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The book of lost friends a novel

A dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling...

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Main Author: Wingate, Lisa (Author)
Other Authors: Turpin, Bahni (Narrator), Hoffman, Dominic (narratror.), Flanagan, Lisa (Narrator), Amoss, Sophie (Narrator), Miles, Robin (Narrator), Jones, Sullivan (Narrator) (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2020]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Women > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Fiction.
Louisiana > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: A dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual 'Lost Friends' advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before.
Item Description: Title from container.
Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 15 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 15:00:00
ISBN: 9780593213254
0593213254
Author Notes: Lisa Wingate is an award-winning journalist, magazine columnist, popular inspirational speaker and a national bestselling author. Recently, Lisa's Blue Sky Hill Series received national attention with back-to-back nominations for American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award for A Month of Summer (2009) and The Summer Kitchen (2010). In 2011, Lisa's Novel, Never Say Never, won the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award.

Lisa is also the author of The Tending Roses, Daily Texas, Moses Lake, and the Texas Hill Country Series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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