In Aria Aber’s Berlin-set debut novel, desire and despair collide.

The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters ... the accomplishments of the women it honors. Low is depicted beside the Girl Scout’s trefoil logo, which she created and patented.

Aria Aber's debut novel, 'Good Girl,' reflects the growing chasm between east and west, the same divide that fuels xenophobia ...

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The trailblazing women ... American investigative journalist, suffragist and civil rights activist. She died in 1931. Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the United States of America ...

Included in this tradition are best-of lists, and books ... women were capable of.” – Alan P., Deerfield, New Hampshire “Down the Drain” by Julia Fox In this memoir, actress and it-girl ...

Nila, the 19-year-old protagonist of Aria Aber’s debut novel, Good Girl, will be eminently recognizable to readers of ...

DEGGANS: That is Amanda Gorman, poet and author with illustrator Loveis Wise of the new children's picture book "Girls On The Rise." Thanks for joining us, Amanda. GORMAN: Thanks for having me.

LOS ANGELES — Britt Allcroft, the woman who created Thomas the Tank Engine ... After quickly gaining popularity, the show was adapted for American audiences and aired on PBS starting in 1989.

Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche. But Good Girl doesn’t ...