Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by reno...

She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with illust...

Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no breeze, the air electric with the heady anticipation of a coming storm: the year's Royal Salon. Men and women of every estate are united under art: to love it, to despise it, to gossip endlessly about it.Exhibiting at the Royal Salon was not for the faint of heart, and it was never intended for women.Enter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard . . .Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper's daughte...

Rosie and Grandpa are a dynamic grandpa-granddaughter duo who love to tackle new adventures together. However, their relationship faces a challenge when Grandpa begins to experience the initial stages of Alzheimer’s. Rosie, just seven years old, struggles to understand what is happening to her grandpa and best friend. The pair must face their fears and put all their trust in the love that they have for each other.

She’s a prim and proper mafia princess.He’s a dirty-talking Bratva boss.To seal their union, he tattoos her ring finger: Property of Dimitri Kozlov.Dimitri KozlovHer family broke their promise, now I’ll take what’s owed: Her.No one makes me look weak.I’ll show everyone there are consequences for crossing my family.Arianna Pontrelli is mine.I forge her signature on the marriage contract.And stake my claim on this cold, ...

The fruit of a conference that gathered seven very active researchers in the field, Combinatorial Design and their Applications presents a wide but representative range of topics on the non-geometrical aspects of design theory. By concentrating on a few important areas, the authors succeed in providing greater detail in these areas in a more complete and accessible form. Through their contributions to this collection, they help fill a gap in the available combinatorics literature.The paper...

Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard—a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France—in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper’s daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court—only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. While she defied societal barriers to become a member of the exclusive Académie Royale ...

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen brilliant female artists in this smart, feisty, educational, and enjoyable book.Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists’ works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illus...

She Votes is an intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since.From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers.This deluxe book also honors the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with...

How do you stay anchored when you’re attracted to your co-anchor?Barbara King’s dream is to become the next Barbara Walters. But for now, she’s anchoring at the fledgling Phoenix news channel, covering car chases and interviewing drunken showbiz has-beens. If she can just out-fox the conniving anchors at her cable channel and move up to its prime-time line-up, she’ll be able to fly the coop and ascend to a real news network.Enter Jack Stone, Barbara’s dynamic, witty—and did...

‘Annie Lyons is my go-to author for feel-good fiction’ - Mandy BaggotJoin Annie Lyons for a journey that will make you laugh and cryStep into someone else’s shoes for a day… And it will change you for a lifetime.Cat is very good at her job. She runs a PR company with her best friend (and secret crush) Jesse, and is never happier than when her high-profile celebrities are glittering in the spotlight.But when her footballer cl...

What if you were on the cusp of marrying the guy of your dreams and reaching that career goal you set for yourself, only for all of it to be taken away in one fell swoop?What if you then had to start from the very beginning, right down to moving out of the city and back to the suburbs to live with your parents?What if this all happened a month before you turned 30?This is the story of Jill Stevens, who after being forced to move back home, finds a list she made in high...