Today is International Women’s Day! In a White House press release, President Obama said “empowering
women isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do.”

One way to empower women is to publish their books! Check
out a few of UNP’s talented women and their books:

Cathleen Miller’s Champion
of Choice celebrates the life of women’s advocate Nafis Sadik. Her book was
recently reviewed in the New York Journal
of Books and Dad of Divas. Nafis
Sadik was also interviewed on Pathfinder’s blog.

Body Geographic by
Barrie Jean Borich chronicles
one woman's relationship with herself, her sexuality, and the midwestern
people and places she has called home. Borich’s book was reviewed in Booklist and you can listen to Borich
discuss her book on New Books in Literature.

Booklist  also reviewed Ladette
Randolph’s new book, Haven’s Wake, the
story of a Mennonite Nebraska family dealing with death, a tragic family secret
and the emotions left behind.

We Wanted to Be
Writers reviewed The Days Are Gods
by Liz Stephens which is a memoir of the West from the point of view of a
newcomer, an L.A. transplant, who finds home in a northern
Utah town.