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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

Tina Estes October 17, 2017October 17, 2017 Book Reviews Read more

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

Tina Estes September 19, 2017January 2, 2018 Book Reviews Read more

Summer Book Reviews – 2017

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

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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

Tina Estes May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 Book Reviews Read more

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

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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

Tina Estes March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 Book Reviews Read more

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

Tina Estes February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 Book Reviews Read more

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

Tina Estes January 23, 2017January 25, 2017 Book Reviews Read more

Women who are dangerous by Stefan Bollmann

BOOK REVIEW DECEMBER, 2016 WOMEN WHO READ ARE DANGEROUS AUTHOR: STEFAN BOLLMANN Foreword by Karen Joy Fowler The voice said, “Lights out!” But she was driven to forge ahead no matter the consequences. Smothered in coverlets, a bare bulb secreted

Tina Estes December 5, 2016December 6, 2016 Book Reviews Read more

Empty Hands by Sister Abegail Ntleko

BOOK REVIEW NOVEMBER, 2016 EMPTY HANDS One Woman’s Journey to Save Children Orphaned by Aids in South Africa A Memoir AUTHOR:  SISTER ABEGAIL NTLEKO Forward By:  Desmond Tutu  “Bring me some sand,” her father said.  “Just shovel it up with

Tina Estes November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 Book Reviews Read more
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