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Winner of: 2014 Arab American Book Award, Children/Young Adult Category Many Americans, educators included, mistakenly believe all Arabs share the same culture, language, and religion, and have only...

Author: Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene HirschfelderPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2009Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556528027ISBN-13:...

THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIM In January 1978, I...

Author: Paul HirschPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 369 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641605243ISBN-13: 9781641605243

Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really...

In 1609, on a voyage to resupply England's troubled Jamestown colony, the Sea Venture was caught in a hurricane and shipwrecked off the coast of Bermuda. The tale of its marooned survivors eventually...

Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of...

Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects And Ruminations On The Art Of Living DangerouslyAuthor: William GurstellePublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2009Number of Pages: 224...

2012 VOYA Nonfiction Honor List SelectionBest known for his general theory of relativity and the famous equation linking mass and energy, E = mc , Albert Einstein had a lasting impact on the world of...

Celebrates the lesser-known lives and contributions of early African-American men and women, in a volume that features such complementary activities as recipes for colonial foods and advice for...

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel,...

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students Winner, 2022 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award, Fall 2022 These 15 women work with animals on land, air, and sea. Corina Newsome...

Twenty-five activities support an overview of the science of archaeology as well as some of the secrets it has revealed from ancient civilizations throughout the world. Original.Author: Richard...

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, And More Dynamite DevicesAuthor: William GurstellePublisher: Chicago Review...

Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography--newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and...

This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century's most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as...

Beatrix Potter forged her own creative path to independence, fame, and financial success. Peter Rabbit, Hunca Munca, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck--many readers are familiar...

Emily Dickinson wrote short, often-enigmatic poems that are widely anthologized, quoted, and read by students of every age. Yet, as widely known as her poetry is, Dickinson as a person is considered...

AAAS Subaru SB&F Excellence in Science Finalist 2016 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 2016 An engaging book that encourages young nature enthusiasts to explore the world of...

Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece "East of Eden," but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia. Born in the prisons of California in the...

Bowie on Bowie presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him...

Author: David NelsonPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Oct 04, 2022Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641608366ISBN-13: 9781641608367

Brujas, Witches of Color are ancestral magical beings and the world we live in has tried to silence our voices. . . . This book is such a beautiful tribute to the different stories and experiences we...

Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with more than thirty top ten singles and fifteen consecutive #1 hits. Inventor of the Bakersfield Sound, he was hugely popular not only with...

Most North Americans would rather squish a bug than eat it. But roasted grubs are a favorite in Australia, the Batswana eat live termites, and stir-fried dragonflies are a delicacy in Indonesia. More...

Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old--and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while...

This groundbreaking biography of a brilliant but disturbed performer explores the paradox of the man and the artist. Based on more than 100 interviews, this intelligent profile explores Morrison's...

Author: Robert Burke. WarrenPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 20, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Biography & AutobiographyISBN-10:...

Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as...

As soon as early humans began to scratch images on cave walls, they began to create maps. And while these first drawings were used to find hunting grounds or avoid danger, they later developed into...