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The Midwife of Venice

by Roberta Rich

Published: 2012-02-14

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers—a gift aided by the secret “birthing spoons” she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, H...

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The Midwife

by Gay Courter

Published: 2003-06-17

Paperback: 574 pages

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Hannah Blau, a young midwife, is driven by a passion to help other women--from Russian noblewomen to prostitutes--bring their babies safely into the world. After surviving pogroms, she emigrates to America where midwives present an economic threat to the emerging specialty of obstetrics, but the greatest...

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* * * * Informative,
Interesting,
Inspiring

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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

by Jennifer Worth

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 340 pages

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An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the MidwifeAt the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while deliveri...

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The Midwife's Apprentice

by Karen Cushman

Published: 2012-06-19

Paperback: 144 pages

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From the author of "Catherine, Called Birdy" comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat-wh...

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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Published: 1991-06-04

Paperback: 444 pages

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Mart...

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* * * Dramatic,
Adventurous,
Interesting

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The Midwife's Confession

by Diane Chamberlain

Published: 2011-05-01

Kindle Edition: 425 pages

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Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I’m so sorry… The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle’s suicide. Everything they knew about Noel...

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* * * Interesting,
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Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 1998-11-08

Paperback: 374 pages

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A contemporary classic that has sold more than two million copies and was a selection of Oprah's original Book Club, Midwives is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first...

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Midwives Reading Group Guide

by Chris A. Bohjalian

Published: 1998-07

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Miernik Dossier

by Charles McCarry

Published: 2007-10-30

Paperback: 256 pages

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Paul Christopher is cool, urbane, clear-sighted--a perfect American agent in deep cover in the twilight world of international intrigue. But now even he does not know which side is good or bad in a maze of double- and triplecross. A small group of international agents embark on a c...

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* * * * Informative,
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

by Leymah Gbowee

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 272 pages

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WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace.As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the liv...