Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.

Traces the history of women in combat from the Revolutionary War to the present, and profiles trailblazing women from all wars and military branches. Includes a timeline, fact boxes, primary sources, sidebars, photographs, a glossary, critical thinking questions, and further resources.

Like all young Israelis, Valérie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions, ultimately participating in top-secret missions with the secret service.

When she was just a kid, Rose Campbell's mom constantly told her to "Take things slow." Now, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Rose takes the advice to heart. One misstep, and boom-somebody dies. But lately, every day feels exactly the same: IEDs are found in the same locations. Rose's team finds the bombs. They disarm them. Then they move on to the next one. But Rose knows better than to get impatient--because that's exactly what the...

"Winner of the 2016 Sarasvati Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology, Association for the Study of Women & Mythology" "2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category" "Selected for The New York Times Book Review's "The Year in Reading" 2016" "Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize" "One of Foreign Affairs' Best Military, Scientific, and Technological Books of 2015" "Selected for American...

"The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it before. In 'Joan of Arc : a history,' Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous...

As Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and the soldiers of Shadow Squadron welcome their first female member to the team, Cross receives an urgent call from a powerful senator demanding assistance in saving his kidnapped son. When the team touches down in Mali, they immediately learn that something far more sinister than a simple kidnapping is going down in the desert... In their Starred Review of Elite Infantry, Kirkus Reviews lauded the Shadow Squadron...

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.