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The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual. By Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider. July 2024. 192p. New Press, $24.99 (9781620978542); e-book (9781620978719). 370. Public schools, long accepted [...]

If We Ever Get There. By Laura Barrow. June 2024. 332p. Amazon/Lake Union, paper, $16.99 (9781662519048); e-book (9781662519055). Effie's carefully built world fractures when her unfaithful husband asks for a […]

The Book of Thorns. By Hester Fox. Apr. 2024. 304p. Graydon, paper, $18.99 (9781525812019); e-book (9780369747938). Two sisters, unaware of each other, live very different lives though united by the [...]

Make College Your Superpower: It's Not Where You Go, It's What You Know. By Anna Esaki-Smith. Apr. 2024. 240p. Rowman & Littlefield, $30 (9781538184103); e-book (9781538184110). 378.1. Many college guides [...]

Balancing Act. By Emily March. Nov. 2023. 368p. Forever, paper, $18.99 (9781538707401); e-book (9781538707425). Willow has come to her mother's Colorado resort for the summer. Recently widowed, she is in [...]

October in the Earth. By Olivia Hawker. Oct. 2023. 332p. Amazon/Lake Union, $28.99 (9781662511080); e-book (9781662511103). In Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931, hardscrabble life worsens because of a miners' strike. [...]

The House on Sun Street. By Mojgan Ghazirad. Oct. 2023. 325p. Blair, $27.95 (9781958888100). Six-year-old Moji is living in Tehran when the Islamic Revolution begins. Her father, a retired soldier [...]

Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education. By Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor. June 2023.320p. Ballantine, $28 (9780593359761); e-book (9780593359778). 371.82209581092. Readers see some [...]

The Paris Daughter. By Kristin Harmel. June 2023.384p. Gallery, $28.99 (9781982191702); e-book (9781982191726). In a complex story of love and redemption, the lives of three women and their children are [...]

Adrift. By Lisa Brideau. May 2023.352p. Sourcebooks/Landmark, paper, $16.99 (9781728265681); e-book (9781728265704). In the near future, a woman wakes on a sailboat, ill and disoriented. When she looks in the [...]

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. By Hester Fox. Apr. 2023.336p. Graydon, paper, $17.99 (9781525804786). Ivy, orphaned and near destitute from her losses in WWI and its aftermath, finds herself [...]

Very Superstitious: 100 Superstitions from around the World. By Willow Winsham. 2022.224p. Welbeck, $16.95 (9781802795011). 130. Even the most rational individuals will occasionally display some form of superstition. Step on [...]

The Fire and the Ore. By Olivia Hawker. Oct. 2022. 400p. Amazon/Lake Union, $24.95 (9781662504198); e-book, $4.99 (9781542037082). In the 1850s, Utah (or Deseret) and the new Mormon faith were [...]

The Color of Ice. By Barbara Linn Probst. Oct 2022.320p. She Writes, paper, $17.95 (9781647422592). Cathryn, 15 years a widow with two supposedly adult children, is a photographer of other [...]

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain. By Margaret Willson. Sept. 2022.416p. Sourcebooks, paper, $16.99 (9781728240053). 914.9. Woman, Captain, Rebel skillfully combines anthropology, history [...]

Flight Risk. By Joy Castro. Nov. 2021. 352p. Amazon/Lake Union, paper, $14.95 (9781542031929). What does it do to someone to live a lie, or at least a life filled with [...]

The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream. By Jeannie Zusy. Sept. 2022.320p. Atria, $27 (9781982185381). There is nothing like family to fuel resentment, guilt, responsibility, and, of course, love. Ginny, [...]

Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides. By Geoffrey L. Cohen. Sept. 2022.448p. Norton, $30 (9781324006183). 302.5. Stanford professor Cohen has not written an easy-read self-help volume but [...]

Home So Far Away. By Judith Berlowitz. June 2022.352p. illus. She Writes, paper, $17.95 (9781647423759). In an emotionally compelling and historically accurate fictionalized diary, Berlowitz uses Klara as a stand-in [...]

Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination. Ed. by Jenny Tough. June 2022. 208p. illus. IPG/Summersdale, paper, $11.99 (9781787833005). 910.9252. In first-person narrated essays, 22 women from [...]

Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America By Polly Price. May 2022.272p. Beacon, $28.95 (9780807043493). 320. Despite what the nightly news may say, there is really nothing completely new [...]

Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India. By Jyoti Thottam. Apr. 2022. 384p. Viking, $28 (9780525522355). 362. This is a story of India, starting [...]

The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria. By Edmund Richardson. Apr. 2022. 352p. St. Martin's, $29.99 (9781250278593). 932. In 1827, James Lewis, [...]

The Secret Letter. By Debbie Rix. Jan. 2022.432p. Grand Central, paper, $12.99 (9781538708330). In 2018, an unexpected letter arriving on Imogen's London doorstep opens up longstored memories of WWII. What [...]

Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: A Guide to Decluttering, Downsizing, and Moving Forward. By Matt Paxton. Feb. 2022.320p. Penguin/Portfolio, paper, $24 (9780593418970). 648. Who hasn't yearned for some really [...]

