NYT Notable Books 2021 - Nonfiction

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1. American baby: a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption

Author:

Glaser, Gabrielle

Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor

362.734/GLA

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
1 of 1	Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor	362.734/GLA
1 of 1	Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction	362.734 GLA
1 of 1	East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction	362.734 Glaser
1 of 1	Guilford Adult Non-Fiction	362.73 GLASER
0 of 1	Haddam/Brainerd Adult Nonfiction	362.734 GLA
1 of 1	Lyme Adult Nonfiction	362.734092 GLA
1 of 1	Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction	362.734 GLASER
1 of 1	Meriden Adult Non-Fiction	362.734 GL
2 of 2	North Branford/Smith Adult Nonfiction	362.734 Glaser
1 of 1	Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction	362.734 GLA
1 of 1	Orange/Case Adult Nonfiction Book	362.734 Glaser
1 of 1	Wallingford Adult Nonfiction	362.734 GLASER

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[2021]

Viking

343 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor

362.734/GLA

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2022

Penguin Books

342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Description:

"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...