New Releases by YONA ZELDIS MCDONOUGH

During the Depression, intrigued by the beautiful dollhouse they see in a house window, sisters Lila and Jane befriend its elderly owner and ultimately have a very different Christmas.

A highly respected mother-daughter team profiles 11 inspirational women from different times and fields of endeavor: Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Emily Dickinson, Mary Cassatt, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Margaret Mead.

The transition from boyfriend and girlfriend to husband and wife, while appearing to be a blissful transformation, often involves many different emotional issues. This sensitive, insightful book offers invaluable advice to the couple that enables them to eliminate tension and make their engagement the happiest time of their lives.

Describes the life and career of the famous architect.

Based on the experiences of many recently and soon-to-be-married couples, Tying the Knot is the first comprehensive approach to confrontingrlying feelings that can pervade the prenuptial time.

"Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met and sharing her story until her death in 1883 at age eighty-six. In this easy-to-read biography, Yona Zeldis McDonough continues to share that remarkable story"--

A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.