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Author
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
Series
True gentlemen novels volume 1
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Description
Living a meaningful life tending to the sick and the poor, practical, reserved Nita Haddonfield wishes to avoid the limitations of marriage, but wealthy busnessman Tremaine St. Michael is determined to win her heart.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 1
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Description
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.
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.
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
399 pages cm
Description
When midwife Clara Perry's life takes a nosedive, she runs away to start over again in a place where no one knows her, or about the mess she's left behind in West Virginia. Heading to tiny, remote Seagull Island in Canada, Clara is ready for anything. Well, almost. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 2
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Description
"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"--
13) 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...
Author
Series
Midwife mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
310 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
A tale set against a backdrop of the 1644 Siege of York finds midwife Bridget Hodgson joining forces with resourceful servant Martha Hawkins to prove the innocence of a woman who has been sentenced to burn at the stake for murdering her husband.
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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
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After an influential man in the deaf community is murdered, Frank Malloy is assigned the case, presumably because his son attends the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Malloy suspects the murderer is tied to the school, and turns to midwife Sarah Brandt for help.
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 1
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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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When a philanthropist's involvement in the rescue of a prostitute leads to murder, Sarah Brandt's significant other, Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy, can't prevent her from investigating. Set at the end of the 19th century in New York City.
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