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"Scott Simon's household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals-whether two legs or four, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled-everyone is family. The beloved host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday and one of the hosts of NPR's Up First has welcomed animals into his life since his youth. He first connected with Penny, the family dog who pushed him to crawl and stand. Today, Simon lives with haiku-writing French...

Legendary tennis player Billie Jean King details the remarkable history of women's tennis in this stunning edition of Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis. In celebration of the Women's Tennis Association's 50th anniversary, this updated and expanded edition-based on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis-includes more than 250 photographs and 33 years' worth of stories about inspiring women and their...

A first-ever collection that disrupts the narrative of how a Jewish person is perceived, What Jewish Looks Like includes accessible primers on important Jewish history, a map, quotes, and much more! Too many Jews have been told: ""You don't look Jewish!"" It begs the question, ""what does Jewish look like?"" Well, there are over fifteen million Jews in the world, which means there are more than fifteen million ways to look and be Jewish. It can look...

"When the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet -- or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time comes, will we be able to cross the communication barrier to beg for our lives? If the aliens do hold out those precious jewels of knowledge, will we even be able to grasp them? It's long been assumed, in both science fiction and real scientific efforts...

"Every person has a story. Dick knew that it was love at first sight when he saw Nancy across the church steps -- they got married a week later and have been best friends ever since, still going strong over fifty years later. Nathalia's first boyfriend told her that her facial scars made her even more beautiful, and it gave her the confidence to become the strong woman she is today. When Ghada learned that her young son was ill, she refused to give...

"By the YouTube sensation with more than two million followers, the inspiring account of a woman in her thirties who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride-and along the way found a new sense of purpose. Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty-something geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having a long-term affair. Suddenly without a place to stay, she decided...

"A sweeping personal retelling of African myths illustrated throughout with Rosales's...artwork"--Back cover. In Chronicles of Ori, her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of colonialism and resistance. She writes of the powerful, temperamental deities called the Orishas; of the founding of Yorubaland by the shrewd leader...

"Childhood biographies of sixteen athletes who have competed in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games"-- Provided by publisher.

When an enemy pack attacks, Warm, the smallest wolf in the pack, is left alone to defend and feed four pups.

"Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, L̐os Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Čzanne solved...