LibraryAware March 2025- Adult

Books for Adults

When women ran Fifth Avenue : glamour and power at the dawn of American fashion
by Julie Satow

Rich with personal drama and trade secrets, an award-winning journalist takes us back to the golden age of American department stores and the three visionary women—Hortense Odium of Bonwit Teller; Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor; and Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel—who led them. Illustrations.

Women in the Valley of the Kings : the untold story of women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
by Kathleen. Sheppard

Bringing the untold stories of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt, this book, using their travelogues, diaries and maps, upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory, forever changing the field of Egyptology. Illustrations.

How to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty & female creativity
by Jill Burke

This alternative history of the Renaissance as told through the emerging literature of beauty focuses on the actresses, authors and courtesans who fought the era's misogyny and explains how their efforts are still relevant today

Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
by Ramie Targoff

Shedding new light on the Renaissance by offering a much-needed female perspective on everyday life in Shakespeare's England, this remarkable work introduces four extraordinary women, who despite little support for their art, defined themselves as writers against all odds. Illustrations.

The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement
by Susannah Gibson

This illuminating group portrait delves into the lives of a circle of 18th-century women called the Bluestockings, who came together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, fighting for women to be educated and have a public role in society. Illustrations.

Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel
by Allison Pataki

Describes how Margaret Fuller became the beating heart of the Transcendentalists, becoming a role model to Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne and a muse to Henry David Thoreau as he headed into the woods.

The women
by Kristin Hannah

In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.

The first ladies
by Marie Benedict

Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women's rights and the power of education, civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt fight together for justice and equality, holding each other's hands through tragedy and triumph.

American daughters : a novel
by Piper Huguley

Brought together by their fathers' friendship, describes how the daughters of Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt became close friends and struggled together and supported each other through marriages, pregnancies, women's rights and progressive causes. Original. 100,000 first printing.

The medicine woman of Galveston
by Amanda Skenandore

Former doctor Tucia Hatherley, when her livelihood is threatened, joins a traveling medicine show, and loathing the duplicity, tries to break free only to be pulled in even deeper until something happens that challenges her to recover her belief in medicine and the good in others—and herself. Original.