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. Ed. by Linda De Roche. 4v. 2021.1,348p. ABC-CLIO, $449 (9781440853586). 810.9. In a nicely produced four-volume set, ABC-CLIO gives researchers information on twentieth [...]

Sexual Harassment and Misconduct: An Encyclopedia. Ed. by Gina Robertiello. 2021.395p. ABC-CLI0, $97 (9781440866081). 305.42. This new resource from ABC-CLIO is a concise reference on a hot topic. The editor [...]

Murder Gets a Makeover. By Laura Levine. Oct. 2021. 240p. Kensington, $26 (9781496728135); e-book, $22 (9781496728159). In her eighteenth outing (after Death of a Gigilo, 2019), freelance writer Jaine Austen [...]

We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Second Wave. By Patricia Romney. Oct. 2021. 320p. illus. Feminist, paper, $19.95 (97819521778281. 940.54. Romney explains that, in 1970, the [...]

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller. By Nadia Wassef. Oct. 2021. 240p. Farrar, $27 (97803746001811. 962. In 2002, the author and her sisters founded Diwan, a multilingual, multicultural bookstore [...]

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive. By Lucy Adlington. Sept. 2021.400p. Harper, paper, $17.99 (9780063030930). 940.53. After all that has been told [...]

Windswept: On the Path of Trailblazing Women. By Annabel Abbs. Sept. 2021.320p. Tin House, $26.95 (9781951142704). 910. In a book that combines biography, autobiography, meditation, and feminist tract, readers follow [...]

Once More to the Sky: The Rebuilding of the World Trade Center. By Scott Raab and Joe Woolhead. Aug. 2021. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $35 (9781982176143). 974.7. In honor of [...]

Trailblazing Women! Amazing Americans Who Made History. By Deborah G. Felder. 2021. 256p. illus. Visible Ink, paper, $16.95 (9781578597291). 920. The biographies included here are short--most are three to five [...]

Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires. By Jaime Lowe. July 2021. 272p. Farrar, $27 (9780374116187). 628.9. The California penal system allows prisoners to train [...]

Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color. By Kai Kupferschmidt. Tr. by Mike Mitchell. June 2021. 224p. illus. Experiment, $24.95 (9781615197521). 535.6. In 2009, scientist Mas Subraminian discovered a new [...]

Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet. By Chelsea Wald. Apr. 2021. 288p. Avid Reader, $27 (9781982116217). 696. There are jokes to be made on the topic [...]

Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice. By Emily Midorikawa. May 2021. 336p. illus. Counterpoint, $27 (9781640092303). 133.9092. In the Victorian era, playing [...]

The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work. By Jessica Bacal. Apr. 2021. 288p. Plume, paper, [...]

The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed. By Wendy Lower. Feb. 2021.272p. HMH, $28 (9780544828698). 940.53. An evocative picture does more than replace the proverbial number of [...]

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. By Elizabeth Becker. Feb. 2021.320p. PublicAffairs, $28 (9781541768208). 070.4. The Vietnam War, ancient history to some, is still [...]

To the Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth. By Vanessa O'Brien. Mar. 2021.368p. illus. Atria/Emily Bestler, $27 (9781982123789). 790. It would seem that the [...]

Voting Rights in America: A Reference Handbook. By Richard A. Glenn and Kyle L. Kreider. 2020.379p. illus. ABC-CLIO, $63 (9781440870927). 324.6. Is there any topic more in-demand than voting in [...]

Big Kibble: The Hidden Dangers of the Pet Food Industry and How to Do Better by Our Dogs. By Shawn Buckley and others. Nov. 2020. 320p. St. Martin's, $27.99 (9781250260055); [...]

Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth. By Scott James. Oct. 2020. 384p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $29.99 (97812501312831; e-book, $14.99 (9781250131270). [...]

The Language of Liberty: A Citizen's Vocabulary. By Edwin C. Hagenstein. Oct. 2020.300p. Rootstock, paper, $18.95 (9781578690350); e-book (9781578690367). 320. Politics, political statements, and related terminology dominate the news these [...]

Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches: Scottish Women to Live Your Life By. By Mairi Kidd. Sept. 2020. 224p. IPG/Black & White, $24.95 (9781785302367). 941. Many historical accounts leave [...]

* Crooked Hallelujah. By Kelli Jo Ford. July 2020. 304p. Grove, $26 (9780802149121). Ford, a Plimpton Prize--winning author and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, tells a blistering Own [...]

Earth Almanac: Nature's Calendar for Year-Round Discovery. By Ken Keffer. Illus. by Jeremy Collins. 2020. 256p. Mountaineers/Skipstone, paper, $24.95 (9781680512823); e-book (9781680512830). 508.7. Beginning with the winter solstice, this entertaining [...]

Love Letters from Montmartre. By Nicolas Barreau. May 2020. 268p. Arcade, $24.99 (9781950691524). Julien experiences paralytic grief after the death of his wife Helene. Their four-year-old, Arthur, is the only [...]