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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's...
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gaslight mystery volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly attending two séances in order to help her mother to make peace with the death of Sarah's older sister, Sarah Brandt is shocked when one of their fellow attendees dies during a séance, a situation that forces Sarah to protect her mother from an ensuing scandal.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger.
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones.
Author
Series
Amish nurse volume 1
Publisher
Satin Romance, an imprint of Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Schwartz tries her best to remain thankful while resigned to living a single life within her Midwest Amish community, surrounded by friends and family, many of whom have large families and seemingly endless babies. Is this all part of God's plan for her? Is this His Will? Is loneliness just another part of her fate? Does she have the faith to believe this simple life is everything and she will find happiness, too?
Author
Series
Gaslight mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When the new mother’s half-Chinese, half-Irish, 15-year-old niece goes missing, Sarah knows that alerting the constables would prove futile. So she turns to Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy—and together they begin the search themselves. And after they find her, dead in an alley, Sarah and Malloy have ample suspects—from both sides of Canal Street.
Author
Series
Amish nurse volume 4
Publisher
Satin Romance, an imprint of Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Phoebe is overwhelmed with infant twins, while Faith cannot yet contemplate the idea of re-marrying after being widowed. Leah longs to have children but it doesn't seem likely: even adoption is a remote possibility. Susanna travels throughout the Midwest, offering her nursing skills, but Hilda is sent much, much further away on a mission with her new husband. Join each of these courageous women as they are engaged in chores that make up their days,...
50) Follow me home
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life has been tough for village midwife Zara. Recently divorced and living with her grandmother, Zara is struggling to get back on track. Until one day, love walks in, in the form of an abandoned puppy. Although Zara adores her new friend, the puppy causes havoc wherever they go, so she is grateful when local shepherd Lewis offers to train her. But Lewis has an ulterior motive for helping. And though Zara may be able to trust him with her naughty...
51) Once a midwife
Author
Series
Hope River volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left vulnerable, while she tries to keep her practice running...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the challenge - but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed...
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
Amish nurse volume 3
Publisher
Satin Romance, an imprint of Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Susanna and Levi are about to be married. Phoebe and Stephan are married and starting a family. Faith and Noah thought their life together would be everything they'd hoped for until tragedy hits their tranquil existence. Ben and Leah have overcome obstacles most couples will never face in their lifetime. Are their trials over? Will they ever be? Will Sarabeth overcome her struggles and ever find peace and love? Does the budding friendship between...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the baby's father--hidden from her family and coworkers for as long as possible. Her mother Grace finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship....
Author
Series
Hope River volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Patience Murphy is a midwife in Appalachia during the Depression. She knows a successful midwifery practice must be built on a foundation of openness and trust-but the secrets Patience is keeping are far too intimate and fragile for her to every let anyone in.
Author
Series
Quaker midwife mystery volume 2
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. After a former slave and fellow Quaker is accused of the murder, Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man's innocence. An ill-mannered mill manager, an Irish immigrant, and the victim's young boyfriend come under suspicion even as Rose's future with her handsome doctor suitor becomes unsure....
Author
Series
Language
English
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
Series
Language
English
Description
"When the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill summon Sarah Brandt to examine their teenage daughter, their worst fear is confirmed: She is with child. The pregnancy is a mystery, however, as the young woman - mentally still a child herself - is never left on her own and denies that any man has ever hurt her." "To help her discover who is responsible, Sarah, after much prodding, enlists the aid of her friend, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy, who is reluctant...
Language
English
Description
Bundles of Blessing: "Lost in grief after the death of her husband, Kristina Byler gave up remarrying and found comfort and purpose in becoming a midwife. She is surprised when Aidan Smoker--her ex-boyfriend and the man she was sure she'd one day marry--moves back to the community after living in Ohio for the past eight years. They're both certain there's too much pain in their shared past for them to have a future, but they keep finding themselves...
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