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English
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"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England, run by nuns, to have her child. Her baby daughter is adopted. Ivy will never leave. Sixty years later, journalist Samantha stumbles upon a series of letters from Ivy to her lover, pleading with him to rescue her from St Margaret's before it is too late. As Sam pieces together Ivy's tragic story, terrible secrets about...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rose, married for three years, decides she has made a mistake and leaves her husband, traveling from California to Kentucky to take up residence in a home for unwed mothers where she plans to have her baby and give it up for adoption, but she soon discovers life still holds some surprises.
7) Freedomland
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In New Jersey, a city explodes after a white woman reports her car was hijacked by a black man with her baby inside. But is she telling the truth? The police raid the black ghetto and blacks cry racism. A black policeman and a white woman reporter investigate.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin shares details about her life, describing her Alaska childhood during her mother's political rise, her highly publicized teen pregnancy, and the religious faith that gives her strength.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...
10) The silent boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jenny Harris always expected that she'd fall in love, get married, and have a baby--in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn't mind that she and her live-in fiance, Dean, started their family earlier than planned. But then one night Dean runs out for cigarettes and just doesn't come back, and the very next day, Jenny goes into labor. She never anticipated single motherhood--but at least there's not much time to dwell...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The author describes her experience hidden away by her wealthy Chicago parents in a dreary government facility for impoverished pregnant teens after she discovered she was accidentally expecting at age 17 in 1979,"--NoveList.
Chicago, 1979. Halfway through her senior year of high school, Pryor discovers that she is pregnant-- a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. Driving across three...
14) Someone like you
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Based on two of Sara Dessen's bestselling novels, "How to Deal" is a new feature film from New Line Cinema starring Mandy Moore. This is a two-in-one edition with the complete text from both novels. "That Summer" and "Someone Like You," plus a movie tie in cover. Rule #1: There are no rules. Just when you think you've got everything figured out for yourself, things get turned upside down. Families change. Lives end. New lives begin. And love sneaks...
Author
Publisher
Park Row
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1883 Philadelphia, Quaker schoolteacher Lilli de Jong finds herself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how can she keep her infant daughter after being cast out by her family, abandoned by her fiancé, and rejected by society? After the unexpected death of her beloved mother, a prominent Quaker in their Germantown community, Lilli de Jong's once-orderly life becomes increasingly unrecognizable. Her father eschews their faith by marrying a...
17) Chasing the sun
Author
Series
Blood rose trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
19) Stars of Alabama
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her baby in the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within her. Coot, a child preacher on the Kansas plains, escapes...
20) Pachinko
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Language
English
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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