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Eden 2Raymond, Barbara Bisantz.
Summary: Traces the story of a notorious black-market baby dealer whose illicit operation between 1920 and 1950 was largely dependent on her success in coercing the abandonment and kidnapping of abused and disadvantaged babies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TANN, GEORGIA RAYAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDGlaser, Gabrielle
Summary: "The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 GLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7340 GLAChristie, Judy Pace
Summary: "From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019