Hannah Blau, the midwife, fought savage religious prejudice to gain medical training in Moscow's legendary Imperial College. She fought her own doubts and fears as she plunged into a forbidden love affair and an even more hazard-filled marriage. She ...
"Nothing in Brazil is as it first seems," convent-bred Margaret Claiborne is warned when she arrives in Rio de Janeiro, a city named for a non-existent river. One of many who fled the defeated South to Brazil after the Civil War, Margaret is a brilli...
Beautiful Dinah Sassoon, daughter of an affluent opium trader and pillar of Calcutta's tight-knit Jewish community, see her privileged future destroyed when her mother is mysteriously murdered. This tragic event leaves Dinah dishonored and virtually ...
Hannah Sokolow, the spirited Jewish-American heroine of Gay Courter's bestselling novel The Midwife, returns in this powerful story to face new medical challenges in turn-of-the-century New York. As head midwife at Bellevue Hospital, Hannah sees her ...
Bestselling novelist Gay Courter recounts her experiences as a Guardian ad Litem, a volunteer court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for children involved in the legal system due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Her story is both heartbreaking an...
In Gay Courter’s long-awaited medical saga, brilliant and beautiful Rosalind Winters enters Cornell Medical school along with the only three other women admitted that year. Few expect her to succeed except for her champion and mentor, Alexander Saw...