infanticide

Examines female infanticide in China, drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations to describe the causes of female infanticide and its persistence.

Looks at the opposing viewpoints of Rose and Michael, two teens who are in love but withdraw from each other when Rose gets pregnant and Michael becomes paranoid, leading to a terrible decision.

A prize-winning journalist examines the legal, social, moral, scientific, and economic implications of decisions to withhold treatment from severely handicapped newborns and surveys the attitudes of parents, doctors, nurses, bioethicists, as well as adults and children directly affected by the problem.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.

Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

Traces the life of Margaret Garner, a twenty-two-year-old slave in mid-nineteenth-century Kentucky, focusing on the nation-wide controversy that erupted when Margaret, recaptured after fleeing to Ohio, killed her young daughter rather than have the child returned to slavery.

Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl, with crime, remorse, and suffering as the consequences.