**From the acclaimed author of *Corelli's Mandolin:* a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes of its aftermath.** In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era, Rosie McCos
What Blooms from Dust
โ Scribed by James Markert
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 202 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0785217428
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โฆ Synopsis
"The closer he got, the brighter that red became. It was a rose --a rose that had no earthly business growing there, right in the middle of all that dust."
Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, he is given a second chance at life. With the flip of a coin, he decides to return to his home town of Nowhere, Oklahoma, to settle the score with his twin brother Josiah. But upon his escape, he enters a world he doesn't recognize--one that has been overtaken by the Dust Bowl. And the gift he once relied on to guide him is as unrecognizable as the path back to Nowhere.
On his journey home, he accidentally rescues a young boy, and the pair arrive at their destination where they are greeted by darkened skies and fearful townspeople who have finally begun to let the past few years of hardship bury them under the weight of all that dust. Unlikely heroes, Jeremiah and his new companion, Peter Cotton, try to protect the...
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