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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her friend Meiling, is ordered to act like a proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
Author
Language
English
Description
The USA Today Best Seller. An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and My Name is Eva will love. Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva...
4) Midwives
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1981, trapped by unpassable roads, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes a life-altering decision when she performs an emergency c-section on a woman she fears has died of a stroke.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Following a routine delivery in a rooming house, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been murdered and, despite the hindrance of the girl's powerful family, joins forces with Sergeant Frank Malloy to find the killer before he can strike again.
Author
Series
Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stirring, sensual story of a rebellious nobleman drawn to a lovely widow with a shocking past.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When her husband is imprisoned for his pacifist stance when the U.S. enters World War II, midwife Patience Hester fights for her husband's release while running her practice in the face of hostile neighbors.
Author
Series
Wayne County series volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abigail, a young midwife, is sent to jail after a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn. Her sister, Catherine, comes to stay and help care for Abigail's children while Abigail's husband works the field. Catherine meets Isaiah, a deaf man thought to be simpleminded, and discovers that he possesses unexpected gifts and talents.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to help Hugh Breedlove’s niece Julia, who has been wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her cruel and unfaithful husband, PI Frank Malloy and his wife Sarah find their case turning into a murder investigation and must expose a killer hiding in plain sight.
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Alfred Bing, whose wife wanted Frank to manufacture evidence so she could end their marriage, winds up dead, pinned beneath one the wheels of his very own motorcar, the former policeman and his wife find nothing is what it seems as they search for the truth.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, Appalachian midwife Patience Murphy, who, while dealing with her own secrets, faces seemingly insurmountable conditions--disease, poverty and prejudice--as she strives to bring new life into a cruel world.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Back in Hope River during the Great Depression, nurse Becky Myers becomes a midwife to usher precious new life into the world, but finds her skills and courage tested when a calamitous forest fire blazes through a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
18) Lapvona
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As record drought and famine plague the village, a young shepherd boy finds himself caught in a power struggle between his people and their depraved lord and governor when occult forces arise to upset the old order.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a personal setback in West Virginia to start over on a tiny, remote Canadian island, midwife Clara Perry assumes a new identity as a solitude-seeking writer and is drawn into the lives of her new neighbors before she is forced to reveal the truth about who she really is.
20) Sarah's gift
Author
Series
Pleasant Valley volume 4
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Amish midwife Sarah Mast takes over responsibility from her aging aunt to run the Pleasant Valley birthing center and must fight those skeptical of her abilities, including Aaron Miller, who previously seemed drawn to her.
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