Dobson, Melanie B.
Summary: "Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the father and daughter into their peaceful society. Liesel, a young Amana woman, nurses Cassie back to health, and the Homestead elders offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2010
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Summary: The year is 1915, the dawn of the hydroelectric era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a life of comfort and ease as the younger daughter of the director of the Niagara Power company. But when a tragedy leaves her beautiful sister dead and her family disgraced, Bess's life is transformed beyond imagination."-Book Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010