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03861aam a22004818i 4500 001 A101D11E122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 220301t20222022meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022009757 020 $a 9798885780322 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1302332637 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BKL $d KSL $d IHX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 10 $a PS3602.R62334 $b L63 2022b 082 00 $a 892.8 $2 23/eng/20220301 100 1 $a Brock, Kimberly, $e author. 245 14 $a The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare / $c Kimberly Brock. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 673 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter. The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. In 1938, a large stone covered in strange markings made headlines. Scholars quickly determined it was a message written hundreds of years ago and signed by "EWD," presumably Eleanor White Dare, the daughter of the colonial governor of Roanoke. The entire Roanoke colony had vanished in the late sixteenth century and "The Dare Stone," as it came to be called, seemingly revealed the sorry fate of the colonists as well as that of Eleanor, who miraculously survived. War widow Alice Young knew the secret of the Dare Stone long before the carved rock became front page news because the stone had sat, for centuries, at Evertell, her family's estate outside of Savannah, until it disappeared during the summer she turned thirteen. The story of Eleanor Dare's miraculous survival is Young family lore, long preserved in both a singsong verse Alice learned as a child and in a book passed down through the generations of women descended from Eleanor and her daughter, Agnes. Alice had been next in line to receive the book that long-ago summer, but everything changed when the stone and book vanished. Her mother became gripped by a mania that hurtled her toward a tragic death, and rambling old Evertell, a too-painful reminder for Alice's father, was abandoned and sold and they moved away. When her father dies, Alice, now thirty-two, learns that Evertell was never sold and the deed to it is hers. Her own thirteen-year-old daughter, Penn, is enamored with the idea of exploring the family history she never knew she had, and Alice decides they will visit the estate just long enough to sell it and start over. But soon Alice learns that leaving one's past behind isn't nearly as important as embracing one's truth"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dare, Eleanor, $d approximately 1565- $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Commonplace books $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inheritance and succession $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Roanoke Island (N.C.) $x History $y 16th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Roanoke Colony $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20231115010234.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033911.0 952 $l HNPC845 $d 20230222010519.0 952 $l HIPC765 $d 20221118010039.0 952 $l HHPC765 $d 20220815141148.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220802014815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A101D11E122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search