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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...
Author
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What happens when a child dies? Bereavement and recovery in graphic novel form - perceptive, funny and moving all at once.
"A unique and moving memoir of what can't be compared to anything else: the loss of one's child. It is not only harrowing and disturbing but acutely funny: the reader will laugh and cry, as Streeten teaches us more about loss than any of the standard textbooks on this subject. A brillant and original book that deserves a wide...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A shocking expose of the dark, secret history of Catholic orphanages--the violence, abuse, and even murder that took place within their walls--and a call to hold the powerful to account. More than 5 million Americans passed through orphanages in the 20th century alone. At its peak in the 1930s, the American orphanage system included more than 1,600 institutions, partly supported with public funding but usually run by religious orders, including the...
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