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Butterbox Babies

Author : Bette L. Cahill
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781552662137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Butterbox Babies written by Bette L. Cahill and published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babies--named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were buried in. Since Bette Cahill first wrote about this shocking truth in 1992, she continued to research the story and corresponded with many of the home's survivors. In this expanded edition, she shares her ongoing examination, revealing the sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors searching for their birth parents.

Butterbox Survivors

Author : Robert Hartlen
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus
ISBN 13 : 9781551092904
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Butterbox Survivors written by Robert Hartlen and published by Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1992 publication of Butterbox Babies, the Ideal Maternity Home in Chester, Nova Scotia, has become synonymous with illegal adoptions and suspicious baby deaths. Much attention has been giving neglect of infants at the Home, the exorbitant fee paid by adoptive parents and the secretive nature of transactions. But what became of the children who were adopted? What effect did their shaky beginnings have on their lives? Were they loved and cherished, or mistreated and ignored? Did they feel like “family”? did they always wonder who they were? In this comprehensive book, author and Survivor Robert Hartlen has compiled the personal stories of thirty-six of the adult adoptees who survived the Ideal Maternity Home. Here we share in their most private memories and experiences: the painful struggles to come to terms with being adopted, the epic searches to find birth families, and the heartening sense of a surrogate family many adoptees found in many fellow Survivors. Also included are stories of some of the birth mothers who gave up their children, and some of he adopted mothers who claimed the babies as their own. Underlying all the stories is the terrifying realization that except for an act of fate, or of grace, these Survivors might have shared an unmarked grave with their innocent fellow infants known and remembered as the “Butterbox Babies.” At once uplifting and disquieting, these stories not only force us to confront a painful chapter in Nova Scotia’s history, but also challenge us to reconsider the whole notion of “family.”

Pout-Pout Fish: Back to School

Author : Deborah Diesen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374310475
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Pout-Pout Fish: Back to School written by Deborah Diesen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to go back to school with the Pout-Pout Fish! Mr. Fish is going back to school to be a substitute teacher, and he's nervous—until he meets a little guppy who can help him! At an affordable price point, and with two pages of stickers, this new format is fun and accessible for Mr. Fish's fans and newcomers alike.

Butterbox Babies

Author : George Presley
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Butterbox Babies written by George Presley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 1928 in Nova Scotia, a certain maternity home was opened by William and Lila Young; it was initially called "The Life and Health Sanitarium". It claimed to provide maternity care for local married couples and discreet birthing and placement for unwed mothers. The Home was a center for illegal adoptions across the United States and Canada as the US laws had not legalized adoption across religious backgrounds, leaving many Jewish families without any adoption options.As time went on, the Young's' practices turned out to be increasingly degenerate. They would intentionally starve "unmarketable" children to death by taking care of them just molasses and water. The children they couldn't sell were burned in the Home's furnace or buried in the backyard of the property in a box, hence the name "Butterbox babies". They are also said to have separated and created siblings and twins according to what their customers wanted. In some cases, they even told the local mothers that their child had died so that they could use it for their benefit. A few couples settled up to $10,000 for a child. On occasion, there were as much as 100 children accessible for selection. This atrocity was made possible due to the peril of reformatory mentalities toward ladies, and the threat of controlling the conceptive alternatives for couples who saw the Youngs as a save heaven, completely oblivious to the fact that they were being extorted for monetary gains. My heart goes out to those innocent babies that were killed during the time and those mothers who were told their babies were dead I cannot begin to imagine the pain they must have all felt... Get your copy of this book today by clicking on BUY NOW.

The Magdalen Girls

Author : V.S. Alexander
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496706137
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Magdalen Girls written by V.S. Alexander and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin, 1962. Within the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies one of the city’s Magdalen Laundries. Once places of refuge, the laundries have evolved into grim workhouses. Some inmates are “fallen” women—unwed mothers, prostitutes, or petty criminals. Most are ordinary girls whose only sin lies in being too pretty, too independent, or tempting the wrong man. Among them is sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan, sent by her family when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest. Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments—but always in the name of love. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in the reclusive Lea, who helps them endure—and plot an escape. But as they will discover, the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations. Told with candor, compassion, and vivid historical detail, The Magdalen Girls is a masterfully written novel of life within the era’s notorious institutions—and an inspiring story of friendship, hope, and unyielding courage.

