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Author
Series
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her profession as a midwife makes Tabitha the keeper of many secrets. Dominick is a man with his own secret: what he, a British nobleman, is doing on American soil working as a bondsman. On a twisted path through kidnappings, death threats, and public disgrace, can either of them find true love in a world that seems set against them?
Author
Series
Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County, Virginia. But when she refuses to accompany her pregant sister-in-law to help save her husband from prison during the War of 1812, Phoebe finds herself pressed aboard a British privateer."--P. [4] of cover.
63) Animal life
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A woman from a long line of both midwives and undertakers reads through decades of her grandmother's hidden letters and manuscripts and absorbs her reflections on birth, death and human nature as a storm approaches Reykjavik.
64) Turning the tide
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll finds the body of a local suffrage organizer during the presidential election of 1888"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed--and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country--and find a home of her own. But what she discovers...
66) The last midwife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and...
Author
Series
Hearts of Lancaster County volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebecca Zook has always dreamed of being a midwife. It's a bittersweet occupation for an Amish widow who didn't have children before she lost her true love. Now the only babies she holds are those who will belong to others. But Rebecca is afraid of risking her heart again, afraid that having had a miscarriage when she was married means she can't have more children. Samuel Miller is a widower and single father new to Lancaster County. He's drawn to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love inspired
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
364 pages (large print, paperback) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Amish midwife Lovina Albrecht finds an abandoned baby, she's determined to give the child a home for the holidays--even if doing so brings up difficult memories. But she's not prepared for her bishop to assign standoffish Jonah Lapp to help care for the little girl. As their temporary arrangement begins to feel like family, can they overcome old hurts to build a future?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages (large print) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
She's caught in a snowstorm ... with a target on her back. When armed men burst into her patient's house looking for her, Amish midwife Hope Christner barely escapes with her pregnant friend. Now running through a snowy forest with enemies in pursuit and a blizzard raging, Hope has no choice but to turn to the closest neighbor, her ex-fiancé, Hunter Shetler. But facing the heartbreak of their past is just as frightening as the attackers on her trail...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
362 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Single mom Julia Harrison is the last person Tanner Reddington should get involved with. He's promised to stay away from all things baby. But the state trooper's protective instincts outweigh his misgivings when he meets the lovely midwife. Julia is opening a women's clinic in Kirkwood Lake while raising two small boys on her own. Plagued by memories of the family he lost, Tanner fights the pull he feels toward Julia and her kids. But when an orphaned...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly Ziegler is proud of being a successful midwife. But at twenty-one, she's unmarried -- and fodder for gossip in her Amish community. Her meddling mother urges her to marry the town's most eligible bachelor, but Molly wants more. And newcomer Isaac Gruber is her way out. If he pretends to court her, her mother has to stop matchmaking. But Molly didn't expect the feelings Isaac stirs in her. And when the plan backfires, it might just lead them...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Autumn Hazard loves being a midwife. But a tragic loss has her doubting the path she's chosen. And her new boss isn't helping. She's worked with Dr. Jonathan Hanlon before, and he's just as handsome and seemingly perfect as ever. His presence could mean trouble for the clinic -- and her sensible heart. Jon remembers Autumn, too. She's still beautiful, smart, and oblivious to him. Maybe that's for the best -- he's leaving the small town as soon as...
73) Charity's burden
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quaker midwife Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother's death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated cause of death. She learns that Charity's husband...
74) Midwives
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant 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 published. A selection of Oprah's original Book Club that has sold more than two million copies.
On an icy winter night in an isolated house in...
On an icy winter night in an isolated house in...
75) A single breath
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st Touchstone trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the celebrated author of Swimming at Night, a powerful and moving saga of one woman's struggle to overcome her husband's death and uncover his dark, mysterious past. Eva has only been married for eight months when her husband, Jackson, is swept to his death while fishing. Weighed down by confusion and sorrow, Eva decides to take leave of her midwifery practice in London and visit Jackson's estranged family in Tasmania with the hope of grieving...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Midwife for Susie: "Haunted by secret guilt after a tragic accident, Joanna Zimmerman is sure she's left midwifery behind her. She keeps to herself, certain this is for the best. Her childhood friend Dwight Eicher knows that Joanna hasn't been herself lately, but every time he's tried to talk to her about what's wrong, she's avoided his questions. When his sister, Susie, becomes pregnant, Joanna must decide if she can find the courage to return...
77) The familiars
Author
Language
English
Description
Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Thomas has created one of the most unique sleuths in modern mystery fiction."--The Plain Dealer. In this thrilling new mystery from the critically acclaimed author of The Witch Hunter's Tale, midwife Bridget Hodgson travels to London where she's forced into a new profession-as a spy. It's 1649. Three years have passed since midwife Bridget Hodgson and her deputy Martha Hawkins fled York for the safety of the English countryside. But when a mysterious...
79) Monsoon summer
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
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. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian doctor...
Author
Series
Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 23 cm.
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.
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