Book
The birth house : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0676977723
- ISBN: 9780676977721
- ISBN: 9780676977738 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
x, 387 p. : ill.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | LSC 29.95 Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. 2007 winner of the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award Canada Reads 2011 |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.95 |
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| Subject: | Scots Bay (N.S.) -- Fiction World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Childbirth -- Fiction Physicians -- Fiction Midwives -- Fiction Canadian fiction (English) |
| Genre: | Medical novels. Historical fiction. |
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0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stamford | FIC McKay | 38080005717655 | Adult | Available | - |