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-- Call the midwife.2021., 480, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 10 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call The midwife Volume: 10Summary Note: It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realizes she needs to be a little less spiritual if she's to really connect with the local women. There are some interesting challenges ahead, as well as great celebrations when England wins the World Cup.
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2022., 570 min, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 11 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 11Summary Note: 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 community health programs. Across the series, the team faces challenging situations concerning addiction, a baby with a life-threatening condition, breastfeeding difficulties, and a Holocaust survivor.
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2023., BBC Call No: NEW DVD Fic Call 12 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds, Shelagh and Dr. Turner split their time between the busy maternity home and their lively young family, while Reggie continues to bring joy into Violet and Fred's lives.
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2017., General, 570, BBC Worldwide Ltd. Call No: DVD Fic Call 6 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 6Summary Note: 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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2018., General, 560, BBC Worldwide Ltd. Call No: DVD Fic Call 7 Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 7Summary Note: "In the old houses and bold new apartment buildings of 1963 London, expectant mothers need more help than ever from the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House"--Container.
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-- Call the midwife.2019., 570, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 8 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 8Summary Note: 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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2017., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic LittleH Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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2015., Les Films Seville Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Passion D Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a small convent school in rural Quebec, Mother Augustine provides a musical education to young women no matter their socio-economic background. However, with the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the school's future is at peril.
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2009., Virago Call No: Fic Dun Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: HISTORICAL FICTION. 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and hormones and determined to escape. While on the other side of the great walls, counter-reformation forces in the Church are pushing for change, inside, Serafina's spirit and defiance ignite a fire that threatens to engulf the whole convent. SACRED HEARTS is a novel about power, creativity and passion - both of the body and of the soul. Hidden history brought alive by a wonderful storyteller, renowned for her Italian Renaissance novels.
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2021., Grove Press Call No: Fic Kee Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.