"Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set against the backdrop of such landmark events as the women's suffrage and civil rights movements and the Industrial Revolution, and with original interviews from a number of current architects and engineers,...

Joy, however elusive it may seem, is within reach. In the face of a friend. In the sun peeking through the clouds. In a long calm breath as you wonder at the miracle of a blossoming flower. As we are challenged throughout our lives, often we enter a period of darkness where joy is fleeting, if present at all. And sometimes we need a little nudge to find it again. The women of “We Choose Joy: How 22 Women went Beyond Healing to Create Joyful Lives”...

UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, HISTORY WAS WRITTEN ALMOST ENTIRELY ABOUT, BY, AND FOR, MEN. The stories we know as "history" are male stories, from a male perspective. They center around war, conquest, politics, leadership, and the bold, fierce men whose deeds reverberate across the ages (for better or worse). These are valuable, but they're not the only stories that should be told. Women's stories are the stories of the heart- of love, transformation, community,...

Publisher Annotation: SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's turn to choose. Women's murder club...

Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

When a group of Chicago-area women from diverse backgrounds and life experiences are thrown together at a big weekend conference, they form a prayer group via e-mail, having no idea how God is going to change their lives.

"The Yada Yada Prayer Group has been together for a whole year and so many good things are happening. However that's just when the Enemy knows to attack. The Yada Yada sisters realize they need to get tough" -- Provided by publisher.

As the dim lights of the train station faded, Christine Bennett wondered if she would ever see home again. With the death of her grandfather, Christine experienced a deep loneliness she'd never felt before. The words of his will rang in her ears: "In the event of my granddaughter's death, everything will go to Vince Jeffers." Jeffers watched her with an evil look that made her shiver. Now, afraid of what might happen, she was obeying a note she...

When Libby and her sister Bernie cater a vampire-themed high school reunion in honor of bestselling author Laird Wrenn, they find themselves knee-deep in murder when Wrenn drops dead after dinner and Libby is accused of the crime.

Managing her "inheritance" is going to require far more than she bargained for . . . .