Summary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013

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Raymond, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007

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Andrews, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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D'Amato, Barbara.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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Summary: When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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O'Loughlin, Ann

Summary: "In a crumbling mansion in a small Irish village in County Wicklow, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories, and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they communicate only by terse notes. But when the sisters are threatened with bankruptcy, Ella defies Roberta's wishes and takes matters into her own hands, putting her baking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016

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Glaser, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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Christie, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019

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