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A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2004-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Collection)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 1998-01-05

Paperback: 128 pages

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane,...

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Midway Monkey Madness (Dc Super-Pets)

by Sarah Stephens

Published: 2011-01-02

Paperback: 56 pages

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When the carnival comes to METROPOLIS, BEPPO THE SUPER-MONKEY isn't far behind. This CHIMP OF STEEL can't wait to chow down on chocolate-covered bananas and other fair foods. Unfortunately, the world's evilest ape, GORILLA GRODD, has other plans. He wants to turn this festival of fun into a day of destruction....

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* * * * Informative,
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The Midwife of Hope River: A Novel of an American Midwife

by Patricia Harman

Published: 2012-08-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s a...

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* * * * Interesting,
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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,
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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,
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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...