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(0)Margaret Weise
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In 1940s Australia, being an unmarried mother is almost criminal.
Born the product of a brutal rape in a time when illegitimacy is a sin, Margaret Weise tells a story of heartbreak and victimization, of battling for survival.
"What else could I do except to keep on living? I couldn't simply shrivel up and die because I had been raped and had borne a child. What alternative did I have but to go on as best I could? Yet there were people who looked...
2) Wintergreen
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Whilst we may believe we have done with our past, our past may not have done with us.A century ago, the women of Wintergreen had only the sketchiest of ideas about contraception. It was a time for old wives' tales and superstition.So what was it like back then to conceive and give birth, sometimes to a live baby?Wintergreen is an historical saga, telling the stories of twelve ordinary women surviving in less enlightened and very difficult times.This...
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We are all a link in the chain of generations, a connection between ancestors and descendants. The interesting part about this interconnectedness is each individual story that lies inside every living, breathing person. How they began, and where their years of living have taken them, are the intriguing factors.
In “More Links in the Chain”, Margaret Weise deals with several more relaxed recollections concerning her mother, the extended family,...
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Love should not hurt. Caroline has been married once before, and is wary of another error of judgment in the wedded bliss stakes. She is introduced by well meaning friends to a charming, handsome foreigner, who, for reasons best known to himself, is determined to make her his wife in as short a time as possible. A probable cause of this haste is that if she really got to know him well before he slipped the ring on her finger, she would not have him...
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What happens when a woman, who's old enough to know better, falls instantly in love with a charming, pompous, womanizing misogynist? It happened so quickly that Jessica didn't have time to chastise her heart. Before she realizes it, she's allowed herself to be mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by Roger, self-professed Romeo, who displays his perfection at every turn. Jessica realizes she's in so deep there's barely a way out, and she's also...
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