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Midori by Moonlight

by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

Published: 2007-09-18

Paperback: 256 pages

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Midori Saito's dream seems about to come true. Too independent for Japanese society, Midori is a young woman who has always felt like a stranger in her native land. So when she falls in love with Kevin, an American English teacher, she readily agrees to leave home and start a new life with...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Editions)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 1992-02-21

Paperback: 80 pages

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Among the most popular of all Shakespeare's comedies, this play humorously celebrates the vagaries of love. With its several pairs of lovers, on-again, off-again romances, magic spells, fairies, and a bumbling troupe of would-be actors, the play continues to enchant audiences. Unabridged r...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 1998-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2004-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Collection)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 1998-01-05

Paperback: 128 pages

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare's works. The supernatural and the mundane,...

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Midway Monkey Madness (Dc Super-Pets)

by Sarah Stephens

Published: 2011-01-02

Paperback: 56 pages

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When the carnival comes to METROPOLIS, BEPPO THE SUPER-MONKEY isn't far behind. This CHIMP OF STEEL can't wait to chow down on chocolate-covered bananas and other fair foods. Unfortunately, the world's evilest ape, GORILLA GRODD, has other plans. He wants to turn this festival of fun into a day of destruction....

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* * * * Informative,
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The Midwife of Hope River: A Novel of an American Midwife

by Patricia Harman

Published: 2012-08-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s a...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Midwife of Venice

by Roberta Rich

Published: 2012-02-14

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers—a gift aided by the secret “birthing spoons” she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, H...

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The Midwife

by Gay Courter

Published: 2003-06-17

Paperback: 574 pages

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Hannah Blau, a young midwife, is driven by a passion to help other women--from Russian noblewomen to prostitutes--bring their babies safely into the world. After surviving pogroms, she emigrates to America where midwives present an economic threat to the emerging specialty of obstetrics, but the greatest...

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* * * * Informative,
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

by Jennifer Worth

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 340 pages

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An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the MidwifeAt the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while deliveri...