Lea Wait

Uncertain Glory (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Joe Wood has dreams. Big dreams. He wants to be a newspaperman, and though he's only fourteen, he's already borrowed money to start his own press. But it's April, 1861, and a young nation is teetering on the brink of a civil war. As effects of war begin to spread over Joe's hometown of Wiscasset, Maine, he must juggle his personal ambitions with some new responsibilities. He has to help Owen, his young assistant, deal with the challenges of being black in a white world torn apart by color. He needs to talk his best friend, Charlie, out of enlisting. He wants to help a young spiritualist, Nell, whose uncle claims she can speak to the dead. And when Owen disappears, it's up to Joe to save him. Lea Wait skillfully draws on the lives of real people in Maine's history to tell this story of three young adults touched by war and the tension it brings, forcing them into adulthood-before they may be ready.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Islandport Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781934031650
• Artikelnr.: 41064026

Autorenporträt

Lea Wait is the author of four acclaimed historical novels for children aged 7 and up set in nineteenth-century Maine. Her books include Stopping to Home, Seaward Born, Wintering Well, and Finest Kind. She also writes the New York Times-praised six-book Shadows Antique Print Mystery series, traditional mysteries featuring antique print dealer and community college professor Maggie Summer, the most recent of which is Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding. She grew up in New Jersey and Maine, and has an undergraduate degree from Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an MA and DWD from New York University. She worked for AT&T in New York and New Jersey while she was raising her four daughters, whom she adopted as a single parent. She now writes full time, is married to artist Bob Thomas, and blogs at http: //www.mainecrimewriters.com with nine other Maine mystery writers. She invites you to check her website, www.leawait.com, and to friend her on Facebook.