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Quick view In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker In her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist, in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Here are essays about Walker's own work and that of other writers, accounts... View Details
Quick view The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain A riveting medical detective drama about antruly extraordinary discovery, illustrated with archival images, written by an award-winning author of nonfiction. View Details
Quick view American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy In a powerful narrative, Murphy describes the illness that took its toll on the residents of Philadelphia in 1793, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. Illustrated... View Details
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Quick view The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin Hitler was a man many believe to be the personification of evil. This Sibert Medal-winning biography penetrates this facade and presents a picture of a complex person--at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man. View Details
Quick view The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy by James Cross Giblin When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans. An award-winning writer tells the story of a man whose priorities centered on power and media attention and who stopped at... View Details
Quick view Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any... View Details
Quick view Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc by Polly Schoyer Brooks The king was going mad . . . So begins Polly Schoyer Brooks's account of one of history's most compelling stories and one of the world's most popular heroines-Joan of Arc. Brooks tells us of a fifteenth-century France ravaged by war, plague, and... View Details
Quick view Babe Didrikson Zacharias: The Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman Russell Freedman's stunning biography of an Olympic gold medalist and athlete extraordinairewho paved the way for female athletes worldwide. View Details
Quick view Mas Alla de Mi by Francisco Jiminez Francisco leaves his home in a migrant community and sets off for college, carrying memories of years of poverty and prejudice. View Details
Quick view The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage by Eric Greitens Greitens adapts his "New York Times" bestseller "The Heart and the Fist" to speak directly to teen readers. Here he shares his adventures as a young man that led him to a life of service as both a humanitarian and a Navy SEAL. View Details
Quick view The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influential religious works of the twentieth century. This edition contains an introduction by Merton's editor, Robert Giroux, and a note to the reader by... View Details
