Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A pocket guide for student midwives	Stella McKay,Pamela Lee,Stella McKay-Moffat	This book is written with both degree and diploma student midwives in mind. It is split into two sections, each alphabetical. The first section contains some of the language of midwifery: terms, abb…	OL13487487W
Works (Kiss Kiss / My Uncle Oswald / Switch Bitch)	Roald Dahl	Contains: [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss) My Uncle Oswald [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch)	OL15091046W
Murder on Lenox Hill	Victoria Thompson	As a turn-of-the-century midwife in New York City's tenements, Sarah Brandt has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now, Sarah finds herself in the thick of a scandal that th…	OL15147087W
Birthmarked	Caragh M. O'Brien	In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her pa…	OL15416038W
Heart of the Hills (American Dreams)	Shelly Ritthaler	Sixteen-year-old Carrie Miller has come to act as midwife to her aunt in a remote part of the Wyoming Territory. Having learned birthing by assisting her mother, Carrie is now on her own in a wildern…	OL15905322W
Trouble's child	Mildred Pitts Walter	Martha longs to leave her island home off the Louisiana coast and go to high school where she can learn more than the ways of her midwife grandmother and perhaps someday broaden the lives of the supe…	OL16047436W
Promised	Caragh M. O'Brien	Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there threatens them all just when everything they have dreamed of seems to be at hand.	OL16471240W
Accoucher en France	Mélanie Gabe	On aborde ici la transformation du rapport de la femme à la maternité entre 1945 et 1960. Ce livre analyse l'impact des changements survenus au cours de cette période sur la vie familiale et expose l…	OL16809922W
Under the Dragon's tail	Maureen Jennings	Dolly Merishaw is a midwife and an abortionist in Victorian Toronto, and although she keeps quiet about her clients, her contempt and greed leaves them resentful and angry. It comes as no surprise to…	OL1850335W
Shadows of the workhouse	Jennifer Worth	In the follow up to her bestselling Call the Midwide, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died…	OL20006631W
Genesis and Catastrophe [short story]	Roald Dahl	Genesis and Catastrophe is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Genesis and Catastrophe, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tell…	OL20504273W
Murder on Washington Square	Victoria Thompson	Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Molloy are thrust into a twisted case of murderwhen a seductress falls victim to her own charades.	OL3594508W
The midwife's secret	Kate Bridges	If Amanda Ryan's Secret Past Were Known, Her Fresh Start In Life Would Come To A Dead Stop.No one would readily accept a divorced, barren midwife. Not even, she feared, Tom Murdock. For though he'd r…	OL5805372W
Holding the baby	Margot Early	When Leah Williams agrees to have a child for her younger sister, Ellen, she isn't prepared when Ellen turns up pregnant! Leah, already a single mom to four-year-old Mary Grace, is left...holding the…	OL8030717W