Irving, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC IRVCaletti, Deb
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CALMaher, Kerri
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHBambola, Sylvia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HYDCoughlan, Claire
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COUHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: Diana Duprey, a doctor in a small town who also performs abortions, is found murdered. She had many enemies, thus, many of the townspeople are implicated in the murder, including her husband and daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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Summary: "From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WURHaigh, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAISamson, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2008
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Summary: "An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk) 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. Nancy's fears about both her patient's chances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESCardi, Annie
Summary: When Tess's decision to get an abortion goes public, she is rejected and harassed by people in her community, but she soon finds solace in her music and uses her voice to end the cycle of abuse in her small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARIrving, John
Summary: Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IRVCrichton, Michael.
Summary: In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall's teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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Summary: "In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life--seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. As she watches over the birds in her yard, Olivia feels like an "accidental"--a migratory bird blown off course. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWISloan, Susan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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Summary: It's been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he's lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. At last, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SOLPatterson, Richard North
Summary: A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case- a trial pitting a 15-year-old girl against her pro-life parents- will come before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATMarshall, Heather (Heather J.)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarshall, Heather (Heather J.)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MARSummary: A look at the subject of abortion where there can be no absolutes, no "right" or "wrong." Equal time is given to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is "right" or "wrong."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAKHo, Joanna
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HONg, Celeste
Summary: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017