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• Women's History Month 2025

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  The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating.

• Women's History Month | National Women's History Museum

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  Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

• Good Girl

  Aber, Aria

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  Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin's legendary night life, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Widow Spy

  Campisi, Megan, 1976-

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  Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warner is many things: the country's first female detective, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homeseeking

  Chen, Karissa

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  Separated by war and reunited after 60 years, Haiwen and Suchi navigate decades of love, loss and survival across continents, as their shared past clashes with their hopes for a second chance at life.

• Where Are You Really From

  Stories

  Chou, Elaine Hsieh

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  In these eight singular stories that pivot seamlessly from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our unspoken desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wilderness

  Flournoy, Angela

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  Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Not About Us

  Goodman, Allegra

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  Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Do Not Part

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  One morning in December, Kyungha receives a message from her friend Inseon saying she has been hospitalized in Seoul and asking that Kyungha join her urgently. The two women have last seen each other over a year before, on Jeju Island, where Inseon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kin

  Jones, Tayari

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  An unforgettable novel about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

• The Lion Women of Tehran

  Kamali, Marjan

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  In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters in Yellow

  Kawakami, Mieko

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  From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs , comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. Hana has nothing - she's fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bright Young Women

  Knoll, Jessica

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  The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dream Hotel

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  From Laila Lalami-the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)-comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Persians

  Mahloudji, Sanam, 1977-

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  Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goddess Complex

  Sathian, Sanjena

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  Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It's been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Skin & Bones

  Watson, Renée

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  At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life--between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world. Unmoored and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seven Daughters of Dupree

  Williams, Nikesha Elise

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  It's 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, keeps her secrets close, while her grandmother Gladys remains silent about the family's past, including why she left Land's End,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maggie

  Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

  Yee, Katie

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  A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel, "as playful as it is profound A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking at Women Looking at War

  a War and Justice Diary

  Amelina, Viktorii︠a︡

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  Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful look at the courage of resistance When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she…Read moreRead more of this annotation