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Andersen, Christopher P.

Summary: Traces the family histories and controversies that have marked the lives of Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Cornwall, and the Duchess of Cambridge to illuminate their stark differences, their remarkable similarities, and their roles in an evolving monarchy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AND

Stone, Tanya Lee.

Summary: What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape, any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 STO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Stone

Elliot, Elisabeth

Summary: We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to him of all that I am and all that he wants me to be. In these days of conflicting demands and cultural pressures, what kind of woman do you...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 1976

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ Elliot

Tara, Sylvia

Summary: Blends historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to examine body fat as a critical endocrine organ that can be better understood and managed when recognized as a necessary component of human health.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu Tara

Miller, Kei

Summary: "In this moving, critical, and lyrical collection of essays, by the acclaimed Forward Prize winner, Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it-to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit-the crimes that haunt them,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MIL

Allmen, Tara

Summary: Addresses your questions and concerns about menopause with easy-to-understand information that is based on scientific evidence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.175 ALL

Allmen, Tara

Summary: "An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field. The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable--and can be unnerving. Menopause affects every aspect of life--from sex and sleep to mood and mental clarity to weight and body...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618 ALL

McGowan, Martina

Summary: "I Am the Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpoint of a Black woman in America. Dr. Martina McGowan is a retired MD, a mother, and a poet. Her poetry provides insights that no think piece on racism can;putting readers in the uncomfortable position of feeling, reflecting, and facing what it means to be a Black American. This entire collection...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MCG

Mercieca, Jennifer R.

Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MER

Mastromonaco, Alyssa

Summary: Presents a collection of personal reflections, essays, and interviews on topics of relevance to today's young women, from politics and careers to social media and relationships.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASTROMONACO, ALYSSA MAS

Shlesinger, Iliza

Summary: From the razor-sharp mind of comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a collection of hilarious and insightful essays about the exasperating issues of everyday life. All Things Aside is a punchy, honest, incisive book that shares a view of the world through the eyes of the inimitable Iliza Shlesinger. From the macro to micro, Shlesinger tackles it all with her no-bullshit comedic style. Throughout the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SHL

Walker, Alice

Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WAL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WAL

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