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Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The ghost of a 19th century Irish immigrant to Minnesota watches over three contemporary American teenagers who live on the plot of land she did as they try to terminate an unwanted pregnancy"--
In a small Midwestern town, over a century ago, Jane Murphy lived and loved on the same small patch of farmland that three teenage girls-- sisters and cousins-- now call home. Jane, an Irish immigrant, was determined to defy her arranged marriage and have...
4) Rebel Girls
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys--or anyone, for that matter. Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren't exactly mainstream at St. Ann's, her conservative Catholic high school. Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls ... a rumor that her popular, pretty, pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer. A rumor that...
5) Unpregnant
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke discovers she is pregnant, she enlists the help of high school misfit Bailey Butler to drive her over nine hundred miles to the closest abortion clinic.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
7) Plan A
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Their bodies. Their choice. Their friendship. Their fight. When America bans all abortion and the fight for bodily autonomy is taken underground, Laylah and Noor want to be part of the resistance. After graduation, Laylah plans to become an OB-GYN, and Noor an investigative journalist. In the meantime, they're writing an essential guide to getting an abortion. It's illegal and dangerous. What else are two perfectly respectable Muslim teens supposed...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"It's hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don't. Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death - a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black's youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits...
11) Looking for Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful debut novel inspired by true stories, three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests...
13) BIOLOGY LESSONS
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Grace, a high school senior with plans of studying in New York, faces an unplanned pregnancy with limited options due to Texas's abortion laws, but with help from her friends, they devise a risky plan to cross state lines for assistance.
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