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Author | : Peg Sutherland |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2011-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459253507 |
HOPE SPRINGS Pregnant and on the run… Heiress Melina Somerset needs a new home. Hope Springs, Virginia, looks like an ideal place to make a life for herself and her unborn child. The townspeople are friendly and don't ask too many questions. She's grateful to Ash Thorndyke for getting her to Hope Springs. But his methods—and his motives—have left her wondering about his past. One thing's clear: he's not the same man she fell in love with in London. Of course, she's not exactly the woman she'd pretended to be, either. But it's time for the truth. After all, they're going to be parents now!
Author | : Gabrielle Glaser |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0735224692 |
A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.
Author | : Meg Cabot |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061971820 |
The New York Times bestselling hit from Meg Cabot Samantha Madison is just your average sophomore gal living in DC when, in an inadvertent moment sandwiched between cookie-buying and CD-perusing, she puts a stop to an attempt on the life of the president. Before she can say “MTV2” she’s appointed Teen Ambassador to the UN and has caught the eye of the very cute First Son. Featuring Meg Cabot’s delightful sense of humor and signature romance that made The Princess Diaries such a hit, this New York Times bestselling standalone novel is sure to please fans and new readers alike.
Author | : Sarah Philpott |
Publisher | : Broadstreet Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781424555277 |
Close to one in four American women experience the silent grief of pregnancy loss. Loved Baby offers much-needed support to women in the middle of psychological and physiological grief as a result of losing an unborn child.
Author | : Gabrielle Glaser |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0735224706 |
A New York Times Notable Book The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. “[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these single women are gonna raise more children.” No, their hope is that those children will be placed for adoption. But is that the reality? I doubt it.’”[says Glaser]” -Mother Jones During the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, where social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children. The identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are still locked in sealed files. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically illustrates in Margaret and David’s tale--one they share with millions of Americans—a story of loss, love, and the search for identity.
Author | : Paul S. Kesner |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-12-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480804940 |
Paul is a man whose fondness for life on the edge turns his midlife crisis into a nuclear meltdown. Happy to leave his life behind in America, Paul boards a freighter bound for Panama with a backpack and a few thousand dollars, ready to conquer a new wilderness. With a boat, balls, and his newfound brothers, Paulnow calling himself Pumaleads a small but tight-knit group on a meteoric rise as a new criminal empire. With nothing left to lose, Puma operates with fearless abandon, further cementing his relationship as a member of Panamanian organized crime. While running guns and cocaine from the United States to Colombia and back to Panama, Puma transforms into a modern-day smuggler who soon becomes a blip on the CIAs radar screen. But Pumas path is about to take a new direction when, propelled by his desire to make a friends dream come true, he steps in to make the biggest deal of his life. In this gripping thriller, a smuggler who gives himself freely to the winds of destinys path and through Gods mysterious ways finds his larger purposea seeker of justice for the defenseless, the forgotten, and the unavenged.
Author | : Irena Chalmers |
Publisher | : Penguin Putnam |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780670820580 |
For moms- and dads-in-waiting, brand-new parents, curious siblings, doting grandparents, and anyone who's ever cuddled a baby, Irena Chalmers offers the ultimate baby book, full of insights on the ins and outs of babyhood. 200 photos, 50 in full-color.
Author | : Sam McClatchie |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1776586298 |
In honeybee hives, the "queen" is a female that gives birth to most of the colony's population. A similar concept is at the center of Sam McClatchie's gripping short story, "Mother America," in which the quest for genetic perfection has led to the development of a very unusual contest.
Author | : Frank Deford |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0306813750 |
With a new Preface by the author, this novel was named one of the top 25 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated. "Everybody's All American" is not a book [just] about football, but about relationships . . . between men and women, men and men, and gods and mortals."--Dick Schaap.
Author | : Frances B. Cogan |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820337943 |
Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the “Real Woman.” Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the “True Women”—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance, judicious marriage, and a balance between self and family. Cogan's All-American Girl reveals a system of feminine values that demanded women be neither idle nor militant.