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Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
When she receives the news in late 1944 that her baby's father was shot down in the South Pacific, Amelia Richards loses hope. Jobless and broke, she has nowhere to turn for help but her infant's paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don't know that she-- or their grandson-- exists. When Amelia discovers that the family is wealthy and influential, dare she disclose the truth of her relationship with their son?
3) Unspoken
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The envelope delivered to Shelby Coles's Seattle home contains no return address, just a photograph of a little baby. Shelby knows at once that this is the daughter she was told died at birth. And in that moment, Shelby knows something else-- she needs to go back to Bad Luck, Texas.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
452 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to have her baby. Three years later her child was taken from her and sold to a family in America for adoption. She spent the next fifty years searching for him. Both mother and son had lives scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic.
6) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, PHILOMENA focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dench), mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock--something her Irish-Catholic community didn't have the highest opinion of--and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn't allow for any sort of inquiry into the...
Author
Language
English
Description
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...
8) Bleak house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but...