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"If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. Surely here, at her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose and her daughters can recover from the events of the recent past - the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her struggle with tuberculosis that required a stay at a sanitarium, and her girls' experience in an orphanage during her illness. At Meadowland, hope blooms as their past troubles become rich...
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Skye's West volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
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Barnaby Skye and his two wives, Victoria of the Crow and Mary of the Shoshone, lead a party of tubercular children and their families through the desert Southwest in search of a cure at Virgin River, but their expedition is threatened by rival guides and superstitious fears.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood.
But, the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...
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David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
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In 1883 Colorado Springs, Odessa arrives at a famous sanitarium seeking a cure for the disease that killed her brothers, but she witnesses a murder in the hospital where she is being treated and must uncover the killer before she succumbs to her disease.
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2011.
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When her mistress departs from Victorian London society to seek relief from tuberculosis symptoms in Egypt, maid Sally throws herself into their new culture and comes to know freedoms she has never experienced before she is harshly reminded of her humblestation in life.
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