Product Description: The Grip of God is the first novel in an epic historical trilogy, The Tiger and the Dove. Set in the thirteenth century, its heroine, Sofia, is a young princess of Kievan Rus. She begins her story by recounting her capture in battle and life of slavery to a young army captain in the Mongol armies that are flooding Europe...read more

Product Description: Professional writing has traditionally been a male occupation, but despite restrictions exceptional women produced important and influential poetry, stories, novels, and plays. From ancient Sumerian priestess Enheduanna's poetic praises for her patron goddess, Inanna, to 19th-century English novelist Jane Austen's witty romances that quietly challenged social convention, and from Beatrix Potter's whimsical and timelessly popular animal tales to Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston's vivid and powerful portrayals of the African-American experience, the written word has been an effective way for women to express their own perspective on such universal themes as love, relationships, faith, death, and the meaning of life...read more

A collection of stories about children who fought and overcame terrible physical disabilities, prejudices, and severe hardships includes biographies of Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Wilma Rudolph, Pochahontas, and others.

Chronicles the accomplishments and contributions of twelve men whose lives and work changed the course of human history, in a collection of profiles of such noted individuals as Ben Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Prince Shotoku, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The lives of twelve women--including Joan of Arc, Sacagawea, Marie Curie, Madame Sun Yat-Sen, and Frida Kahlo--are portrayed in a collection of biographical portraits that draws on many cultures and time periods.