Women's Literature

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Letter to My Daughter
By George Bishop
F BISHOP
When her 15-year-old daughter runs away from their Baton Rouge home, a guilt-ridden mother writes a healing letter about her own adolescence, marked by a strict Catholic boarding school, a forbidden romance and the origins of an enigmatic tattoo.

The Accidental Bestseller
By Wendy Wax
F WAX
Once upon a time, four aspiring authors met at a writers' conference. Ten years later they're still friends, veterans of the dog-eat-dog New York publishing world. Together they collaborate on a novel using their own lives as fodder, assuming no one will ever discover the truth behind their words--but with success comes scrutiny and scandal.

My Sister’s Keeper
By Jodi Picoult
F PICOULT
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

Eat Cake
By Jeanne Ray
F RAY
Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.

The Nanny Diaries
By Emma McLaughlin
F MCLAUGHL
A satirical glimpse into Manhattan's upper class follows Nanny, a struggling NYU student who takes a position caring for the son of the rich and glamorous X family, as she learns how to juggle a vast array of tasks so that a Park Avenue wife never has to lift a well-manicured finger.