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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...
Author
Series
Smoky Mountain dreams volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Prentiss has never wanted to be anything but a nurse. Before she can start school in New York, however, her brother sends her to Cades Cove, deep in the Smoky Mountains, to spend a summer apprenticing to the local midwife. Anna is determined to prove herself and then head to the big city. But nothing could have prepared Anna for the beauty of the Cove, or the community and friendships she finds there. And she certainly wasn't prepared for Simon...
25) Promised
Author
Series
Birthmarked trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there threatens them all just when everything they have dreamed of seems to be at hand.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them, sisters Phaedra and Dionne spend the summer of 1989 living with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An evocative tale based on the life of a controversial Victorian New York City midwife features plucky orphan Axie Muldoon, who recounts her apprenticeship and establishment of a thriving practice that is threatened by a censorious zealot.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After her husband and four of her children are brutally murdered in the winter of 1897, midwife Elspeth Howell, along with her surviving son, twelve-year-old Caleb, takes on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.
29) 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
Tucker family volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A source of strength for her neighbors and friends, midwife Rachel Watkins finds herself intensely drawn to a disfigured veteran who does odd jobs around the house, an enigmatic stranger who seems mysterious yet very familiar.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl's room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York and the sister of an old friend. The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. But with Malloy's help, Sarah begins...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
33) Sarah's gift
Author
Series
Pleasant Valley volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Midwife mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebel's hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion.
35) 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
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
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
Hope River volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a personal setback in West Virginia to start over on a tiny, remote Canadian island, midwife Clara Perry assumes a new identity as a solitude-seeking writer and is drawn into the lives of her new neighbors before she is forced to reveal the truth about who she really is.
38) The last midwife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
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. The women in Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most 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 the evidence points to Gracy as the killer.
39) Prized
Author
Series
Birthmarked trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.
Author
Series
Hope River volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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