Seasonal Spotlight: Fierce Women Leads

Strong female characters take the lead in these books that cross genres to include historical fiction, fantasy, mystery and romance.

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"Two women--a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947--are brought together in a ... story of courage and redemption"--Amazon.com.
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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"In [a] ... novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, ... author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic"--
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3.6 stars
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A novel set in 1918 Dublin offers a three-day look at a maternity ward during the height of the Great Flu pandemic.
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"Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been...