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A sweet, young girl is criticized because of her unusually long name. However the girl likes her special name, and is determined to convince the townsfolk to like it too. Can she do it? Will the townsfolk ever change? Find out and read What A Big Name For Such A Little Girl.
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THE MARS GIRL (Joe Haldeman)
Carmen Dula was just like any other girl. Or she used to be, before she spent six months on the spacecraft, John Carter, as part of the first nine families to settle on Mars. )
Just like any other teenager she was curious about her new home-who wouldn't be?-but she did her schoolwork, enjoyed time with her friends, and she started to explore the red planet with the supervision of her guide and friend, Paul Santos; always...
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In her memoir, Big Bosses, Althea Altemus vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent-but thinly disguised-employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her, we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition.
Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James Deering of International...
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Little Samantha had a BIG dream: to be an Olympian! She loved gymnastics, the way the athletes moved on the floor, the vault, the uneven bars and the balance beam. With the support of her parents, Samantha worked hard and dreamed BIG! To be an Olympian Samantha would have to be the very best, or so she thought. When adversity struck again and again, Samantha had to learn the true meaning of being an Olympian and being her best self.
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Aunt Dolly might have an oversized backside but she giggles and woops at life in AWESOME AUNT DOLLY in ACTION. Wacky illustrated rhyming poems illustrate that with a backside to behold, Aunt Dolly is a role model of renown. She's going swell is Aunt Dolly, barging through life, headfirst, that is with her grand butt coming up behind. With great belly laughs Aunt Dolly's going strong, you can tell, tackling any activity with energetic enthusiasm. So...
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Everything's Rosie volume 8
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Big Bear tries out a new sports obstacle course. Holly learns what it's like to be a tree.
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Unbeatable Squirrel Girl volume 1
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Also collects Howard the Duck (2015B) #6. You go, Squirrel Girl! With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer science student Doreen Green is all that stands between Earth and total destruction! Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy (a regular human). So mainly Squirrel Girl. Then what hope does Earth have if Doreen gets hurled back in time and erased from history? Some hope, hopefully, as Howard...
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Wow! Wow! Wubbzy volume 1
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Wubbzy makes a brand new friend, Daizy, who just moved into the neighborhood and wants to do girly activities with him. When a game of hide-and-seek unexpectedly takes Wubbzy to a kickety-kickball game, he realizes he misunderstood how to make good friends. Daizy makes new friends, Widget and Walden./Wubbzy decides to move to the Wubb Club, but on his first day living in the Wubb Club, everything goes haywire.
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The editors of Faithgirlz! and Girls' Life have collected their best advice to help girls take charge and feel confident in a variety of situations, from changing a bike tire to talking to your teacher about a bad grade, from being threatened by a bully to falling down the stairs at school. What do you do when you're at a party and you don't know anyone? What's the formal way to set a table (and why does it matter)? This random collection of problem-solving...
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In this delightful full-color picture book, that teaches children about prayer, bestselling author Sheila Walsh helps you show your kids how, when, and why to talk with God as they learn more of who God is and how much He loves them!
With humorous, rhyming text, Is God Still Awake? assures children that God loves them and is always with them. Whether it's day or night, God is awake, He's listening, and He loves to hear His children speak!
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Who Is Your Hero? Isabella's include U.S. Astronaut Sally Ride, activist Rosa Parks, and sharpshooter Annie Oakley--but there's no bigger hero than Isabella's own mommy! Join Isabella on an adventure of discovery-and find out how imagining to be these extraordinary women teaches her the importance of being her extraordinary self.
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My Girl Vaida is the story of Caitlin and Vaida, the bright-eyed lab mix puppy she adopts and takes along on her adventures, moving from interesting workplace to interesting workplace and from trail to trail while pursuing one of their shared favorite pastimes, hiking. Along their journey to the tops of all the four-thousand-foot mountains in New England and up and down the Appalachian Trail in the Northeast, they travel long distances, meet a colorful...
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The truth is always better than fiction!
Bearing My Seoul, is a collection of sometimes-funny, always-interesting essays written about a Black American girl taking a job in one of Asia's biggest cities sight unseen.
Back before any of the boys in BTS had even graduated high school, before "Gangnam Style," mukbangs, or most of the world discovered Korean beauty products, Taryn Blake moved to Seoul, South Korea, to become a full-time teacher. Whether...
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Big Topics at Midnight: A Texas Girl Wakes Up to Race, Class, Gender and Herself defies easy categorization. It's memoir and history and a celebration of the power of faith and myth and magic. It's personal, and it's about social change. Through the lenses of race, class, gender and spirituality, Nancy Thurston excavates history-personal, familial, global-for the sake of cross-generational healing and transformation. Big Topics at Midnight is one...
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Who Is Your Hero? Isabella's include U.S. Astronaut Sally Ride, activist Rosa Parks, and sharpshooter Annie Oakley--but there's no bigger hero than Isabella's own mommy! Join Isabella on an adventure of discovery-and find out how imagining to be these extraordinary women teaches her the importance of being her extraordinary self.
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In this 90-day devotional for young women, Grace Valentine encourages you to stop settling for the world's image of post-worthy perfection and live for more: more joy, more peace, and more meaning.
Grace has felt the pressure of our culture's conflicting messages about girls and God, from the picture-perfect "good Christian girl" that toxic culture touts or the God who treats women like sidekicks or after-thoughts. For any girl tired of the lies...
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On July 6, 1944, thousands of fans made their way to Barbour Street in Hartford, Connecticut, to see the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance. Not long after the show's start, a fire broke out and spread rapidly as panicked circus-goers pushed and scrambled to escape. Within 10 minutes the entire big top had burned to the ground, and 167 people never went home. Big Top Burning recounts the true story of one of the worst fire disasters...
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In The Mane Event, Shelly Laurenston introduced a whole new breed of heroes--sexy, shape-shifting hunks who redefine the term Alpha male. Now, in The Beast In Him, one gorgeous lone wolf is about to meet his match. . .
Some things are so worth waiting for. Like the moment when Jessica Ward "accidentally" bumps into Bobby Ray Smith and shows him just how far she's come since high school. Back then, Jess's gangly limbs and bruised heart turned to...
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Watch out for the big girls volume 3
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Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of the Double Gs organization with a new game plan. After a close call, she is all too eager to put into motion the plan she conjured up while in custody at the Clark County Jail. However, she is clueless as to all that has been going on while shes been out of the loop. Although she is still somewhat salty with her lover and leader, Diamond Morgan has been handling...
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In Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as Sin City, anything goes. This is why the Double G's have chosen to set up shop here.
Starrshima Fields, aka Starr, is a young, bodacious, and bold beauty. She is also the leader of the Double G's, a powerful and ruthless social club of plus-sized women. Starr is guided by Queen Fem, the founder of the Double G's. Queen Fem set up the group of professionals-by-day, gangster-biker-chicks-by-night to prove that this...
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