"A child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took on a ten-term incumbent-- and won. She was sworn in as the youngest member of the 116th Congress and became the youngest woman to serve as a representative in United States history. Here the editors of New York magazine explain AOC in all her power and vulnerability. Readers will come to understand her in the context of the fast-changing America that made AOC possible--and...

"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...

"Destined to Die Young" is the definitive examination of why the world lost Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977, when he was only forty-two years old. Author Sally Hoedel has painstakingly researched the subject and offers factual and scientific data--plus never-before-published information she gained by interviewing people who personally knew Elvis--to support her claim that Elvis Presley was never going to live a long life. In this well-documented...

"With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Neither of them could know this was the first of one hundred Saturdays over the course of six...

Documents the story of Eleanor Roosevelt's abrupt relocation to Greenwich Village in 1920, discussing her motivations and how her time there influenced her perception of herself and shaped her progressive political views.

""The Wax Pack," part baseball nostalgia and part road trip travelogue, follows Brad Balukjian as he tracks down players from a single pack of baseball cards from 1986"--

"This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II is sure to inspire STEM readers and fans of amazing women in history"--Amazon.com.

"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors...

"On July 7, 2019, Megan Rapinoe ran out onto the field to play in her third Women's World Cup final. Determined to succeed after having to sit out of the semifinals due to an injury, Megan scored the first goal of the match. Thanks to this goal, Team USA won the Women's World Cup, and Megan added yet another victory to her impressive record. In her career, Megan has won Olympic gold medals, several World Cup trophies, ESPY Awards, and more. Not only...

Presents the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern classification system for naming plants and animals.