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Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society.

This book in the acclaimed Women’s Hall of Fame Series profiles 10 incredible women with an itch to invent.

The true story of Emily Eaton. Born with severe cerebral palsy, Emily and her family had to fight for her right to go to school with non-disabled children in a regular classroom.

The most memorable teachers are often our role models, who taught by example.

Irene Borins Ash captures the vitality of senior citizens in a series of photographs with biographical sketches and life philosophies.

Yeny and her family have escaped from the violence in their mountain village in Colombia to live in the city.

Faye Schulman was a happy teenager learning to become a photographer when the Nazis invaded her small town on the Russian-Polish border.

Sometimes, the only way to get through life is to escape into a good book. For Phoebe Hecht, that means a good mystery. And this summer, Phoebe really needs to escape.

The tale of a mortally ill man on a homeward bound ship and the effect he has on his ship mates.

Marion Dewar could never ignore a person who was begging in the street. Along with money, she would offer words of encouragement and friendship.

The true story of nineteen-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", a man charged with being complicit in the deaths of more than 300

The work of women designers touches every part of our lives. In the 1920s British furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray developed ideas for homes that still seem modern today.

By the prizewinning author of the classics Red is Best, The Bare Naked Book and Big or Little, this chapter book is about a man who spends every day in a school but who cannot read. Mr.

On a 300-year journey through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States, Morrison examines national views of the past, nature, place and home, religion, vio

Bernadette continues her adventures with Annie, Keisha, and Megan, aka "The Lunch Bunch".