| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 24 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Rose ; bk. 1 |
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Christine, Keleny.
Rose. Spoken word ; bk. 1
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrator: Adam Seeger. |
| Summary |
**National IPPY Award for Historical** Fiction** Step into the life of Rose, a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin, who runs away from home to avoid what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. Rose is thrown into the lives of the varied people and towns of the Mississippi while working on river boats, going to a prep school in St. Louis where she lives with a black family in the Ville, and working in a bordello in New Orleans (not as a call girl, of course. She is a Catholic girl from the Midwest after all). What she doesn't anticipate are the close relationships that develop with many of the women she encounters. She also discovers the harshness of the world far away from the security of home. Ultimately, Rose realizes what is most important in her life: her family and her friends. Rosebloom takes place at a time in history that buffets Rose between the great depression and the coming wave of World War II. She gets herself into situations through her naiveté and also just by chance that test her resolve and teach her not only about herself but about the world of others which she would have never know if she hadn't left her small farm in Southwest Wisconsin. A percentage of the profits of each book sold will be donated to help in the education of disadvantaged children, because Christine believes that knowledge is a powerful tool. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Middle West -- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
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Excursion boats -- Mississippi River -- Fiction.
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Runaway teenagers -- Middle West -- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
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Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
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Middle West -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Seeger, Adam. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780980052930 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0980052939 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13823771 |
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