Yale Needs Women
: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
by Anne Gardiner Perkins
Hardcover: Sep 2019
Paperback: Jul 2021
"If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without."
Year of The Hyenas
by Brad Geagley
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: Aug 2008
A murder mystery set in ancient Egypt that merges historical fact and speculation with a nail-biting crime story that could be taking place in the present.
Year of Wonders
: A Novel of The Plague
by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, the bubonic plague is brought to this isolated settlement and the people choose to seal themselves off to ...
Yellow Bird
: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism.
Yellow Dirt
: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
by Judy Pasternak
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: Jul 2011
Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today, weaving the personal and the political into a tale of betrayal, of willful negligence, and, ultimately, of reckoning.
Yellowcake
: A Novel
by Ann Cummins
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: Apr 2008
A story of two families thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes. When one of the children becomes involved in a group seeking damages for those harmed by the radioactive dust that contaminated their ...
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