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Jelline Smith lives with her husband in Decatur, Illinois. The couple has one son and seven grandchildren. She loves the Midwest but longs for her home state of Mississippi. She always said that someday she would return to Mississippi to live, but there was always something to stop her such as a better paying job or a better way of living. The main reason for staying is her family, parents and siblings, living in Decatur. She simply couldn't bear...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret. Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite many...
4) The Advance
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English
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Five years ago Jonas Cleary asked me to write a foreword for "Brothers, sisters.. with a focus on the socio-economic aspects of the book. As "Brothers, sisters.. is now republished as a trilogy, he has asked me for a new, revised foreword to the book or better, an updated one mirroring the prevailing socio-economic environment relative to what he has written. In that original foreword I had not only outlined how the then economic factors determining...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One morning after breakfast, Baby{u2019}s big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba{u2019}s bungalow in the next village. He{u2019}ll have to go along the bumpy road, past the baobab trees, birds, and butterflies, and all the way over the bridge. But what he doesn{u2019}t realize is that his very cute, very curious baby sibling has stowed away on his bicycle! Little ones learning about language will love sounding...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
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