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Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 1
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English
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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?
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Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 3
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English
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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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Midwives (Laurie Alice Eakes) volume 2
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English
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"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.
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Heart of the frontier volume 1
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English
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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.
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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.
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Out from Egypt volume 2
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English
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Delivered from slavery, Shira now lives in freedom at the foot of Mount Sinai. When the people disobey Yahweh and build a golden idol--and chaos erupts--Shira helps a woman in labor and discovers her calling in life. But after a delivery goes wrong, she finds herself in an impossible situation. Can she let go of the pain in her past and embrace love?
7) Lapvona
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did so many of the village's children. Ina's gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her...
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A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
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Wayne County volume 1
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English
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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 cousin, Isaiah,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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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, take on the frozen wilderness to find the men responsible for shattering their family.
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At home in Trinity volume 2
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English
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"In small-town Trinity, Pennsylvania, 1831, Martha Cade tries to balance the demands of her calling as a midwife, the delicacy of private information she learns in that role, and the hopes and expectations she has for her daughter and for herself."--
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At home in Trinity volume 1
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English
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"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."--
15) Change of heart
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Keepsake pocket quilt novels volume 1
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English
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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.
16) Rosemary cottage
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Hope Beach novels volume 2
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English
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The charming Rosemary Cottage offers Amy Lange the respite she needs to mourn her brother, Ben. She's even thinking of moving her midwife practice to the Outer Banks community. Everyone blames Ben's disappearance at sea on a surfing accident, but Amy has reason to wonder. Coast Guard officer Curtis Ireland has lost a sibling too. His sister, Gina, was run down by a boat, leaving him to raise her infant daughter. Can two grieving people with secrets...
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At home in Trinity volume 3
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English
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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.
19) A tender hope
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English
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When a Texas Ranger comes to town on a mission to capture his brother's killers, he finds more than he expected--including a young midwife who may hold the key to the justice he seeks.
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Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
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English
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When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle...
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