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- Call the midwife. [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny.; Ferris, Pam.; Hart, Miranda,1972-; Parfitt, Judy,1935-; Raine, Jessica,1982-; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-; Thomas, Heidi,1967-; Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; Neal Street Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
- Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt.Your favorite midwives return for a new season of BBC's immensely absorbing and popular drama, set in poverty-ridden East London in the late 1950s. With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny (Jessica Raine), Chummy (Miranda Hart) and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) search for a new location nearby, while Jenny's relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined. Hop on a bicycle and share sadness and joy, tears and humor, struggle and survival in this award-winning drama, based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth. Features the hour-long episodes as they originally aired in the UK and includes the 75-minute 2013 Christmas Special.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
- Subjects: Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011; Childbirth; Midwives; Nuns; Poor; Poverty; Pregnant women; Television programs.;
- © c2014., BBC Worldwide ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc.,
- Call the midwife. [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny.; Ferris, Pam.; Hart, Miranda,1972-; Parfitt, Judy,1935-; Raine, Jessica,1982-; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-; Thomas, Heidi,1967-; Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; Neal Street Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
- Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Raine, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt.The nurses, midwives and nuns of Nonnatus House invite you to join them again as they try to give the best possible care to the poorest women in London. 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? Jenny Agutter (MI-5, The Avengers), Pam Ferris (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Matilda) and Miranda Hart (Miranda, Magicians) star in this award-winning series, inspired by the memoirs of midwife Jennifer Worth.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- Subjects: Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011; Childbirth; Midwives; Nuns; Poor; Poverty; Pregnant women; Television programs.;
- For private home use only.
- Call the midwife. [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny,actor.; Bassett, Linda,actor.; George, Helen,1984-actor.; Main, Laura,1981-actor.; Parfitt, Judy,1935-actor.; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-actor.; Ritchie, Charlotte,1989-actor.; Thomas, Heidi,1967-creator,screenwriter.; Tricklebank, Ann,television producer.; Tucker, David,1947 March 28-television director.; television adaptation of (work):Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011.Call the midwife.; BBC Studios,publisher.; Neal Street Productions,production company.;
- Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt, Helen George, Laura Main, Charlotte Ritchie, Linda Bassett.The midwives enter the 1970s, which brings with it new challenges for Nonnatus House - and to British society. The Seventies start as they mean to go on, with Nonnatus House plunged into disarray when activists staging a bid for independence blockade access to the Isle of Dogs. Amid the poverty and uncertainty of life in a declining Docklands, the midwives must also face cases of manic depression, gonorrhea, spina bifida, abortion - and an apparently immaculate conception.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Female friendship; Midwifery; Midwives; Nuns; Poor; Poverty; Pregnant women; Childbirth; Convents;
- For private home use only.
- Call the midwife. [videorecording] / by Agutter, Jenny,actor.; Bassett, Linda,actor.; George, Helen,1984-actor.; Main, Laura,1981-actor.; Parfitt, Judy,1935-actor.; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-actor.; Ritchie, Charlotte,1989-actor.; Thomas, Heidi,1967-creator,screenwriter.; Tricklebank, Ann,television producer.; Tucker, David,1947 March 28-television director.; television adaptation of (work):Worth, Jennifer,1935-2011.Call the midwife.; BBC Studios,publisher.; Neal Street Productions,production company.;
- Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter, Judy Parfitt, Helen George, Laura Main, Charlotte Ritchie, Linda Bassett.The midwives of Nonnatus House continue to face complex medical and personal dilemmas as the multi-award-winning drama returns for a thirteenth series. It's 1969 and more babies than ever are being born in hospital. Pressure on maternity beds remains extremely high across the country. However, Poplar is coping better than most due to the popularity of home births under the auspices of the sisters. And a new midwife-training scheme sees Nonnatus House welcome a host of new midwives. The recruits face social problems arising from the docks, concerns among the Nigerian and Sylheti communities and health challenges from Cerebral Palsy, Tetanus and TB.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Female friendship; Midwifery; Midwives; Nuns; Poor; Poverty; Pregnant women; Childbirth; Convents;
- For private home use only.
- Friends and strangers : a novel / by Sullivan, J. Courtney,author.;
- "From the best-selling author of Maine, a gorgeous, compulsively-readable novel that tells the story of the complex relationship between two women, Elisabeth, a privileged new mother and writer attempting to find her footing after childbirth, and Sam, the idealistic, working-class college student she hires to nanny her young son"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Female friendship; Mothers; Authors; College students;
- Scorpica / by Macallister, G. R.,author.;
- "This propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter's explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends"--
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Inheritance and succession; Magic; Queens; Wizards;
- Fall on your knees / by MacDonald, Ann-Marie,1958-author.;
- The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James.
- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Family; Sisters;
- Reproduction : a novel / by Hall, Louisa,1982-author.;
- "A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Motherhood; Pregnancy; Women novelists;
- Bridget Jones's baby : the diaries / by Fielding, Helen,1958-author.;
- "Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy--but just not quite as intended. It's a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair--but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question: Who's the father?"--
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Jones, Bridget (Fictitious character); Single women; Pregnancy; Infants;
- The woman in the woods / by Connolly, John,1968-author.;
- "From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman -- who apparently died in childbirth -- is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Parker, Charlie "Bird" (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
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