International Women's Day 8th March 2025

A selection of Fiction and non-fiction titles for adult readers as we promote and celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) 8th March 2025.

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

IWD belongs to all who care about women's equality.

If paper titles are not your thing browse our collection of International women's day related eAudio and eBooks at this link: Kirklees Libraries' eAudio and eBook collection.


Updated March 7, 2025
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The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .Maya Angelou's classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. This Modern Library edition contains...
Women & power : a manifesto
Beard, Mary 1955-
Paper Book
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways...
Becoming
Obama, Michelle 1964-
Paper Book
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF...
The wren, the wren : a novel
Enright, Anne 1962-
Paper Book
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an...
Face it
Harry, Debbie
Paper Book
Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK  Musician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie...
No man's land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
Moore, Wendy 1952-
Paper Book
The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.   A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and...

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