Resource Collection
Gals Guide Library is transitioning to a resource collection. Our 5,000+ books are currently in storage awaiting a public location in Moorhead, Minnesota. However, our collection is available to view and search online.
The Gals Guide collection is books written by women or about women. Our main focus is women’s memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies. We also have a handful of DVDs.
We are currently seeking women’s stories that are out of print so that their words and history can be preserved. If you have books like these that you would like to donate to the collection email 42@galsguide.org
Book Recs
Looking for a great read?
Gals Guide consistently curates book lists that will inspire, challenge, and delight.
Books that celebrate culture, travel, careers, and, of course, women’s history. Books that will also encourage you to look deeply inward towards your inner being, as well as outward to your community.
Anthology
Gals Guide publishes a yearly anthology. Each edition has a chosen theme and contains stories and poems from authors around the world.
Gals Guide Anthology: Rebellion (Releasing July 2026)
Gals Guide Anthology: Female Friendships (2025)
Gals Guide Anthology: Nourish (2024)
Gals Guide Anthology: Journey (2023)
Gals Guide Anthology: Women of History (2022)
Shop
Books for sale! (And some other cool things too).
Get your copies of the Gals Guide Anthology in our online shop.
Proceeds help fund the Gals Guide mission.
History of Gal Guide Library
2013 April 24, a group of women met in Leah Leach’s living room and formed Women Empowering Balance (WEB). We were a modern consciousness awareness-raising group.
2016 May, 16 Gals Guide to the Galaxy becomes a nonprofit corporation in the state of Indiana. Our mission: to share women’s history by utilizing multimedia technology.
2017 June 2, Your Gal Friday Podcast launches to provide women’s history in a student-friendly format.
2018 February 13, Gals Guide hosts its first Galentine’s Event. Inspired by the TV show Parks & Recreation.
2018 July 12, Gals Guide Podcast launches with a more grown-up feel (that means we are usually drunk).
2019 Gals Guide evolves its mission to form the first women’s history lending library in the United States.
2020 March 6, Gals Guide Library opens to the public in Noblesville, Indiana. The collection contains 1500 books written by women or about women. Gals Guide rents a small space in Noblesville Creates (then called Nickel Plate Arts) in the Stephenson house. 11 days after opening night, COVID-19 would cause a state-wide lockdown.
2021 March, Gals Guide moves into the Judge Stone house, a bigger space on the Noblesville Creates campus.
2021 May, Gals Guide was named TinyCat’s May Library of the Month. Click here to read the interview.
2021 In the fall, Gals Guide hosts its first writing workshop. The workshop was supported by a grant from the Indiana Pacers Foundation.
2022 March, The first Gals Guide Anthology is published.
2022, November 17, Gals Guide was awarded Organization of the Year by Advancing Noblesville. Gals Guide also received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from IN-05 Congresswoman Victoria Spartz.
2024, September Gals Guide founder, Leah “Riwo” Leach wins Arts Leader of the Year from Noblesville Creates.
2025, June 28, Gals Guide Library leaves Noblesville, IN. Puts books in storage and heads to Moorhead, MN.
2025 August, Gals Guide starts online clubs and events broadcasting from Moorhead, MN
2026 April 13, Registered and received Certification of Authority from the Minnesota Secretary of State.
2026 April 26, Gals Guide evolves its mission to become a women’s history academy.
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