Caroline Paul

New York Times BestsellerFrom the author of You Are Mighty, a real-life derring-do woman, a collection of exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement.Why should girls miss out on the joy of adventure? They can jump off rocks, swing on ropes, and climb trees just as well as boys can. But girls often allow fear to stand in their way.In The Gutsy Girl, author Caroline Paul emboldens girls to seek out a life of exhilaration. Once a young scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear got in the way of the life she wanted--of excitement, confidence, self-reliance, friendship, and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers, climbed tall mountains, and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San Francisco. In The Gutsy Girl , she shares her greatest escapades as well as those of other girls and women from throughout history, and offers engaging activities such as confidence-building stances, creating a compass, positive self-talk, and using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Each section includes a place for girls to “journal” their adventures, thus encouraging a new generation to develop a zest for challenges and a healthy relationship to risk. The Gutsy Girl is Lean In for young girls, a book about the glorious things that happen when you unshackle from fear and open up to exhilaration. Fully illustrated and enlivened throughout by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton's whimsical pen-and-ink drawings.

A Finalist for the 26th Lambda Literary AwardCaroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. But they were also...jealous? Betrayed? Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he love someone else more? His owners were determined to find out.Using GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, the web, and animal communicators, the authors of Lost Cat embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Told through writer Caroline Paul's rich and warmly poignant narrative and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton's stunning and hilarious 4-color illustrations, Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like 93-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, 80-year-old SCUBA diver Louise Wholey, 52-year-old BASE jumper Drew Brooks, 64-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Catchers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes this provocative, compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity—based on a little-known true event. December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But then a plane crash-lands there, and although the villagers rescue the pilot, they have no idea that he has just attacked Pearl Harbor. War has now come to Eden, slowly undoing its tranquillity, widening the cracks in the already troubled marriage of Irene and Yoshio Harada, the island's only Japanese-American couple. It will test everyone's loyalties and all they believe in . . . as Paradise, once within reach, slowly falls victim to its own isolated innocence.

She fought the prejudice. She fought the stereotype. Then she fought the greatest force of all-- fire. When the San Francisco Fire Department broke their all-male rule to hire women, Caroline Paul never thought she'd be chosen. She had already enrolled in film school. And Caroline, a strikingly beautiful Stanford graduate, didn't fit anyone's idea of a fireman. Except her own. Even though she loved testing her limits on white water rivers or Alpine mountains, plunging into a flame-engulfed building would be different than anything she had ever done. Now, in hard-edged prose as crackling as a four-alarm fire, she tells her amazing story. From her fight to match her colleagues physically and mentally, to her silent determination to face her fears, she tells of infernos, heroism, and heartbreaking tragedy. And with a will forged by fire, she reveals one woman's realization of a dream burning in her soul.

Being a good citizen means standing up for what’s right―and here’s just the way to start. From the author of The Gutsy Girl , this kids' guide to activism is the perfect book for those with a fierce sense of justice, a good sense of humor, and a big heart. This guide features change-maker tips, tons of DIY activities, and stories about the kids who have paved the way before, from famous activists like Malala Yousafzai and Claudette Colvin to the everyday young people whose habit changes triggered huge ripple effects. So make a sign, write a letter, volunteer, sit-in, or march! There are lots of tactics to choose from, and you’re never too young to change the world.

What if you weren’t famous, but people treated you as if you were? That was the life of Caroline Paul, who looked just like a celebrity – her own identical twin. With humor and insight, Paul explores the strange world of fame from the wry perspective of an ordinary person.Caroline Paul's most recent book is Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology. She is also the author of the historical novel East Wind, Rain, and the memoir, Fighting Fire, about her career as a San Francisco firefighter. Her forthcoming book The Gutsy Girl, Takes for your life of Ridiculous Adventure will be published March 1, 2016. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.This is a short e-book published by Shebooks--high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women. For more information, visit

La autora fue una vez una niña insegura pero decidió que el miedo no podría alejarla de sus sueños. Desde entonces ha pilotado aviones, practicado rafting y trabaja en el cuerpo de bomberos de San Francisco.En Hero Girl, Caroline comparte sus aventuras y las de otras mujeres que se han atrevido a ir más allá de lo que se esperaba de ellas.

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From the New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul, a thrilling, gravity-defying book that takes us skyward to explore the art of aeronautics-and the human drive to live daringly.Flying has long represented that beautiful, high-stakes human drive to invent, to explore, to experience. Caroline Paul has known it since she was twenty and learned to fly a single-engine plane for the first time. In her thirties, she moved to a paraglider; in her forties, a motorized hang glider. Now in her fifties with her long-term marriage having dissolved beneath her, she has again turned to the skies by way of a gyrocopter, finding that it's easier to learn a landing than a human heart.Historically, she hasn't been alone in escaping upward. Alongside her own experiences over decades of flight, Why Fly includes the gripping stories of those through history who have defied the things that weighed them the Night Witches, Russian women who flew slow biplanes against the high-tech Nazi Luftwaffe; the famous female barnstormers of the 1920s, particularly African American pilot Bessie Coleman who traveled to France to earn her license after her own country refused her the chance; and the ultralight pilots who believed they could teach birds brought to extinction in their old habitat not just to return but to retrace their old migration routes by following humans in flight. Arranged in five parts, Preflight, Taxi, Takeoff, Flight, and Landing, Why Fly shows all the ways we've been reaching for flight for centuries. Along the way we flub, we crash land, we simply crash. Still, we want to fly.But why? Why Fly reveals all.

The brave girls comep strong p p San Francisco firefighter and writer Caroline Paul shares her experiences with her, This is an adventure story for girls only. A funny, wacky, exciting adventure story of a cowardly girl flying through the skies, crossing a river, climbing a mountain, fighting a fire and becoming a real adventure is a story of a girl of our age dreaming of a life full of dignity, independence, friendship and joy I will give them courage to face any challenge without fear. "A book that makes my heart beat. This years best book for the bold, the action, and the dreamer. "" The Brave Girls Comes "is full of exciting adventure stories. Everyone gets brave and cheerful when you read this book. "Strong - & lt; New York Times & gt; Strong p p

Si tens un alt sentit de la justícia, molt sentit de l'humor i un cor molt gran, aquest llibre és per tu.Mai s'és massa jove per canviar el món! T'hi sumes? En aquesta guia pràctica et donem pistes de com consells per marcar la diferència, tàctiques diverses, un munt d'activitats pas a pas i històries inspiradores de nens i nenes que han obert camí, des d'activistes com Malala Yousafzai o Greta Thunberg fins a joves que, com tu ben aviat, han aconseguit fer-se escoltar i canviar el seu entorn.