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Women in Space: Books, Movies, & Shows

24 Sep

If you’re anything like me, you love a list of niche media recommendations. Chatting with my colleague and fellow librarian, Kerri, we decided to come up with a list of recommendations of books, movies, tv shows, and podcasts featuring WOMEN IN SPACE. All recommendations can be found via the Hoboken Public Library resources and they are linked!

Adults
Physical Books:

  • An Unkindness of Ghosts- Rivers Solomon (Physical Call #: FIC SOLOMON)
  • Devil Girl From Mars (1954): Hoopla
  • Dawn- Octavia E. Butler (F BUTLER)
  • Bitch Planet (COMICS BITCHPL)
  • Far Sector- N.K. Jemisin (COMICS FAR SECT JEMISON)
    • Issues 1-12 available on Hoopla!
  • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet- Becky Chambers (FIC CHAMBERS)

Ebooks:

Audiobooks:

Movies:

KIDS
Videos/Shows:

Books:

  • She Persisted: Kalpana Chawla (J BIOG CHAWLA)
  • Very Important People: Dr. Mae Jemison (J BIOG JEMISON)
  • Journey to the Stars (J BIOG CHAWLA)
  • One Step Further (J BIOG JOHNSON 1921)
  • Counting of Katherine ( J B JOHNSON)
  • Blast Off (J BIOG MORGAN 2022)
  • Born Reading (J 920 KRU)

Written by:
Dejeunee Depts
Information and Digital Services Library Assistant

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Celebrate Disability Pride Month: The Space You Left Behind and Stronger

16 Jul

The Space You Left Behind
by Ona Gritz
Some of our Hoboken residents may remember Ona Gritz, who, back in the early 2000’s, was the YA Librarian here at the Hoboken Public Library and helped me run the library’s first Writers Group. Now Gritz is writing full time; The Space You Left Behind was one of two Young Adult novels she had published in 2024 along with Take a Sad Song. In The Space You Left Behind, Cara a sixteen year old who has cerebral palsy works to overcome her self-consciousness about her disability. She and her crush bond over a mystery podcast and then decide to to look into Cara’s own mystery about who her biological father is. Though the novel is fiction, Gritz is able to use her own experience with having cerebral palsy to give authenticity to Cara’s depiction and her outlook of the world. You can also checkout Gritz’s short autobiographical work, On the Whole which details her experience as a new mother with a physical disability, which I had previously blogged about.

Stronger
We screened Stronger as our Monthly Library Movie for Adults back in April , which is Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman who lost both his legs during the Boston Marathon bombing and was instrumental in helping get a description of the bomber so he could be found. At first Bauman struggles to adjust to his loss of limbs but with the support of his girlfriend, family, and friends, he learns to use prosthetics and works through his PTSD. The movie came out in 2017 and despite not having huge success on the big screen, I think it is one that should not be overlooked if you enjoy biographical films about real life perseverance. The film was directed by David Gordon Green and written by John Pollono, based on the memoir by Jeff Bauman and Bret Witter. Gyllenhaal, gives a stunning performance as the lead and Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Carlos Sanz, and Clancy Brown also are excellent in the supporting cast. Having lived in Boston for two years, I felt they gave an authentic look at the resilient blue collar community that resides there.

For our July Movie Screening we will be showing Les Miserables in honor of Bastille Day (French Independence Day) at 10:30am on July 11.

Written by:
Aimee Harris
Information and Digital Services Manager

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