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Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Written in rhyme with young girls in mind, A Steminist Force is a rallying cry of rhythmic prose that celebrates female contributions in STEM fields across the world and throughout history. From mathematicians to meteorologists, from architects to astronauts, this book celebrates pioneering women's contributions to STEM fields across the world. With backmatter detailing each woman's individual contributions to her field, this colorful picture book...
Author
Series
Bergman brothers volume 7
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Viggo's chaotic life has made finding love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's romantic subplot. Viggo needs another pair of hands to keep his store afloat. So they agree to swap skills and cohabitate for convenience-his romance expertise to revive her book, her organizational prowess to salvage his store. They hardly get along, but who says roommate-coworkers...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Las mujeres vivimos más de un tercio de nuestra vida sin menstruar; pese a ello la menopausia y el climaterio son un gran desconocido para la mayoría de nosotras porque la experiencia de esta época ha sido un tabú que relacionábamos con la vejez y con el fin de la feminidad. Durante el climaterio el sistema hormonal se altera y causa cambios físicos y psicológicos, pese a ello, es una etapa que puede ser maravillosa, pero dependerá de nuestra...
5) The blackout
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 2022. When Meg and Cat are forced to take a dangerous shortcut home one night, they notice two men silently following them. Suddenly running for their lives, they scramble into an abandoned building to hide and wait for help. One year later. Attempting to escape the horrors of that fateful night, Meg barricades herself into a safehouse at the edge of a crumbling sea cliff. As a storm rages outside, a blackout plunges the house into darkness....
6) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia...
8) Pura Belpré
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Pura Belpré se mudó de Puerto Rico a la ciudad de Nueva York y se hizo bibliotecaria en un momento en que las bibliotecas estaban llenas de sólo libros en inglés. Pero ella sabía que a las personas hispanohablantes también les encantaría poder ir a las bibliotecas, por lo que persistió en implementar programas y libros bilingües en las bibliotecas de toda la ciudad. Ella también escribía sus propias historias y tradujo cuentos puertorriqueños...
9) The Q
Author
Publisher
Rhysdon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Can Quincy St. Claire keep the Q? A dying man with a scheme. A charming smuggler one step ahead of the law. A former foundling with a mangled hand. A family of kingmakers. A printing tycoon. A constable on the trail of justice. An idealistic solicitor with secrets of his own. And the genius at the center of it all, Quincy St. Claire.
Author
Language
English
Description
Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She's even scored a coveted spot in the writers' room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer's block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. LA is the fresh...
Author
Publisher
Helvetiq
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
By illuminating the struggles women have undergone -- and are still undergoing in some places -- in order to have a vote, readers will learn about the reasons women have demanded a voice in society, the ways they have been silenced, and the issues that make it crucial they have representation.
13) She's not sorry
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Continuing this propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman once persecuted by the Taliban shares her journey to becoming a community activist. As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends...
15) Carli Lloyd
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the soccer career of Carli Lloyd with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
16) Serena Williams
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the tennis career of Serena Williams with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
17) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
18) Waitress
Publisher
Bleeker Street
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. A potential pregnancy and a handsome stranger provide further challenges. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, she decides to compete for the $25,000 prize.
19) Off the air
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments-anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo-and special projects. Stories that take more time to research and produce. Stories that Jolene wants to tell. When word gets out about a death at a radio station, Jolene and other journalists swarm the scene, intent on reporting the facts first. The body is soon identified as...
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