Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction

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Calkins Creek

Blast Off!: How Mary Sherma...

$18.99

The inspirational story of Mary Sherman, the world's first female rocket scientist, who overcame gender barriers and many failures to succeed.Growing up in the 1920s on a dirt-poor farm in North Dakota, Mary Sherman's life was filled with chores--until she finally began school and discovered she ...

DIAL BOOKS

Listen: How Evelyn Glennie,...

$17.99

A gorgeous and empowering picture book biography about Evelyn Glennie, a deaf woman, who became the first full-time solo percussionist in the world."No. You can't," people said.But Evelyn knew she could. She had found her own way to listen. From the moment Evelyn Glennie heard her first note, mus...

Clarion Books

A Perfect Fit: How Lena “La...

$17.99

Discover how the Lane Bryant clothing brand changed the way we buy clothes forever by celebrating bodies of all shapes and sizes in this inclusive picture book biography of a Lithuanian immigrant with a brilliant eye for fashion and business. With stunning artwork from Sibert medalist Juana Marti...

Feiwel & Friends

The Greatest Stories Ever P...

$19.99

In this fun and informative YA Non-fiction title, Dustin Hansen, author of Game On!, a self-confessed video game addict with over 20-years experience in the gaming industry, examines the storytelling skills shown in some of the most beloved and moving games of all time.We all know that video game...

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Gathering Blossoms Under Fi...

$32.50

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s act...

Gallery 13

Ten Days in a Mad-House: A ...

$19.99

Beautifully adapted and rendered through piercing illustrations by acclaimed creators Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly's complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a groundbreaking moment in history and reveals a haunting and timely glimpse at the start...

Triangle Square

You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gend...

$29.95

A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny WordIn a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex ...

DIAL BOOKS

You Are More Than Magic: Th...

$17.99

“Every parent of a Black or brown girl should buy this book, read it to their child, and pass it along to the other parents in their circle.”—Evette Dionne, National Book Award longlisted and Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Lifting as We Climb Perfect for graduation gifts and other tra...

RISE X PENGUIN WORKSHOP

How You Came to Be

$17.99

This love letter written from mother to child invites readers to experience a baby's month-by-month development in the womb as compared to familiar fruits and vegetables.A mother lovingly describes the sizes and stages of her baby's month-by-month development inside the womb, and the amazement of...

Counterpoint

Bodies on the Line: At the ...

$26.00

A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting, which Rebecca Traister (New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad) calls “one of the most under-covered and crucial, lifesaving, rigorous forms of activism out there."Abortion has been legal for nearly fi...

DELACORTE PRESS

Girls Who Green the World: ...

$19.99

Part biography, part guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book is the perfect gift for future and current activists and changemakers! Girls Who Green the World features the inspiring stories of 34 revolutionaries fighting for our future! An inspired collection of profiles, f...

HENRY HOLT

Pablo Neruda: Poet of the P...

$18.99

A new Spanish and English bilingual edition of the stunning picture book biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the world's most enduring and popular poets, from the acclaimed Monica Brown.Había una vez un niño llamado Neftalí, quien amaba las cosas salvajes locamente y las cosas tranquilas serenament...

Mariner Books

Learning America: One Woman...

$27.99

“[From] an influential educational leader and activist…an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh—a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan—stumbled upon a ...

BOLD TYPE BOOKS

It Was Vulgar and It Was Be...

$35.00

The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and ...

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

$28.00

“Soul-stretching, breathtaking…A game-changing gift to readers.” —Booklist (starred review)From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in ...