women

Now on audio! Rupi Kaur reads milk and honey, her New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes listeners through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them?because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

A collection of black-and-white and color images of girls' and women soccer players, across a broad spectrum of age and skill from those just learning to kick a ball to the athletes who represented the United States on the 2019 World Cup championship team--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Heart of a Boy and Strong Is the New Pretty. Chapters are organized around life lessons derived from the game of soccer and include quotations from each of the subjects photographed.

Simple text and illustrations provide a brief biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Chronicles the lives of the three Bronte? sisters, and examines how they were given the freedom to explore and expand their imaginations as children, providing the inspiration for their literary masterpieces as adults. Discusses how play-acting, life on the moors, boarding school, experiences as teachers and governesses, and heartbreak influenced their lives and stories. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

"From relationships and makeup to divorce and disordered eating, Laurie Boyle Crompton recounts the humor and heartbreak of her coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and '80s."--.

Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true.

Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.

Provides a biography of the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee nation, Wilma Mankiller. Describes her childhood growing up on the reservation, her struggles moving to a mostly White school, her involvement in the American Indian Movement in the 1960s, and how she and her daughters eventually moved back to the reservation where she grew up so that she could become an advocate for her people. Includes a list of activities and activism suggestions.

Provides a picture book biography of musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe, describing the influences of her early life and how they became formative to her development as a musician and to her style of play.