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1) Plain truth
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Language
English
Description
The discovery of a dead infant shakes Lancaster County to its core. Circumstantial evidence suggest that 18-year-old Katie, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the mother, took the newborn's life. Attorney Ellie Hathaway faces a system of justice very different from her own.
2) After
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Language
English
Description
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
3) Adam Bede
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Series
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit, and fictional rural community called Hayslope and the romantic drama that develops between four of its young residents: the title character Adam, a young carpenter, the...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Daughters of Madurai is both a page-turning mystery and a heartrending story of the fraught family dynamics and desperate choices that face a young mother in India. Spanning 1990s South India and present-day Australia, the novel follows Janani, a mother who will do anything to save her unborn daughter, and Nila, a young woman who embarks on a life-changing journey of self-discovery"--
5) Beloved
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 268
Language
English
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Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead--and...
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Language
English
Description
Drawn back to Baltimore where she is known as "Prom Mom"--the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her--Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa, until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable. - source not specified.
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Language
English
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestseller and 2014 Edgar and Anthony nominee Reconstructing Amelia comes another harrowing, gripping novel that marries psychological suspense with an emotionally powerful story about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery. At the end of a long winter in well-to-do Ridgedale, New Jersey, the body of an infant is discovered in the woods near the town's prestigious university campus....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"In Victorian England, clairvoyant flower seller Constance Piper goes searching for the truth behind a new rash of murders in London's East End. With the aid of Detective Constable Hawkins, Constance links the mysterious death of a young prostitute to Mother Delaney's vile trade as a baby farmer"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When a baby dies in a conservative town in New Hampshire, a woman is unjustly accused of murder, a single mother of unconventional ways. Luckily for her, a New York feminist is at hand to help and she organizes her defense.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
An out of work TV anchorman needs to break a big story. So, he travels to West Virginia to investigate a doctor that may have killed eighteen babies. What he finds is worse than he might have guessed: man-eating bear dogs; a sadistic ex-prostitute; a heavily armed, forest-dwelling dwarf; a torturer and a comatose woman in a sealed coffin.
15) The bug funeral
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"University of North Carolina History Professor Simon Shaw has been making headlines for his role in investigating murders that occurred over the last century. Now another mystery has presented itself. A forest ranger has discovered the remains of a young woman below the Blue Ridge Parkway in Boone, North Carolina. It's the corpse of Eva Potter, who had disappeared in 1958. A man she was dating, Roy Freedman, confessed to her murder. Now Freedman,...
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Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Mired in a dead-end job, and with a grand total of zero ideas for a second novel, Anna is delighted when her husband's employer requires that they relocate to a small village in Dorset. Maybe the move will jump-start....something. At first, it does, as Anna becomes absorbed in researching local history. Quaint little Abbots Newton, the town that time forgot, turns out to have briefly been home to a notorious murderess from the 60s. In fact, the...
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