Girls

Cora Rose, the youngest sister of a working-class Catholic family, describes how she and her two older sisters handle issues such as sexuality, teenage pregnancy, love, and guilt throughout the '70s.

A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the smoked salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out th

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

Young artists who love manga and anime will enjoy learning to draw girls with attitude and style. Step-by-step instructions allow readers to master female characters, faces, and figures. Colorful imag

A fascinating look at the Stones in the late 70s - inspired by a year just spent in the disco/punk cauldron of New York City.>

DID IT HURT... WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN? After a dramatic confrontation with the evil pirate Shiuba, Raizo parts ways with Tsunami. He meets a lovely missionary known as Anjo, or Angel. Raizo begi

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her c

A moving tale spanning two continents, from this well-loved author. Hull, 1874. The beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes?her exotic looks point to her

STORMY SEAS!On the advice of Mizuchi, Raizo and his kunoichi take to the seas in search of the princess of Shima. Unfortunately, a terrible storm separates Raizo from his kunoichi and lands him on a

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

When there are mysteries to be solved, the Red Blazer Girls are on the case! The discovery of the Ring of Rocamadour has secured the girls' reputation as Upper East Side super-sleuths, bringing many sundry job requests (no mystery too small, right?) and some unwanted attention from crooks. This time the girls must follow a trail of cryptic clues, involving everything from logic to literature, to trace a rare violin gone missing. But nothing is as it appears, and just as a solution seems imminent, the girls find themselves scrambling to save the man who was once their prime suspect. Bowstrings and betrayal, crushes and codes abound in this suspenseful companion to the Red Blazer Girls' 2009 debut. Recent clues indicate that there'll be more mystery and mayhem to come!From the Hardcover edition.

Dorothy Parker, Bebe Neuwirth, Sandra Dee, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep--there are endless examples of Jersey Girls who prove they are a breed of broad worth celebrating. New Jersey is in the media ev

The twelve Gifford children, six girls and six boys, were raised as Protestant unionists in turn-of-the-century Dublin, Ireland. The six Gifford boys remained Protestant and politically uninvolved, wh

The eleventh crazy adventure in this hugely popular comedy horror series for ghouls and girls – with four free collector's cards inside!Given that rock zombie Vein is now living in deepest darkest Tib

A deeply moving story by a survivor of the commercial sex industry who has devoted her career to activism and helping other young girls escape "the life" At thirteen, Rachel Lloyd found herself cau

Tired of not being able to do the things he like to do, the ''Daddy'' of the story makes changes around the house with hilarious results.

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

It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And consequently, Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra credit project: find a pen pal in a distant country. But when Abby’s first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, complications arise. The elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well, but the only qualified English-speaking student is a boy. And in this village, it’s not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So, Sadeed’s sister will dictate and sign the letters for him. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is...unhealthy?As letters flow back and forth—between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions—a

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

Well-researched and true to the original myths, each volume in the Goddess Girls series addresses contemporary issues, like friendships and relationships, from a classically accurate—and entertaining—

Harper Lee Lynch, only 23 years old and a doctoral candidate, finds herself in North Carolina with only her Golden Retriever, Jasper, to keep her company. Shortly after moving into her new home, Harpe

The new novel from the well-loved Scottish storyteller - When attractive redhead Lorna Fernie is taken on to play saxophone in a postwar Glasgow dance band, she is at first over the moon &ndash

A group of female ninjas help Raizao, a shy young man, as he tries to regain his role as ruler of the kingdom.

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

L to R (Western Style). Yukari Morita is a high school girl on a quest to find her missing father. While searching for him on the Solomon Islands, she receives the offer of a lifetime—she'll get

“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

You'll love them?to death. Twin sisters Destiny and Livvy Weller return home from summer vacation with a dark secret . . . and an inhuman desire to drink blood. What have they become? Can they ever

Sisters Van and Linny - like their father - are short. But they couldn't be more different. Van's the overachiever - a high-flying lawyer with a pristine home and husband, until the husband walks out.

It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldn’t be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in search of a legendary ring reputed to grant wishes. Are these sleuths in school uniforms modern-day equivalents of Nancy, Harriet, or Scooby? Not really, they’re just three nice girls who decide to help out a weird lady, and end up hiding under tables, tackling word puzzles and geometry equations, and searching rather moldy storage rooms for “the stuff that dreams are made of” (that’s from an old detective movie). Oh, and there’s A Boy, who complicates things. As boys often do.Intrigued? The Red Blazer Girls offers a fun, twisty adventure for those who love mystery, math (c’mon, admit it!), and a modest measure of mayhem.Michael Beil, a New York City high school English teacher, makes his literary debut with this fun and brainy mystery.From

Create hilarious mixed-up faces in this funny faces sticker book. With a host of kooky characters, wipe-clean pages and reusable stickers mean you can create an almost endless variety of funny faces!