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Just For You! -- Women's Lives in Fiction

Explore the lives of complicated, profound, heartbroken, tender, practical, funny and passionate women in these engaging titles.

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  • At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an immense real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a…
    Book, 2019[New York, NY] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION PATCHETT
  • It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — FICTION ERDRICH
  • Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930's, this is a story of raw courage, fierce strength and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere.
    Book, 2019Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019] — FICTION RICHARDSON
  • For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — FICTION OWENS
  • A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace in the cafeterias and…
    Book, 2015New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. — FICTION BERLIN
  • In this collection of short stories, Berlin showcased the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. She finds beauty in the darkest places... and darkness in the seemingly pristine.
    Book, 2018New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — FICTION BERLIN
  • In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is…
    DVD, 2003[Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002. — DVD H