Wish You Well
by David Baldacci
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Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
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Social life and customs, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Natural gas reserves, Girls, Land tenure, Fiction, Women landowners, Family relationships, Traffic accident victims, Farm life, Mountain life, Traffic accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction, Large type books, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, Virginia, fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-06-07, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general, General, Fiction / General, Family Life, Historical - General, Baldwin, James - Prose & Criticism, Popular American Fiction, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/GeneralPlaces
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