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Series
Hope River novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need{u2014}and least likely to pay. She knows a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and trust{u2014}but the secrets Patience is keeping are far...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of a midwife in training who helps bring them into the world. Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government...
3) Lapvona
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Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
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Language
English
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Molly Ziegler is proud of being a successful midwife. But at age twenty-one, she's unmarried--and fodder for gossip in her Amish community. Even as her meddling mother urges her to marry the town's most eligible bachelor, Molly wants more. And in newcomer Isaac Gruber, she's found her way out. If Isaac will pretend to court her, her mother has to stop matchmaking--once and for all. What Molly didn't plan on are the unexpected feelings the businessman...
6) Animal life
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland. In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in...
Author
Language
English
Description
When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and a...
Author
Series
Love and promises volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kyle Miller never planned on becoming a country doctor. But when hes offered a medical practice in his sleepy hometown, Kyle knows he must return and face the painful past he left behind. Except the Amish community isnt quite ready for Kyle. Especially the pretty midwife who refuses to compromise her traditions with his modern medicineThe more Leah Stoltzfus works with the handsome English doctor, the more she finds herself caught between the expectations...
Author
Language
English
Description
Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's...
Author
Series
Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A young midwife in the Virginia mountains, Esther Cherrett, is pursued by two unlikely suitors and caught between feuding families until she discovers that her past is the key to unlock hearts, in a story of trust, deception, and bittersweet loss.
Author
Publisher
Opossum Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Midwife's Revolt takes the reader on a journey to the founding days of America. It follows one woman's path, Lizzie Boylston, from her grieving days of widowhood after Bunker Hill, to her deepening friendship with Abigail Adams and midwifery, and finally to her dangerous work as a spy for the Cause. A novel rich in historical detail, The Midwife's Revolt opens a window onto the real lives of colonial women. "A charming, unexpected, and decidedly...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the baby's father--hidden from her family and coworkers for as long as possible. Her mother Grace finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship....
Author
Series
Wayne County series volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Bundles of blessing: Kristina Byler is lost in grief after the death of her husband and finds purpose in being a midwife. When her ex-boyfriend moves back to the community they both have issues to face before moving on.
Christmas cradles: When Anna Stolis takes over for her aunt, the local midwife, Christmas night is busy with multiple deliveries and help from unexpected corners.
Midwife for Susie: Haunted by secret guilt after a tragic accident,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man's innocence. An ill-mannered mill manager, an Irish immigrant, and the victim's young boyfriend come under suspicion even as Rose's future with her handsome doctor suitor becomes unsure....
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
18) Judge thee not
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 5
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
No stranger to judgmental attitudes in her small town of Amesbury, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is nonetheless stunned when society matron Mayme Settle publicly snubs her good friend Bertie for her nontraditional lifestyle. When Mrs. Settle is later found murdered--and a supposed witness insists Bertie was spotted near the scene of the crime--the police have no choice but to set their sights on the slighted woman as their main suspect. Rose is certain...
19) A changing light
Author
Series
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in her Amesbury community. Adding to the excitement is the annual Spring Opening, when the town's world-famous carriage manufacturers throw open their doors to visitors from all over the globe. This year's festivities are tainted, however, when a representative from a prominent Canadian carriage company is murdered. Driven by her strong sense...
20) Outlawed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
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