations with a Killer series focuses on one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, Ed Kemper, a key character in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter.
If there e- Series: Conversations with a Killer
- Author: Matera, Dary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1454943157
- Language: English
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Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
$29.95 Read more“Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks.”– Jon Krakauer… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Bernadette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1680515780
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending–a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ?poque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525658777
- Language: English
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Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events
$84.95 Add to cart- 2000 history-making achievements, ground-breaking successes, pioneering accomplishments, and historic firsts
- Thoroughly researched and documented history
- History made accessible with fascinating stories
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Dennis, Yvonne Wakim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1578598079
- Language: English
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The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
$28.99 Read moreThis chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)–reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside
- Author: Rodman, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129476
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021284
- Language: English
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The Queen of Katwe: One Girl’s Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
$16.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, directed by Mira Nair. The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awarenes… [more below]
- Author: Crothers, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1501127187
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report
$32.95 Read moreElegant People is the definitive history of Weather Report, the premier fusion band of the 1970s and beyond.
Founded in late 1970 by three stars of the jazz world–keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist
- Author: Bianchi, Curt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493059998
- Language: English
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A Luthier’s Life: The Guitar Odyssey of Roger Fritz
$29.95 Read moreFrom the Alabama Gulf Coast to Nashville to the redwood forests of northern California, luthier Roger Fritz has spent almost an entire lifetime crafting innovative musical instruments for professional
- Author: Moseley, Willie G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 195602753X
- Language: English
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one o… [more below]
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593244117
- Language: English
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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaqu? Rodrigo
$45.00 Add to cartJoaqu? Rodrigo (1901-1999) is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the twentieth century–the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. It’s been featured in m
- Author: Suárez-Pajares, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324004452
- Language: English
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The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
$30.00 Read more“On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels–her times, eerily resembling our own.” –Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country
– 2022 Lambda L- Author: Katz, Jonathan Ned
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605162
- Language: English
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Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
$30.00 Read moreAcademy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962) — whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) — was in
- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Rode, Alan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813180430
- Language: English
