The day the falls stood still
by Cathy Marie Buchanan
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"Bess Heath is born to a life of privilege but, in 1915, she returns home from school to find the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is broken and jobless, her mother struggling to keep the family afloat, her sister's engagement called off. The society Bess has always known faces its own transition - one where the magnificence of Niagara Falls is threatened by the companies that seek to harness its power for themselves. When, against her family's strong objections, Bess finds solace with riverman Tom Cole, she is forced to make a painful choice."-- Publisher description.
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Rich people, World War, 1914-1918, Fiction, Hydroelectric power plants, Large type books, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Ontario, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, romance, historical, generalPlaces
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Day the Falls Stood Still: The B & n Recommends Edition
2010, Voice
in /languages/eng
1401341632 9781401341633
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The Day The Falls Stood Still
Aug 24, 2010, HarperCollins Publishers
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1554683289 9781554683284
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Standard print ed. originally published: New York : Hyperion, 2009 ; London : Hutchinson, 2010.
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Niagara Falls, 1915. When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene - the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic sister Bess has always relied on, is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. And all the while the society Bess has always known faces its own transition ...
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