The River by Starlight
(By Ellen Notbohm) Read EbookSize | 27 MB (27,086 KB) |
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Winner of 15 literary awards including IPBA Gold Medal, Sarton Women's Book Award, Western Writers of American Spur Award, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List and First Runner-up Historical Fiction, American Book Fest Best Book Award for Legacy Fiction, Eric Hoffer Book Award Montaigne Medal finalist.
Based on true events, this sweeping novel weaves a timeless century-old story of passion, unimaginable loss, resilience, and redemption embodied in one woman’s tenacious quest for self-determination in the face of devastating misfortune and social injustice.
Annie Rushton leaves behind an unsettling past to join her brother on his Montana homestead and make a determined fresh start. There, sparks fly when she tangles with Adam Fielding, a visionary businessman-farmer determined to make his own way and answer to no one. Neither is looking for marriage, but they give in to their undeniable chemistry.
Annie and Adam's marriage brims with early promise and unanticipated passion, but their dream of having a child eludes them as a mysterious illness of mind and body plagues Annie's pregnancies. Amidst deepening economic adversity, natural disaster, and the onset of world war, their personal struggles collide with the societal mores of the day. Annie's shattering periods of black depression and violent outbursts exact a terrible price. The life the Fieldings have forged begins to unravel, and the only path ahead leads to unthinkable loss.
Gold medal - Independent Publisher Book Awards, Best Regional Fiction
Sarton Women's Book Award for Historical Fiction
Western Writers of American Spur Award, Best First Novel
Grand Prize Short List, Eric Hoffer Book Awards
American Book Fest Best Book Award, Legacy Fiction
First Runner-up for Historical Fiction, Eric Hoffer Book Awards
First place, Goethe Award for Historical Fiction, Chanticleer International
Finalist, National Indie Excellence Awards
Finalist, High Plains Book Awards
Finalist, Nancy Pearl Book Awards
Finalist, Chatelaine Awards, Chanticleer International
Finalist, Spur Awards, Best Traditional Novel
Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards,
Finalist, Da Vinci Eye Award, Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Semifinalist, Somerset Awards, Chanticleer International
Powell's City of Books Staff Pick”