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1) Lapvona
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test. 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...
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 1
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A debut novel featuring Patience Murphy, an Appalachian midwife in the 1930s struggling against disease, poverty, prejudices, and her own haunting past to bring new light and life into an otherwise cruel world.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
When two kidnappings and a stabbing occur on her watch in a Manhattan university hospital, a fearless senior midwife teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective to investigate rumors that shift from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women's health clinic with her husband, Tom, an ob-gyn, in West Virginia--a practice where patients open their hearts, where they find care and sometimes refuge. Patsy's memoir juxtaposes the tales of these women with her own story of keeping a small medical practice solvent and coping with personal challenges.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1957, twenty-two year old Jenny leaves her home to become a midwife in a deprived nursing convent helping poor pregnant mothers coping with harsh living conditions. A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
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.
10) The last midwife
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
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"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
Midwife mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
320 pages : map ; 22 cm
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
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"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
Call the midwife volume 2
Publisher
Highbridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When young, middle-class Jennifer Worth became a midwife in the direst section of postwar, East-End London, not only did she deliver babies but she became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Here are the true stories of people she met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the 20th century. Second in the series.
20) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
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