Alternative Rock

Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.

In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’.

Elodie is raised in Quebec’s impoverished orphanage system. It’s a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns’ hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world.

Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.

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The Dashboard makes it easy to gauge how much you have left to spend. Whether its at the store or at home making an online purchase, we make it simple to just focus on the individual transactions rather than the spreadsheet like formula of recurring transactions. Its painfully obvious that those recurring transactions are not always the same amount, and its difficult to near impossible to track all your spending to the dollar unless its easy to input as you make them. Transactions are tracked and editable giving you flexibility. You can even use it to track your grocery list, as you log prices in and place them in your basket, the budgeting gauge show you a before and after view of the state of your budget. Once you “check out” the list total will be deducted from the appropriate budget, while still giving the flexibility to change that total before commiting it to budget.

American Beauty/American Psychoby Fall Out Boy

Original Release Date: January 16, 2015
Label: Island Records
Total Length: 39:01
Genres: Alternative Rock