| International Standard Book Number |
9798900820453 (hardback)
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| Personal Name |
McPhail, Diane C., author.
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| Title Statement |
Follow the stars home / Diane C. McPhail.
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| Edition Statement |
Center Point Large Print edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions and author's notes with historical information.
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| General Note |
Regular print version previously published by: Kensington Publishing Corp.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographic references (page 390-392).
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| Summary, Etc. |
"It's a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October 20th, 1811, Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt fearlessly boards the steamship New Orleans in Pittsburgh. Eight months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Lydia is fiercely independent. She's also accustomed to defying convention. Against her father's wishes, she married his much older business colleague, inventor Nicholas Roosevelt -- builder of the New Orleans -- and spent her honeymoon on a primitive flatboat. But the stakes for this trip are infinitely higher. Success in this venture would revolutionize travel and trade, open the west to expansion, and secure the Roosevelts' future. The steamship dwarfs the canoes and flatboats on the river. But no amount of power or comfort can shield its passengers from risk. Lydia believes herself ready for all the dangers ahead -- growing unrest among native people, disease or injury, and the turbulent Falls of the Ohio, a sixty-foot drop long believed impassable in such a large boat. But there are other challenges in store, impossible to predict as Lydia boards that fall day."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Roosevelt, Nicholas J., 1767-1854 Family Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
May-December romances Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Pregnant women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Voyages and travels Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
River steamers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History 1810-1830 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Mississippi River Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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