Central Kansas Library System

"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women,...

Known as the Poppy Lady, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, successfully established the Flanders Field Memorial Poppy as a universal symbol of tribute and support for veterans and their families during World War I and II.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an important woman in the history of the United States, as well as others in her same field of accomplishment.

In brief text, this account tells of the courage and daring of the Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark. Told in story format, this is a chronicle of the Lewis & Clark expedition with Sacajawea. A map of their journey is included. . In brief text, this account tells of the courage & daring of the Shoshone woman who guided Lewis & Clark. Annotation. As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree...

Presents the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

A biography of the biologist whose writings helped initiate the environmental movement.

A biography of Grace McCance Snyder, who grew up on the nineteenth-century Nebraska prairie, detailing the everyday joys and struggles of American pioneers.

Presents examples of women who helped to shape the Western frontier in such diverse roles as schoolteacher, missionary, justice of the peace, and homesteader.

In this book, you will find out all about Helen Keller, before she made history.

A biography of the biologist whose writings helped initiate the environmental movement.