Philomena : a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
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New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
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vi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status |
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Downs Carnegie Library - REFERENCE | 941.708 Sixsmith, Martin | On Shelf | |
Lincoln Carnegie Library - 900s | 941.7 SIXSMITH, Martin | On Shelf | |
Scandia City Library - 900s | 941.708 Sixsmith, Martin | Hiawatha, KS | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
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Book
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English
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"First published in Great Britain as The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009."
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"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping expos�e told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation." -- Publisher's description.
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$16.00
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sixsmith, M. (2013). Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search . Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin. 2013. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search Penguin Books, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sixsmith, Martin. Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search Penguin Books, 2013.
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