Admire the hard working twenty-two year old Cece Cordell. She achieved the top of her career as a ballet dancer when she was promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. Instantly catapulted into celebrity status, she was celebrated as…
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Unforgettable Women in Fiction
Enjoy a list of memorable women in novels throughout the years.
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Dances
a Novel
- Rising above the poor environment she is born into; young Esperanza Cordero comes into her own power. This story shares scenes from the life of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago and reinventing herself as the person she wants to be.
- Maud will stun you. She is a smart, compassionate and daring women who loves her daughters and her work as a garden historian. A freindship with her archaelogist coworker grows into something deeper, and she begins to dream of a greater life for…
- Tris Prior doesn’t fit into any of the five required fractions in this dystopian world. Readers will discover her thrill and courage to try something new as she passionately fights for rights and against the oppressors. Watch her grow from a timid…
- Get charmed by confident and complex Lizzie Bennett. Marriage was sought out as economical security for women in Regency England, but Lizzie wishes to marry for love. Readers will love how Lizzie casts aside tradition with wit and perseverance.
- Intriguing Lisbeth Salander does’t follow societies norms. She is intelligent, introverted, and fights back against injustice.
- Aristocratic Anna Karenina is intelligent, sophisticated, and beautiful. Follow her in her fight to cast aside societal rules around the double standards applied to adulterous men versus adulterous women. You will enjoy her fiercely independent…
- Caren Gray ends up investigating a murder at her work place, a historic landmark. Readers will admire her ability to be a better detective than the ones hired for the case. She is a likeable and gutsy young woman. Don’t miss this page turner!
- You will remember the impactful story of Taylor Greer long after you put the book down. Her compassion, big heart and strength of character, shows as she tries to create a new life for herself and her baby. But when she heads west with high hopes…
- Katniss Everdeen is strong and resourceful at only sixteen years old. You will root for her to overcome merciless challenges to keep her family alive after her father died. Her keen observation, fortitude and survival skills are admirable.
- 14-year-old Adunni is shown by the words and actions of others that she is nothing. She realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for the other girls of her Nigerian village. This inspirational story follows Adunni as she strives to…
- Science-minded 18-year-old Daunis Fontaine loves her community, but has never quite fit in as a biracial, unenrolled Sault tribal member. When she witnesses her friend’s murder, she becomes involved in the investigation. But deceptions keep piling…
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