Berry, Carmen Renee & Tamara Traeder. Girlfriends
Girlfriends tells the stories of old friends and new friends, best friends and lost friends, soulmates and confidants. Inspiring, enlightening, with generous doses of humor, this book explores acceptance, strength, resilience, loyalty, and many other facets of these invaluable relationships.

Bond, Marybeth. Gutsy Women: More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road
From award-winning author and travel expert Marybeth Bond comes this updated and expanded edition of her best-selling Gutsy Women, full of invaluable travel tips and wisdom, including new chapters on travel rituals, volunteering, and women traveling together. From grads to grannies, backpackers to business executives, it’s a must have for any woman traveler.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban. Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays – one for every day of your year – written for women who wish to live by their own lights. In the past a woman’s spirituality has been separated from her lifestyle. Simple Abundance shows you how your daily life can be an expression of your authentic self.

Casey, Terri. Pride and Joy
This book is a collection of interviews with 25 women who have chosen not to have children. In lively stories and vivid voices, these diverse narrators talk proudly of their contributions to their communities, causes, and families, and they speak joyfully of intimate relationships with husbands and partners, of family and friends, work, volunteer and leisure activities, solitude and connections with children. Their stories dispel the social myth that women must have children to be happy, and they debunk the stereotypes of childless women.

Cole, Joni B. et al. This Day: Diaries from American Women
This book is a portal into a diversity of fascinating lives. Prepare to be transported to corporate boardrooms, televisions studios, prisons, concert halls, classrooms, and an amazing array of households across our country – all described in the words of the women who were actually there.

Conlon, Faith, Ingrid Emerick, Christina Henry De Tessan, editors. A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe.
These two new collections of entertaining travel essays focus on female travelers. The Unsavvy Traveller includes hilarious stories of trips gone horribly wrong, while A Woman Alone contains stories of intrepid women traveling solo. The first is the more unusual of the two, vividly describing experiences that are both horrendous and humorous, including getting lost in the jungle, being chased by a bear, and being questioned by the police on the suspicion of taking photos of a nude man sunbathing.

Fiorenza, Elizabeth Shussler. Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation.
Radical Catholic feminist theologian Schussler Fiorenza offers an introduction to feminist biblical interpretation that is sure to annoy some readers, enlighten some others and challenge all of them. As an introduction, the book is presumably intended to present Schussler Fiorenza's brand of liberation theology to a new audience beyond the academic theological one the Harvard Divinity School professor already commands.

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories.
A professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, Frymer-Kensky (In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth) investigates biblical stories about women to ascertain why "a clearly androcentric text from a patriarchal society" has "so many stories that revolve around women."

Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love.
The celebrated author of The Last American Man creates an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.

Gilligan, Carol, et.al. Woman.
Essays on the female experience accompany images of the global family of women, captured by some of the world's great photojournalists.

Greenlaw, Linda. All Fishermen are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar.
In "All Fisherman are Liars, Linda meets up with her best friend and fellow fisherman Alden Leeman for lunch and a drink at the Drydock in Portland just before Christmas. The surly captain of her first fishing expedition, Alden has seen his share of mishaps and adventures while at sea. When Linda shares memories of navigating her ship through one of the worst storms she's ever seen, Alden quickly follows up with his own tale of terror and survival while other fishermen sit on the periphery attentively listening before jumping in with stories of their own.

Greenlaw, Linda. The Hungry Ocean.
Familiar to millions of readers of "The Perfect Storm" as the captain of the "Hannah Boden", sister ship to the "Andrea Gail", Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of "Moby Dick".

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty.
Years ago Carolyn Heilbrun, a long-time feminist (Writing a Woman's Life) who also writes mysteries as Amanda Cross (The James Joyce Murder), decided to leave before age dragged her down by committing suicide at 70. Fortunately, she reneged, and chose instead to chronicle moments from her 60s. Always erudite, often deliciously wry, if sometimes pretentious, Heilbrun hits the mark more often than not in this book of essays. She speaks of "unmet friends" whose lives have paralleled her own and blessed deliverance from the academic bustle and backstabbing of Columbia University, the tyranny of memory, and foolish feminine clothes. Throughout, her sense of renewal is as welcome as her determination to go against the grain.

Jones, Judy and William Wilson. An Incomplete Education.
You'll find everything you forgot from school--as well as plenty you never even learned--in this all-purpose reference book, an instant classic when it first appeared in 1987. The updated version takes a whirlwind tour through 12 different disciplines, from American studies to philosophy to world history.

Kahn, Laurie Susan. Sleepaway: The Girls of Summer and the Camps They Love.
With the warm and nostalgic feel of a scrapbook, Sleepaway transports grown-up campers back to the treasured days of summer and their first taste of independence. Written by Laurie S. Kahn, a former advertising executive (who overcame her disappointment at not being color war captain only when she was named director of radio and television production at Young & Rubicam in New York), Sleepaway collects a hundred years of camp lore, plus vintage photographs, letters, songs, badges, postcards, and autographed pillowcases. Here are stories that instantly evoke memories of a first bunk (remember the smell of damp towels piled up on a rainy day?), of swimming tests and socials (a chance for a first kiss!), of rowdy singalongs, joyous mealtimes, mail call, and the hilarity of a short-sheeted bed.

