When a young Amish woman discovers that she was adopted and that her birth parents are English, she will have to determine what she believes and where her future lies
Birthmothers
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Author:Irvin, KellySummary: -
Author:Coulter, MyrlSummary:Winner, SFU Writer's Studio's First Book Competition (2010). Winner, Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award (2011).
Unmarried and pregnant in 1968 Winnipeg, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and...
- Author:Fessler, Ann.Summary:
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...
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Author:Churley, MarilynSummary:In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options...
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Author:Patchett, Ann.Summary:Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider...
- Author:Hunter, DeniseSummary:
When Deputy Cooper Robinson happens upon a car balanced on the edge of a cliff, he does everything he can think of to distract the distraught driver from her perilous situation--up to and including sharing things he's never...
- Author:Jean, EmikoSummary:
In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood,...
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Author:Grigorescu, AlexandraSummary:An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama. Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a...
- Author:Ripplinger, HenrySummary:
Camilla had just discovered that Jenny is her birth mother and on her death bed in the care home. Even Father Engelmann had been astonished to learn that the Jenny he had been seeing in the care home was the same young girl that had...
- Author:De Blasi, MarlenaSummary:
Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity,...
