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Curveball

The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

By: Martha Ackmann

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Curveball

The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

By: Martha Ackmann

2011 Selection for the Amelia Bloomer Project. From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew she wanted to play professional baseball. There was only one problem--every card was stacked against her. Curveball tells the inspiring story of baseball's "female Jackie Robinson," a woman whose ambition, courage, and raw talent propelled her from ragtag teams barnstorming across the Dakotas to playing in front of large crowds at Yankee Stadium. Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball on men's teams. After Robinson integrated the major leagues and other black players slowly began to follow, Stone seized an unprecedented opportunity to play professional baseball in the Negro League. She replaced Hank Aaron as the star infielder for the Indianapolis Clowns and later signed with the legendary Kansas City Monarchs. Playing alongside some of the premier athletes of all time including Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Buck O'Neil, and Satchel Paige, Toni let her talent speak for itself. Curveball chronicles Toni Stone's remarkable career facing down not only fastballs, but jeers, sabotage, and Jim Crow America as well. Her story reveals how far passion, pride, and determination can take one person in pursuit of a dream.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569766843

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9781569766842

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Ackmann

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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Ackmann

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393609316

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9780393609318

Curveball

The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

By: Martha Ackmann

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The Mercury 13

The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

By: Martha Ackmann

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The Mercury 13

The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

By: Martha Ackmann

For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America’s space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests. Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0375758933

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9780375758935

The Mercury 13

The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

By: Martha Ackmann

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The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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The World According to Martha

By: Martha Stewart

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The World According to Martha

By: Martha Stewart

Presents a collection of quotes by Martha Stewart that, when culled together, describe her in her own words, through every phase of her life, from running a business, to making a home and building an empire.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0071464565

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9780071464567

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

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Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

A lifetime of wisdom has been compiled on the pages of Martha! Martha! As each author shares from the insights gained from their personal walk with God, we are invited to join the adventure that leads the willing heart to growth in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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Priorityone Publications

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1933972335

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9781933972336

Memoir of Martha C. Thomas: Late of Baltimore, Maryland

By: Martha Thomas

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Memoir of Martha C. Thomas: Late of Baltimore, Maryland

By: Martha Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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3385616948

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Martha Joe

Nulato

By: Al Wright,Martha Joe,Yvonne Yarber

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Nulato

By: Al Wright,Martha Joe,Yvonne Yarber

Cover title: Al Wright, Minto, a biography.

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University of Alaska Press

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0910871140

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Curveball

Curveball

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Curveball

Curveball

The Mercury 13

The Mercury 13

The Mercury 13

The Mercury 13

The World According to Martha

The World According to Martha

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

Memoir of Martha C. Thomas: Late of Baltimore, Maryland

Memoir of Martha C. Thomas: Late of Baltimore, Maryland

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Martha Joe

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