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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1. The Alice Network

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Author:
Quinn, Kate
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
"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.

2. Circe: a novel

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Author:
Miller, Madeline
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.

3. The Island of Sea Women: a novel

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Author:
See, Lisa
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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...

4. Magic lessons

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
Series:
Practical magic novels
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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"--

5. Mexican Gothic

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Author:
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico."--

6. The pull of the stars: a novel

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Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Average Rating:
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.

7. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie: a Flavia de Luce mystery

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series:
Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
It is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest...