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1) Lapvona
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"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...
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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....
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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.
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Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
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Jennifer Worth was just 22 years old when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. These stories encompass the whole spectrum of human emotions, and candidly reveal the shocking truth of childbirth conditions just 50 years ago.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female...
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Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employer's grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief's daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
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...
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Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The final chapter in the memoir trilogy set in London's East End after WWII, the basis for the hit BBC series. Here is the story of Chummy's courtship and wedding; identical twins Megan'mave, who share a browbeaten husband; and a return toSister Monica Joan, who is in top eccentric form.
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