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The Women of Biafra

The Women of Biafra
  • Author(s): Onyeka Nwelue
  • Location(s): Biafra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

During the conflict, which was characterized by severe humanitarian crises, including widespread famine and displacement, the Women of Biafra became central figures in supporting their communities. They engaged in various forms of activism and support, ranging from organizing relief...

The Women of the Copper Country

The Women of the Copper Country
  • Author(s): Mary Doria Russell
  • Location(s): Michigan, Calumet
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1913

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 copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had...

The Women of Wild Hill

The Women of Wild Hill
  • Author(s): Kirsten Miller
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s always three, isn’t it? Three furies, three fates, three graces. Science still has no explanation for the number three, but women instinctively feel its power. We don’t know why three works, but we know it does. Three is...

The Women Who Ran Away

The Women Who Ran Away
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Deira isn’t the kind of woman to steal a car. Or drive to France alone with no plan. But then, Deira didn’t expect to be single. Or to suddenly realise that the only way she can get the one...

The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave

The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave
  • Author(s): Victoria Scott
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two women. A community under threat. Can they save their home? In the peaceful Worcestershire village of Stonecastle, Matilda Reynolds lives a quiet, contented life with her animals for company. Then a fall lands her in hospital, and she...

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
  • Author(s): Fannie Flagg
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered, hometown memories, and the magical moments in ordinary lives, from the beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad...

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • Author(s): Selma Lagerlöf, Thea Kliros (illustrator), Velma Swanston Howard (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909  — the first woman to be so honored — Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) was a gifted storyteller whose writings were often tinged with the supernatural and rooted in the...

The Wonderland Murders

The Wonderland Murders
  • Author(s): Millie Ravensworth
  • Location(s): Framlingham
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Penny returns to her home town of Framlingham when her grandma is ill and asks her to ruin her sewing shop. Her cousin Izzy is working there and they need to figure out their working relationship as well as...

The Wonga Coup

The Wonga Coup
  • Author(s): Adam Roberts
  • Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief...

The Wood Wife

The Wood Wife
  • Author(s): Terri Windling
  • Location(s): Tucson, Arizona
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1990s

A magical realist novel set in the Rincon Mountains of Tucson, Arizona, involing poetry, art and the mythic spirits of the desert. (I bought my copy in the shop of the Tucson Desert Museum.) The author has won 9...

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