women heroes

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women heroes

Fearless girls, wise women, and beloved sisters

heroines in folktales from around the world
2000
Collects 100 tales from around the world, including Africa, Western Europe, Native American cultures, Asia, and the Middle East, that feature a heroine.

Windmills of the gods

1988
The tale of a woman's heroism against an unknown terror spanning the whole arena of international intrigue.

Catwoman

when in Rome
2005
Catwoman takes a vacation in Italy, where she tangles with the Falcone crime family and Batman's foes and finds herself in a catfight with Cheetah.

Rebels

1999
Chronicles the lives and achievements of revolutionary women, including civil rights activist Angela Davis, human rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, and suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst.

Wonder Woman

2006
Diana, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, faces new problems when the Olympian god Hermes decides to grace mankind with his presence.

Contemporary heroes and heroines

2000
Profiles one hundred twentieth-century men and women from all walks of life whose accomplishments are considered heroic.

Lunch Lady and the summer camp shakedown

Book 4
2010
When the crime-fighting school lunch lady works as the cook at summer camp, she investigates the mystery of the legendary swamp monster.

Marvel her-oes

2010
Janet Van Dyne is finding being a teenager hard enough, but, thanks to a lab accident, she now has powers that she cannot tell anyone about. As Janet is about to learn, however, she is not the only one with powers in the town of Cresskill.

Women who made a scene

heroines, villainesses, eccentrics
2000
Brief biographies of women who were notorious for committing crimes or causing scandals, from the religious leader Aishah to the frontier heroine Betty Zane.

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