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Top 10 Empowering Novels in Honor of Women's History Month |
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What Wild Women Do
by Karma Brown
While staying at an isolated cabin in the Adironacks, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Rowan is drawn into the unsettling story of a socialite-turned-feminist crusader bent of helping women unleash their inner “wildness” who vanished in these same woods the summer of 1975 and is determined to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord
by Celeste Connally
Lady Petra Forsyth, an independent woman in 1815 London, uncovers a private asylum where men pay to have their wives and daughters locked away, where she believes a longtime friend has been placed after suffering “melancholia.”
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Maame
by Jessica George
A young British Ghanaian woman navigates her 20s and finds her place in the world.
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The Shadow of Perseus
by Claire Heywood
This clever and female-centered reimagining of the myth of the great hero Perseus is told through the voices of three women—his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda—whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
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Bad Cree
by Jessica Johns
A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare: Stories
by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
A short story collection follows contemporary native Hawaiian and Japanese women through tales including an encounter with a wild pig on a haunted highway and an elderly widow who sees her dead lover in a giant flower.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
In 1957, Alice Young arrives in the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, a place of opposing viewpoints on desegregation at the beginning of the civil rights movement, where she falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities could expel them from the home they love.
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A Grandmother Begins the Story
by Michelle Porter
Five generations of Indigenous women from Canada's Prairie Provinces struggle for healing and meaning through the strength of familial bonds, in the debut fiction novel from the award-winning author of Scratching River.
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The Bandit Queens
by Parini Shroff
Considered a “self-made” widow after the disappearance of her husband, Geeta, when other women in the village ask her for help in getting rid of their own no-good husbands, must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her fearsome reputation and the life she's built.
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Stealing
by Margaret Verble
In the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused until she decides to fight back.
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