The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
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This mystery thriller reunites Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama for a political mashup full of suspense, intrigue, and laugh out loud bromance.
Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in...
There was not a single chapter where I did not laugh out loud at least once. Delightfully campy and a much needed joyride. Almost like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Barry and Joe.
But that being said there were also some truth bombs scattered throughout the storyline.“Truth” had somehow...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
| Author | Eve Ensler |
| ISBN | 1635574382 |
From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.
Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting...
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 1524748218 |
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...
Geek Girls Don't Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters
| Author | Andrea Towers |
| ISBN | 1454933399 |
Geek girls don’t cry . . . they get strong! Using examples from both real life and pop culture, entertainment writer Andrea Towers provides powerful tips on how women can overcome obstacles.
“An enjoyable read for anyone interested in pop culture, with particular relevance to those...
| Author | Pamela D. Toler |
| ISBN | 0807064327 |
Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.
The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not G.I. Jane. But women, it turns...
| Author | Anne Chambers |
| ISBN | 1567318584 |
Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) was a legendary Irish pirate chieftain and Gaelic chieftain who was known as such ephitet's as 'The Pirate Queen', A Most Famous Feminine Sea Captain, 'Nurse to All Rebellions' and 'A Notable Traitoress'
This book traces her life. perhaps in too little detail,...
| Author | Christopher Lee |
| ISBN | 0312321392 |
1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuarts had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of...
| Author | Dan Yaccarino |
| ISBN | 0062411063 |
Internationally acclaimed author-illustrator Dan Yaccarino presents a powerful picture book that celebrates storytelling—from the past to the present and beyond.
From cave drawings to the invention of the printing press to our digital age, discover how a story has been told in many...
