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1) Lapvona
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t...
“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t...
2) Birthmarked
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Birthmarked trilogy volume 1
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"AR: 5.4, Lexile: HL800L"--T.p. verso.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES
"A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise ... Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston Chronicle
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Keepsake pocket quilt novels volume 2
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A handsome newcomer with secrets shows a yearning Amish woman a chance at happiness-but their love will need all their courage to keep. . .
Grace Blauch is skilled at midwifery-and crafting quilts that help others pass on messages of enduring family love. But a disfiguring birthmark keeps the young Amish woman from a husband and home of her own-until Mark King arrives from another community. His helpfulness and independent nature earn Grace's respect....
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When she becomes pregnant again, young Fleetwood Shuttleworth discovers a letter from her doctor to her husband stating that she will not survive another pregnancy. In her despair she turns to a local midwife named Alice who promises she can deliver her child safely, but soon Alice is accused of witchcraft, and Fleetwood sets out to prove her innocence.
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Hope River novels volume 3
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Midwife Clara Perry, dissatisfied with the poor state of her personal life, runs away to remote Seagull Island in Canada to reinvent herself and start again. She soon discovers however that however much you try to forget the past, it never truly stays buried.
10) The last midwife
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Colorado, 1880. Gracy Brookens has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. The only midwife in a small mining town tucked in the Tenmile Range, Gracy is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community. For years, she has advised expectant mothers through their pregnancies, guided them through the tortures of labor, and then helped them heal. To Gracy, every baby who survived its birth in the Colorado...
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At home in Trinity volume 3
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Delia Parr's delightful midwife series concludes. 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. Even her beloved...
14) Highland beast
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Sons of Sinclair volume 4
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Bàs Sinclair is the cold and brutal hand-and sword-of justice across the Highlands. He has one destiny: to bring fear into the hearts of guilty men. But when he is called to execute a midwife for her crimes, he cannot raise his weapon. For Bàs already knows this lovely, part-wild creature. After all, she gave him his first and only kiss...
Shana Drummond will do anything to protect her beloved sister. Now her cruel, merciless brother-in-law has...
16) Promised
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Birthmarked trilogy volume 3
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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.
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At home in Trinity volume 2
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"In small-town Trinity, Pennsylvania, 1831, Martha Cade tries to balance the demands of her calling as a midwife, the delicacy of private information she learns in that role, and the hopes and expectations she has for her daughter and for herself"--Provided by publisher.
18) The birth house
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Practicing midwife Dora Rare works in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia during the early part of the twentieth century, but the midwifery tradition is threatened when medical doctor Gilbert Thomas arrives with promises of fast, painless childbirth.
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Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy - including the identity of the baby's father - hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as she can. But her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let it rest. For Neva's grandmother, a retired midwife, Neva's situation reminds her of a secret of her own from 60 years ago--a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter's, and if revealed,...
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