Adventure Women's Book Club

UPDATE: The Advernture Women's Book Club is currently postponed until further notice. Thank you for your patience. 

Looking for your next adventure? It might be between the pages of a book! Check out twelve stories by or about Badass Women Adventurers who will light a fire in your soul. Join local educator Jill Davis the second Monday of the month for your next adventurous read!

Sept 9th: My Life On The Road   Gloria Steinem 
October 14th: West with the Night  by Beryl Markham
November 11th: Unbowed   by Wangari Maathai
December 9th: Refuge  by Terry Tempest Williams
January 13th: Tales of a Female Nomad  by Rita Golden Gelman
February 10th: Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Thurston
March 9th: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country   by Louis Erdrich
April 13th: Wild  by Cheryl Strayed
May 11th: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across the Australian Outback  by Robyn Davidson
June 8th: Crossing to Avalon  by Jean Shinoda Bolen
July 13th: I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
 

My Life on the Road By Gloria Steinem Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780345408167
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 23rd, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper’s Bazaar • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Publishers Weekly


West with the Night: A Memoir By Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780865477636
Availability: On Our Shelves as of 9am Today
Published: North Point Press - January 22nd, 2013

A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time

Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen.


Unbowed: A Memoir By Wangari Maathai Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307275202
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Published: Anchor - September 4th, 2007

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.  


Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place By Terry Tempest Williams Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679740247
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Published: Vintage - September 1st, 1992

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by.


Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World By Rita Golden Gelman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780609809549
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Published: Crown - May 28th, 2002

The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world.

“Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —Booklist


Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun By Faith Adiele Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9780393326734
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - July 17th, 2005

A wry account of the road from Harvard scholarship student to ordination as northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun.


Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062309969
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 11th, 2014

For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life.


Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0) By Cheryl Strayed Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307476074
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Published: Vintage - March 26th, 2013

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.


Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures) By Robyn Davidson Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679762874
Availability: Backordered - ETA Unknown
Published: Vintage - May 30th, 1995

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: “I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back."


Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine By Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Cover Image
$16.99
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ISBN: 9780062502728
Published: HarperOne - May 20th, 2004

A MIDLIFE QUEST FOR THE GRAIL AND THE GODDESS

Dr Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils the mythological significance of the midlife search for meaning and renewal.


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812980028
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 21st, 2009

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.