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Redemption's light volume 1
Pub. Date
©2020.
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"Toronto, Olivia Rosetti is taken in by an angel of mercy, Ruth Bennington. The two discover they share a painful past and together decide to open a maternity home for troubled women. Despite the success of the home, Olivia is haunted by her inhumane treatment at the reformatory and the way her newborn son was taken from her. She feels undeserving of love--until she meets businessman Darius Reed. Although his attention makes her heart soar, he can...
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"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...
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In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Texas, the Berachah Industrial Home for the Redemption of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between the red-light districts of Dallas and Fort Worth, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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At the heart of this novel is a crime of unfathomable horror and its effect on several profoundly different lives, each altered by a surprising connection to the others. We hear four brilliantly realized voices: Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison serving a life sentence for the murder of her children; trapped within the maze of her own tortured mind, she is the subject of damning national attention. Dr. Louise Forrest, the recently divorced...
5) Pen pals
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
When Jennifer agrees to take the rap for her boss, who has been wreaking illegal havoc on the SEC, she unexpectedly finds herself in Jennings Correctional Facility for Women where she encounters a fiesty group of smart, tough women who change her life.
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Charlee Cox is a spoiled, second-generation prison guard in a minimum-security prison for women. His mother is the warden. The warden knows her lifelong bachelor son is up to something in her prison, but she needs proof--before he ruins his life and hers. A tunnel, conjugal visits, a spy on a diet, and forbidden love all lead to the only escape in the prison's history. And only Charlee could get away with it.