Women's History Month for Adults

Materials about, for, and pertaining to women, women's history, historical or significant female figures

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Book cover for "The Joy Luck Club"
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Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish—and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation creates among the women an urgent

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Book cover for "On my own"
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"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Book cover for "Tell the wolves I'm home"
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Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.
Book cover for "To the lighthouse"
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An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.