Title THE HOUSE OF LINCOLN : A NOVEL / Nancy Horan.

Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
	©2023

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3084883~S1

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Nichols Adult Large Type Fiction	F HORAN	AVAILABLE

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Description	549 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rdafs
	16 point
Series	Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
	Thorndike Press large print historical fiction.
Note	Unabridged.
Summary	"Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes readers on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Springfield (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Political refugees -- Fiction.
	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction.
	Women immigrants -- Fiction.
	Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
	Household employees -- Fiction.
	Antislavery movements -- Illinois -- Springfield -- Fiction.
	Race riots -- Illinois -- Fiction.
	United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre	Historical fiction.
	Novels.
	Large print books.
	Large type books.
ISBN	9798885793490 (hardcover)

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