INSPIRING READING

THE MOMENT OF LIFT: HOW EMPOWERING WOMEN CHANGES THE WORLD by Melinda Gates Societies are only as strong as their women and, with this in mind, philanthropist Melinda Gates, wife of Bill, documents her own travels and experiences, stories of those she’s met along the way and scientific data in an effort to inspire others. Because as she writes, “When you lift up women, you lift up humanity.”

MY SEDITIOUS HEART by Arundhati Roy This timely non-fiction collection from the Man Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things collects two decades worth of writing, penned in support of freedom, equality and justice.

THE BEAUTIFUL NO: AND OTHER TALES OF TRIAL, TRANSCENDENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION by Sheri Salata Stuck in a middle age rut, Salata went from working as a top executive for Oprah Winfrey to working on herself, carving the life she truly desired out of the mistakes of the past. It was hard, revealing, soulsearching work, and this is her noholds-barred account of how she did it.

FLASH COUNT DIARY: MENOPAUSE AND THE VINDICATION OF NATURAL LIFE by Darcey Steinke A ground-breaking investigative work, Steinke offers an intimate, biological and historical take on menopause, studying it in contexts ranging from nature to shifting power dynamics, to her own personal experiences, and historical and cultural depictions, like how hot flashes were once viewed as a sign of witchcraft. THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo From a desperate suburban housewife to a couple balancing a problematic sexual arrangement to a high-school student who embarks on an affair with a teacher, Lisa Taddeo spent eight years chronicling the real-life sex lives of three women, revealing their most intimate passions and emotions while disclosing truths about love and sexual gender dynamics in a book already receiving high praise.