December Book Review By JoEllen McNeal Muslim Girl, A Coming of Age By Amani Al-Khatahtbeh Amani Al-Khatahtbeh was nine years old, eager to have her class picture taken at Bowne-Munro Elementary School in East Brunswick, New Jersey, when two planes crashed
Shirley Jackson – A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
November 2017 Book Review Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author Shirley Jackson. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition that stretches back to Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique
The Final Season- The Perseverance of Pat Summitt by Maria M. Cornelious
October 2017 Book Review by Mary Ellen South It is not how big you are, it is how big you play. This quote aptly fits the description of Pat Summitt’s attitude toward basketball. Pat started her career at age twenty-two at
Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor by Joe Starita
September 2017 Book Review by Mo Moton On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche earned her medical degree—becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. It so happened that this occasion was thirty-one years before women could vote and
Summer Book Reviews – 2017
Commentaries by Nan Hathaway FRONT ROYAL WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER AND ROYAL OAK BOOKSHOP Co-sponsor donations to Samuels Public Library that are by or about women. Nan Hathaway chooses the books and a book review is offered monthly. This flyer highlights
EARNING IT Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World by Joann S. Lublin
May 2017 BOOK REVIEW by Sheila Lamonzs TITLE: EARNING IT Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World AUTHOR: JOANN S. LUBLIN, of the Wall Street Journal Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable….Every step toward the
MADAM PRESIDENT The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson
April 2017 BOOK REVIEW by Sheila Lamonzs MADAM PRESIDENT The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson AUTHOR: WILLIAM HAZELGROVE Edith Bolling Wilson gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: Behind every good man is a good woman! ‘Presidentress’ is the word
THE GLASS UNIVERSE How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars AUTHOR: DAVA SOBEL
MARCH 2017 BOOK REVIEW by Sheila Lamonzs THE GLASS UNIVERSE How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars AUTHOR: DAVA SOBEL Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above
FASTPITCH The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game by Erica Westly
FEBRUARY 2017 BOOK REVIEW by Sheila Lamonzs FASTPITCH The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game AUTHOR: ERICA WESTLY Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson are names that are probably not familiar to the
JUNCTURES InWomen’s Leadership (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS) EDITED BY: MARY K. TRIGG AND ALISON R. BERNSTEIN
Book Review by Sheila Lamonzs; JANUARY, 2017 JUNCTURES In Women’s Leadership (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS) EDITED BY: MARY K. TRIGG AND ALISON R. BERNSTEIN Just as Coretta Scott King and Jean Childs Young (the wife of pastor/activist Andrew Young) were the