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A Daughter of the Snows
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Jack London |
From the book:"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the steamer's boats." Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side. "We're so busy," he explaine… |
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Kate Shelley
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Robert D. San Souci |
A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. |
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From girl to goddess
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Valerie Frankel |
"This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Scotland and Africa reveal heroines who battle for safety and identit… |
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Lunch Lady and the bake sale bandit
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Jarrett Krosoczka |
Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch must figure out who is stealing the goods from the bake sale. |
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Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
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Mark Waid |
The Dominators' plan to destroy Earth reaches fruition as the Robot Rebellion sweeps the planet! -- Publisher's website. |
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The Black Stiletto
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Raymond Benson |
Martin Talbot is stunned when he discovers several hidden volumes of his elderly mother's diaries which tell of her adventures as the Black Stiletto, an underground heroine who operated in the late 1… |
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Grace
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Jill Paton Walsh |
After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national h… |
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Heroines of the American Revolution
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Idella Bodie |
Briefly profiles fifteen women who performed heroic acts during the American Revolution, as spies, soldiers, and in other capacities. |
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The secret message
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Idella Bodie |
The story of Emily Geiger, a young heroine of the American Revolution who crossed through enemy territory to deliver a message from General Greene to General Sumter. |
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Batgirl
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Gail Simone |
"Gotham City can be dangerous. No one knows this more than Barbara Gordon. Recovered physically but not emotionally, Batgirl is back on patrol. Unfortunately, others have their own ideas about how be… |
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Hereville
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Barry Deutsch |
Mirka just wants to find new adventures, but instead she s stuck babysitting her disapproving little sister, Layele. When Mirka pushes her sister into a stream, they both get in too deep with an angr… |
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The Tiger Flu
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Larissa Lai |
In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai—her first in sixteen years—a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, a… |
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Laura Secord
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Jennifer Howse |
Learn all about Laura Secord, and her importance in Canadian history. |
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Śikhara Bhāratīya mahilāem̐
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Prakr̥ti Rāya |
Brief biographies of various famous female personalities from different fields of India. |
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African-American heroes & heroines
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Kathryn I. Bel Monte |
Profiles African American men and women who have succeeded in fields such as politics, medicine, law, science, education, art, sports, business, and the military. |
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Promethea
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J. H. Williams III,Alan Moore,J. H. Wiliams III |
After years of hiding the goddess within her, the government is closing in on Sophie Bangs once more, leaving her no choice but to release Promethea and loose an apocalypse upon the world. |
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The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays
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Carolyn Gage |
The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan… |
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The God Stalker Chronicles
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P. C. Hodgell |
Jame is a Kencyrath, the chosen people of the Three-Faced God, who fight the demonic being called Perimal Darkling. At the same time, she fights an internal battle for their honor because 3,000 years… |
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Dragonsong
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Anne McCaffrey |
Menolly, a young fisher's daughter, had dreamed all her life of learning the Harper's craft. Her musical talent is not valued in her fishing hold, especially by her parents the holders, as women in g… |
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Hot mama
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Jennifer Estep |
By day, Fiona Fine is a successful couture designer, catering to the high society players of Bigtime, New York. By night, she's Fiera, a member of the heroic Fearless Five who can create and manipula… |
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