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Publisher
Epf Media
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 22 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives. The documentary explores the challenges that the midwives face as they battle racism and a health establishment that fights to prevent them from providing services. The film shows the important role that these women provide to their communities and profiles their activism aimed at being accepted by the medical system.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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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.
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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.
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Series
At home in Trinity volume 2
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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...
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Series
Gaslight mysteries (Victoria Thompson) volume 26
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Nobody could accuse Frank Malloy of being a snob. As a former Irish Catholic policeman, he was, in fact, the kind of person snobs usually looked down on. He might be a millionaire now, but lots of people still looked down on him because he'd always be Irish no matter how much money he had. This was why he felt a little guilty about feeling snobbish about the prospective client who had just been escorted into his office. Hugh Breedlove, according...
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"Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it's soon clear that plenty...
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