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The Outer Banks house : a novel / Diann Ducharme.

Ducharme, Diann (author.).

Summary:

As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life. In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the ocean side of the resort village of Nags Head. Seventeen-year-old Abigail is beautiful, book-smart, but sheltered by her plantation life and hemmed-in by her emotionally distant family. To make good use of time, she is encouraged by her family to teach her father's fishing guide, the good-natured but penniless Benjamin Whimble, how to read and write. And in a twist of fate unforeseen by anyone around them, there on the porch of the cottage, the two come to love each other deeply, and to understand each other in a way that no one else does. But when, against everything he claims to represent, Ben becomes entangled in Abby's father's Ku Klux Klan work, the terrible tragedy and surprising revelations that one hot Outer Banks night brings forth threaten to tear them apart forever. With historical detail and emotional resonance, Diann Ducharme recounts a dramatic story of love, loss, and coming of age at a singular and rapidly changing time in one of Americar's most beautiful and storied communities.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307462237
  • ISBN: 0307462234
  • ISBN: 9780307462244
  • Physical Description: 294 pages : map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]

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General Note:
Paperback includes discussion questions.
Publisher, dates, and pagination may vary.
Citation/References Note:
Library Journal Starred
Publisher's Weekly
Library Journal Starred, April 2010
Publisher's Weekly, April 2010
Target Audience Note:
Adult
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Genre:
Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library FIC DUCHARME (Text) 36015000699849 Adult Fiction Available -