In 1963, Holly Hendricks and her family moved from the small East Texas town where they have strong family roots to the impersonal city of Dallas. Against a backdrop of local and worldwide turbulence,
Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in the mid 1970s, she discovers fighting wildfires is challenging—but in a
When Irvana’s grandmother dies in their remote clifftop home, Irvana travels to Koltarn. Alone in a strange city, Irvana finds employment at the palace, home of Lord Terenz, current overlord and beare
Colorful, charismatic, magnetic, and brilliant are just a few of the words used to describe Ivy Bottini, a woman who was at the forefront of the National Organization of Women (NOW) movement and the s
It is increasingly evident that Eliot is not only autistic, but is also an uncommon girl. Eliot's mother, Carla, recounts their journey down an unfamiliar path riddled with dismissive medical cons
It’s been a year since Theresa and her English friend, Kerry, won the Ghosters contest. Now her little brother, Joey, has stumbled on a mystery in the school library. Blasts of cold air, lights
As a child, Sudha Johorey witnessed the horrific events that followed the partition of India into two bitter rival nations. She became the wife of an Indian diplomat and was posted in Tibet in the lat
More than 60 years ago, Diana Wright was born on a farm in Minnesota and grew up a victim of abuse. Diana moved away as soon as possible, married a neighbor boy, worked full time, and though she was m
Before he becomes dinner for a stray cat, the orphaned chick Shadow gets rescued by members of the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. When the little crane heals, it’s ti
After college, Laura had a great job in marketing and a loving fiancé, and she enjoyed living in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, so she could watch her seven-year-old sister Taylor g
In the not-so-sacred Groves of Academe, where female colleagues can be less than supportive and male colleagues downright intimidating and even devious, Kathleen Davies felt intense pressure to prove
For everyone who wants to relive Sue Bird’s 2004 run for Olympic Gold and a WNBA Championship through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl. Twelve-year-old Skylar Rankin is obsessed with basketball and
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At age 50, Michelle Carter, a married mother of two adult children, left her job as editor of a suburban newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area to move to Russia for a year as a United States Informa
