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 "Mrs. Dalloway"
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A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
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Featuring a new introduction, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from the land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she...
Book cover for "Snow flower and the secret fan"
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A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.