Ravenswing Academy is proud to announce their super smart Wildlife Divas Adventure Team. Cherie, their instructor and leader, proudly presents this team of young, bright girls: EBONY - A popular and pretty artist and social media-savvy diva KYLONI - A petite teen and aspiring scientist with a ginormous vocabulary VALERIE - A girl comfortable with tech; not quite comfortable with people YALANI - A budding engineering expert and future skateboarder extraordinaire STORM - A brilliant, bug-loving, math whiz kid, sharp, and quick girl; it's all in her name Cherie and the Wildlife Divas go on the trip of a lifetime: fly to Uganda to save endangered gorillas. They will use science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) to complete their first international mission. But what happens when their trek is interrupted by poachers? THE WILDLIFE DIVAS ADVENTURE TEAM: Saving the Endangered Mountain Gorilla is the first of many adventures with the Wildlife Divas. The Divas prove that Black girls are smart, creative, and always up for international adventure

Originally published: Seattle: Sasquatch Press, A1997, titled: Home field: nine writers at bat.

A contemporary classic, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women. Readers will rule ancient Egypt with Cleopatra, make groundbreaking discoveries with Marie Curie, fly through the sky with Amelia Earhart, and defy gravity with Simone Biles. Illustrated by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe, this is the most funded original book in the history of crowdfunding. Plus, scannable codes inside unlock audio stories from the Rebel Girls app!

Furnishes in-depth profiles of a wide variety of careers that do not involve remaining in an office, utilizing interviews with people in the field, as well as helpful advice on training, education, salaries, job requirements, challenges and perks.

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Bear • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois

Building on experience from 60 countries worth of independent travel, the author takes you on three journeys to places you may never have considered visiting, although you probably should and you definitely could. Learn about a low-budget cruise to Antarctica, understand what the Trans-Siberian Railway really is like, enjoy the natural wonders of Southern Africa. The book is a fun read, but you will also learn about far-away destinations and about how to travel independently anywhere. It's not a travel guide or a travel journal, it's both!More details, including free downloads, available from http://bjornfree.com/