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Every year March is designated Women's History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women's contributions in American history.
Women's History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women's Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women's History Week celebrations the following year.
In 1980, a consortium of women's groups and historians-led by the National Women's History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)-successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women's History Week. Subsequent Presidents continued to proclaim a National Women's History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as "Women's History Month." Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women's History Month. Since 1995, each president has issued an annual proclamations designating the month of March as "Women's History Month."
The National Women's History Alliance selects and publishes the yearly theme. The 2020 Women's History Month theme is "Valiant Women of the Vote." The theme honors "the brave women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and for the women who continue to fight for the voting rights of others."
We have a display of new and older books in celebration of Women's History Month.
Free People Reading Freely Book Club will meet Monday March 16th at 6:30 p.m. We will be discussing the book "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. We will also be showing a family movie March 16th. Playing with Fire will start at 3:30. It is rated PG and lasts 95 minutes. We are doing a March Madness book sale. During the month of March you can fill a bag with books or movies for only$1.00!
We have four new movies. The Big Trip, Frozen 2, Norm of the North Family Vacation, and Arctic Dogs are available for checkout this week.
Sarah J. Maas launches her new CRESCENT CITY series with "House of Earth and Blood" the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.
In Danielle Steel's novel "The Numbers Game," modern relationships come together, fall apart, and are reinvented over time, proving that age is just a number.
"You Are Not Alone" by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen is a psychological thriller. Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. That is until Shay meets the Moore sisters, Cassandra and Jane, who live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her and she may have to.
"Saint X" by Alexis Schaitkin is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another.
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