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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

by Joyce Sidman

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.”  Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them? One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also...

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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin

Published: 2018-01-09

Paperback: 304 pages

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The true story of the race to create the most dangerous weapon in history?perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That si...

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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

by Steve Sheinkin

Published: 2017-01-17

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history.” ?The New York Times Book ReviewUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story?and more. It’s an unflinching look at the U.S. government’s ...

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The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle (Kelpies)

by Victoria Williamson

Published: 2018-09-04

Paperback: 272 pages

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Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria.Caylin runs to find what she's lost. Under the gray Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new language and without her brother. But she isn't the only one feeling lost. ...

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Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown

by Larry Brown

Published: 2019-11-26

Paperback: 432 pages

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"Larry Brown wrote the way the best singers sing: with honesty, grit, and the kind of raw emotion that stabs you right in the heart. He was a singular American treasure." —Tim McGrawA career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown�...

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Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss

by Kenneth Silverman

Published: 1997-10-01

Paperback: 544 pages

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Chronicles the life and career of the legendary Harry Houdini

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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

by Melinda Chateauvert

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom  Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism...

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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

by Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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How the law harms sex workers—and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective t...

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Lean Out

by Dawn Foster

Published: 2016-01-19

Paperback: 87 pages

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Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed j...

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It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? 'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' ObserverIn 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty...