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Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1598 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
| Summary |
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. During the turbulent first years of World War I, Dora becomes the midwife's apprentice. Together, they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives. But when Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor, comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, some of the women begin to question Miss Babineau's methods--and after Miss Babineau's death, Dora is left to carry on alone. In the face of fierce opposition, she must summon all of her strength to protect the birthing traditions and wisdom that have been passed down to her. Filled with details that are as... |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
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Original 9780061135873. |
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Midwives -- Fiction.
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Women apprentices -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Fiction.
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Childbirth -- Fiction.
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Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780061859649
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| STANDARD # |
AC7C7B02-F19F-463A-A713-A182C1652F4D OverDrive |
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