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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;A stirring debut novel of love, struggle, and savagery on America's colonial frontier. (Bernard Cornwell).&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; They call her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also has a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed and unfit for marriage. Maggie is also gifted with quick wits and skilled in medicine, trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country and find a home of her own. But what she discovers is a New World fraught with new dangers.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1746 the battle of Culloden in the Scottish Highlands nearly wiped out the Highland Clans. This is the story of Maggie Duncan. At seven years old she was the sole survivor when her village was destroyed by the English army because the villagers had aided the Highlanders. She is able to escape and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32037120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Years ago when Hannah Cameron’s husband, Alan came back from the war wounded he wasn’t alone. Alan was accompanied by a little girl named Maggie. Maggie was no ordinary girl. She was the only lone survivor of her town’s massacre. Now the years have past and Maggie is all grown up and Hannah an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30928432">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-researched and beautifully written, Midwife of the Blue Ridge doesn't shy away from the harsh realities that flavored life on the colonial frontier. Blevins' characters are swept away by circumstance yet still reveal the strength required to carry off the plot.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this book an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29795242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because the midwife is an indentured servant from Scotland.  Ach Aye! Interesting account of the butchery of the new world, from both sides. Some herbology and holistic medicine, too.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel by Christine Blevins and she debuts as a winner. <br/><br/>Maggie experiences the murder of her parents after the battle of Culloden.  In running away she helps a wounded soldier to return home to his wife to die.  His wife is a renowned Midwife and takes her in as her own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49240095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't usually read historic fiction - this was very good - a romance, but also a good story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book and will read Blevin's second novel.  This one had some flaws, but it really was good overall.  I think I was looking for Maggie's life as an indentured servant to be a bit harder.  Not that it wasn't, but her owner was incredibly nice and treated her like a sister.  From reading t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52631985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Gabaldon's Outlander series, w/out the time travel]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  Maggie is an orphan in 18th-century Scotland.  She learns midwifery and healing practices from her adoptive mother, Hannah.  When Hannah dies, Maggie makes her way to Edinburgh and, later, to the Virginia colony.  <br/><br/>This is the author's first novel and it's a fantastic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35360987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the sole survivor of a vicious attack on her village, Maggie Duncan is viewed by many in Black Corries, Scotland as a harbinger of bad luck. But Hannah Cameron, grateful to young Maggie for bringing her mortally wounded husband home to her, adopts the young girl. Hannah is a midwife and she soon ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33632389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a nutshell: I couldn't put it down - literally! Three nights in a row, my poor husband woke up around midnight to find me still reading in bed with a tiny light so I could finish the book! The story begins in 1746 Scotland, and continues in America 1763. The story surrounds Maggie Duncan, a young...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33324686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in 18th century Scotland, Maggie Duncan is the sole survivor of a horrific massacre.  She is taken in by a midwife and learns the woman's healing skills.  After her foster mother's death, and seeing her own prospects for a happy life in Scotland dim, Maggie voluntarily goes to Colonial America a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30987426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical fiction demands a great deal of a writer, not just in the way of accuracy of details and believable characters, but also a strong sense of time and place. Christine Blevins achieves this nicely in Midwife of the Blue Ridge. Dominated by a sense of adventure with a strong underlying romanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30615603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up because I have several times heard it compared to Diane Gabaldon's Outlander series. And it is true that there are many similarities. The heroine is a healer who lives in the latter part of the 1700's (no time travel). She is originally from Scotland and makes her home in the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30407019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main character of Midwife of the Blue Ridge is Maggie, who was orphaned after a brutal attack on her Scottish village. She is taken in by Helen, a midwife who teaches Maggie her trade. After Helen's death, Maggie decides to go to America as an indentured servant. She is then purchased by a famil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33642718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping for another good historical fiction/midwife-type read. This is the closest I've come to reading a romance novel. A buxom girl, a strapping man, that ends with them happily together and expecting. It's set in colonial America and I think hopes to give an epic feel to the book by insertin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57730161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good historical novel, with a conscripted midwife traveling from the ruins of Scotland's Culloden to the Virginia port cities and then into the Blue Ridge Mountains.   It doesn't fall into the traps of keeping every character alive and whole throughout the book, though I hated the rape scene ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41446178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exquisitely written novel of the 18th century struggles as a young Scots midwife finds her way to America and creates her new life, ministering to the medical needs of families of the Blue Ridge. Much of the action is raw, pull-no-punches with Native Americans portrayed in a negative light. Even ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73162748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The heroine of this story is a fiesty character, which ultimately serves her well in surviving life in 1763 Virginia.  This is a long, detailed story with what I am guessing to be accurate descriptions of the varied harsh circumstances early settlers faced.  Be aware that this book contains several ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47215696">more...</a>]]></body>
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