Kass, Amy (editor). The Perfect Gift.
The Perfect Gift aims to cultivate and enlighten our philanthropic imagination. It addresses us all as present and future philanthropists -- as human beings who give, serve, and seek to promote the well-being of others. It suggests that we are continually confronted with choices about giving, and offers literary selections intended to help us reflect more seriously on these choices.

Lerner Ph.D., Harriet Goldhor. The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships.
This guide outlines the steps women, as well as men, can take to strengthen good relationships and heal difficult ones.

Martin, Katherine. Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them
As you read the extraordinary stories in Women of Courage, you will enjoy the company of illuminating, stimulating, uplifting, and invigorating women. You will see wonderful portrayals of the heart, mind, and spirit of courage, and come to honor her many faces. These are the stories of more than forty women who have had life-altering experiences. Whether facing terminal illness, the vast emptiness of the South Pole, a risky pregnancy, a race for political office, a wrenching divorce, or a dream as yet unfulfilled, these women found source of courage within themselves they didn’t know they had. These women made it, not merely intact, but stronger for the experience, and wiser for recognizing how they triumphed.

McCaslin, Wanda D. Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways.
Justice as Healing is a compilation of articles that explores in detail the use of restorative justice to address the present-day plight of Indigenous peoples. It is difficult to provide a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book, since many of its themes are interwoven through many places. The articles are all nonetheless bound together by a central and coherent thesis. The starting point is the fact of colonialism over Indigenous peoples, both historical and present.

McPhee, Jenny et al. Girls
Girls is a radiant collection of essays and photographs. What is it like to be a girl in America today? What constitutes a normal girl’s experiences? These and others are questions that the McPhees asked on their cross-country odyssey, which spanned more than two years. Girls is the illuminating, thought-provoking, and ultimately triumphant look at the answers they found.

Mitchell, James Andrew. Finding Their Own Voices Maine Women at the Millennium: Their Stories
James Mitchell presents a series of biographical sketches and interviews of more than thirty Maine women who have all carved out meaningful lives for themselves. The women shared their stories and dreams with Mitchell to acknowledge their and other women’s accomplishments. Although their stories and fields of endeavor – ranging from commercial fishing (Linda Greenlaw) to writing (Kate Barnes) to government service (Chellie Pingree) – are different, the women all celebrate the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. What they have in common is intelligence, passion, enthusiasm, and a firm belief in their abilities.

Reilly, Patricia Lynn. Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness.
Patricia Lynn Reilly takes you on a journey of joyous self-affirmation, to reconnect with your inner richness, and to move from self-criticism to self-celebration.

Schwager, Tina and Schuerger, Michele. Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare
Do you wonder what you’re made of? Would you like to test yourself – really push yourself to the limit? Are you brave? Determined? Passionate about life? Ready to challenge yourself and take a risk? Meet 25 girls who said YES to these questions and performed daring feats. Their true stories will thrill and inspire you. As you read about their accomplishments – from extreme sports to groundbreaking firsts – you’ll get an up-close look as the courage, hard work, and persistence it takes to reach these kinds of goals.

Sheehy, Gail. Predictable Crises of Adult Life Passages.
At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond.

Solomon, Rivka, editor. That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts.
That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts presents sixty-four brave, unabashed, fun-loving women and their short stories of strength and audacity. That Takes Ovaries! rejects the notion of how females should behave and instead boldly declares, look what I just did! From courageous and smart to outrageous and foolhardy, from the seemingly frivolous to the obviously political, this culturally diverse group of women and girls models the range of what real femininity looks like today -- sassy, self-assured, and estrogen-fueled.

Tenneson, Joyce. Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty.
In ancient times, older women were the keepers of primal mysteries and were revered for their special wisdom. For this very special book, Joyce Tenneson traveled throughout America to photograph and interview women ages 65 to l00.What she found was a revelationwomen who were vital, energetic, and deeply beautiful, inside and out. The80 portraits are of women from all walks of life from the famous, such as Sandra Day OConnor, Julie Harris, and Angela Lansbury, to the ordinary, such as our mothers and grandmothers.

Thoele, Sue Patton. The Women's Book of Spirit: Meditation for the Thirsty Soul.
A leader in the women’s spirituality movement, Thoele offers her deepest wisdom in this collection, resulting in a powerful and profound book that can be used in a number of ways. Thoele recommends using it as a sacred feminine oracle by opening it at random, holding it to your heart and "asking your inner wisdom to guide you to the perfect, right entry for you at this moment." It can also be used as a meditation guide, a daily friend, or to answer a specific question.This is a book to soothe every woman’s soul and to strengthen the vital connection to spirit. Chapters include Embodying Heart Energy, Intertwining Soul-Strands, Awakening to Wisdom, and Ascending to Gratitude.

Wohlmuth, Sharon J., Carol Saline, & Dawn Sheggeby. A Day in the Life of the American Women: How We See Ourselves. 2 copies
Fifty of the nation's most renowned female photographers worked exclusively on portraits of American women as they pursued their daily activities on April 8, 2005. Collating these extraordinary color photographs, the authors of the acclaimed Sisters (1994) and Mothers & Daughters (1997)offer a unique perspective on the individual and collective lives of a diverse spectrum of American women. As women of all races and backgrounds across the country are photographed at home, at work, at play, on the town, at mealtime, and at bedtime, a vibrant tapestry reflective of the entirely unique persona of each woman emerges. Enhanced by essays and quotes, these photographs provide a stunning visual window into the heart and soul of American womanhood.