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Thomas H. Murray

In this graceful and humane book, Thomas Murray illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents? How far do parental obligations go? What social arrangements and technologies used in conceiving, gestating, and rearing children are ethical? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a child? Murray leaves the rarefied air of abstract moral philosophy to reflect on the perplexities of ordinary life and ordinary people. He maintains that ethical theory needs a richer description than it now has of the moral life of parents and children, one that captures the complexity of motives for having and rearing children, and the significance of children in the lives of adults. These issues lead Murray into explorations of some of the most contentious moral and technical problems of our time, among them fertility technologies, prenatal testing, adoption, and abortion.

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K.A. Robinson

"In the second book of the bestselling Torn series, Chloe and Drake have soldiered through challenging circumstances and are finally within reach of their happily ever after. Unfortunately, timing is not on their side and their demons have come out of the dark with a vengeance. Chloe's absentee mother enters back into her life and sets off a chain of events that no one could ever have anticipated. Adding to their distress, the young lovers are forced to go to battle against a whirlwind of drugs and rock 'n roll, sex and a crazy, relentless ex. The foundation on which their love was built is hurriedly shaking beneath them. To what lengths are Chloe and Drake willing to go in order to keep their relationship intact? Can the couple who came together to ease each other's pain be able to reemerge stronger and more resilient than ever?"--

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Harriet Evans

The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day. So opens A Place for Us by Harriet Evans, a book you'll dive into, featuring a family you'll fall in love with ... and never want to leave. The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer's day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can't be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn't you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter's family is finally coming home.

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Martha Attema

In 1944, Friesland, Netherlands, Nine year old Ria wishes the Nazis would go home. Since they invaded, her best friend and her family, who are Jewish, were taken away, her father has been forced to go into hiding, and electricity in the city almost never works for anyone except the Nazis and their sympathizers. Ria is worried about her pregnant mother. The baby should come any day or night now. How can they deliver a baby in a cold, dark house?