Featuring funny illustrations and boisterous rhyming text, this latest book in the Old Lady series finds the Old Lady swallowing a ghost, mask, spider, flashlight, some crows and a potion!

"Meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries abroad, these scientists helped in-and often initiated-the development of the atomic bomb, taking starring roles in the Manhattan Project. In fact, their involvement was critical to its success, though many of them were not fully aware of the consequences....

"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...

"La oradora y profesora de la Biblia Jennie Allen escucha todo el tiempo a mujeres que se sienten atrapadas en patrones de frustración y derrota. En su búsqueda de una solución, ha aprendido que la mayor batalla espiritual de nuestra generación se está llevando a cabo entre nuestros oídos. Cómo pensamos da forma a cómo vivimos. Por lo tanto, es crucial que aprendamos cómo detener nuestros pensamientos giratorios y rechazar ser víctimas de...

The lean times following the Great War continue to require creative solutions for England's noble class. To make ends meet, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, have decided to open up Foxwood Hall to guided public tours. Their first tour group consists of members of the Historical Society, a magazine writer, and a flock of students. When the widow Arvina Bell goes missing, Eva goes in search of her-- only to find her in the library,...

"Each episode focuses on a particular subject in a sequence of hilarious scenes involving a number of Ullman-created characters."--Container.

"From Agnodice, the first female midwife or physician in ancient Athens, to Rosalind Franklin, the chemist who discovered the DNA structure, and Vera Rubin, the astronomer who uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, woman have been pioneers in science since the beginning of time ... Here, we offer 25 examples of superscientists that prove that labs and women go hand in hand. Who said science...

For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, P.I., might be the most normal member of her family. Yet as a number of cases pile, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers--even when they threaten to shatter both the business and the family.

"Tercer libro de la serie de la detective Erika Foster. Por el autor del best seller internacional Te vere bajo el hielo. La detective Erika Foster recibe un aviso de que la clave para resolver un importante caso de narcoticos esta escondida en una cantera abandonada en las afueras de Londres, por lo que ordena que sea registrada. Alli, entre el lodo espeso, encuentran un alijo de droga, pero tambien lo que parece ser el esqueleto de un nino pequeno....