Search Results

are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy Come As You Are is about the way women's sexuality works and why. how feelings are at the center of women's sexuality; and explain how women's sexuality is as varied

02 The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world A strange fellow offers to lead Ollie to Gwen. In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

gloriously unapologetic competitor, an emotionally closed off romantic partner, a dedicated daughter, and a woman And her dedicated manager Gwen is an inspiring, strong, independent woman who believes in any goal Carrie

There's an enormous career shift that felt an awful lot like a woman giving up a career for a guy, although As a former Mainer, I loved that the book was set in Maine, but I didn't get a strong sense of the place

One standout for me was the strength of the women in the face of men's abuses of power and physical cruelty gender roles and the reimagining of a rigid faith, marriage/child/parental/educational expectations for women , adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fascinating details of life at the a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three tumultuous days as the fiery, complex, capable women Donoghue immersed me so fully in the moment-by-moment health and emotional crises; the women's determined

Cora is a strong young ballet dancer when she meets her future husband, and it is excruciating to repeatedly

I was taken with the first half of this book--a rural cult, a teen mother, a strong female protagonist Self-pity from a man was something she could not abide, not when she had a woman's issues to deal with The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened

While Chelsey struggles to be patient with the young woman who is coping with layers of trauma, she realizes When she comes home alive, only Chelsey finds it strange that Ellie has left her captor and remains alive I also found it strange that Chelsey operated as a solo actor in the investigation to the extent she

dedicating themselves wholly to being submerged in magical waters and conveying their visions and dreams of Omens She starts to question the motivations of those with influence, including the Omens themselves. Lena, Valerie, and Bev are inexorably connected, and Valerie's survival depends upon the other two women's I love a Maine setting, a missing-persons story, and a tale of brave women thriving in a traditionally

The Books I'm Reading Now For my book club I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See's newest story of women in ancient China; I'm reading Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming 01 Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See No mud, no lotus. Lady Tan's Circle of Women is my first book club read of 2024, and wow, does this one start off with

company...but she and her grandmother are folded into what feels like an oddly tight-knit community of women about the premise of a sleek, powerful company serving as a front for a coven of witches pulling the strings

Eldest daughter Orsola Rosso is forbidden from working with glass because she's a woman. Mackenzie is a sports agent who's constantly fighting against misogyny and double standards as one of few women

Quinn's historical fiction offers the stories of multiple women in a females-only Washington, D.C. boardinghouse But none of the women is precisely as she seems.

regrets and irritations, and as a reader I was left wondering if much of it was driven by hormones and strong

This selection might be the perfect coffee-table perusal for the vinyl lover in your life. 06 The Only Woman by Immy Humes The Only Woman is made up of 100 group photographs, each showing a lone woman in a male-dominated present and from countries around the world, Hume highlights photos emphasizing the concept of "the only woman Visually striking, The Only Woman features unknown and famous women who are astronauts, conductors, writers

Yet she is strong enough to cut to the heart of tough situations and to sit within the pain of them-- a bookstore when it was first published in 1998, forgetting the title, remembering that it was two women's

robot-focused story (A Psalm for the Wild-Built), the newest novel by the fantastic Blake Crouch (Upgrade), a strange The strong, ruthless, intelligent women in Harrow the Ninth absolutely steal the show--which is saying The story is full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world--and of an unorthodox

Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery, it's 1817 in Edinburgh, and Hazel Sinnett is a young woman desperate to become something women in her time do not: a surgeon. But when she's kicked out of his lectures because she's a woman, she realizes a chance encounter with particularly inclined to search for opioid drug addicts like her--in fact, no one seems to believe the young woman

Cribb, Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy b y Karen Abbott, and Enemy Women It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed Black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time.

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her wholly independent network of magic, inheritance, bucking expectations, and pending danger for her strong

late grandmother, based on voicemails from and exchanges with with the formidable, fiercely loving woman She's reporting on the case of Meena, a Hindu woman who was brutally punished by her village and her Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's Rebecca Donner's nonfiction work All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days is The True Story of the American Woman

When she emigrates to New York City, she is befriended by two strong young sisters, Anne and Alma, and

manner in which Violet attempted to free herself from the shackles of marriage and the subsummation of a woman me of the measures taken by the main protagonist in another book I recently read, A Study of Scarlet Women

character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing women She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing women and girls the authorities haven't been able to find. Frankie travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change She cares about the women she's seeking, and she's not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions.

Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey This sci-fi thriller is about betrayal and revenge, but it's not the other-woman Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always complicated When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history

He is in love with and married to a wonderfully strong woman, Irene, "Attolia"--and she is the real power

In Young's story, loosely set in the world of her Fable series, strong young Bryn fights for her own I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world

Frankie and Zeke want to create something--something strange, something people will notice, yet something The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined Years of Lenni and Margot. 06 The Change by Kristen Miller The Change explores the power of menopausal women In Kristen Miller's novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges The tone of The Change is largely campy, as middle-aged women heroines unite against the book's sometimes

The friends-like-family element and deep loyalty is strong among the members of Jack's group, and the

hand, and dabbling in the Sami traditions of runes, poppets, or the playing of drums—or simply being a strong-willed woman helping to feed a village by manning fishing boats when the men are all lost—is enough to lead said to be humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring adventure, “nefarious company,” a town run by women The main protagonist Kristin is a headstrong woman, and she escapes a convent for love. Check.

not only helps rebuild communities destroyed by war, but along with her ambitious, inspired team of women for a book topic when she stumbles upon the bare-bones story of Jessie and the Cards, as the group of women

Hartnett evokes a sense of place so strong, the town felt like a character itself. Unlikely Animals is sweet and wonderfully strange, and Hartnett employs a light touch and thoughtful

Namesake is the second and, sadly, final book in Young's duology about the wonderfully strong, ruthless , clever young seafaring woman, Fable.

situation of trapped girls devolving into paranoia, mayhem, fury, and destruction, with a wonderfully strong thought the teen girls’ “magic” and their perception of it (and especially the perceptions of the men and women

I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently Big Swiss. 04 Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious letter--and by enormously important, recurring dilemmas for women through the ages: unexpected pregnancies parts of themselves away; she doesn't shy away from sharing the sometimes-tragic outcomes of pregnant women's

The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young woman Unsinkable. 05 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange Gwendoline has strong opinions and is feeling constricted in her prescribed royal role even without the

Kate is a tough young woman posing as a male cowboy. The women realize they may know too much about where the bodies are buried--literally--to be allowed I loved the women's complicated bonds, their crafty planning, their fights for justice, and their ability She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum.

series by Rachel Hartman; and I'm listening to Harrow the Ninth, the second in Tamsyn Muir's very dark, strange It's the perfect reentry to the wonderfully cheeky, strong, faulted character of Tess as she tries yet

Xishi is a beautiful young woman who makes her village in the region of Yue proud, for she will almost The ending is fanciful and strange; the tone of the book doesn't seem to be leading to a too-convenient This is epic but never melodramatic, and I was hooked on the Viking-esque elements, the badass women In the charming story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

Heather Webb In post-World War I London, female lawlessness in the form of the Forty Elephants gang of women the Elephant and Castle men's gang, butts up against law enforcement, which only recently includes women When the two aspiring women's bids for victory clash, traditional female roles and power structures may

and the rigid views of the period about women, marriage, sex, politics, public and private behavior—and between what feels frivolous and what is Ava's meaningful growth, including her important role in the women Meanwhile, privileged Charlotte has her own secrets, and when both women's true situations begin to be detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time.

can to help those in need--including giving away her own papers and ration cards to a hungry Jewish woman You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

This is epic but never melodramatic, and I was hooked on the Viking-esque elements, the badass women The friends-like-family element and deep loyalty is strong among the members of Jack's group, and the

This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to that haunts, challenges, and pushes them to take the form of a beast, whose presence only the bravest women I loved that brave women that drive the novel in both timelines. Lisa Barr is also the author of Woman on Fire , The Unbreakables , and Fugitive Colors .

01 Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian Bohjalian's newest book takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like young Mary Deerfield are suspicious and frequently considered dangerous.

And their mother Christine is strong-willed and a force within the family, yet she has barely extricated

I adored how Harrow intermingled the women's suffrage movement with the reemergence of witching and women's situations or dialogue distracted me from what felt like the heart of the story (the Eastwoods' helping women 02 The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong reading the Wicked Witch of the West story turned on its head as Maguire traced the origins of Elphaba, a strong-willed

Gwendoline has strong opinions and is feeling constricted in her prescribed royal role even without the

I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor

Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents favorite read of the month); How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu's fascinating, disturbing, strange 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams This was my favorite read of the month! In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American , she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young women