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Author
Publisher
MacMurray & Beck
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An American midwife on holiday in Mexico decides to stay on to help the local people and a priest falls in love with her. Kate Banner is a woman in her forties from Indiana and the culmination of her work is a clinic and school in Guatemala.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger." --
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Gansett Island midwife Victoria Stevens loves taking care of people, in her job and in her personal life, especially when it comes to her boyfriend of one year, sexy Irishman Shannon O'Grady. Fueled by combustible chemistry, her relationship with Shannon has been H-O-T from the first night they met. But she's begun to wonder whether theirs is destined to be a short-term fling or possibly the love of a lifetime. When she goes looking for answers about...
66) Treasured grace
Author
Language
English
Description
Grace Martindale has known more than her share of hardship. After her parents died, raising her two younger sisters became her responsibility. A hasty marriage to a minister who is heading to the untamed West seemed like an opportunity for a fresh start, but a cholera outbreak along the wagon trail has left Grace a widow in a very precarious position. Having learned natural remedies and midwifery from her mother, Grace seeks an opportunity to use...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Christmas she never expected ... Becoming a guardian to three children wasn't part of her plan ... When Mennonite midwife Beth Ann Overholt went to Evergreen Corners to help rebuild after a flood, she didn't expect to be taking in three abandoned children. But the bigger surprise is having Amish bachelor Robert Yoder by her side. Soon she can't help but wish this temporary Christmas arrangement could turn into the loving family she never thought...
69) Home to Trinity
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Martha Cade, a midwife in Trinity, Pennsylvania in the 1830s, has become accustomed to having special insights into the lives of the townsfolk and to offering advice, but her skills do not seem to translate well when she is trying to deal with her daughter Victoria who has run away to live and work in New York.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed--and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country--and find a home of her own. But what she discovers...
71) Lapvona
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On the way to deliver a baby, Amish midwife Lizzy Miller witnesses her driver's murder--and now someone plans to silence her. Lizzy knows better than to trust strangers, but she must depend on former Amish turned Englisch police officer Isaac Yoder. And there's nowhere safe to hide...unless Isaac reconnects with the Amish community he left behind to protect the woman he's falling for.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In 1355, Margaret of Ashbury hears a mysterious voice advising her to do something unusual and possibly heretical; write a book about her life. She depends on renegade friar Brother Gregory to record her life story and state of Mystic Union, and he is forced to accept the state of grace of this "mere woman." Since she is unlettered herself, Margaret enlists Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar, to take on the task, something he would not have done...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Forever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health,...
75) Charity's burden
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Language
English
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"Quaker midwife Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother's death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity Skells dies from an apparent early miscarriage, Rose wonders about the symptoms that don't match the stated cause of death. She learns that Charity's husband...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Nurse-midwife Gloria Rodriguez prides herself on her independence--but right now she needs help. There's a hurricane approaching and she has one very pregnant patient on her hands. With so many people already evacuated, the only one Gloria can turn to is Rigo Vasquez, chief of the beach patrol in Port Provident. The man she holds responsible for the death of her husband. Rigo needs to make amends for his past mistakes, and Gloria's desperate phone...
77) Healing love
Author
Series
Publisher
Witaker House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Shane blames an Amish midwife for the death of his wife and child, so why is he now attracted to Kristi, the Amish midwife he saves from a buggy wreck?
When a buggy wreck leaves Amish midwife Kristi Lapp with a pronounced limp, she's afraid she'll no longer able to keep up with the high-energy Siberian husky. And what man would willingly wed a woman who needs help with even the most basic of household tasks? Shane Zimmerman moved to Seymour after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Single mom Julia Harrison is the last person Tanner Reddington should get involved with. He's promised to stay away from all things baby. But the state trooper's protective instincts outweigh his misgivings when he meets the lovely midwife. Julia is opening a women's clinic in Kirkwood Lake while raising two small boys on her own. Plagued by memories of the family he lost, Tanner fights the pull he feels toward Julia and her kids. But when an orphaned...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
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A Creed country Christmas: "Montana, Christmas 1910: For widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, the holiday serves as a harsh reminder of what a tough year it's been--and who he's lost. His ranch has fallen on hard times, and he must find his little daughter Gracie a governess, a lady who can teach and cook--yet won't set her sights on him. For schoolteacher Juliana Mitchell, the holiday means finding a way to stretch her meager salary to provide food and...