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Author
Series
Midwives volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Midwives volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
From an award-winning author comes a tale of a young midwife who meets a strange man on a misty Virginia beach in the early 1800s, little knowing that this chance encounter will change her life forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"'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 Noelle--her calling as a midwife, her passion for causes, her love for her friends and family--described a woman who embraced life. Yet there was so much they didn't...
Author
Series
Midwives volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver’s family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart.
Author
Series
Heart of the frontier volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
With the aid of trapper Alex Armistead, widow Grace Martindale uses her midwifery skills to help the natives in the untamed Oregon Country, but not everyone welcomes her presence, and she finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined.
Author
Series
Wayne County volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
As an Amish midwife, Abigail Graber loves bringing babies into the world. But when a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn, Abigail is faced with some hard choices. Despite her best efforts, the young mother dies—but the baby is saved.
When a heartless judge confines Abigail to the county jail for her mistakes, her sister Catherine comes to care for her children while Daniel works his fields. Catherine meets Daniel's reclusive
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English
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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...
10) Birthmarked
Author
Series
Birthmarked trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city.
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on interviews the author conducted with Black midwives in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya as well as in the American South, details the parallels between African and Black American birthing traditions that have survived hundreds of years of colonization, slavery, and Jim Crow.
14) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A midwife seeks answers after a patient dies giving birth, and her search leads her to an organized crime family in London.
Author
Publisher
köehlerbooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Late one night in a busy St. Paul hospital, a nurse midwife drags Hannah Larson out from behind her reception desk to assist with a birth. When Hannah witnesses that baby tumble into the world, her secure, conventional life is upended by a fierce desire to deliver babies. So begins Hannah's journey away from her comfort zone. In a midwifery apprenticeship in New Mexico, she befriends a male midwife, defends a teenage mom, and learns to trust women's...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Sarah Brandt, a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now she will see for the first time how the squalor of the streets can breed madness and murder ... The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who otherwise would have to live by selling the only thing they have of value-themselves. The work being done there so impresses Sarah that she volunteers...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock the "Widow of the South"-has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But, as they are through much of the South, changes are sweeping through the town and coming for Mariah.
18) Change of heart
Author
Series
Keepsake pocket quilt volume 1
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1899, after she is left at the altar, midwife Becca Yost flees her Amish community for the Englischer town of Massillon, Ohio, where she works with Doctor Matt Carrington, whose wealthy mother is determined to keep them apart.
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
A desire to learn about her biological family leads nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country, where she meets a mysterious lay-midwife who needs her help after an Amish client and her baby die.
Author
Series
Keepsake pocket quilt volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A handsome newcomer with secrets shows a yearning Amish woman a chance at happiness--but their love will need all their courage to keep...
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