Heartbroken to learn that the father of her baby has been killed in combat during World War II, a destitute young mother is forced to reveal the truth about her relationship to the child's wealthy and influential grandparents during a holiday season of miracles and reconciliation.

A fifteen-year-old girl who is pregnant decides she wants to keep her baby, not realizing how much harder it will be than caring for her beloved Daisy Doll.

When June and her baby are abandoned in a town on the coast of New England, Mabel helps her find a place with Iris. June's life becomes entwined with a number of locals who have known one another for decades. As she finds the way forward for herself and her son amid revelations of the others' pasts, she discovers the healing power of friendship and love.

During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously...

In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family's culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight...

Jenny is unmarried, pregnant, and alone in New York City. Delano is a young filmmaker trying to avoid the Vietnam War draft. A chance meeting in Central Park leads to their friendship and mutual concert for each other, and they soon agree that the perfect solution to their problem is a 'marriage of convenience.'

"An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among families, lovers, and readers under the shadow of war"--

Chicago, 1979. Halfway through her senior year of high school, Pryor discovers that she is pregnant-- a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. Driving across three states, her mother drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed mothers but is, in truth, a locked government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls. She's alone and terrified, a girl...

The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents take in a dashingly handsome lodger. After embarking on a torrid love affair with him, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, the hero leaves home to follow him.