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Celebrate Women’s History Month! March is Women’s History Month. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the woman like Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou (and more) who challenged the status quo to impact our history, culture, society and fought for a brighter future for our daughters. Bring her-story to life and learn all about influential women of the past and present with these titles celebrating noteworthy women selected just for you!
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Violeta : a novel
by Isabel Allende
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses everything and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. There, she will come of age, and her first suitor will come calling. She tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others, recounting times of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy. Her life is shaped by some of the most important events of history: the fight for women's rights, the rise and fall of tyrants, and ultimately not one, but two pandemics.
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The Paris library : a novel
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal.
Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings, and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them.
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The school for good mothers : a novel
by Jessamine Chan
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough. Until Frida has a very bad day. The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother's devotion. Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.
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There she was : the secret history of Miss America
by Amy Argetsinger
An editor for The Washington Post’s Style section offers this fascinating look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.
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They went left
by Monica Hesse
Navigating injuries and trauma after being liberated from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in 1945 Germany, 18-year-old Zofia joins other survivors to keep a promise to find her brother.
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Anatomy : a love story
by Dana Schwartz
When Hazel, an aspiring female surgeon, meets Jack, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, they work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves but in the very heart of Edinburgh society.
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My survival : a girl on Schindler's List, a memoir
by Rena Finder
A memoir by a Jewish girl from Krakow, Poland, describes how she was separated from loved ones and forced to work as a slave laborer before Oskar Schindler helped her escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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War and Millie McGonigle
by Karen Cushman
The Newbery Award-winning author of The Midwife’s Apprentice traces the story of a girl from 1930s California who helps her family through the challenges of food rationing and caring for an ailing sister as America draws closer to World War II.
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How to find what you're not looking for
by Veera Hiranandani
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
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The girl who rode a shark : & other stories of daring women
by Ailsa Ross
An uplifting collection of biographies profiles women and girls who changed the world by pursuing their passions, describing how the heroic acts of notables ranging from Joan of Arc and Nellie Bly to Sacagawea and Zora Neale Hurston have shaped history.
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