BOOK CLUB MAY 2026 Selection

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee, tells the story of how a group of women working together created an unstoppable force that brought peace to Liberia.

The author, together with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. The book tells the story of how a group of women working together created an unstoppable force that brought peace to Liberia.