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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
535, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
New York, 1880. Séances are the entertainment of choice in exclusive social circles, and many-- some with true powers, others gifted with the art of performance-- find work as mediums. At Tea and Sympathy, Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair provide a place for whispered confessions, secret cures, and spiritual assignations. When Beatrice hires as a shop girl, she doesn't know she has spiritual gifts. As she learns to harness her powers, she doesn't...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first female to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in a small village in Nova Scotia, she is befriended by Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a talent for telling tales and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. Dora becomes her apprentice at the outset of World War I. Together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labor, breech births, unwanted...