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Summary: When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2014
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Summary: Each chapter, spanning each of the ten years of Call the Midwife--set from 1957-1966 and filmed from 2011-2021--takes a deep dive into the themes, locations, fun times and technical challenges from each season. Author Stephen McGann, who plays the indefatigable Dr. Turner, intersperses personal interviews with key cast and crew about their feelings, thoughts, and memories of filming key moments...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 791.45 MCGSummary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2020Dawson, Kate Winkler
Summary: In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 DAWSummary: 1967 brings fresh medical and personal challenges to the midwifery and district nursing rounds. Thanks to Matthew₂s continued support, things at Nonnatus House are now settled and going well, and Trixie helps Matthew understand the community he is becoming a part of. Doctor Turner faces some changes in his relationship with Timothy now that he is an adult, while Shelagh continues to support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2014Summary: A drama about the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London during the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2018Levy, Andrea
Summary: "Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be recieved as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmers daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSummary: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives who care for expectant mothers in the East End of London in the late-1950s to mid-1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2019Summary: "In the years between 1912 and 1914, King Edward VII is dead and war looms"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 1974
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 3Meissner, Susan
Summary: "Present day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MEISummary: The lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place are followed. Upstairs lives Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, and also a member of Parliament. His wife is a member of the titled aristocracy. Downstairs is Hudson, the Scottish butler who directs and guides the other servants concerning their tasks and proper places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPS NOT RATEDSummary: When the rather austere Sister Ursula is appointed the new head of Nonnatus house, Sister Julienne finds herself demoted and working back alongside the midwives as an ordinary member of staff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2017Summary: With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2014Worth, Jennifer
Summary: Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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Summary: "Alive with rich characters and evoking love, loss, and one woman's surprising strength during the tumult of the 1920s and 30s, the new novel in the "Storms of War" trilogy brings this acclaimed series to a dramatic conclusion"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGaskin, Margaret.
Summary: Churchill called it his nation's greatest trial and its finest hour. Europe had fallen to Hitler and Britain stood alone. Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the "Square Mile," the heart of the city and the site of some of its greatest landmarks. In this gripping historical narrative, Margaret Gaskin puts the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006