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Women's History Month is an opportunity to celebrate the successes of the women - past and present - who challenge the status quo to impact our history, culture, and society. It's also a time to look to the women of tomorrow - our daughters, granddaughters, and nieces - who will continue the good fight and create a brighter future. Join us on March 22 at 6:30 pm as we explore "Women of Tomorrow: Stark County and Beyond" with a group of successful women from Stark County. They will share stories, experiences, and insights from their lives and career journeys. We hope you enjoy these titles celebrating noteworthy women selected just for you, that bring 'her-story' to life!
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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. With the Great Depression, 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. 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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Brown girls : a novel
by Daphne Palasi Andreades
This remarkable, deeply moving story brings you deep into the hearts and souls of a tight-knit group of friends--girls growing up in Queens, where the streets sprawl for miles and echo with voices from all over the world, and the scent of bubbling oil, chopped garlic, and grilled meats waft through open windows as night comes to the neighborhood. Here Nadira, Mae, Trish, and Aisha become friends for life--or so they vow. Together they learn to survive all that the street throws at them--schoolyard bullies, clueless teachers, and the leering gaze of men who trail behind them wherever they walk. Exuberant and wild, they are daughters of immigrants from different diasporas, but in Queens their backgrounds blur and blend. But the years go by, and their own adulthood nears, choices must be made about their futures. Cracks and fissures form as some find themselves drawn to the allure of other skylines, beckoned by lovers and jobs foreign to what they knew back home. Some of the girls become wives and mothers to a new generation of brown girls; while others embark on a migration baffling to the generation before them, journeying back to the countries their parents fled for the 'better life' in America.
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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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Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all
by Martha S. Jones
According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha Jones offers a sweeping history of African American women's political lives in America, recounting how they fought for, won, and used the right to the ballot and how they fought against both racism and sexism. Revealing the ways Black women remained independent in their ideas and their organization, Jones shows how Black women were again and again the American vanguard of women's rights, setting the pace in the quest for justice and collective liberation.
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Lawbreaking ladies : 50 tales of daring, defiant, and dangerous women from history
by Erika Owen
Discover 50 fascinating tales of female pirates, fraudsters, gamblers, bootleggers, serial killers, madams, and outlaws in this illustrated book of lawbreaking and legendary women throughout the ages. Many of us are familiar with the popular slogan "Well-behaved women seldom make history." But that adage is taken to the next level in this book, which looks at women from the past who weren't afraid to break the law or challenge gender norms. Lawbreaking Ladies serves as an engaging and informative guide to gals who were daring, defiant, and sometimes downright dangerous fascinating, illustrated book featuring brief biographies and trivia about remarkable yet little-known female lawbreakers through the ages
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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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Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother's death.
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Heroic Women of the Art World : Risking It All for Art
by Eugene H. Pool
In-depth portraits of 15 daring women artists from the Renaissance to the present includes coverage of the lives and achievements of such genre masters as Augusta Savage, Frida Kahlo and Annie Leibowitz.
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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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