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1) The midwife
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Old Order Mennonite head midwife Rhoda Mummau embraces the secrets that remaining in Hopen Haus lets her keep, but with revolutionary medicine waiting on the outside, Rhoda's choices are getting far more difficult. Meanwhile, a graduate student who once gave her baby up for adoption seeks shelter at Hopen Haus when, while carrying another baby as a surrogate, the girl flees the parents who just decided to terminate the pregnancy.
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family shes ashamed to invite to Parents Weekend. With the income shell receive from donating her "pedigree" eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction.Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husbands salary, she thinks...
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When surrogate mother, Cally has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed and it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
Minnesota. Ruth is a fortysomething journalist desperate for a child with her new husband. Hal is a divorced attorney and the father of two teenage boys; open to having another child, he wants Ruth to be happy. Their hope...