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      -- One hundred Canadian heroines.
      By Forster, Merna
       c2004., Dundurn Group Call No: 920.72 F756o    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Meet some remarkable women in Canadian history, from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. Women who made significant achievements in science, sport, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and many other fields."--BOOK JACKET.
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      By Awad, Mona
       2021., Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Awa    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When an accident ended Miranda Fitch's acting career, she was left with chronic pain, a failed marriage, and a dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director as well. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead.
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      By Hilderbrand, Elin
       2008., Back Bay Books Call No: Fic Hil   Edition: 2022 Back Bay reissue edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women -- two sisters and one friend -- make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's infidelity and then her own pregnancy; Brenda embarked on a passionate affair with an older student that got her fired from her prestigious job as a professor in New York; and her sister Vickie, mother to two small boys, has been diagnosed with cancer. Soon Josh is part of the chaotic household, acting as babysitter, confidant, and, eventually, something more, while the women confront their pasts and map out their futures.
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      By McCulloch, Amy
       2022., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Fic McC    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this adult fiction debut, a young woman's once-in-lifetime adventure in the world of extreme-altitude mountaineering takes a chilling turn when a series of deaths can no longer be written off as accidents. Amy McCulloch was born in Ottawa, ON, and now lives in the UK. She has written eight novels for children and young adults, and her work has been translated into 15 languages. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was editorial director for Penguin Random House Children's Books. #diversity.
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      By McEwan, Ian
       c2014., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: SC Fic McE    Availability:2 of 2     At Your Library Summary Note: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a 17-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But the pressure to resolve the case test Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
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      By Blake, Audrey
       2021. Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her. London, 1845: Raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents to a deadly pandemic, the orphan Nora Beady knows little about conventional life. While other young ladies were raised to busy themselves with needlework and watercolors, Nora was trained to perfect her suturing and anatomical illustrations of dissections. Women face dire consequences if caught practicing medicine, but in Croft's private clinic Nora is his most trusted--and secret--assistant. That is until the new surgical resident Dr. Daniel Gibson arrives. Dr. Gibson has no idea that Horace's bright and quiet young ward is a surgeon more qualified and ingenuitive than even himself. In order to protect Dr. Croft and his practice from scandal and collapse Nora must learn to play a new and uncomfortable role--that of a proper young lady. But pretense has its limits. Nora cannot turn away and ignore the suffering of patients, even if it means giving Gibson the power to ruin everything she's worked for. And when she makes a discovery that could change the field forever, Nora faces an impossible choice. Remain invisible and let the men around her take credit for her work, or step into the light--even if it means being destroyed by her own legacy. Fans of The Other Einstein and The Paris Library will relish this riveting and empowering story about one woman's fight to follow her dreams and build a life--and legacy--beyond what is expected of her. .
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Jakob Grimshaw has eked out a precarious living as a Staffordshire moorland farmer by selling off some of his land to Gabriel Frankwell, a local businessman, who seized the opportunity to build a select development of nine houses, the Prospect Farm Estate. But having been sold a rural idyll, the residents of the estate quickly realise that they do not like Grimshaw's old farm building - surely such an eyesore will mean their properties will depreciate in value? And so the war begins ... each inhabitant with his or her own reason for wanting Grimshaw to move away. What none of the residents.
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      By Shipstead, Maggie
       2021., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Shi   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle."
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       2023., Scribner Call No: NEW BLK Fic War   Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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      By Di Zhang, Angel.
       2023., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Di Z    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Amy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she's started to dream in English. When in the fall of 1999 she receives a letter from her sister, written in her birth tongue of Manchu, she needs to take it to a Chinatown produce vendor to get it translated. And so it is this stranger who tells Amy that her mother has died of a broken heart. Amy blames herself. How could she not? Her mother has never recovered from her oldest daughter leaving her, first for school, then to pursue her art, and finally to marry a white man. Vowing to be there for her mother in death as she hasn't been in life, she books a flight to China. Haunted by the folk stories her mother told her about a shaman's journey to the underworld to retrieve her child, Amy undertakes a quest that strips away all the elements of her new identity, leaving her ready to make amends. But when she finally reunites with her family, things are far different than she remembers, and her loved ones are less than thrilled to welcome their prodigal daughter home. Interwoven with indelible scenes from Amy's childhood, The Light of Eternal Spring is a tenderly told story about leaving home and returning again, and about forgetting where you come from until you can't forget any longer. Blending playful magical realism with the family balancing acts all immigrants and artists know so well, Angel Di Zhang creates a nuanced portrait of family lost and family found, of the transformative power of art, and of the need to transform yourself in order to make art that's true.
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      By Eugenides, Jeffrey
       2011., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Eug    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dressed a little too nicely for the taste of her more bohemian friends, the perfect girlfriend whose college love life, despite her good looks, hadn't lived up to expectations. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a semiotics course "to see what all the fuss is about," and, for reasons that have nothing to do with school, life and literature will never be the same. Not after she falls in love with Leonard Morten -- charismatic loner, college Darwinist and lost Oregon boy -- who is possessed of seemingly inexhaustible energy and introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. And certainly not after Mitchell Grammaticus -- devotee of Patti Smith and Thomas Merton -- resurfaces in her life, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. The triangle in this novel about a generation beginning to grow up is age old, and completely fresh and surprising.