Quick view Details 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A by Tonya Bolden
Quick view Details The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone
Quick view Details For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life by Albert Demeo
Quick view 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A by Tonya Bolden Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children's librarian, historians, and many more, this latest addition to the 33 Things series provides an engaging, inspiring, informative look at the role... View Details
Quick view Mystery Train: Image of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus This book traces the history of rock 'n' roll through six key, fundamental artists: Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley View Details
Quick view Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored by Clifton L Taulbert In this beautifully evocative tale of life in the segregated South, the author of The Last Train North looks back at his "colored" childhood with deep pride, striking honesty, and unusual affection. Soon to be released as a major film from BET Pictures,... View Details
Quick view Getting Away With Murder hc by Chris Crowe The 1955 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. In clear, vivid detail Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and... View Details
Quick view The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone Barbie just might be the most famous doll in the world. She has represented fifty different nationalities. She's stepped into the always-fashionable shoes of more than one hundred twenty careers. She has been played with, studied, celebrated, and... View Details
Quick view For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life by Albert Demeo A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life "Sopranos": The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia... View Details
Quick view Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... View Details
Quick view American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie Arana Portrait of a child who must come to terms with being neither North nor South American, but a mixture of both. View Details
Quick view Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British... View Details
Quick view Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize... View Details
Quick view The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation by Ngaire E Genge Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, this ultimate readers' guide to the art of forensics is a book that will fascinate the fans of the hit TV series "CSI" and Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta Series. 40 illustrations & photos. View Details
Quick view Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender... View Details
