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Book
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Author
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Location
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Description
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Bootstrapper
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Link, Mardi Jo
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630.92 LIN
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Over the course of one long year, the author holds on to
her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure and finds her way back to a life
of meaning.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
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Kippel, Lily
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629.45 KOP
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The real story of the women who stood beside some of the
biggest heroes in American history.
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Rise of the Rocket Girls
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Holt, Nathalia
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629.13 HOL
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The story of the women that became the first computer
programmers and engineers who charted a course for the future of space
exploration.
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When Everything Changed
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Collins, Gail
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305.409 COL
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Columnist covers the changes in women’s lives from the
1960s to current day.
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Priestdaddy
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Lockwood, Patricia
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92 LOC
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Irreverent poet’s memoir about her upbringing as the
daughter of a Catholic priest.
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Call the Nurse
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MacLeod, Mary J.
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610.73 MAC
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Nurse on remote Scottish island tells stories of her
work.
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Sisters First
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Bush, Barbara Pierce and Jenna Bush Hager
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920 BUS
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Former first daughters tell of their lives in the White
House and out of the White House.
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Bunny Mellon
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Gordon, Meryl
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361.74 GOR
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Biography of a trend-setting American style icon.
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Jane Austen at Home
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Worsley, Lucy
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92 AUS
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Biography examines how and why Austen lived as she did
and uncovers a passionate woman who fought for her freedom.
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What Happened
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Clinton, Hillary
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328.73 CLI
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Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during
the 2008 presidential campaign.
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The Orphan Master
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Zimmerman, Jean
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FIC ZIM
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Blandine van Couvering is orphaned in New Amsterdam but
becomes a rising young trader in a colony that will become known as
Manhattan.
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My Notorious Life
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Manning, Kate
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FIC MAN
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Set in the 1860s and based on the true story of a female
physician called the “Wickedest Woman in New York”.
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Wicked
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Maguire, Gregory
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FIC MAG
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The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
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Jaswal, Balli Kaur
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FIC JAS
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A lively, sexy and thought-provoking East-meets-West
story about women’s lives.
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Circling the Sun
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McLain, Paula
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FIC MCL
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Aviator Beryl Markham is the subject of this historical
fiction.
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Miss New India
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Mukherjee, Bharati
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FIC MUK
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A young Indian
woman confronts the confines of class, caste and gender.
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The Red Tent
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Diamant, Anita
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FIC DIA
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The biblical story of Dinah imagined in a novel.
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Georgia
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Tripp, Dawn
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FIC TRI
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Keefe’s quest to become an independent artist and woman.
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The Wages of Sin
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Welsh, Kaite
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FIC WEL
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Set in Edinburgh in 1892, a young woman struggles
against family and society to become a doctor.
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A Short History of Women
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Walbert, Kate
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FIC WAL
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Walbert portrays the ways in which successive
generations of women have responded to what Victorians called “The Woman
Question”.
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