Roberta Rich
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Series
Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 1
Language
English
Description
For readers of Heather Marshall and Kate Quinn, an unforgettable, fast-paced historical debut set against the richness and squalor of sixteenth-century Venice and Malta.
Venice, 1575
Hannah ha-Levi, a midwife in the Jewish ghetto, is known throughout Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah's door imploring her to attend his labouring wife who is near death, Hannah's compassion is tested. Not only is...
Venice, 1575
Hannah ha-Levi, a midwife in the Jewish ghetto, is known throughout Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah's door imploring her to attend his labouring wife who is near death, Hannah's compassion is tested. Not only is...
Author
Series
Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
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Hannah and Isaac return in this riveting and suspenseful tale - a continuation of "The Midwife of Venice." Hannah, the best midwife in all of Constantinople, plies her trade within the opulent palace of Sultan Murat III, tending to the thousand women of his lively and infamous harem. But one night, when Hannah is unexpectedly summoned to the palace, she's confronted with Leah, a poor Jewish peasant girl who has been abducted and sold into the sultan's...
Author
Series
Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
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The thrilling conclusion to the bestselling historical trilogy by Roberta Rich. Set five years after "The Harem Midwife," Hannah is forced back to Venice. Her beloved adopted son Matteo has been kidnapped and is in danger once more. And this time, so is Hannah.
Author
Language
English
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"A riveting historical thriller about a Jewish cigarette girl in 1930s New York who finds the soldier who burned down her Russian village years earlier only to be swept up in a political conspiracy on the eve of World War II--from the #1 bestselling author of The Midwife of Venice"--Provided by publisher.