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2012, c2002., Adult, Penguin Books Call No: Bio W932c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times (this book), Shadows of the workhouse (c2005), and Farewell to the East End (c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community, when times were tough but there was plenty of good humour and neighbourly support to help the inhabitants through the harsh economic climate.
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2012., Phoenix Call No: Bio W932c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife trilogy Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: A heartwarming coming-of-age story and a startling look at women's lives in the poorest section of postwar London, this final book in the acclaimed memoir series is the basis for the acclaimed PBS series.
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-- Farewell to the East End[2013], Ã2005., Ecco/HarperCollins Call No: Bio W932c Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife trilogy Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: A heartwarming coming-of-age story and a startling look at women's lives in the poorest section of postwar London, this final book in the acclaimed memoir series is the basis for the acclaimed PBS series.
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c2012., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Call 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 1Summary Note: A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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[2013]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Call 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 2Summary Note: Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
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2014., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Call 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 3
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-- Shadows of the workhouse[2013], c2005., Adult, Ecco/HarperCollins Call No: Bio W932c Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The Call the midwife trilogy is comprised of Call the midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times, (c2002), Shadows of the workhouse (this book, c2005), and Farewell to the East End (c2009). Together, this series chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her arrival in the war-scarred Docklands as a wide-eyed trainee, to the demolition of the tenements and subsequent closure of Nonnatus House. It provides a fascinating snapshot of social history, documenting the East End in the days when there was a real sense of community.
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(2007)., Adult, Universal Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Eastern Edition: [Widescreen ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core.