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Item Information       Booklist Review     More Content     More by this author     Brady, Joanna.     Subjects     Women lighthouse keepers -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Coping with hardship -- Fiction.     Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brady, Joanna.       by title:      The woman at the lig...       by call number:      FICTION BRA     Search the Web     Brady, Joanna.     Women lighthouse keepers -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Coping with hardship -- Fiction.     Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The woman at the light : a novel / Joanna Brady. by Brady, Joanna. St. Martin's Griffin, c2012. Call #: FICTION BRA Subjects Women lighthouse keepers -- Fiction.   Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.   Coping with hardship -- Fiction.   Key West (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781250023469 (hc.) 9781250003560 (trade pbk.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  325 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Includes reading group questions. Summary:  "One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker's Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to support her three children - and a fourth on the way. Unexpected help arrives when a runaway slave named Andrew washes up on their beach. At first, Emily is intensely wary of this strange, charming man, whose very presence there is highly illegal. But Andrew proves himself an enormous help and soon wins the hearts of the Lowry family. And - far from the outside world and society's rules - his place in Emily's life, as steadfast now as the light, will forever change their futures. When Emily's family is ripped apart once again, she faces untold hardships that test her love and determination and show how the passionate love of a defiant, determined woman can overcome any obstacle."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Love stories. First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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