Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York City. She's got street smarts, boundless determination, and one unusual skill: the ability to throw a ball as hard as the greatest pitchers in a baseball-mad city.
From Coney Island sideshows to the brand-new Yankee Stadium, "Diamond Ruby "chronicles the extraordinary life and times of a girl who rises from utter poverty to the kind of renown only the Roaring Twenties can bestow. But her fame comes with a price, and Ruby must escape a deadly web of conspiracy and threats from Prohibition rumrunners, the Ku Klux Klan, and the gangster underworld.
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Diamond Ruby ""is the exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseball's heritage, a girl who could throw with the best of them. A real page-turner, based closely on a true story" (Kevin Baker, author of "Strivers Row").

Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth Evidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. Evolution: A Visual Record transports readers from the near-mystical(human ancestors) to the historic (the famous 'finches' Darwin collected on the Galapagos Islands that spurred his theory); the recently understood (the link between dinosaurs and modern birds) to the simply astonishing.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1870 Edition.

The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Harvard Law School LibraryLP2H005100018840101The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Part IISpringfield: The City Council, H. W. Rokker, 1884529 p.; 22 cmUnited States

Embracing A General View Of The French Dominion In North America With Some Account Of The English Occupation Of Illinois.

Title: The History of Illinois and Louisiana under the French rule, embracing a general view of the French dominion in North America, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wallace, Joseph; 1893. ix, 433 p.; 8 . 9605.dd.12.

And Formerly Representative In Congress From Illinois, Who Died In Battle Near Leesburg, Virginia, October 21, 1861. Relates His Service In The Black Hawk War, Illinois State Legislature, Mexican War, Oregon And Civil War.

Their Origin, History, Characteristics And Standard Points; How To Mate, Judge And Rear Them For Exhibition And Commercial Purposes; With A Chapter On Their Diseases And Treatment.

Their Origin, History, Characteristics And Standard Points; How To Mate, Judge And Rear Them For Exhibition And Commercial Purposes; With A Chapter On Their Diseases And Treatment.

Their Origin, History, Characteristics And Standard Points; How To Mate, Judge And Rear Them For Exhibition And Commercial Purposes; With A Chapter On Their Diseases And Treatment.

Embracing A General View Of The French Dominion In North America With Some Account Of The English Occupation Of Illinois.

And Formerly Representative In Congress From Illinois, Who Died In Battle Near Leesburg, Virginia, October 21, 1861. Relates His Service In The Black Hawk War, Illinois State Legislature, Mexican War, Oregon And Civil War.

And Formerly Representative In Congress From Illinois, Who Died In Battle Near Leesburg, Virginia, October 21, 1861. Relates His Service In The Black Hawk War, Illinois State Legislature, Mexican War, Oregon And Civil War.