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The Women

You'll enjoy these titles because: These atmospheric and character-driven books, themed around war, feature strong women who undeniably demonstrate that women can be heroes.

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  • After her brother is wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Audrey and her best friend Lizzie enlist in the army as flight nurses. Also available in Large Print, Talking book (CD) and ebook on cloudLibrary.
    Paperback, 2021New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — F STEEL
  • Blue Stars tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine, and of Lacey, a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while…
    Book, 2015New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015. — F TEDRO
  • Struggling to heal from a devastating loss while serving in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett finds the diary of a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War and begins to heal.
    Large Print, 2020Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2020. — LARGE PRINT F ESTES
  • Helen Adams, an American combat photographer during the Vietnam War, captures the wrenching chaos of battle on film and finds herself torn between the love of two men; an American war correspondent and the other his Vietnamese underling.
    Book, 2010New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. — F SOLI
  • A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. Also available in Large Print, Talking Book (CD), and ebook on cloudLibrary.
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — F MCDER
  • In 1917, Grace Banker from N.J., Marie Moissec from France, and Valerie DeSmedt, originally from Belgium, were recruited as telephone operators, a.k.a. switchboard soldiers, to help American forces communicate between troops as bombs fell around…
    Book, 2022New York : William Morrow, [2022] — F CHIAV
  • When World War II started, Fenna Vos was recruited by MI9 to use her skills to make escape aids. Based on true events about one woman's journey, this is a thrilling look at a little-known part of the war effort, with well-developed characters and…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2022] — F MCMOR
  • Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man…
    Paperback, 2019New York : Gallery Books, 2019. — F KELLY