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Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
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"As the sole remaining heir to the Earl of Daventry, Alexander Randall knows his duty: find a wife and sire a son of his own. The perfect bride for a man in his position would be a biddable young girl of good breeding. But the woman who haunts his imagination is Julia Bancroft, a village midwife with a dark secret that thrusts her into Randall's protection"--Publisher.
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MOMS & MEDS: NAVIGATING PREGNANCY AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATION, is a documentary film that explores the options women face when they want to have children, but take medication for mental illness. The film focuses on the personal stories of the women. Other interviewees include doctors, advocates and family members who influence, and are affected by, these decisions.
43) Woman To Woman
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Woman to Woman is a story about natural childbirth as well as about the empowerment of women and their partners. And it is also a story about activism
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Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
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"Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the birth of their children, and ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia....
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"Unjustly imprisoned for the death of her client, midwife Julianne Chevalier is exiled to the French colony of Louisiana in 1720. She marries a fellow convict in order to sail, but when tragedy strikes--and a mystery unfolds--Julianne must find her own way in this dangerous land while bearing the brand of a criminal"--
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Hope River novels volume 4
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"The women of Hope River trust midwife Patience Hester, whose skill in delivering babies is known for miles around. But though the Great Depression is behind them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war--and it can only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. And while some are eager to join the fight, Patience's husband, Daniel, is not. Daniel is a patriot--but he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War, and has vowed never...
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Babies are dying and mothers are committing suicide, and the signs are being missed. But now an essential, one-of-a-kind feature documentary on maternal health and postpartum depression and psychosis can help professionals, family members, and mothers themselves. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS has been screened in 70 countries across the world; in hospitals, mental health facilities and other institutions. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brooke Shields,...
49) Birth Wars
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Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “BIRTH WARS” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save lives.
51) Eastern promises
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Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
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Davina McCall busts the myths surrounding the menopause and examines the science and fear around hormone replacement therapy. Nine in ten women say menopause affects their work and around half say their sex lives suffer as a result of the menopause. Davina opens up about her own experience and tackles the midlife taboos impacting women’s jobs and relationships whilst exposing the lack of extensive education on the subject.
53) Seahorse
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Freddy yearns to start a family but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges. He is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality.
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1 in 4 women experience a miscarriage in their life. This misunderstood and deeply painful event leaves women and partners devastated, guilty and angry in an emotional ordeal often overlooked by society and the medical profession. After experiencing her second miscarriage, Australian actress Tahyna MacManus picked up a camera and set out on a mission for answers. Talking to doctors, fertility experts and other courageous women Tahyna takes us on a...
55) 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.
56) Prized
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Birthmarked trilogy volume 2
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Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.
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"Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s...
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When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff. As the other nuns and nurses also face challenges, they turn to each other for love and support.
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"Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy and her detective husband, Frank, must discover who killed a prominent-but despised-society banker before an innocent family is destroyed in Murder on Wall Street, an all-new Gaslight Mystery in the USA Today bestselling series. Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined...
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A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus - from birth to death, in sickness and in health, throughout history and into our possible future - from a midwife and acclaimed writer. The size of a clenched fist and the shape of a light bulb - with no less power and potential. Every person on Earth began inside a uterus, but how much do we really understand about the womb? Bringing together medical history, scientific discoveries, and journalistic...
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