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Peters, Amanda, author.
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Missing children -- Fiction.
Micmac Indians -- Fiction.
Berries -- Harvesting -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Foreign workers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
Maine -- Fiction.
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The berry pickers [l...
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The berry pickers [large type] : a novel / Amanda Peters.
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Peters, Amanda, author.
[Farmington Hills] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024.
Subjects
Missing children -- Fiction.
Micmac Indians -- Fiction.
Berries -- Harvesting -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Foreign workers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
Maine -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9798885795692 (large print : hardcover) :
Series:
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama.
Description:
417 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
Edition:
Large print edition.
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Summary:
"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across"--
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
Large Type
LT Peters
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05/23/2024
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Pearl City Public Library
Adult Fiction
LT Peters
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