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"For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests...
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2023.
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"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
4) Gingerbread
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Cyd Charisse trilogy volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
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Two weeks before Christmas, Dr. Diana Duprey is found floating face-up in a small lap pool in her back yard. A medical doctor with an abortion practice, and a national figure who inspired passion and ignited tempers, she had been the target of violent threats by right-to-life activists. Her husband, Frank Thomson, a lawyer in the district attorney's office, fought bitterly with her on the morning of her murder. To reveal the nature of their argument...
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"A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s. Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women's health organization composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to live lives free from the expectations...
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William Morrow
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c2004
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English
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In one West Philadelphia neighborhood, families come together in celebration of unity and togetherness. Their block parties provide a union that serves as a backdrop for discovering the truth about themselves and the people they think they know. Best friends Neet and Shay have depended on each other for most of their lives. However, their friendship will be tested when Neet becomes pregnant by one of the corner boys and Shay arranges an abortion that...
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Flatiron Books
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2017.
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English
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Questioning everything after deciding to terminate an unexpected pregnancy, 17-year-old Genesis works to establish her identity apart from her ex while confronting her most painful memories and rediscovering a long-forgotten dream.
Peter promised to support Genesis through the abortion, but abandoned her at the Planned Parenthood during the appointment. Now she is working to establish her identity, confronting her most painful memories, and rediscovering...
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ECW Press
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2023.
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English
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"Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic that stole their only brother, are scraping by but attempting to make the most of the exciting 1920s. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is a love story -- but like all love stories, it's complicated ... Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can't bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted...
12) Sudden rain
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Scribner
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This long-lost novel captures the emotional rhythms of suburban Los Angeles in the early 1970's as five couples experience the throes of middle-class disaffection. Due to unrest, revelation, and disaster, all are compelled to reconsider the choices they've made in this riveting and resonant novel.
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Harper Perennial
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2024.
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English
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In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2014.
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"Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Throughout four weeks of intense questioning and accusations, this physician directly confronts for the first time her work as an abortion provider-- how it helps the lives of others but takes a heavy toll on her own." --
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"Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices--an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded throughout with the stories of mothers and daughters in pre-Roe versus Wade America. Life heads down back alleys, takes sharp left turns. Then, one fine day...
19) Stone cribs
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Smokey Dalton novels volume 4
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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