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1) Take my hand
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Language
English
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Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Series
Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie takes a job as a junior nurse at a ramshackle refuge for the elderly, where she encounters a colorful host of characters and begins to experience the first sense of belonging in her young life.
Author
Publisher
Published by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman's plans for her future fall apart at the close of World War II, she discovers new purpose as a midwife in the hills of Kentucky--and a possible chance at new love"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lito Macaraeg, a former chauffeur for Philippine president Corazon Aquino, reaches out to his estranged journalist son from his nursing home in Manila, offering him a scoop about a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Aquino, whose husband was allegedly murdered by Marcos and her husband.
Author
Series
My heart belongs in the Blue Ridge volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of her brother, who is working as a teacher in a mission school. She hopes to find a place where her nursing skills and independent ideas will be accepted and appreciated, but nothing prepares her for the wild mixture of isolation, community, brokenness, and hope within these mountains...or in the person of Jeb McAdams. Returning from the devastation...
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