5 must-read nonfiction books like Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife by Ellen Cohen

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Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife

By: Ellen Cohen

3.91

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Midwife Ellen Cohen delivered 1,400 babies in New York City hospitals during a career of more than …

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1. Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse #1)

By: None , Claire Macdonald , Mary J. MacLeod

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young… read more

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  • nursing
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. The Child Finder

By: Rene Denfeld

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon… read more

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3. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

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4. Midwife: A Calling

By: Peggy Vincent

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of BABY CATCHER. When Peggy Vincent first found herself holding a naked baby in her… read more

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5. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

By: Jennifer Worth

3.78

Format: 472 pages,

An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one ex… read more

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6. When We Meet Again

By: Kristin Harmel

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most i… read more

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7. The Seamstress of New Orleans

By: Diane C. McPhail

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe at the turn-of-the-century, the a… read more

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"Now, do you want a poppy?"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"She picked up the wide sleeve and studied the beading: imitation pearls and small rhinestones interspersed with a few of glistening colors: watery blue and aqua, palest rose and coral."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mir…"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

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8. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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9. Call the Canaries Home

By: Laura Barrow

4.03

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heart… read more

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"Men were always there for the fun parts, she thought. Women were always left to pick up the pieces."

-Laura Barrow, Call the Canaries Home

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10. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

By: Laura Pearson

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more

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11. The Moonshiner's Daughter

By: Donna Everhart

4.23

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter ev… read more

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12. The Better Half

By: Alli Frank

3.89

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. Wi… read more

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13. The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

By: Terri-Lynne DeFino

3.77

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new sto… read more

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"It was no longer today, and not yet tomorrow. It was now and she was, for once, content."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"There are many yesterdays. With any luck, many tomorrows. But there's only one today. Don't fuck it up."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Love is not passion, my dear. Love is sweet and good and righteous. Passion is wild and messy and dangerous."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

"Alfonse gave her his words, a mad jumble that didn't sound as lovely coming from his mouth as it would have flying out of the tips of his fingers."

-Terri-Lynne DeFino, The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)

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14. One Christmas Eve

By: Shari Low

4.40

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The festive release from #1 bestseller Shari Low! Unwrap this festive tale of complicated families,… read more

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15. The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more

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16. The Village Green Bookshop (Little Maudley, #2)

By: Rachael Lucas

4.09

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Frustrated that she spends all her time as either a mum to a football-obsessed teenager or a wife t… read more

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17. The Bordeaux Book Club

By: Gillian Harvey

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to Fr… read more

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18. The Old Ducks' Club (Old Ducks Club, #1)

By: Maddie Please

4.35

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Sophia Gregory is fading away… Recently split from her married lover and about to turn sixty, Soph… read more

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19. My Grandmother's Inn (Dune Island, #5)

By: Kristin Harper

4.13

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Periwinkle-blue flowers spill over the picket fence, framing the simple wooden sign that reads Hydr… read more

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20. The Golden Girls' Getaway

By: Judy Leigh

4.27

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

It has been a long and lonely year for neighbours Vivienne, Mary and Gwen. All ladies of a ‘certain… read more

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21. Midwife: An Adventure (Memoirs of an Urban Midwife Book 3)

By: Peggy Vincent

4.60

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

Set around Berkeley, California, Midwife: An Adventure is filled with unique characters and local c… read more

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22. The English Wife

By: Adrienne Chinn

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Two women, a world apart. A secret waiting to be discovered… VE Day 1945 As victory bells ri… read more

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23. Midwife: A Journey (Memoirs of an Urban Midwife Book 2)

By: Peggy Vincent

4.66

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

A JOURNEY, the second book in Peggy Vincent’s "Memoirs of an Urban Midwife" trilogy, focuses exclu… read more

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24. Loving Tiara: Memoir

By: Tiffani Goff

4.40

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

WARNING... Once you start reading Loving Tiara you won't be able to stop, so find a comfortable spo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Friends with Secrets

By: Christine Gunderson

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the … read more

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26. Tiny Medicine: One Doctor's Biggest Lessons from His Smallest Patients

By: Chris DeRienzo

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Imagine holding a baby girl's life in your hands - now imagine she's no bigger than a soda can. Eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife

By: Ellen Cohen

3.91

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Midwife Ellen Cohen delivered 1,400 babies in New York City hospitals during a career of more than … read more

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  • nursing
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. PUSH: Labor & Delivery from the Inside Out

By: Catherine Stack

4.25

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Hopefully, by now, you know about the birds and the bees. But, have you ever wondered about all tha… read more

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29. Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart: A Midwife's Saga

By: Carol Leonard

4.65

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Often laugh-out-loud funny and irreverent, occasionally disturbing and deeply sorrowful, LADY'S HAN… read more

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30. Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom

By: Jenni Basch

4.27

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother’s desperate struggle to save her daughter. Radical brain surgery is their only hope.In a h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Born for Life: Midwife in Africa

By: Julie Watson

4.44

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing could prepare Julie for the experience of living and working in the heart of Africa. Th… read more

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11 must-read nonfiction books like Loving Tiara: Memoir by Tiffani Goff

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

Tom J. Bross

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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