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21) Cradle and all
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Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate two immaculate conceptions as terrifying forces of light and darkness gather.
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In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later,...
24) Sweet Lullaby
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2013.
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251 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Josie Alvarez is excited to leave her hectic job in Dallas for a counseling position in small-town Lullaby, Missouri. But as she helps young mothers prepare for the future, Josie realizes she has her own fears to overcome. Caleb Jackson, who owns a candy shop and works as youth pastor while raising his daughter, Sailor, is thrilled to offer Josie a part-time job at La Dolce Vita. When a startling secret about Sailor comes to light, will Caleb and...
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My girlfriend's child volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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188 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm
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"A moving story of young love and tough choices. Sachi and her boyfriend Takara are your average high school couple. They go to school together, hang out, and even engage in the more intimate side of dating. However, as time passes, Sachi starts to get the feeling that something isn't right and decides to buy a pregnancy test. Later, in the bathroom of a family restaurant far from her home, she sees the two red lines that will change both her and...
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2018
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Valeria tiene 17 años y está embarazada. Vive en PUerto Vallarta con Clara, su media hermana. Valeria no ha querido que Abril - la madre que lleva mucho tiempo ausente - se entere del embarazo, sin embargo Clara ante la presión económica y las responsabilidades que implica tener un bebé en casa, decide llamarla. Abrilllega con disposición de ayudar a sus jijas, pero pronto entenderemos por qué Valeria prefería mantenerla lejos."--...
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A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
28) If only
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[2018]
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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At sixteen Bridget is pregnant--and her boyfriend has dumped her for another girl. She's trying to envision a future for her baby. But as she sifts through the many paths and the many people who want to parent her child, she can't help but feel that there is no right decision. Fifteen years later: Ivy knows that she is now the same age Bridget was when she placed Ivy for adoption. She knows that Bridget was the one who named her. When Ivy goes in...
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2020.
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283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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"A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California, 1938-When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's...
31) One hundred days
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2023.
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245 pages ; 23 cm
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"From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, My Year of Rest and Relaxation meets Freshwater"--
Sixteen, Karuna's pregnancy is the result of a heady act of independence, lust, and defiance that happened in a moment of freedom from her overprotective mother. Now she is trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting...
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