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Benjamin Lorn, sensitive son of an embittered Civil War veteran, comes of age in the tiny Iowa town of Perpetua where, in a single summer, he mourns the recent loss of his mother, falls in love, and uncovers a shameful family secret that sends him fleeing west. Tormented with this new knowledge, Benjamin seeks transcendence through the telegraph wires that have enchanted him since boyhood. Meanwhile the weight of a dark duty grows more and mor...

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Supplying a quarter of San Francisco's coal, Nortonville of the 1860s-70s is a flourishing empire in small, seeming to promise unending prosperity and a better future. But beneath the vibrant work ethic of its Welch citizens lies an insidious network of superstitions. A missing boy first brings these dark undercurrents to light. Then young Asher Witherow falls under the spell of an unorthodox apprentice minister, stirring a whirlpool of suspic...

A gripping emotional drama about the life of the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Lost Son brings alive the intellectual and artistic movements that shaped the 20th century and the personalities that made this history their own-from Rilke himself to the great master Rodin to the fascinating Lou Salome, mistress or confident to Rilke, Freud and Nietzche. the result is an exploration of the forever imperfect loyalties we face in life and the seemi...

In this rich, gothic tale, a young soul comes of age during the fabular boom and bust years of an immigrant coal mining town in 19th-century California.