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Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.

In 1937 Ireland, unwed mothers were crimnals and giving birth was a considered a crime. Mary Margaret Joyce is one such child, lucky enough to have survived the harsh, cruel conditions of Certified Industrial School Saint Thomas, in Ballinasloe.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a mentally-challenged boy.

When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later she has become a wealthy woman determined to live a normal life. But it will take more than money to escape the attention of the FBI who may want her for murder, and the dangerous man from her past who wants to kill her--if...

Having been abused by her mother until the age of sixteen, a young woman numbs the pain with drugs until she finds God through the LDS Church.

A young Japanese woman goes against tradition when she refuses to marry the father of her unborn infant.

Over a span of five years, the authors talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms to learn how they think about marriage and family. This book offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides an extensive on-the-ground study of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.

The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date. A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night. So begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey,...

"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead....

Just days before the French Revolution, a young woman's baby dies while in the care of a friend and she learns the true meaning of revenge.