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02432aam a22004338i 4500 001 CEF69116AEBC11EEA3D52C4E3EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240109010034 008 230818s2024 ilu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023037984 020 $a 1728257182 020 $a 9781728257181 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3603.H8835 $b G57 2024 100 1 $a Church, Meagan, $e author. 245 14 $a THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY : $b A NOVEL / $c Meagan Church. 263 $a 2403 264 1 $a Naperville, Illinois : $b Sourcebooks Landmark, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/03/05 520 $a "North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all-the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home-a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon realizes that instead of being a safe haven, the home forces unwed mothers to relinquish parental rights and place their babies for adoption. Lorraine must decide if she has the agency and power to fight to keep her baby or if she must submit to the rules of the society she once admired. Set in the Baby Scoop Era, The Girls We Sent Away juxtaposes the breakthrough technologies of the Race to Space with the societal realities that kept women grounded"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Teenage pregnancy $v Fiction. $9 91213 651 0 $a North Carolina $v Fiction. $9 86182 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $9 200624 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Church, Meagan. $t Girls we sent away $d Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2024 $z 9781728257204 $w (DLC) 2023037985 941 $a 11 952 $l CIPB482 $d 20240511010125.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012135.0 952 $l JCPC145 $d 20240411175310.0 952 $l OCPA943 $d 20240411010708.0 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20240410010400.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045411.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20240404011453.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20240402011431.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240309010403.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240227010608.0 952 $l SNPC104 $d 20240220113247.0 $m snpc104 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CEF69116AEBC11EEA3D52C4E3EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search