Browsing: Notable Women

An NPR Best Book of the Year: Ariel Levy chronicles her experience with devastating tragedy in this must-read New York Times bestseller. “Unflinching and intimate, wrenching and revelatory… Shimmers with truth and heart on every page” (Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild).

“A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions” (O, The Oprah Magazine): When 60-year-old Meredith moved to Los Angeles for a long-overdue fresh start, she began a courageous journey of reinvention. “Absorbing, beautiful” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline).

AN INSTANT BESTSELLER! E.K. Blair delivers a razor-sharp story, tangled in lust, heartbreak, and contrition.She’s an author.She’s a mother.She’s a…

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017! Although Elizebeth Smith Friedman was one of World War II’s greatest codebreakers, her story has not yet been told. An integral player in shaping modern intelligence, Elizebeth led a life that “should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie” (The New York Times).

A journalist in Nazi-occupied Paris, Nancy Wake worked as a spy for Allied forces and was notorious among the Gestapo for evading their clutches. In this stirring biography, learn about the heroic woman called “the white mouse” by her enemies.

On the eve of World War II, two young London women launched a daring new business as matchmakers. Drawing from newspaper articles and interviews, this charming read brings their true story to life in “a breezy social history for readers interested in tales of a bygone age” (Library Journal).

Motherhood: Lost and Found takes the reader on a journey where Alzheimer’s disease and infertility intersect. At age 33, award-winning…

This “intimate” dual biography (The Washington Post) delves into the relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok. “Poignant… Combining exhaustive research with emotional nuance, Quinn dives deep” (The Wall Street Journal).

When General John Daniel Rourke is left for dead, schoolmistress Catherine Fitzgerald saves his life and the two begin to fall in love in the midst of war. But Catherine has a secret — she’s actually an heiress!

In this “astoundingly lighthearted book” (The New York Times), Betty MacDonald shares her stirring, hilarious story about the trials of moving to a small chicken farm in the Washington wilderness. With over 2,400 five-star ratings on Goodreads!