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We Are Displaced
Malala Yousafzai - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your... |
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The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
Kimberly Burge - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free."Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty,... |
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The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World
Janice Kaplan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system - and celebrates the women geniuses past and present... |
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day.... |
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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-- -- and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation.Tarana didn't always have the courage to say 'me too.' As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New... |
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble... |
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Lucia Jang - W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household -- her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed... |
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
Meg Lowman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innovative as MacGuyver and as can-do as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. A pioneer in her field -- she invented one of the first treetop walkways -- she is a tireless advocate for the earth and has spent decades educating citizens... |
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My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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For a dozen years as one of the world's most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company - and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time - she transformed PepsiCo with... |
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Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot
Niloofar Rahmani - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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- Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and Islamabad bureau chief for the Washington Post In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed women to join the armed forces, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan's military academy. Niloofar had to break... |
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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Traci Sorell - Millbrook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work. Cherokee author Traci Sorell and Mtis illustrator Natasha Donovan... |
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Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
Juliet Menendez
Format: Hardcover
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Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menndez explores the first small steps that set the Latinitas off on their journeys. With gorgeous, hand-painted... |
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