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La saga de la famille Dickinson Séries

Cette saga monumentale retrace le parcours d'une famille à travers les générations, débutant à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Elle explore leurs luttes avec la foi, la moralité et les attentes sociétales dans l'Amérique de la frontière. La série aborde des thèmes profonds tels que le sacrifice, la rédemption, la conscience et la quête d'appartenance. Elle offre une exploration poignante de la résilience humaine et de la complexité des liens familiaux.

A Reckoning
The Purchase

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. The Purchase

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction Pennsylvania, 1798. Daniel Dickinson, a devout Quaker, has just lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him for his impropriety. Forced out of the only community he’s ever known, Daniel moves his family to the Virginia frontier. He has in hand a few land warrants, with which he plans to establish his new homestead. Although determined to hold to his Quaker belief in abolitionism, Daniel is now in a slave state, and he soon finds himself the owner of a young boy named Onesimus. This fatal purchase sets in motion a twisted chain of events that will forever change his children’s lives—and his own. An unforgettable story of sacrifice and redemption, The Purchase powerfully explores questions of fate, faith, loyalty, and conscience.

    The Purchase1
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  2. A Reckoning

    • 328pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    Spring 1855 and Virginian farmer John Dickinson has a dangerous secret that will lead to a tragic decision. The family's riches have been wasted by his reckless brother who holds all of them hostage and, adding fuel to John's desperation, the enslaved workers have been visited by a Canadian abolitionist who pushes them to escape. One does, and his pursuit of freedom involves a dangerous quest to find his mother and child North of the border. Meanwhile, the Dickinson family become fugitives of another kind, escaping their losses in a wagon en route to a new life in the West. Confronted by hunger, fear and a near fatal river boat accident, each member of the family is tested to their limits

    A Reckoning2
    1,7