Women's History Month- Adult | McKinney Public Libraries

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"For the past two years women and girls in a Mennonite colony have been repeatedly violated in the night by 'demons' coming to punish them for their sins. Now the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. Determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm, the women meet while the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists...

2) Women rowing north: navigating life's currents and flourishing as we age

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Pipher, Mary Bray

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Publisher Annotation: Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience...

3) The women's march: a novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women's March, an enthralling historical novel of the women's suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote. Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes,...

4) Women & money

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Orman, Suze

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"Why is it that women have such a complicated, dysfunctional relationship with money? Straight-talking money guru Suze Orman equips us with the knowledge and confidence needed to overcome the mental and emotional blocks and take control of our financial destinies. At the heart of the book is the all-new Save Yourself Plan, a super-clear, pragmatic, streamlined path to durable financial security. This revised edition includes fully up-to-date information...

5) Women writers at work: the Paris review interviews

6) Women we buried, women we burned: a memoir

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Snyder, Rachel Louise

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An award-winning journalist, in a story of family struggle, female survival, and the passionate drive to bear witness, relates her personal journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of violence against women.

7) Women who think too much: how to break free of overthinking and reclaim your life

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Nolen-Hoeksema, Susan

8) Women without kids: the revolutionary rise of an unsung sisterhood

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Warrington, Ruby

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"Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of everything it means not to be a mom"-- Provided by publisher.

9) Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype

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Estés, Clarissa Pinkola

10) Women of the Bible: a visual guide to their lives, loves, and legacy

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Smith, Carol

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Illustrated Bible handbook

11) women on waves a cultural history of surfing from

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12) women of valor the rochambelles on the wwii front

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13) The women of the copper country: a novel

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Russell, Mary Doria

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In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man...

14) women with silver wings the inspiring true story o

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15) The women's house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison

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Ryan, Hugh

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"The Women's House of Detention, Greenwich Village's most forbidding and forgotten queer landmark, stood from 1929 to 1974, imprisoning tens of thousands from all over New York City. The little-known stories of the queer women and trans-masculine people incarcerated in this building present a uniquely queer argument for prison abolition. The "House of D" acted as a nexus, drawing queer women down to Greenwich Village from every corner of the city....

16) The women of Duck Commander: surprising insights from the women behind the beards about what makes this family work

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Robertson, Kay

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Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.

17) The women of Troy: a novel

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Barker, Pat

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Publisher Annotation: Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war--including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel....

18) The women's small business start-up kit 2020: a step-by-step legal guide

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Pakroo, Peri

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"This book is a guide for women interested in starting or running a small business. It covers how to: draft a business plan; raise start-up money, including through crowdfunding; choose a legal structure and hire employees; manage finances and taxes; qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses; and market and brand a business online and off. This book also contains interviews with successful women business owners,...

19) Three women

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Taddeo, Lisa

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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

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It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result, Three Women, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire...

20) Resistance women

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

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One of BookBub's best historical novels of the year and Oprah magazine's buzziest books of the month. From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American-Mildred Fish Harnack-and her circle of women friends who waged a clandestine battle against Hitler in Nazi Berlin. After Wisconsin...