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Booth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption, And The Secrets We Kept

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Item Weight: 0.85 lbs

Book Title: Booth Girls : Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Secrets We Kept

Item Length: 9in

Item Width: 6in

Author: Kim Heikkila

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Women, Personal Memoirs, United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Publication Year: 2021

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

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