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The birth house / a novel by Ami McKay.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.M4288 B57 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKay, Ami, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, [2006]
- Summary:
- The first daughter in five generations of her Nova Scotia family, Dora Rare becomes an apprentice to a gifted midwife and storyteller before their home is threatened by the arrival of a brash medical doctor who promises sterile and painless births.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- ISBN:
- 0061135852
- OCLC:
- 70919973
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