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Female friendship Fiction FICTION / Literary Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Mères et filles Romans, nouvelles, etc Widows Fiction Women Social conditions Women Social conditions Fiction Women United States Social conditions 19th century Fiction Women United States Social conditions 20th century FictionPearson, Allison
Summary: Kate Reddy is facing her 50th birthday. Her children have turned into impossible teenagers; her mother and in-laws are in precarious health; and her husband is having a midlife crisis that leaves her desperate to restart her career after years away from the workplace. Once again, Kate is scrambling to keep all the balls in the air in a juggling act.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Pearson 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PEAPicoult, Jodi
Summary: In 1581, Emilia Bassano, like most young women of her day, is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain's mistress, she has access to all theater in England, and finds a way to bring her work to the stage secretly. And yet, creating some of the world's greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICCopies Available at Kingsley
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PICGregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREWinstead, Ashley
Summary: Eight years ago, Shay Evans and her friend escaped a cult. Now, as she searches for answers to her friend's death, Shay is consumed by her obsession to uncover the truth, and by darker desires newly reawakened.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction WinsteadEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLNordberg, Jenny.
Summary: An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden Afghan custom that will change your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. Expanding on her widely read New York Times article "Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part," in which she uncovered the phenomenon of bacha posh (literally "dressed up like a boy" in Dari), the practice of disguising and raising young girls as boys,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 305.3 NORGreen, Jane
Summary: "Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since college. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible. Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love, and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life forever. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARCGates, Melinda.
Summary: In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women's empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to 'turbo charge' change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference. A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates' journey from a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.42 GATSee, Lisa
Summary: The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China--perfect for fans of Sees classic Snowflower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women. According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: PA Fiction SeeRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: When her parents are imprisoned, Honey picks up her mother's packhorse library route to deliver books in remote Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't keen to let a woman pave her own way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction EwenRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RICMassey, Sujata
Summary: India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MASAttenberg, Jami
Summary: The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, everyone's lives soon take a dramatic turn. But they each learn that running from the past can't save you.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC ATTAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: New York, 1898. Three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC AUSSullivan, J. Courtney.
Summary: Celia, Bree, Sally, and April arrive at Smith College as four very different people. But the years bring them closer together, so once they graduate and face the real world, they realize they need each other more than ever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SULDonati, Sara
Summary: In nineteenth-century New York, women's advancement has brought out the worst in some men. Two trailblazing female doctors continue to aid disadvantaged women society wants to forget.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONLepore, Jill
Summary: A portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, reveals how she was, like her brother, a passionate reader, gifted writer, and shrewd political commentator who made insightful observations about early America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 MECOM, JANE LepStewart, Amy
Summary: As the Kopp sisters rally around their recently widowed sister-in-law and her children, Fleurette finds a solution: exciting, lucrative, and clandestine legal work for a former colleague of Constance's.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021