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092    |fF|aSPALDING 
100 1  Spalding, Linda,|eauthor. 
245 12 A RECKONING /|cLinda Spalding. 
250    Large print edition. 
264  1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a 
       Cengage Company,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    483 pages (large print) ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
340    |nlarge print|2rda 
490 1  Thorndike Press Large Print Western 
520    "It's 1855, and the Dickinson farm, in the bottom corner 
       of Virginia, is already in debt when a Northern 
       abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. 
       Determined to find his mother and daughter, who are 
       already free in Canada, Bry is the first slave to flee, 
       and his escape inspires a dozen others. Soon, the farm, 
       owned by one brother and managed by another, is forfeited 
       to the bank. One of the brothers, who is also a circuit-
       riding preacher, gathers his flock into a wagon train to 
       find a new life in the west. But John Dickinson has a 
       dangerous secret that compels him to abandon the group at 
       the last minute, and his wife, two daughters, and thirteen
       -year-old son, Martin, now face life on the trail and an 
       unknown future alone. After a fateful encounter along the 
       way, Martin and Bry will hatch a plot to get Bry safely to
       Canada, but each member of the family will be changed, 
       tormented, excited, and exposed by the journey. Linda 
       Spalding brings an astonishing empathy to the telling of 
       the fate of each of the travelers and to their shifting 
       inner lives--compounded of grief, fear, anger, and hope. 
       Rich in character and incident, A Reckoning brilliantly re
       -creates an America that was: the undefiled beauty of its 
       lands and the grand mix of settlers and Native Americans; 
       blacks and whites; riverboat captains, small businessmen, 
       and people leaving one life behind for another they can 
       only just begin to see. It moves with irresistible force 
       toward an ending at once cataclysmic, inevitable, and 
       profound." -- Dust jacket. 
650  0 Slavery|zUnited States|vFiction. 
650  0 Life change events|vFiction. 
650  0 Fugitive slaves|vFiction. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|y19th century|vFiction. 
655  7 Large type books.|2local 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
830  0 Thorndike Press large print Western series.