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The last runaway [LP]

Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.

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Main Author: Chevalier, Tracy
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, 2013.
Edition:Large print edition.
Subjects:
Quakers > Fiction.
Underground Railroad > Ohio > Fiction.
Ohio > History > 1787-1865 > Fiction.
Large print books.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
Physical Description:447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781410454959 (hardcover)
1410454959 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Tracy Chevalier was born on October 19, 1962 in Washington, D.C. After receiving a B.A. in English from Oberlin College, she moved to England in 1984 where she worked several years as a reference book editor. Leaving her job in 1993, she began a year-long M.A in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

She is the author of several novels including The Virgin Blue, Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures, and The Last Runaway. Her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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