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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

The impossible is possible when kids dare to dream big!

Discover the courageous kids who aimed high and made a difference! Every great scientist, activist, writer, and inventor started out as a child with a dream. With illustrations by Vesna Asanovic, Jennifer Calvert's Teen Trailblazers: 30 Daring Boys Whose Dreams Changed the World explores the stories of 30 of these remarkable kids, whose passions led to lifesaving medical treatments, revolutionary inventions, and history-making achievements. From groundbreaking innovators like Boyan Slat and the Wright brothers; to powerful advocates like Nelson Mandela, Harvey Milk, and David Hogg; and creative minds like Walt Disney, Fred Rogers, and John and Hank Green, each one turned his dreams for a better world into reality.

Dive into the amazing adventures, intrepid efforts, and hard-won victories of trailblazers such as:
- Louis Braille
- Wilbur & Orville Wright
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Jonas Salk
- David Attenborough
- Barack Obama
- Satoshi Tajiri
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Jaques Cousteau
- Boyan Slat

and other ordinary boys who dared to do incredible, impossible, and inspiring things.

Teen Trailblazers: 30 Daring Boys Whose Dreams Changed the World

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Leadership Lessons from 12 Thought Leaders Who Beat the Odds and Influenced Millions

Trailblazers reveals how leaders trailblaze and move markets when others say it's impossible. Readers discover what 12 very different, yet highly successful, leaders did to achieve massive global success despite countless setbacks, adversity, and critics during their upward climbs to amazing influence on millions of people. Based on in-depth, recorded interviews, their stories are not only inspiring, but also reveal how they pushed onward when it seemed like quitting was the only option. Leaders learn from the valuable wisdom and tips shared in Trailblazers, including the seven key characteristics all super successful trailblazing leaders possess, and use them to immediately blaze their own successful trail in both business and life.

Trailblazers

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Texas

Richard Wurmbrand A Voice in the Dark

California

The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game

From Michelle Akers to Megan Rapinoe, bold and inspiring profiles of the pioneers, champions and future heroines of women's soccer around the world.

Women's soccer has come a long way. The first organized games on record -- which took place three hundred years ago in the Scottish Highlands -- were exhibition matches, where single women played against married women while available men looked on, seeking a potential mate.

Today, champions like Mia Hamm, Abby Wambach, Brazil's Marta and China's Sun Wen, have inspired girls around the world to pick up the beautiful game for love of the sport. Inevitably, given the hardships and discrimination they face, women who play soccer professionally are so much more than elite athletes. They are survivors, campaigners, political advocates, feminists, LGBTQ activists, working moms, staunch opponents of racial discrimination and inspirational role models for many.

Based on original interviews with over 50 current and former players and coaches, this book celebrates these remarkable women and their achievements against all odds.

Soccerwomen

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Hawaii

A New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions.


More than six years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his groundbreaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.


The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed. It's about the influence of big media, the fans and the hype they subsist on, the clash of ethics, the terrible physical demands of modern sports (from drugs to body size), the unreal salaries, the conflicts of race and class, and the consequences of sport converted into mass entertainment and athletes transformed into superstars -- all presented in a way that puts the reader in the room and on the court, and The Breaks of the Game in a league of its own.

The Breaks of the Game

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Trailblazers, Desperadoes, Wranglers, and Yarn-Spinners

LEGENDS OF THE OLD WEST: TRAILBLAZERS, DESPERADOES, WRANGLERS, AND YARN-SPINNERS is a stunning look at the lives of those colorful individuals whose names are synonymous with the Old West and whose character has often been the source of great debate.

Legends of the Old West

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New Mexico

Pioneers to the Present

Throughout California's history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation. In this unparalleled collection, Gloria Harris and Hannah Cohen relate the stories of forty women whose struggles and achievements have paved the way for generations. These women were strong and determined, overcoming prejudice, skepticism and injustice. Visionary architect Julia Morgan designed Hearst Castle; Dolores Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers; Donaldina Cameron, the angry angel of Chinatown, rescued brothel workers; and silent film actress Mary Pickford helped form United Artists Pictures. From fearless pioneers and determined reformers to professionals from every walk of life, Harris and Cohen chronicle the triumphs and disappointments of diverse women who dared to take risks and break down barriers.

Jennifer Calvert; Vesna Asanovic (Illustrator)

Teen Trailblazers: 30 Daring Boys Whose Dreams Changed the World

Tony Rubleski

Trailblazers

Catherine Mackenzie

Richard Wurmbrand A Voice in the Dark

Gemma Clarke

Soccerwomen

David Halberstam

The Breaks of the Game

Kent Alexander

Legends of the Old West

Gloria G. Harris; Hannah S. Cohen

Women Trailblazers of California