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A Mighty Long Way

By Carlotta Walls LaNier

When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. Buy book from Amazon.

Put It in Writing! : Creating Agreements Between Family and Friends

By Deborah Hutchison, Lynn Toler

Two media-savvy authors—Lynn Toler, Judge of TV’s Divorce Court, and Deborah Hutchison, creator of the award-winning “Bill Your Ex” system—offer concrete, conflict-free solutions to the difficult situations that arise between family ... Buy book from Amazon.

Nana, Whats Cancer?

By Beverlye Hyman Fead, Tessa Mae Hamermesh

Tessa is a 10-year-old girl who wants to understand the confusing world of cancer and then to be able to explain it to other children. She embarks on her quest by asking questions of her Nana, whose answers are designed to both ease children’s fears and provide them with factual information. Buy book from Amazon.

Confessions of a She-Fan: The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees

By Jane Heller

Two months into the 2007 baseball season, novelist Jane Heller, an obsessed Yankee fan heartsick over their poor play, announced her intention to divorce the team, on grounds of mental cruelty, in the pages of the New York Times. Her words inflamed the passions of sports lovers across ... Buy book from Amazon.

Lynn Toler was, if anything, an achiever. At thirty-three, after Harvard, Penn Law School, and a decade as a successful lawyer, she was elected to a municipal judgeship-a black woman in a mostly white community, where the opposing party held a 5:1 majority. Once on the bench, responsible for adjudicating the countless minor squabbles and foibles to be found among her town's residents ... Buy book from Amazon.

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains ... Buy book from Amazon.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa ... Buy book from Amazon.