Animal and Client Encounters

Biographies & Memoirs

ALEXANDER, James

Professionals & Academics

Austin Macauley

A New Home and Other Stories

Donehoo, Penny Bonadonna

Historical

A Wolf in the Kitchen

Sports & Outdoors

Bryde, J T

Biographies

Meeting Pip

Lowry, Fiona

Children's Books

Samuel Baskett, growing up in a Dorset rectory, wants to save lives, not souls. Mary Cockram, looking after her animals on the family farm, longs to travel the world. Spanning nearly 60 years of the eighteenth century, Searching for Samuel Baskett is a sweeping family saga, chronicling the lives of the Baskett and Cockram families, their friends, and servants. It tells of their loves and losses, their joys, and tragedies. When Samuel sets up as surgeon, apothecary and 'man-midwife' in the Dorset town of Wareham, he goes against all the accepted practices of the time. He attends births, encourages mothers to breast-feed their babies and tries to convince his patients to give up their old traditional remedies for fits and fevers. The novel covers many issues still relevant today - vaccination, slavery, and the role of women in society. Samuel meets a local farmer, Benjamin Jesty, who used matter from cowpox to inoculate his family, years before Jenner. And Mary sets up a school for girls, providing lessons in mathematics and 'natural philosophy'. Samuel Baskett's signature inside an old 1766 dictionary inspired Rosemary Allen to investigate further. The family trees she built up from Dorset parish records form the skeletal structure of the novel; she just had to put flesh on the bones in the form of a fictional narrative.

Searching for Samuel Baskett

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Rosemary

Genre Fiction

Imagine trying to find the words you've been trying to say, but nothing seems to come. Those memories you once shared with your first love, your first heartbreak and trying to reinvent yourself. A new beginning. Everything came with time. If it's meant to be, it will be. Everyone heals from pain and we build scars.

Melodrama

Dannenberg, Renee

Poetry

Adulting

Jain, Megha

Broken Heart

Le Grys, David

A peaceful school vacation on a tropical island, nothing could go wrong... Until the cruise home, a huge storm comes along and washes Wesley and Emma overboard. All seems lost until they are washed up on The Forgotten Island. Emma is captured by an ancient tribe, followed by Wesley's daring rescue. They both get recaptured. Then comes the tribal trial and the mountain. Can they escape the sealed mountain and be rescued, or are they lost forever?

The Forgotten Island

Teen & Young Adult

Cavanagh, P S

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