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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / by Shaffer, Mary Ann,author.; Barrows, Annie.;
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
Subjects: Women authors; Book clubs (Discussion groups);

The Dreamer: Becoming Karen Blixen. by Juno Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Juno Films in 2022.After 17 years in Kenya, Karen Blixen has lost everything. Ahead of her lies a life deeply dependent on her family. She begins to take up the writing dreams of her youth, in her search for freedom.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Television series.; Women authors.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Nineteen thirties.; Authors.; Motion pictures--Europe.;

Oh Crap! Potty Training. by LIT Videobooks (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by LIT Videobooks in 2022.Worried about potty training? Let Jamie Glowacki, potty-training expert, show you how it’s done with her six-step, proven process.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Health.; Social sciences.; Psychology.; Midwives.; Child welfare.; Instructional films.; Mental health.; Documentary films.; Artists.; American authors.; Women authors.; Parenting.; Families.; Child development.; Pregnancy.; Child psychology.; Infants.; Self-help techniques.; Art and architecture.;

Good duke gone wild / by Bennett, Bethany(Romance author),author.;
"As a widow, Caroline Danvers has carved out a content existence, working at her family's bookshop and writing erotic novels under a pen name. Her life is simple, but her imagination is a vast wonderland of desire and romantic tales inspired by a handsome customer-a duke who will never know she exists. Dorian Whitaker, Duke of Holland, is known for two things: his role as a diplomat in the war, and his famous love match with his now-dead wife. Except, his blissful marriage was a lie. All he wants now is to be left alone. When Dorian hires a bookshop to handle the liquidation and donation of his wife's library, he's thrown together with an utterly desirable bookseller who upends his hard-won peace, and sends him on a hunt for the identity of his dead wife's lover. However, when faced with the choice of attaining closure in his old life, or beginning a new one with a working-class woman who harbors her own secrets, the duke must decide where his heart truly lies, and if that heart is capable of trusting again"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Adultery; Letters; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Regency; Secrecy; Widowers; Widows; Women authors; Women booksellers;

The librarian of burned books : a novel / by Labuskes, Brianna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Berlin, 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a cultural exchange program in Germany. To a girl from a small town in Maine, Berlin seems sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with its charismatic new chancellor at the helm. When Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her the real Berlin, she's drawn into a group of resisters who make her question everything ... Paris, 1936. She may have escaped Berlin for Paris, but Hannah Brecht discovers the City of Light is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she'd left behind. Heartbroken and tormented by the role she played in the betrayal that destroyed her family, Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books ... New York, 1944. Since her husband, Edward, was killed fighting the Nazis, Vivian Childs has been waging her own war: preventing a powerful senator's attempts to censor the Armed Services Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas ... As Viv unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Censorship; Librarians; Widows; Women authors; World War, 1939-1945;

Mary who wrote Frankenstein / by Bailey, Linda,1948-; Sardà, Júlia.;
After having a frightening dream, Mary Shelley writes the story of Frankenstein, which becomes one of the greatest novels of all time.LSC
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character); Women authors, English; Science fiction;

Strangers at the red door : a novel / by Bock, Dennis,1964-author.;
"At a train station in China, three people meet, only two of whom are actually alive. The first is Faron Jones, on his way to Hong Kong to interview an Iranian film director-cum-dissident holed up in the Japanese consulate. The second is Mildred Ha, a Hong Kong bookseller detained at the border crossing for attempting to deliver copies of the most dangerous novel in China over to the mainland. The third is the deceased author of that very novel, Jian Seung, now a wandering spirit trapped in the middle world between life and death. Soon after this encounter, and for no reason he can understand, Faron learns that he's suddenly acquired flawless Mandarin and Cantonese, languages only a day earlier he had no knowledge of. Slowly, the impossible truth that another man's soul has joined his own and now speaks in his voice becomes maddeningly undeniable. With this comes Jian Seung's extraordinary claim and his urgent request of Faron, and so the ghostwriter and the spirit of the dead novelist trapped within him set upon a search for the one person--the disappeared bookseller--who's able to deliver the Chinese novelist's spirit to his final resting place. Instantly propulsive, wholly original, and like a mirror for our current times, Strangers at the Red Door follows these characters and their quests for freedom, love, and reconciliation. It explores a world in which the boundaries of the physical and the spiritual blur; countries facing uncertain futures intersect; and the struggle of the artist against political oppression becomes an essential act of survival."--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Booksellers and bookselling; Spirits; Women booksellers;

