Garmus, Bonnie
Summary: "Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARHeti, Sheila
Summary: "A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOODeMeester, Kristi
Summary: "A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHIKoppelman, Amy
Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPBrown, Natasha
Summary: "The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLindley, C. Michelle
Summary: "Art historian, Elizabeth Clarke, is sent to a remote island in Southern Greece to acquire a rare female nude sculpture for a Los Angeles collection. Disoriented by time zones, migraines, and suspicious details surrounding the figure's discovery, she's dependent on her flirtatious but guileless translator. The last thing she expects is to be so pulled to his wife, Theo, a subversive artist who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Korn, Gabrielle
Summary: "The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF KORDorn, Anna
Summary: Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer's group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leaves her and her career lightly canceled. But she temporarily forgets all that by throwing herself into a few sexy distractions, like Ivy, a grad...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Taddeo, Lisa
Summary: Joan has spent her life enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one commits shocking violence in front of her, she searches for the one person alive who can help her make sense of the past and forge the power to strike back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TADTepper, Sheri S.
Summary: In a futuristic society where the sexes are separated, men are warriors, and women cultivate the arts, Stavia disobeys the group's prohibitions by loving a man forbidden to her, setting the stage for a momentous decision.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEPWolitzer, Meg
Summary: Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer- madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOLSummary: In this retelling of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Kathy, deemed "too sensitive for her own good" and told to control herself, is confined to a child's bedroom with barred windows and garish decor by her well-meaning husband. As the enforced idleness of a rest cure begins to drive her mad, Kathy imagines there is someone imprisoned within the wallpaper, and she works to set...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
View online at AVOD
Pataki, Allison
Summary: "An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller--America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATWang, M. L. (Maya Lin)
Summary: "The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021