“We are in search of warriors,” declares Mrs. Which, from Madeleine L’engle’s A Wrinkle In Time trilogy and played by Oprah Winfrey in Ava DuVernay’s recent movie adaptation. This month, we’re celebrating the release of this fierce flick with four bestsellers featuring women warriors. Each learned how to become the leading ladies of their own lives. Forget the Ides of March, the only thing you need to beware of this month is the empowerment you’ll feel after reading these “shero”-driven books.
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, journey through space with 13-year-old Meg, her little brother Charles Wallace and her classmate Calvin, as they attempt to rescue Meg and Charles’s dad before the forces of evil overtake the universe. Fact: This book was rejected by 26 publishers before it was finally approved for print in 1962. It won a Newbery medal and was an instant hit with young and adult readers alike.
The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Tererai Trent
As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, author Tererai Trent had to put her dreams of an education on hold due to several life circumstances. Encouraged by her mother, she wrote down her goals, placed the list in a tin, and buried it deep within the ground. Years later, after having moved to America and earned her doctorate, Trent would return to dig up the list and check each item off. In her latest book, The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams, Trent offers an “accessible, intimate, and evocative guide” that outlines nine tips for women to “reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them.”
My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food by Lidia Bastianich
From cooking with Nonna in Pula to working in the bustling restaurants of New York City to hosting a public television cooking show, My American Dream is Lidia Bastianich’s memoir. Take a personal look into the journey she traveled to find her own American dream. It is as much a memoir as it is an ode to beautiful connections and relationships created in the presence of good food and family.
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
When actress Frannie Banks moved to New York, she gave herself three years to achieve her Broadway dreams. In Someday, Someday, Maybe Lauren Graham takes us through the final six months leading up to Frannie’s self-imposed deadline and shows what it feels like to want something so “deeply, madly, desperately.” Don’t miss the debut novel from The Gilmore Girls leading actress that has become a New York Times bestseller.
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