Pearl Taylor left her conventional home and life in Toledo, Ohio to take up gambling on the Mississippi. She survived life in a boom camp in the Arizona Territory, and ultimately became an outlaw.

The author offers a fictional glimpse behind the scenes of a revolution and the marriages it tested, and unveils the enigmatic gift that linked the remarkable first ladies behind the American presidency ... Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Jefferson, and Dolley Madison.

"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...

"Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahí da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está segura, cambiarán el mundo de la ciencia. Lo único que ensombrece ese universo perfecto son sus compañeros, especialmente Maurice Wilkins, James Watson y Francis Crick, quienes la menosprecian por ser mujer. Por eso, cuando el director del laboratorio le asigna trabajar en la estructura del adn, ella está decidida a demostrar...

Horror and speculative fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. From forgotten visionaries like Margaret "Mad Madge" Cavendish, to literary icons such as Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson, to modern-era marvels such as Anne Rice and Helen Oyeyemi, women authors have always been at the vanguard of frightening fiction. And their life stories are as intriguing as the novels, short stories, and novellas they crafted. Part biography, part...

"In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competed as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field, and was feted as America's Golden Girl-- until a nearly-fatal airplane crash threatens to end everything. Outside of Boston, Louise Stokes, one of the few black girls in her town, sees competing as an opportunity to overcome the limitations placed on her, and risks everything to join the Olympic team. From Missouri, tomboyish...

When the "unsinkable" Luxury Ocean liner Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, the extraordinary courage and compassion of one survivor, Margaret Brown, captured the world's attention.

The life of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to women.

Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.