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Wounded Dove is the true story of an immigrant family pursuing a dream to own a home of their own. Their determination and faith help them overcome prejudice, a polio epidemic that cripples one of their children, and economic setbacks. Their physically disabled daughter does not choose to stay meekly at home as expected by people in the early 1900s. She wants education, a career, independence, respect, and love. Any daring venture into a full life comes with danger, and Annelise encounters challenges even from people she thought she could trust.

Produktbeschreibung
Wounded Dove is the true story of an immigrant family pursuing a dream to own a home of their own. Their determination and faith help them overcome prejudice, a polio epidemic that cripples one of their children, and economic setbacks. Their physically disabled daughter does not choose to stay meekly at home as expected by people in the early 1900s. She wants education, a career, independence, respect, and love. Any daring venture into a full life comes with danger, and Annelise encounters challenges even from people she thought she could trust.
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Autorenporträt
Virginia Heslinga, Ed. D. is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA. She received the Living the Mission Award, which is presented to a member of the faculty who understands and appreciates the importance of educating the whole student and seizes every opportunity to do so. In April of 2024, Virginia presented her memoir, Grace Interlaced, in the Anna Maria College LaVigne Lecture Series.Over 49 years, Virginia has taught in a variety of schools, public, private, alternative, homeschools, religious, juvenile detention, religious, and online. She has worked in this country and others with every age group. She has articles published in education journals, writes curriculum, has published a memoir about a fire that devastated her family and changed her life, Grace Interlaced (2023). Her historical novel, Wounded Dove (2024), based on a real series of events in the life of Danish immigrants in twentieth-century Worcester County, Massachusetts, tells the story of a woman stricken with polio in the New England polio epidemic early in the 1900s. Virginia describes herself as a child of God, wife, mother, grandmother, educator, author, and traveler who has the blessings of a caring family and friends near and far. Because of her experiences in the eight different years she worked with teachers, administrators, students, and communities in remote rural areas and in highly populated international cities in China, the country and people remain precious to her.