โ Scribed by Shelley Wood
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"A historical novel that will enthrall you... I was utterly captivated..." -- Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted Girls
For fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home for Unwanted Girls, Shelley Wood's novel tells the story of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world's first identical quintuplets to survive birth, told from the perspective of a midwife in training who helps bring them into the world.
Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse.
Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints" playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression,...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
On the heels of Littell's 2002 bestseller The Company comes this reissue of a gripping spy thriller originally published in 1986. It is the height of the Cold War, not long after the Cuban missile crisis. Francis and Carroll, dubbed "the sisters Death and Night" by their associates, are two odd yet
After many years, *The Sisters* is finally available again as Overlook republishes this classic spy story by Littell, whose most recent novel *The Company* received acclaim across the nation. In what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of *The New York Times* called "the plot of plots," Robert Littell has cr
Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets.
**If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box...** Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl โ and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which
**"A book to savor --and share." --Susan Wiggs, New York Times Bestselling Author** **The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California...** Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures--and mistakes--included
Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well