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Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
In this tense French drama, a doctor brings a boy to Belgium and raises him as his own. When the boy reaches adulthood, he gets married and starts his own family, though he still relies on the doctor. When trouble strikes his family, this dependence turns into domination.
2) Beloved
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
C2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe 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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
Alliance Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the police investigation and subsequent trial of Kermit Gosnell, a physician and abortion provider, who was convicted of killing four people, including three infants born alive during abortion procedures he performed.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In this first narrative history of Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder from 1844-1846, a constitutional lawyer and crime historian shows how dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen and shameless hucksters turned her casein America's formative tabloid trial.
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