Sugar Girls and Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors. Dockside “su
GOOD GIRLS DON'T is the debut effort of Los Angeles film publicist Patti Hawn. Patti is the older sister of the legendary film actress Goldie Hawn. At the exact time when Goldie's star was rising, Pat
The higher you aim, the farther you fall…. It’s Violet’s junior year at the Westfield School. She thought she’d be focusing on getting straight As, editing the lit mag, and figuring out how to talk to
“Shh! You are now a member of the Pink Locker Society. More details to come. Shh!”Welcome to the Pink Locker Society. Membership is a high honor, but Jemma and her two best friends can’t tell anyone a
Provides advice for Christian parents on the true meaning of femininity, how to cope with the challenges involved in raising girls, and how to bring up their daughters to be happy, healthy, and God-fe
Hayden Panettiere, Mischa Barton, Ellen Page— everyone’s going green these days, but saving the environment is a large task for anyone to take on, especially a teenager. Yet the everyday green girls p
With a super-duper potty-shaped cover, this brilliant toilet training book for girls will help your child make the transition from nappies to pants in no time.Full of fun rhymes and pictures that will
Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students
Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women, brings together twenty-five essays of seven prominent writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in the teaching and s
Examines both sides of issues pertaining to girl athletes, from how gender influences participation to how participation affects girls' health, and from school support for girls'sports programs to cul
For as long as history has been recorded, girls haven't had much of a look in amongst all the great men we remember. But that doesn't mean they weren't there. And it doesn't mean that they didn't achi
Sarah Walters, the narrator of GIRLS IN TRUCKS, is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has always felt ill-fitted to the rococo ways of Southern womanhood and family, and is anxious to shake
The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia's strict cultural traditions. In-between sneaking out behind their parents' backs, dating, watching American TV and having fun, the
In high-stakes, high-heeled Hollywood, even girls in the loftiest shoes have to watch their stepThe climb to the top of the Hollywood ladder is treacherous, especially in stilettos. And as any A-liste
Good Girls Do, Bad Girls Don't. Now meet Big Girls... After her plus-size modeling career tanks, Leena Riley becomes a receptionist in her hometown veterinarian's office. Too bad the vet is Cole Fla
Our girlfriends are the coolest people we know-but they can also be the angriest, craziest, gloomiest, and most disenchanted people we've ever encountered! Friendship between women can be complicated.
The Girls' Almanac chronicles the lives of Jenna and Lucy—two thirty-something women who desperately long for a true friend—as well as the lives of the women and men who have touched them: friends, lo
More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and
During a single summer in the 1970s, five 12-year-old girls learn that danger lies not in the external world of their night runs, where parents and their own fertile imaginations conjure visions of an
More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and
Everyone likes to think they started the notebook. Sophie claims she stole the idea from two girls in her math class. Courtney still has a death grip on the theory that the notebook was her invention
Summer 1967. The turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong as war rages in nearby Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living i
Join a circle of friends that will never be broken -- Cassandra King's celebrated national bestseller, The Same Sweet Girls, is now in paperbackNone of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore, a
The best of the street chronicles today, Ghetto Girls Too is a wonderfully hypnotic adventure that delves into the convoluted minds of criminals and the dark world of police corruption. Yet, there is
Four girls--Kim, Deborah, Xyla, and Maria--are each angry for different reasons, but they are all irritated with Wanda because she is always so positive.
Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles--Townsville's greatest heroes known as the Powerpuff girls --take on evil in all sizes and shapes in five comic adventures.
In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriou
Trouble with Girls features Parker Hayes--a likeable guy looking for love and sex--at various points in his life in ten interconnected stories, from junior high and high school to post-grad and thirty
A guide for parents of girls offers insight and practical advice on such topics as how to guide a daughter through the turbulent challenges of growing up, empowerment, body image and self-esteem, peer
Twenty-five great stories about twenty-five clever and courageous girls! In most fairy tales, the helpless girl waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the girls featured in the Girls to the Res
Would you like to make a difference? These ten girls grew up to do just that...Katherine Luther, Bethan Lloyd-Jones, Sabina Wurmbrand, Susanna Wesley, Ann Judson, Edith Schaeffer, Ruth Bell Graham, Mo
In 1920 a missionary brought two young girls to an orphanage in India. The girls didn't know how to talk, walk, or eat from a plate. Some people thought the girls had been abandoned by their parents.
In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about si
A dozen essays that span the whole range of music demonstrate, for example that the assassination of women in rap music is not much different from the fate of mothers in grand opera. Journalists, fans
In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These a
Willa and her friends have a powerful magic inside of them―they each have the ability to transform into a Glitter Dragon Girl. They can breathe glittery fire, soar through the air, and communicate wit
Naomi loves being a Glitter Dragon Girl. She can fly above treetops and roar glittery bursts of magic. Best of all, she and the other Glitter Dragons are keeping their beloved Magic Forest safe from t
