Without a Map by Meredith Hall  In this lovely memoir, the distinguished author Meredith Hall describes an idyllic childhood growing up in a small, safe community in New Hampshire. For sixteen years, she thrived, secure in the love of friends and family, earning straight A's at school and a perfect attendance record at church. But everything changed one day in 1965 when she told two friends that she was pregnant. Instantly, the community that had nurtured her shunned her and she was never allowed to attend church or school in her community again. Her mother’s reaction was, “Well, you can’t stay here,” so she was sent away to live with her father. Forced to give her son up for adoption at birth, she was subsequently banned from her father’s house as well. Because of Hall’s great heart and courage, what might have been a tale of resentment and bitterness became a roadmap to transcendence. After years of self-examination, she decided to forgive her parents and move forward, building a successful career and a loving family of her own. In the end she was even able to reunite with her eldest son who as it turned out, was desperately in need of family himself.