Point of Departure - Softcover

Kirtley, Dianne Kowal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621371883 ISBN 13: 9781621371885

Verlag: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2013

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It is 1841, and fourteen-year-old Charlotte Mailliard should be concerned with French fashion, French tradition and her studies with her classmates, Napoleon Bonaparte's nephews. Instead, her Papa has decided to move his family to America. Now Charlotte can only think of a strange state called Illinois and the "savages" she will encounter on her long journey. No one could forsee that the family's trek to that frontier would bring them to a Kentucky slave auction, an experience that would forever change their lives. Two decades earlier, another Frenchman, Henri Moreau, a street urchin of Paris, had made his way to that same Illinois, where life was a pleasant mix of his and native customs. But in 1832, that peace was destroyed by the Blackhawk War, an event that tragically impacted Henri and his family. As the nation and the Mailliard and Moreau families mature, it is the common theme of war that causes Charlotte to realize she is but one cog in the endless cycle of love and loss, the bane of a country where another Illinois native son will not abide "a house divided."

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• Verlag: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1621371883
• ISBN 13: 9781621371885
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362