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The house of Lincoln : a novel

Horan, Nancy (author.).

Summary: "An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary. Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the Underground Railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes readers on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 172826054X
  • ISBN: 9781728260549
  • Physical Description: 343 pages ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023.
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Fiction
Women immigrants 19th century Fiction
Slavery United States 19th century Fiction
United States Race relations 19th century Fiction
Household employees Fiction
Refugees Fiction
Antislavery movements Illinois Springfield Fiction
Historical fiction
Springfield (Ill.) History 19th century Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 32 of 41 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 41 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION HORAN (Text) 50687011838698 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION HORAN (Text) 50686016317104 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F HOR (Text) 37268003166220 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Bedford County Library F HOR (Text) 35010001103876 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Hor (Text) 85131001877639 CACM Fiction Available -
Coplay Public Library FIC HOR (Text) 31961000281515 Adult Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library FIC HORAN (Text) 35031301252640 Adult Fiction Available -
Ebensburg Public Library FIC HOR (Text) 31814700855312 EBNM Fiction Available -
Genesee Area Library FIC HORAN (Text) 30305000923497 Adult Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library HIST FIC HORAN NANCY (Text)
Endowment: Frances Ann Sheridan Elbo Named Endowment, 2023
35740635957293 Historical Fiction Available -


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