The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
In 1990s Charleston, book club mom Patricia Campbell suspects charming newcomer James Harris is a vampire preying on neighborhood children.
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The Power
Girls gain electric skeins and the world reorders through four witnesses.
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Girl, Woman, Other
Twelve Black British women and girls link across years and cities, anchored by playwright Amma on her National Theatre premiere night.
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Girl, Interrupted
In 1967, 18-year-old Susanna enters McLean Hospital for two years on a ward, probing sane versus insane.
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Lean In
Sit at the table, negotiate, share home load, and change offices while knowing advice skews elite.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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The Invention of Wings
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield seeks work and love in Wessex, but assault and harsh judgment follow her from Marlott to Stonehenge.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway gives a London party across one June day while veteran Septimus Smith faces shell shock in the same city.
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The Testaments
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
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the sun and her flowers
Kaur follows love and loss through wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming in short illustrated poems.
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
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Yes Please
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying…
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The Color Purple
Celie writes letters to God and to her sister, surviving abuse in the rural South to find her own voice.
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milk and honey
Kaur's illustrated debut moves through hurting, loving, breaking, and healing in short lowercase poems.
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The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood wins a New York internship that should feel bright, then sinks into depression at home. Plath's 1963 novel follows her breakdown, treatment,…
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Circe
Exiled witch Circe masters plant magic on Aiaia, faces gods and monsters, loves Odysseus, and chooses a mortal life.
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Bossypants
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes about work and…
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The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale retold: Offred in Gilead, the Commander, Serena Joy, Mayday, and the van.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry retold: Elizabeth Zott fired, TV cooking with science, Six-Thirty helps.
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