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41) A midwife's tale
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life of Martha Ballard, a frontier midwife in Maine, is reconstructed through her diary. She lived through the economic boom and bust, and political and social turmoil of the decades following the American Revolution.
42) William & Mary
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (559 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.
46) Mrs. England
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant...
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.
Author
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...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (175 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In her debut film, director Qiong Wang builds a riveting portrait of her family reckoning with the lasting impact of China's one-child policy. After giving birth to two daughters, Qiong's parents were desperate for a boy. When they learned that they were pregnant with a third daughter, the couple embarked on a path that would affect their family for generations to come. Filming for more than seven years, Ms. Wang courageously investigates her family's...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
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.
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.
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 555 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House return to warm your heart as they care for the poorest women in London's East End. Life never stands still as the midwives face surprise pregnancy, disease, blossoming romance and missing friends.
Author
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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Description
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
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
303 pages
Description
"Winter has come to the city of York, and with it the threat of witchcraft. As women and children sicken and die, midwife Bridget Hodgson is pulled against her will into a full-scale witch-hunt that threatens to devour all in its path, guilty and innocent alike. Bridget--accompanied once again by her deputy Martha Hawkins and her nephew Will Hodgson--finds herself playing a lethal game of cat and mouse against the most dangerous men in York, as well...
Author
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.
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The three books of this trilogy chronicle Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly...
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