March 8 is International Women’s Day. All month is Women’s History Month. So basically, March is the time to celebrate awesome women. Today, I present you a list of recent acquisitions at Danville Public Library that were written by women.
Animalphabet written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Sharon King-Chai
An immersive book with die-cuts and liftable flaps asks readers to identify a series of animals as they’re listed in alphabetical order.
 
 
 
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
While working as divers with the all-female diving collective on a small Korean island, Mi-ja and Young-sook find their friendship challenged by their differences and forces outside their control.
 
 
 
Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
“In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history. In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Whitfield recounts the lives of twelve individuals who lived at different times during this period, including two new characters: an African shipmaster and a Persian traveler and writer during the Arab caliphate. With these additional tales, Whitfield extends both geographical and chronological scope, bringing into view the maritime links across the Indian Ocean and depicting the network of north-south routes from the Baltic to the Gulf. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road, the individuals usually forgotten to history. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road continues to be extremely accessible and entertaining”–Provided by publisher.
 
One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko, illustrations by Eglantine Ceulemans
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment’s carpet.
 
 
 
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins
An provocative look inside the world of sorority life offers an eye-opening view of the drugs, psychological abuse, promiscuity, racism, violence, and other problems that are rampant among young women in a typical sorority and analyzes why intelligent young women put up with these abuses in order to become part of a sorority sisterhood.
 
 
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
The kingdom of Iraden, under the protection of a god known as the Raven, faces unrest and challenges from invaders when a usurper takes over the throne and discovers that the Raven’s power is weakening.
 
 
 
 
Secret in the Stone by Kamilla Benko
“Claire Martinson and her sister Sophie have decided to stay in Arden–the magical land they discovered by climbing up a chimney in their great-aunt’s manor. If what they’ve learned is true, the sisters are the last descendants of the royal family, and only a true heir of Arden–with magic in her blood–can awaken the unicorns. Since Sophie does not have magic, the land’s last hope rests on Claire. The sisters journey to Stonehaven, a famed Gemmer school high in the mountains of Arden, so Claire can train in the magic of stones. As Claire struggles through classes, Sophie uncovers dangerous secrets about the people they thought they could trust. With Arden on the brink of crumbling, can Claire prove she is the prophesied heir and unlock the magic of the unicorns before it’s too late?”–Provided by publisher.
 
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society — to run her husband’s household or raise his children. But school could’nt prepare Daniela Vargus for the difficult choices she must make after graduation, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio.
 
 
The Weight of our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
Melati Ahmed has developed a set of rituals to tame the djinn she believes to be within her and keep her mother safe. But on the evening of May 13, 1969, racial tensioins in her home town of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and the Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother are separated. It will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage in Melati’s arsenal to over-come the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn’s power to make it back to the one person she can’t risk losing.
 
 

Note: All book covers are from Google Images and all descriptions are from the SHARE Catalog.