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Behind each tightly locked apartment door at rundown 64 Wilnut Street lie the hidden stories of the inhabitants.

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum in Germany.

The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months.

Discover the lives of women artists from the 16th century to the present day, such as the early feminist Artemisia Gentileschi, the adventurous Emily Carr, the flamboyant Frida Kahlo, and the brill

Severn Suzuki’s speech at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio caught the attention of the world.

It’s the 1960s – the time for equal rights, peace, and love. But for Ellen Manery, it’s the time to work hard and finish high school early.

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.

The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters).

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.