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Welcome to Samantha's World-1904: Growing Up in America's New Century
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Catherine Gourley, Jodi Evert (Editor), Michelle Jones (Editor)
An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.
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Welcome to Molly's World, 1944: Growing Up in World War Two America
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Catherine Gourley, Susan McAliley (Illustrator), Jean-Paul Tibbles (Illustrator)
Learn what it was like to live during WW II in America. Lavishly illustrated spreads feature historical photos, cutaway scenes and fascinating facts. Color illustrations throughout.
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Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774
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Catherine Gourley, Jodi Evert (Editor), Camela Decaire (Editor)
Provides an in-depth look at daily life and historical events in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, including home life, work, medicine, and play.
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Read If You Dare
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Catherine Gourley (Editor), Read Magazine (Compiled by)
A collection of stories by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and Stephen King, exploring the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence.
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Who is Maria Tallchief?
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Catherine Gourley, Val Paul Taylor (Illustrator)
Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of Native American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief.
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War, Women, and the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II
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Catherine Gourley
Filled with stirring period photographs and news clippings, this volume explores the conflicts and challenges such female news journalists as Margaret Bourke White, Lee Miller, and Marguerite Higgins faced before, during, and after the Second World War.
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Beryl Markham: Never Turn Back
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This title describes the life of the first person, man or woman, to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, from her childhood in Africa through many difficulties to her aeronautic and literary achievements.
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Media Wizards: Behind the Scen
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Catherine Gourley
Explores the various tools advertisers, broadcasters, and others involved in the media use to impart messages to the public, describing both historical and contemporary media events and phenomena.
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Rosie and Mrs. America: Perceptions of Women in the 1930s and 1940s
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Who was Rosie and who was Mrs. America? They weren?t specific individuals; rather, they were symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1930s and 1940s. The jubilance of the previous decade?the Roaring Twenties?was silenced by the stock market crash of 1929. Now the Great Depression challenged women in their homes, as Mrs. America had to ...
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The Courtship of Joanna
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Read for Your Life
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Catherine Gourley (Editor), Read Magazine (Compiled by)
Children will be fascinated by this collection of tales about human survival and personal fortitude. Ten stories explore the nature of struggle and survival: What allows an ordinary person to overcome adversity and become a hero? Do we all have what it takes to survive?
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Hunting Neptune's Giants
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Read Into the Millennium
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A collection of science fiction short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors including H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, and Lois Lowry.
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Ms. and the Material Girls: Perceptions of Women from the 1970s Through the 1990s
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Who were the women who called themselves ?Ms.? and who were the Material Girls? They weren?t specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s. The term Ms. was adopted by feminists? women who believed in equal pay for equal work, freedom from sexual harassment, and equal employment ...
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Wheels of Time
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Catherine Gourley
A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.
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Good Girl Work
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Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.
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Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s
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Who was Gidget and who were the Woman Warriors? They weren?t specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1950s and 1960s. Popular media was doing everything possible to undo the strong, work-oriented Rosie the Riveter image of the 1940s and bring women back into the domestic fold. The young, blonde Gidget ...
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Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s
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Who was the flapper, and who was the New American Woman? They weren?t specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined women in the early decades of the twentieth century. After the country had celebrated the end of World War I in 1918, the Flapper shocked society by flagrantly defying the traditional passive and gentile image of femininity. ...
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Society's Sisters: Stories of Women Who Fought for Social Justice in America
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Catherine Gourley
The progress that created new industries and grew cities in America in the nineteenth century also changed society. Jane Addams and Alice Hamilton, Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, Francis Willard and Alice Paul--many hundreds of women, in fact, all across the country began to question the social order of things. Women formed a sisterhood and ...
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Read If You Dare
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A collection of stories by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and Stephen King, exploring the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence.
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Sharks! True Stories/Legends
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Catherine Gourley, Catherine Gourley
A combination of factual information and mythic stories about sharks. Illustrated with color photographs.
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Island in the Creek
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Vancouver's Granville Island complex rates the status of a genuine urban redevelopment wonder on several counts: it is an old industrial eyesore which has become one of Vancouver's most popular tourist attractions; it is a consciously planned "people place" that works; it is a government-run enterprise that makes money; it is a political creation ...
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Gibson Girls and Suffragists: Perceptions of Women from 1900 to 1918
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Who were the Gibson Girls and who were the Suffragists? They weren?t specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined women from the turn of the twentieth century through the end of World War I. Gibson Girls were flirtatious and feisty. They drove motor cars and donned bloomers to play a new game called basketball. Some were ladies of polite ...
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