Leading Women is a theme no one can ignore right now. From Kamala Harris running for president to Taylor Swift crushing the music scene to Caitlin Clark passing up the competition in women’s professional basketball, the following authors have leading women in each story that are smart, brave and provide inspiration for career girls at every turn.
My Salty Mary: My Lady Jane Series Streaming Now (The Lady Janies) (8/20/24 – HarperTeen)
Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows are back with a fantastical, romantical, and piratical historical fantasy remix that marries the story of The Little Mermaid with the life and times of infamous lady pirate Mary Read.
In this historical fantasy remix of The Little Mermaid and the life of infamous lady pirate Mary Read, former mermaid Mary joins a pirate ship crew disguised as a man after her heart is broken by the human man she traded her tail for. She hopes to be crowned the new Pirate King after Blackbeard’s sudden death and she won’t let anyone stop her — especially everyone who says she can’t be a pirate just because she’s a girl. She may not be the best man for the job, but she’ll definitely prove that she’s worth her salt.
Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall (9/24/24 – She Writes Press)
Fans of the self-discovering journeys in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall’s adventure-filled international journey as she overcomes her past to find her self-worth and place in the world—all over the world.
Immersion is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey through four continents and four decades of Linda Murphy Marshall’s life: from the longstanding, crippling impact of family members’ low expectations and abuse, to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages.
Echoes of Us by Joy Jordan-Lake (10/8/24 – Lake Union)
From the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon comes the soaring story of an unlikely friendship of three men and one extraordinary woman and the legacy they built―if their own secrets don’t destroy it.
During World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and a German POW form a connection that lasts for years, against all odds. But in the present day, their descendants clash over control of the corporation the friends founded together.
The company hires an event planner, Hadley, to repair the company’s image with a heartwarming reunion. But as Hadley begins to dig into the friends’ past, she uncovers the history of the courageous woman that brought them together and the secrets that could destroy everything.
Love is for the Birds by Diane Owens Prettyman (10/8/24 – She Writes Press)
After a hurricane sweeps through the Texas Gulf, Teddy returns to a small beach town to restore her mother’s candy store. Meanwhile, widower and barbecue restaurant owner Jack is grieving his wife and working to feed the hurricane survivors.
When residents start to worry that Aransas Wildlife Refuge won’t be ready for the annual return of endangered whooping cranes, Jack and Teddy team up to repair the island. Teddy and Jack start to grow closer – but Jack is harboring a secret that could ruin everything, and it won’t stay secret for long.
All Our Wars by Stephanie Vasquez (10/22/24 – SparkPress)
For fans of Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You’ll Ever Know and Netflix’s Narcos comes a high-stakes thriller about the daughter of a high-ranking Mexican cartel leader dragged back to the life she fought hard to escape.
Sofia De Luna, the daughter of a high-ranking Mexican cartel is dragged back into the life of political contention, drug trafficking, crime, and wealth that she fought so hard to escape after she’s tasked to lead her cartel family after her narco father retires. With 12 years having passed since her mother was murdered, family members wary of her desire to legitimize the family, and a cartel border war started by her cousins brewing, Sofia must decide if by sacrificing her family for the dream of peace will only seal her fate to be the same as her late mother.
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