The birth house a novel
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- ISBN: 9780307371447 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307371441 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource. - Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2006.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Midwives -- Fiction Midwifery -- Canada -- Fiction Nova Scotia -- Fiction |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
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.