And then she fell : a novel / by Elliott, Alicia,author.;
"From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture--is nothing but supportive; and they've just moved into a new home in a wealthy neighbourhood in Toronto, a generous gift from her in-laws. But Alice could not feel like more of an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their picture-perfect neighbours, amongst whom she's the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a moment to herself, her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. At first, Alice is convinced her discomfort is of her own making. She has gotten everything she always dreamed of, after all. But then strange things start happening. She finds herself losing bits of time, hearing voices she can't explain, and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve urges her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong, and that in her creation story lies the key to her, and Dawn's, survival ... She just has to finish it before it's too late. Told in Alice's raw and darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching look at inherited trauma, womanhood, denial and false allyship, that speeds to an unpredictable--and unforgettable--climax"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Creation in literature; Indigenous women; Interracial marriage; Mental health; Mental illness; Mohawk women; Motherhood; Postpartum depression; Psychic trauma; Women authors;

Jane in love : a novel / by Givney, Rachel,author.;
Bath, England, 1803. At 28, Jane Austen prefers walking and reading to balls and assemblies; she dreams of someday publishing her carefully crafted stories. Already on the shelf and in grave danger of becoming a spinster, Jane goes searching for a radical solution--and as a result, seemingly by accident, time-travels. She lands in ... Bath, England, present day. The film set of Northanger Abbey. Sofia Wentworth is a Hollywood actress starring in a new period film, an attempt to reinvent her flagging career and, secretly, an attempt to reinvent her failing marriage. When Sofia meets Jane, she marvels at the young actress who can't seem to "break character," even off set. And Jane--acquainting herself with the horseless steel carriages and seriously shocking fashion of the twenty-first century-- meets Sofia, a woman unlike anyone she's ever met before. Then she meets Fred, Sofia's brother, who has the audacity to be handsome, clever, and kind-hearted. What happens when Jane, against her better judgement, falls in love with Fred And when Sofia learns the truth about her new friend Jane. And worst of all, if Jane stays with Fred, will she ever achieve her dream, the one she's now seen come true.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Women authors, English; Motion picture actors and actresses; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Self-realization in women;

The dry season : a memoir of pleasure in a year without sex / by Febos, Melissa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The award-winning author of Girlhood returns with a revelatory chronicle of her year of celibacy and its transformative impact on her relationships -- to others, and to herself. In the wake of a catastrophic two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break -- for three months she would abstain from dating and casual sex. Ever since her teens, she'd been in one entanglement after another. As she puts it, she could trace a "daisy chain of romances" from her adolescence to her mid-thirties. And no matter where her partners identified on the gender spectrum, she always instinctively moulded herself to appeal to them. Over those first few months, she gleaned insights into her past and awoke to the joys of being single. She decided to extend her celibacy not knowing it would become the most sensual and satisfying year of her life. Unburdened by preoccupations that had consumed her for decades, she learned to relish the delights of solitude and the thrill of living on her own terms. A reckoning with lifelong patterns and dominant systems of power, The Dry Season puts Febos's experience into conversation with those of women throughout history -- from Sappho to mystic nuns to Virginia Woolf -- situating it within a lineage of queer and feminist role models in unapologetic pursuit of their ambitions and ideals. Blending intimate personal narrative and incisive cultural criticism, Febos tells a story that's as much about celibacy as it is about its inverse: pleasure, desire, fulfillment. Infused with her fearless honesty and keen intellect, it's the memoir of a woman learning to live at the centre of her story, and a much-needed catalyst for a more radical conversation around sex and love"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Febos, Melissa; Authors, American; Celibacy.; Single women; Women;

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