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For a young Fred Rogers, music was a gift. It eased the pain of childhood illness and bullying and helped Fred express how he felt when words alone...

Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree and globally renowned shark scientist Melissa Cristina Márquez teams up with award-winning illustrator Devin Elle Kurtz ...

The Life Of Celia Cruz/La Vida de Celia Cruz This bilingual book allows young readers to enter Celia Cruz's life as she becomes a well-known singer...

Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelator...

The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG. - Ruth Bader Ginsbur...

From New York Times bestselling author and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and entertaining chronicle of her last decade, tackling...

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution...

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life ...

A much-anticipated, hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in t...

The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices...

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The harrowing story of one of the great feats of...

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, t...

The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during t...

The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist One of New York Times' Twelve Books for Feminist Boys and Girls! Nam...

Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist The uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional conf...

How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during Wo...

The Story of a Black Mother's Garden A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics C...

1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy's Topless, and Stephanie Johnson... In 2019, Humans of New York feature...

This vibrantly illustrated children's picture book highlights the contributions of women to music, representing a diversity of ages, races, time pe...

A Survivor's Tale PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative eve...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincol...

How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating acc...

How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's ...

A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, pre...