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Girls Rock at Math, Says Wonder Years Star Danica McKellar

New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar, perhaps best known for playing Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years, is not only a talented actress, but is also a fantastic writer. All of her books so far have been non-fiction and encourage middle-and high-school girls to succeed in mathematics. McKellar herself actually…
BookTrib
April 3, 2018
Nonfiction

Your Guide to Creating Patterns and Symmetry with Polygons

Mike Regan, to quote his own bio, “is a geometer who takes his subject seriously.” So seriously that, along with colleagues, friends and family, he mentions the ancient Greeks Pythagoras and Euclid in the opening acknowledgments of his fascinating instructional book, How to Polygon: Art and Geometry of Plane Tiling…
Jim Alkon
October 2, 2020
Fiction

Science and Humor Explode in Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the book Chemistry! Author Weike Wang’s unnamed narrator, a Chinese-American Ph.D. student, lives with her redheaded boyfriend behind her traditional parents’ backs. Despite the high expectations for their daughter to become a chemist, she is unable to be successful in her research,…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 15, 2017

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