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The Midwife of Venice

by Roberta Rich
Antoinette LaVecchia
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Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers— a gift aided by the secret " birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can Hannah refuse her duty to a suffering woman? Hannah' s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the baby and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Not since The Red Tent or People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history.
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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781464049491
  • File size: 262500 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2012
  • Duration: 09:06:52

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  • ISBN: 9781464049491
  • File size: 262533 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2012
  • Duration: 09:06:49
  • Number of parts: 8
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Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers— a gift aided by the secret " birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can Hannah refuse her duty to a suffering woman? Hannah' s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the baby and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Not since The Red Tent or People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history.
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Fiction Thriller Historical Fiction
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