LEADER 00000cam 22004218i 4500 001 1030447211 003 OCoLC 005 20180912140250.0 008 180329t20182017meu ed 000 1 eng 010 2018014564 020 9781432854317|q(large print ;|qhardcover) 020 1432854313|q(large print ;|qhardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dJNE|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 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.
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