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After Theresa Cole finds out she's pregnant with a child likely to be born with a genetic abnormality, an infant she and her husband Charlie had eagerly anticipated, she considers having an abortion. When she subsequently disappears from her family's Minnesota farm, her sister Annie tries to figure out why. No one else seems concerned at first, except Charlie, who's stationed in Afghanistan, and Charlie's father, Woodrow, who drives an eyebrow-raising...
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Dr. Dody McCleland novels volume 2
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English
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In pre-WWI London Dr. Dody McCleland, is accused of performing a botched illegal abortion that claims the life of a scullery maid, Esther Craddock, who was taking lead pills to end her pregnancy. Dody had encountered those "medications" elsewhere -- her autopsy of a three-year-old boy found that he was poisoned by lead pill -- and must trace their source to clear her name.
46) Subway girl
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English
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In Hong Kong, Chan Tze Man, called Simon Chan, leaves high school because he can't master English, but when he befriends Amy, a Chinese- American who knows little Chinese, their unlikely bond gives hope to both.
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"Blue Atlas is a lyrical abortion narrative unlike any other. This one-of-a-kind collection follows a Jewish woman and her ghosts as they travel from West Africa to Europe and, finally, to the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The speaker searches repeatedly for a new outcome, seeking answers in a myriad of mediums such as an online questionnaire, a freshman composition essay, and a curriculum vitae. The raw, often far from idyllic experience of a...
48) Tully
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Polish
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"Wyzywająca buntowniczka. Zdradzona przyjaciółka. Namiętna kochanka prześladowana przez mężczyznę, którego dotyk jest potężniejszy niż jej ból. Bohaterka, której nie zapomnicie. Znakomita powieść o namiętności i stracie, miłości i zdradzie, przyjaźni zdolnej przetrwać nawet śmierć i wyjątkowej kobiecie usiłującej odnaleźć w tym wszystkim sens. Późne lata siedemdziesiąte na amerykańskiej prowincji. Tully Makker jest...
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