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1) Beloved
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved....
2) Plain truth
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old, unwed Katie Fisher is accused of birthing then smothering her baby at the family dairy farm. But not only does Katie claim her innocence, she also says she didn't even bear the child. Enter high-profile Philadelphia lawyer Ellie Hathaway, who may be Katie's only hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as Prom Mom--the girl who allegedly killed her newborn baby that no one knew about, especially not her date, Joe Simpson, who had abandoned her that night to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance--as...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.
6) Mothers who kill their children: understanding the acts of moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
vi, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and...
10) Tangled web
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
11) Adam Bede
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal,...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the gritty Glasgow of the early 1980s, Paddy is struggling to make a name for herself in the macho newsroom of the Daily News. At work, Paddy is up against hardened reporters who doubt her; at home, she's fighting her rigid Catholic family, who just wants her to get married. But Paddy's passion for digging into the darkest corners of the city comes first. She's not above crossing a few lines to get to the truth--and that dedication often puts...
13) After
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book -- now a major movie -- reveals how the investigation that brought Gosnell to justice started as a...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how women - Black and white, enslaved and free - gradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals"--
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was found buried in the backyard of Sarah and John Makin, two wretchedly poor baby farmers in inner Sydney. In the weeks that followed, 12 more babies were found buried in the backyards of other houses in which the Makins had lived. This resulted in the most infamous trial in Australian legal history, and exposed a shocking underworld of desperate mothers, drugged and starving babies, and a black market in...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xx, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone...
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