Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when s
Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees
β Scribed by DeVos, Janie
- Book ID
- 108972200
- Publisher
- Kensington
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781601836816
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β¦ Synopsis
As the 20th century dawns, the world is transformed in dizzying ways. But nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains is a place, and a family, out of timeβwhere one young girl will grow to face the challenges of each generation before herβand discover whether she has the strength to overcome them...
The eldest surviving daughter of Anna Guinn, Rachel rarely ventures far from her home in the Appalachians, aside from an occasional trip into town to trade a penny for a peppermint stick. Sometimes she yearns for more, but as much as she fears her mother's unstable mind, she is anchored by the strength of her grandmother, Willa. Freed from an abusive marriage, Willa holds the family together through hardship, all the while fulfilling her role as keeper of her neighbors' carefully guarded secretsβthe most painful of which may be her own.
In this isolated, eccentric world where people depend on moonshine to put food on the table,...
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