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Valenti, Jessica
He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? 219 p. 2008
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Alban, Andrea
Anya's War
In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. Based on the author's family history.
188 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Ali, Nujood
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
The true story of the remarkable 10-year-old Yemeni girl who dared to defy her country's most archaic traditions by fighting for a divorce.
188 p. 2010
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Atwood, Kathryn J.
Women Heroes of World War II : 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work--sabotage, weapons transference, and assassinations. In these pages, young readers will meet these and many other similarly courageous women and girls who risked their lives to help defeat the Nazis.
266 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Bradbury, Jennifer
Wrapped
Seventeen-year-old Agnes Wilkins is about to make her debut into 1815 London society at a lavish party, where she meets Lord Showalter, a wealthy and eligible man who collects Egyptian antiquities and who is hiding a dangerous secret.
309 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Bradley, C. Alan
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
373 p. 2009
Adult Mystery Book
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Bray, Libba
Beauty Queens
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
396 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Brzezinski, Mika
Knowing Your Value : Women Money and Getting What You're Worth
Interviews a number of prominent women--including comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, and TV personality Joy Behar--to reveal how all women can achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth in the modern professional world.
194 p. 2010
Adult Nonfiction Book
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Bunce, Elizabeth C.
A Curse as Dark as Gold
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. The folklore and folk magic illustrated here is partly based on tradition and the story of Rumpelstiltskin.
395 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Cashore, Kristin
Graceling
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
471 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Chayil, Eishes
Hush
After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.
359 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Chevalier, Tracy
Remarkable Creatures
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot.
312 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Chibbaro, Julie
Deadly
In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever.
293 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Colman, Penny
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : a Friendship That Changed the World
A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
256 p. 2011
Children's Nonfiction Book
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Dagg, Carole Estby
The Year We Were Famous
A novel based on the true story of seventeen-year-old Clara Estby's walk across America with her mother Helga in 1896, to win a ten thousand dollar prize and save their home from foreclosure.
250 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Dickinson, Peter
The Ropemaker
When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast those spells.
375 p. 2001
Teen Fiction Book
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Doctorow, Cory
For the Win
A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.
475 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Donnelly, Jennifer
Revolution
When an angry, grieving musician faces expulsion from her private school, she travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution.
471 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Eagland, Jane
Wildthorn
Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
350 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Engle, Margarita
The Surrender Tree : Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Poems that explore Cuba's fight for independence follow Rosa, a nurse who turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her, and where she does her best to help everyone, with no regard to race or nationality.
169 p. 2008
Teen Nonfiction Book
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Ensler, Eve
Insecure at Last: Losing it in Our Security-obsessed World
From the bestselling author of "The Vagina Monologues" comes an illuminating, provocative look at America's obsession with security in a post-9/11 world--and how people can experience freedom and true fulfillment by letting it go.
202 p. 2006
Adult Nonfiction Book
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