Strong Women and Girls Read
As we celebrate 100 years of empowering women and girls, the club is partnering with four local libraries to stock up on great books featuring some of the most awesome and inspiring female characters ever created. Head librarians at Monson, Palmer, Ludlow and Belchertown have provided us with an incredible list of books for youth, young adults and adults that they would obtain in honor of Zonta’s 100th birthday – each would include a tribute bookplate to Zonta and the Quaboag Valley Club – and feature in their individual libraries. While the libraries do purchase books with women role models, they are unable to do so on this scale. This is an opportunity to broaden our outreach in our local communities and highlight women and girls who refused to stay silent.
| Adult | A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts –Therese Fowler |
| Adult | A Woman of No Importance: The untold story of the American spy who helped win World War ll -Sonia Purnell |
| Adult | A Women’s Place: 50 women who made history in the kitchen. -Deepi Ahluwalia |
| Adult | Black is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother’s time, and mine -Emily Bernard |
| Adult | Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity by Karen Panetta |
| Adult | D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose |
| Adult | Dear Madam President : an Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World–Jennifer Palmiieri |
| Adult | Disrupt- her : a manifesto for the modern woman by Miki Agrawal |
| Adult | Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward—Valerie Jarrett |
| Adult | First: Sandra Day O’Connor—Evan Thomas |
| Adult | Forties On Fire: Honor Your Moods, Rediscover Your Sexuality, Thrive Throughout Your 40s by Kathryn Kos |
| Adult | Girl Stop Apologizing -Rachel Harris (Audio) |
| Adult | Goddess with Many Faces: Discover Your Archetypes to Transform Your Life by Sze Wing Vetault |
| Adult | Heart Solution for Women: A proven program to prevent and reverse heart disease – Mark Menolascino, MD |
| Adult | I’m Not Really a Waitress: How one woman took over the beauty industry….one color at a time -Suzi Weiss-Fischmann |
| Adult | In This Together: How Successful Women Support Each Other in Work and Life– Nancy D O’Reilly |
| Adult | Invisible: How young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships and the pressure to seem just fine -Michele Lent Hirsch |
| Adult | Kennedy Debutante –Kerri Maher |
| Adult | Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth (Revised Edition) (Revised) ~ Mika Brzezinski |
| Adult | Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls -T Kira Madden |
| Adult | Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History ~ Blair Imani |
| Adult | No one ever asked by Katie Ganshert |
| Adult | Old Baggage by Lissa Evans |
| Adult | On Being 40(ish)—Lindsey Mead |
| Adult | Outsiders: Five Women Writers who Changed the World—Lyndall Gordan |
| Adult | Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity ~ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf |
| Adult | She Wants It: Desire, Power and toppling the patriarchy -Jill Soloway |
| Adult | Shout -Laurie Halse Anderson (Audio) |
| Adult | Strong As a Mother: How to Stay Healthy, Happy, and (Most Importantly) Sane from Pregnancy to Parenthood: the Only Guide to Taking Care of You! by Kate Rope |
| Adult | The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A border story -Aaron Babrow-Strain |
| Adult | The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores–Diana Marcum |
| Adult | The Women’s Suffrage Movement -Ed. By Sally Roesch Wagner |
| Adult | Tilda’s Promise– Jean P. Moore |
| Adult | Trailblazer: A pioneering journalist’s fight to make the media look more like America -Dorothy Butler Gilman |
| Adult | Venturegirls: Raising Girls to be Tomorrow’s Leaders–Cristal Glangchai, PhD |
| Adult | What You Have Heard is True: a Memoir of Witness and Resistance—Carolyn Forche |
| Adult | Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age~ Mary Pipher |
| Adult | Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve—Jean Chatzky |
| Adult | Women: Our Story ~ DK |
| YA | A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good ~ Emma Gray |
| YA | Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World By Ann Shen |
| YA | Because I was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages by Melissa de la Cruz |
| YA | Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13 -Helaine Becker |
| YA | Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition ~ Margot Lee Shetterly |
| YA | Mary Wears What She Wants -Keith Negley |
| YA | Our stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America by Amy Reed |
| YA | Renegade Women in Film and TV. Elizabeth Weitzman |
| YA | Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote ~ Susan Zimet |
| YA | True : a novel — Karl Taro Greenfeld |
| YA | Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House – Molly Dillon |
| youth | A lady has the floor by Kate Hannigan |
| youth | Alabama spitfire by Bethany Hegedus |
| youth | Beautiful by Stacy McAnulty |
| youth | Beautiful Girl: Celebrating the Wonders of Your Body ~ Christiane Northrup |
| youth | Bloom by Doreen Cronin |
| youth | Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote ~ Kirsten Gillibrand |
| youth | Dear girl by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
| youth | Fearless Mary: The true adventures of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver -Tami Charles |
| youth | Good night stories for rebel girls 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo |
| youth | Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio |
| youth | Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan |
| youth | Hilda Must Be Dancing by Karma Wilson |
| youth | How High the Moon -Karyn Parsons |
| youth | I am Enough by Grace Byers & Keturah A. Bobo |
| youth | Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The woman who loved reptiles -Patricia Valdez |
| youth | Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World ~ Vashti Harrison |
| youth | Lola Dutch: When I grow up -Kenneth Wright |
| youth | Love, Hate, and other Filters -Samira Ahmed |
| youth | Mae Among the stars by Roda Ahmed |
| youth | Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire ~ Amy Guglielmo |
| youth | Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling built the Brooklyn Bridge -Rachel Dougherty |
| youth | She Believed She Could, So She Did: A Journal of Powerful Quotes from Powerful Women by Flora Waycott |
| youth | She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History ~ Chelsea Clinton |
| youth | Superheroes Are Everywhere ~ Kamala Harris |
| youth | The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self ~ Katty Kay |
| youth | The Moon Within -Aida Salazar |
| youth | The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller |
| youth | When Ruth Bader Ginsburg Chewed 100 Sticks of Gum by Mark Weakland & Daniela Volpari |