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Celebrate women athletes who played all kinds of sports before Title IX finally allowed them to compete in the Olympics, tournaments, and in leagues across America. No chasing! No stretching or straining! And never, ever sweat. These were the rules girls were forced to play by until Title IX passed in 1972. From Melpomene in 1896 to Althea Gibson in 1956 and beyond, readers will meet the women athletes who refused to take no for an answer. Learn how they paved the way for the women who pushed for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes.
Fatal Move: China Gambit: Book One By: Matt Kraft Impetuous, methodical and ambitious CIA agents must overcome their differences to outsmart a ruthless Chinese mastermind, Wu Chi. Can they unravel Wu Chi’s revenge against widespread official corruption? A calculating and riveting book based on the escalating friction among nations and cyber-gangs fighting on all fronts for dominance of the Earth’s rules and resources. Fatal Move is the first book of the China Gambit series, speculative fiction that probes America’s future. Will the world we’re creating now that defines our lives, our children’s lives, the lives of our grandchildren and great grandchildren win against powerful competitors? It’s total war, fought across every continent and society, going far beyond agencies, operatives, guns and bombs. Who will own the future and how?
Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of surprises.
The true story of a boy who fought to protect a rare subspecies of bear. As a child, Simon Jackson found navigating the world of the school playground difficult. He felt most at home in the woodlands, learning about and photographing wildlife. At thirteen, Simon became fascinated with spirit bears, a rare subspecies of black bear that were losing their habitat to deforestation. Simon wanted to do something to protect them. He decided he had to become their voice. But first, he would have to find his own. The inspiring message is clear: one child’s voice truly can change the world.
This is the first book in the 'Serial Homicide' series which will feature six notorious cases in each volume. INCLUDES PHOTOS Ted Bundy was a burglar, rapist, kidnapper, necrophiliac (sexual intercourse with a corpse) and serial killer in the 1970s. It's believed he killed thirty plus women. Jeffrey Dahmer (the Milwaukee Monster), was a rapist, killer, necrophiliac, and cannibal who killed seventeen young boys and men between 1978 and 1991. Albert Fish was a child rapist, cannibal and serial killer who operated between 1924 and 1932. It's believed that he killed at least nine children and possibly more. During the 1980s and '90s, Gary Ridgway (Green River Killer), a serial killer and necroph...
All the students in the class are assigned reading buddies, except for Adelaide. She already has one, a bear And Adelaide is quite persuasive as she explains to her language arts teacher, Mrs. Fitz-Pea, and the reader, that bears really do make the best reading buddies: they sniff out good books and their claws are just right for turning pages. And the bear looks rather friendly (and studious) in these crayon-bright, contemporary illustrations, making this is must-read picture book for story time
"The daring and loyal dachshund Noodles, the boy inventor Wally Kennewickett, and his scientific genius family and staff of automatons join forces with Nikola Tesla to defeat sky pirates, cross Europe in a giant mechanical spider, and defy the evil Mesmers"--
An adventure story told in first person by a Denver dentist who becomes unintentionally involved between rogue and legitimate CIA agents. The dentist is even coerced to implant a transmitter in a patients tooth. The patient, unbeknownst to the dentist at the time, is a CIA agent who was in Iraq. Events in Iraq have lead up to the deadly conflict between the CIA agents. It is an unusual perspective involving gunfire in the dentists office in which two staff members are killed and one wounded. Others are also killed. The story takes place in Denver, Washington DC, and Lexington, KY. The dentists dilemma is related to him being a pacifist but eventually being caught up in using deadly force. This work is entirely fictitious and is unrelated to any person or persons, living or dead. Written by G. Bryan Siegrist, DDS, 2011. All rights reserved. bryansieg@aol.com 303-220-1132
The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.