Drake
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WWI took many men away, leaving women to adapt to their absence. Iowa school teacher, Ina Marie Martin found herself a victim of this tumultuous time. Like men who were physically or mentally injured, she needed to recover, to find a way to avoid becoming an outcast. She fled her shame and found a new life on the Island of Hawaii. Other circumstances besides the war, contributed to the tumult of that era; influenza, prohibition, food and clothing...
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The medical needs of wounded soldiers during WWII caused military hospitals at home and on battlefronts to take on many doctors, nurses and ancillary healthcare workers. This left a severe deficit for the home folks. After peace came again, the discharged medical workers transitioned back to domestic institutions. This is the story of an occupational therapist and doctors and nurses in an Iowa hospital during that upheaval.
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Elizabeth Adams expects the adventure of a lifetime when she accepts a faculty position at the Nursing Education Program at the National Saudi University for Girls, but nothing could prepare her for the whirlwind of drama and intrigue she encounters as she navigates romance and rescue under the close eye of the Committee for the Protection of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. When a student begs Elizabeth to help save her life, she embarks on a quest...