Description:
Meet Ida Dempsey whose kindhearted desire for social justice goes against the rules of order in Eureka, California, during the hostile winter of 1885.
Brief description: Barbara Tifft Blakey lives in the Pacific Northwest on five wooded acres with Terry, her husband of forty-plus years. She is best known for her award-winning, literature-inspired, language arts program, Total Language Plus, which she created over twenty years ago, and is used by thousands of homeschoolers. Barbara teaches Sunday school and enjoys speaking on various topics to Christian women's groups. She and her husband have four grown children and five grandchildren. She enjoys camping at the ocean and is an avid soccer fan. During the day-light challenged winter months, she reads, crochets, bakes, and plots her next novel.
Review Quotes: "Blakey convincingly depicts a stratified Western town corroded by poverty, anti-Chinese racism, and the narrow social roles for women against which headstrong Ida chafes. Readers will eagerly await the sequel."-- "Publishers Weekly" (2/21/2025 12:00:00 AM)