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Just For You! -- Fiction Women's Lives

Readers who enjoy a variety of stories about the lives of women should find something to pique their interests on this list.

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  • A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home to start a new life in America, She finds her dreams are not all that she expected.
    Book, 2013New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013. — FICTION ADICHIE
  • Passing is an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town…
    Book, 2003New York : Penguin Books, 2003. — FICTION LARSEN
  • 1987. The only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company - he is her godfather,…
    Book, 2013New York, New York : Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2013. — FICTION BRUNT
  • In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more…
    Book, 2017New York : Penguin Press, 2017. — FICTION NG
  • Agnes Shanklin is a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio who is still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic. She comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy…
    Large Print, 2008Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, 2008. — LP FICTION RUSSELL
  • 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
  • Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her…
    DVD, 2015Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2015] — DVD S
  • Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama.
    DVD, 2005Santa Monica, CA : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2005. — DVD C