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ORL Reads for International Women’s Day

Celebrate this special day with special books about inspiring women.

Okanagan Regional Library

24 items

  • Unbroken

    My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

    Sterritt, Angela,
    BookVancouver : Greystone Books, [2023] — STERRITT STE
  • The Exceptions

    Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

    Zernike, Kate,
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Scribner, 2023. — 509.252 ZER
  • BookRegina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2019] — KNOTT KNO
  • The Doctors Blackwell

    How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women--and Women to Medicine

    Nimura, Janice P.,
    BookNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — BLACKWELL NIM
  • Run Towards the Danger

    Confrontations With a Body of Memory

    Polley, Sarah,
    BookToronto, ON : Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2022. — POLLEY POL
  • In Defense of Witches

    the Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

    Chollet, Mona, 1973-
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 305.42 CHO
  • Burning Questions

    Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021

    Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
    BookToronto, ON : McClelland and Stewart, 2022. — 819.42 ATW
  • Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

    Reid, Eliza,
    BookToronto, ON : Simon and Schuster Canada, 2022. — 305.4209 REI
  • I Am Because We Are

    An African Mother's Fight for the Soul of a Nation

    Akunyili-Parr, Chidiogo,
    BookToronto, ON : Anansi, 2022. — AKUNYILI AKU
  • The Authority Gap

    Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

    Sieghart, Mary Ann, 1961-
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton and Company, Incorporated, 2022. — 305.42 SIE
  • A feminist retelling of the Trojan War - giving voices to the women the myths forgot.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Harper, 2021. — HAY
  • The Source of Self-regard

    Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019
    This book collects author own words in a gathering of essays and speeches that will leave you feeling inspired by all of the wisdom she has blessed the world with over half a century in the public eye.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — 814.54 MOR
  • Woman Between the Worlds

    a Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom

    Colorado, Apela,
    BookCarlsbad, CA : Hay House, 2021. — 500.89 COL
  • Hood Feminism

    Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

    Kendall, Mikki,
    Book[New York, New York] : Viking, [2020] — 305.4209 KEN
  • In this 2020 memoir, the author details the events that led to her breaking free from the expectations the world put on her and finally living the life she was meant to live.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : The Dial Press, [2020] — DOYLE DOY
  • Feminist icon Gloria Steinem shares her experiences on the road while fighting for women's rights in the 70s and 80s.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Random House, 2015. — STEINEM STE
  • In the Company of Women

    Inspiration and Advice From Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

    Bonney, Grace,
    BookNew York : Artisan, [2016] — 338.0925 BON
  • See Jane Win

    the Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics

    Moscatello, Caitlin,
    Book[New York, N.Y.] : Dutton, [2019] — 320.082 MOS
  • A breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — STO
  • BookToronto : Penguin Random House Canada, 2019. — HABIB HAB