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FICTION

The Millstone

Margaret Drabble - Mariner Books
Format: Book

Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman's decision to become a mother.

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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

Peter Ho Davies - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political decisions a family can make: to have a child, and conversely, to choose not to have a child. 

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Red Clocks: A Novel

Leni Zumas
Format: Book

One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very...

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Mercy Street: A Novel

Jennifer Haigh - Ecco
Format: Book

For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic,...

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The Mothers: A Novel

BRIT BENNETT - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced...

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The Farm: A Novel

Joanne Ramos - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Town & Country Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages - and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here - more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch?...

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The Kindest Lie: A Novel

Nancy Johnson
Format: Paperback

It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over...

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NON-FICTION

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

Robin Marty - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback

The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case scenarios...

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Ann Fessler - Penguin Press
Format: Book

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee...

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Shout Your Abortion

Amelia Bonow - PM Press
Format: Paperback

Following the U.S. Congress's attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion became a viral conduit for abortion storytelling, receiving extensive media coverage and positioning real human experiences at the center of America's abortion debate for the first...

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You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula

Hannah Matthews - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each and every one of us can practice and incorporate it into our daily lives, and what we can imagine and build together in a post-Roe...
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