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The midwife of St. Petersburg [electronic resource] : a novel / Linda Lee Chaikin.

ISBN: 9780307499462 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307499464 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Publisher: Colorado Springs, Colo. : Waterbrook Press, c2007.

Chaikin, L. L., 1943- (Author).

Summary:

Karena Peshkev dreams of escaping her family's country estate and attending medical school, but each year, as she watches her hopes of being accepted to the Imperial College of Medicine slip further away, she much content herself with working alongside her mother, the village's Jewish midwife.