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The Midwife's Apprentice
Published: 2012-06-19
Paperback: 144 pages
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From the author of "Catherine, Called Birdy" comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat-wh...
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Published: 1991-06-04
Paperback: 444 pages
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEDrawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Mart...
The Midwife's Confession
Published: 2011-05-01
Kindle Edition: 425 pages
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Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult for you to hear, and I’m so sorry… The unfinished letter is the only clue Tara and Emerson have to the reason behind their close friend Noelle’s suicide. Everything they knew about Noel...
Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)
Published: 1998-11-08
Paperback: 374 pages
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A contemporary classic that has sold more than two million copies and was a selection of Oprah's original Book Club, Midwives is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was first...
Midwives Reading Group Guide
Published: 1998-07
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Miernik Dossier
Published: 2007-10-30
Paperback: 256 pages
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Paul Christopher is cool, urbane, clear-sighted--a perfect American agent in deep cover in the twilight world of international intrigue. But now even he does not know which side is good or bad in a maze of double- and triplecross. A small group of international agents embark on a c...
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Published: 2013-03-26
Paperback: 272 pages
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WINNER OF THE 2011 NOBEL PEACE PRIZEIn a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace.As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the liv...
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Published: 2009-08-25
Hardcover: 304 pages
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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the ?Little Rock Nine,? as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even lon...
The Mighty Miss Malone
Published: 2013-03-12
Paperback: 320 pages
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"We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But it's 1936 and the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and there are no jobs for...
Mighty Queens of Freeville, The: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them
Published: 2009-02-03
Hardcover: 225 pages
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