The long way home [text (large print)] / Lauraine Snelling.
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TextSeries: Snelling, Lauraine. Secret refuge ; | Thorndike Press large print historical Christian fictionPublication details: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2009.Description: 499 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN: - 1410414590 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper)
- 9781410414595 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper)
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Main Library | Large Print Fiction | Snelling, Lauraine | SR 3 | Available | 33111005656448 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In A Secret Refuge, Lauraine Snelling has written a masterful trilogy combining two very different stories -- a family fleeing the tragedies of the Civil War and a family struggling to remain in their home during the war -- into one compelling saga. In The Long Way Home, Jesselynn Highwood and her travel-weary band must decide whether to continue their perilous journey to Oregon or whether to search for a place to call home before they reach their destination. Back in the East, Louisa and her brother Zachary face unending peril in order to get medical supplies for the hospital in Richmond. But when things go wrong and only a pardon from President Lincoln can save them, it looks like returning home may be impossible.
As the Civil War rages across the land, two courageous young women embark on separate perilous missions ...Heading west on the Oregon Trail with he family's with her Thoroughbreds and a ragtag band of freed slaves, Jesselynn Highwood and her companions are forced to separate from their wagon train and begin a new journey fraught with hardship and peril. Back East, while smuggling medical supplies, her sister Louisa and brother Zachary are captured by enemy soldiers. Will the war's end bring the Highwood family together again?