The Baby Thief

Author : Barbara Bisantz Raymond
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786733748
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Baby Thief written by Barbara Bisantz Raymond and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee — selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today.

The Story of Opal

Author : Opal Stanley Whiteley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Opal written by Opal Stanley Whiteley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1920 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sing to It

Author : Amy Hempel
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982109114
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Sing to It written by Amy Hempel and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKER AWARD ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda July From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection—her first in over a decade. Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction. This new collection, her first since her Collected Stories published more than a decade ago, is a literary event. These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In “A Full-Service Shelter,” a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In “Greed,” a spurned wife examines her husband’s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in “Cloudland,” the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel’s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.

A Dangerous Age

Author : Bette L. Cahill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989725719
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Age written by Bette L. Cahill and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fishermen have a powerful bond, a brotherhood that extends well beyond their own community. Flares from their trawlers soared high into the sky, helping to illuminate the search site. Out of the fog appeared a fishing vessel heading straight for us. It looked as though it was going to hit us broadside when it turned at the last minute."

The Traffic in Babies

Author : Karen Andrea Balcom
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099181
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Traffic in Babies written by Karen Andrea Balcom and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Exploring how and why babies were moved across borders, The Traffic in Babies is a fascinating look at how social workers and other policy makers tried to find birth mothers, adopted children, and adoptive parents

Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Author : Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Penguin Persons & Peppermints written by Walter Prichard Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Butterbox Babies

Author : Bette L. Cahill
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781552662168
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Butterbox Babies written by Bette L. Cahill and published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the babies born at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester, Nova Scotia, were not adopted. Instead they mysteriously disappeared, becoming known as butterbox babies--named after the grocery delivery boxes that they were buried in. Since Bette Cahill first wrote about this shocking truth in 1992, she continued to research the story and corresponded with many of the home's survivors. In this expanded edition, she shares her ongoing examination, revealing the sometimes happy, often heartbreaking endings of survivors searching for their birth parents.

A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto Netflix Tie-in

Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780062865137
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto Netflix Tie-in written by Lemony Snicket and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding the death of their parents and the baffling VFD organisation.

The Renegado

Author : Philip 1583-1640 Massinger
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015303522
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Renegado written by Philip 1583-1640 Massinger and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Animal Person

Author : Alexander MacLeod
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771029896
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Animal Person written by Alexander MacLeod and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail. From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a "must-read book" by Maclean's. Featuring stories published in The New Yorker, Granta, and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the eight stories in Animal Person illuminate what it means to exist in the perilous space between desire and action, and to have your faith in what you hold true buckle and give way. A petty argument between two sisters is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. Adjoining motel rooms connect a family on the brink of a new life with a criminal whose legacy will haunt them for years to come. A connoisseur of other people’s secrets is undone by what he finds in a piece of lost luggage. In the wake of a tragic accident, a young man must contend with what is owed to the living and to the dead. And in the O. Henry Award-winning story “Lagomorph,” a man’s relationship with his family’s long-lived pet rabbit opens up to become a profound exploration of how a marriage fractures. Muscular and tender, beautifully crafted, and alive with an elemental power, these stories explore the struggle for meaning and connection in an age when many of us feel cut off from so much, not least ourselves. This is a collection that beats with raw emotion and shimmers with the complexity of our shared human experience, and it confirms Alexander MacLeod’s reputation as a modern master of the short story.

Butterbox Babies

Author : Bette Cahill
Publisher : Seal Books
ISBN 13 : 9780770425173
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Butterbox Babies written by Bette Cahill and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking for Lost Bird

Author : Yvette Melanson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780380795536
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Lost Bird written by Yvette Melanson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-01-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died.