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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...
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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 Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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Women of Lancaster County volume 1
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"A deathbed confession, a dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who made hold the key to Lexie's past, but she's not talking - especially following the death of an Amish client...
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Smoky Mountain dreams volume 1
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Robbins weaves a tale of love, loss, and God's faithfulness in every circumstance when Anna, who wants to be a nurse, goes to Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains to apprentice as a midwife and forms relationships that might change her life.
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Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 5
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"When midwife Catherine Remington is accused of a murder she didn't commit, she flees to Colorado to honor a patient's dying wish to deliver a newborn to his father. But what she doesn't bargain for is how easily she'll fall for the charming sheriff, or how quickly her past will catch up with her and put their love and lives in danger"--
1871. Midwife Catherine Remington is accused of a murder she didn't commit. She flees from Chicago to Fairplay,...
6) Midwives
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The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.
7) Sarah's gift
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Pleasant Valley volume 4
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2011
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English
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Amish midwife Sarah Mast takes over responsibility from her aging aunt to run the Pleasant Valley birthing center and must fight those skeptical of her abilities, including Aaron Miller, who previously seemed drawn to her.
9) Healing love
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Amish of Webster County volume 1
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Witaker House
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2012
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English
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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...