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61) Turning the tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll finds the body of a local suffrage organizer during the presidential election of 1888"--
62) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
Author
Series
Midwife mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebel's hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion.
66) Monsoon summer
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, an epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife"--
"By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, an epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers...
67) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Frank Malloy investigates after a wealthy businessman is murdered. The reason is that, like Malloy, the man has a deaf child, and she attends a rival school for the deaf. Soon, Malloy suspects that the killer may be affiliated with his son's school.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Midwife Sarah Brandt is summoned to examine the teenage daughter of the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill. When pregnancy is confirmed, the young woman denies that any man ever hurt her. Sarah enlists the help of her friend Sergeant Frank Molloy to discover who is responsible. The search becomes more urgent when a minister falls dead during a service, poisoned by cyanide-laced wine in his chalice.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
73) A tender hope
Author
Series
Cimarron Creek novels volume 3
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume 3
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume . 3
Thorndike Press large print Christian romance
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume 3
Cimarron Creek trilogy volume . 3
Thorndike Press large print Christian romance
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Texas Ranger comes to town on a mission to capture his brother's killers, he finds more than he expected--including a young midwife who may hold the key to the justice he seeks.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah and Frank Malloy must catch a scheming killer in this latest gripping installment in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only legal grounds for divorce in New York state. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the...
78) Mrs. England
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant...
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