"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut." -- Provided by publisher.

As young as ten, Flynn wanted to make better food for his family's meals, so he began investigating food from every source he could find: books, the internet, television. Believing curiosity is the main ingredient in creativity, he wrote this book to encourage children to ask questions and try things in a way no one ever has before, in pursuit of any art form but especially cooking.

"The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA." -- Provided by publisher.

"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children. That was the year federally mandated integration of the schools went into effect, at first allowing students to change schools through 'freedom...

The author describes his childhood as an average student who often got into trouble with his twin brother, and how he became a NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station.

"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...

Erik Weihenmayer has a long history of turning obstacles into adventures. Born with a rare condition that blinded him as a teenager, he never let his diagnosis hold him back from a full life. As an athlete, explorer, speaker and activist, he has opened the eyes of people around the world to what's possible. In 2001, he became the first blind man to climb Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. In 2005, he co-founded his nonprofit organization,...

A master dog-sledder, wartime hero, and world-renowned explorer recounts the story of his life in an upbeat, plainspoken style. And what a life it is! From his expeditions to Antarctica to his World War II service to his part in rescuing downed pilots in Greenland, Vaughan, at 89, has lived -- and is still living -- a life of adventure.

The author's experiences as member of various expeditions (1926-45), including one to Antarctica.

"In this achingly beautiful graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost -- her shadow, she calls it, but one might also think of it as the 'otherness' or 'strangeness' that has defined her since birth, that part of her that has always made her feel as though she is living in exile from the world. In PASSING FOR HUMAN, Finck is on a quest for self-understanding and self-acceptance, and along the way she seeks to answer some...