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The berry pickers [large print] : a novel / Amanda Peters.

Peters, Amanda, (author.).

Summary:

"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9798885795692
  • Physical Description: 417 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024.
Subject: Missing children > Fiction.
Micmac Indians > Fiction.
Berries > Harvesting > Fiction.
Family secrets > Nova Scotia > Fiction.
Foreign workers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Canadian fiction > 21st century.
Siblings.
Maine > Fiction.
Genre: Large print books.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 10 of 21 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library. (Show)

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  • 2 current holds with 21 total copies.
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Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library LP FIC PET (Text) 31421621442236 Adult Large Print Fiction In transit -
Moore County Library LGPT FIC PETERS (Text) 48198030034306 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Mt. Airy Public Library LP F PETERS (Text) 40599001164170 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Nantahala Regional Library Bookmobile LP F PET (Text) 80605000607225 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Reidsville Library LP Fic (Text) 31554011629028 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
Rockingham Outreach LP Fic (Text) 31554011770202 Adult Large Print Fiction In transit -
Rourk Library LP FIC PET (Text) 31422621463107 Adult Large Print Fiction In transit -
South Granville Branch Library LPB FIC PETERS (Text) 42756202463771 Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
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Swannanoa Library LP PET (Text) 0020513761617 Adult Large Print New Fiction Checked out 05/14/2025