Author: Ann Fessler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143038974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
The Girls Who Went Away
The Girls Who Went Away
Author: Ann Fessler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110164429X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110164429X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
The Most Intimate Revelations about the Girls Who Went Away
Author: Dominic Stott
Publisher: Lennex
ISBN: 9785458885089
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Snippits of book reviews for "The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade," a book that brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children.
Publisher: Lennex
ISBN: 9785458885089
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Snippits of book reviews for "The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade," a book that brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children.
The Girls Who Disappeared
Author: Claire Douglas
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063277433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit.”—Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . . In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one—Olivia—was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren’t happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia. Soon, Jenna starts receiving menacing notes. The locals have made it clear she’s not welcome. But someone is going to make her leave one way or another. Jenna’s been warned: she must get out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . . and becomes another mystery attached to this place.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063277433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
“Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit.”—Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. A car accident. Three missing girls. A twenty-year mystery. A woman on the verge of discovering the truth . . . In a rural Wilshire town lies the Devil’s Corridor—a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one—Olivia—was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren’t happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia. Soon, Jenna starts receiving menacing notes. The locals have made it clear she’s not welcome. But someone is going to make her leave one way or another. Jenna’s been warned: she must get out of this town before she suffers a dark fate . . . and becomes another mystery attached to this place.
The Girl That Got Away
Author: Peace Love
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365457400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Book Written About a Young Girl Who Was Kidnapped.But Her Desire To Be Free Overpowered The Negative Situation. Being Scared Gave Her Powers She Didn't Know She Had.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365457400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
A Book Written About a Young Girl Who Was Kidnapped.But Her Desire To Be Free Overpowered The Negative Situation. Being Scared Gave Her Powers She Didn't Know She Had.
Collier's Once a Week
Woman's Missionary Friend
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Category : Women in Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Category : Women in Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Life and Light for Woman
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Life and Light for Heathen Women
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Bell of St. Paul's ...
Author: Walter Besant
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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