Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
10 best books like Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (Wendy Kline): Flowers in the Attic, The Shadow Cipher, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, The Water Dancer, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Petals on the Wind, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, Brazen and the Beast, Arrowsmith
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0743496310 |
Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!
It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.
So...
It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| ISBN | 1592402038 |
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380715430 |
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679733760 |
I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.
I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and...
| Author | V.C. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0671729470 |
They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.
And...
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
A new edition with expanded content is available now, “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”
An engaging book that brings new relevance to the old proverb “Give and you shall receive”
The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young...
| Author | Sarah MacLean |
| ISBN | 0062691988 |
The Lady’s Plan
When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0451526910 |
Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town.
It is Leora Tozer who makes Martin's life extraordinary....
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
| Author | Caroline Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1596430125 |
A mysterious widow pursues Flavia's father and a lion terrorizes the streets of Ostia in the sixth "Roman Mysteries" adventure.
December, A.D. 79. It is the month of the Saturnalia, a festival when people do as they please, and anything can happen. When a Roman widow, Cartilia Poplica, shows...
| Author | Katy Upperman |
| ISBN | 1250305675 |
Since her sister’s tragic death, seventeen-year-old Callie Ryan has basically given up. Her grades have plummeted, she’s quit her swim team, and she barely recognizes the people her parents have become.
When she returns to her aunt’s run-down coastal Victorian one year after Chloe’s...
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
A room locked for fifty years.
A valuable peacock ring.
A mysterious brother-sister duo.
Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first time. She's hoping that spending time in Mexico will help her unlock memories of the...
Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935
| Author | Robyn Muncy |
| ISBN | 0195089243 |
In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy....
Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love
One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone.In the ten months of Kerryn’s dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death.Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her.
Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a marriage and of a family. It is the moving memoir...
Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators
| Author | Jason Puckett |
| ISBN | 0838985890 |
Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators is the first book-length treatment of this powerful research tool developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (VA). This book is written for Zotero end users, librarians and teachers. Part One introduces...
| Author | Caroline Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1842551647 |
This book is one of the most exciting so far, it is one of the only books that end with a cliffhanger and not always with a happy ending. In this book, I believe that Johnathan is much more human than before and has less of a lucky effect when doing anything. This is because it seemed very otherworldly that Johnathan...
While cleaning out her reclusive grandfather’s house, Joplin discovers pieces of a broken platter in a cookie tin. After having the platter repaired, Joplin wishes that she could both find a friend at school, and befriend the girl pictured in the platter. The next day, Joplin befriends a boy named...
