Books like Girl around the world by Dorothy Kilgallen

Amy Schumer’s new memoir blends sharp humor with candid reflections on her teenage years, family, relationships, and sexuality, revealing the moments that forged her bold, stand‑up comedian persona.

Ten‑year‑old Ana Juric loses her peaceful Croatian life to the 1991 civil war, endures guerilla fighting and child soldier experiences, then escapes to America and later grapples with hiding her traumatic past.

A true‑life account of a 15‑year‑old English girl held hostage aboard a 1970 aircraft hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front.

289 pages ; 21 cm

A Hong Kong immigrant teenager in Brooklyn balances school, a night shift in a Chinatown sweatshop, and family expectations, while learning to translate both language and identity across cultural divides.

In 1885, Elizabeth Jane Cochran -- pen name, Nellie Bly -- was hired as one of the first female journalists after writing a scathing rebuttal to a misogynist newspaper column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch. The newspaper's editor was so taken aback by Bly's incendiary prose that he posted an ad asking the article's author to come work for him. Within five years, Bly had become the first "girl stunt reporter," going undercover to write wildly popular stories that no one at the time thought a woman could or should write. She committed herself to the Lunatic Asylum at Blackwell's Island for ten days to expose the abysmal treatment of the patients and later traveled around the world alone in seventy-two days, breaking Jules Verne's fictional record by eight days. This volume is the only existing printed and edited collection of work by one of America's most famous journalists, an irresistible hero to girls, women, and adventurers everywhere. -- page 4 of cover.

Late one night, journalist Mikael Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker -- a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it.

A woman's quiet life turns into a struggle when photosensitive skin disease forces her into darkness, revealing the resilience of love, family, and self‑discovery.