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WISH YOU WELL

It is 1940 and a tragedy sends two young children, Lou and Oz, along with their invalid mother, from New York City to the rugged mountains of Southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. The portraits of the land and its people are described with an extraordinary eye for detail as the story flows through swells of prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith, and the question of whether one can ever really wish another well.

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  • "Wish you well"@pl
  • "Wish you well"
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  • "It is 1940 and a tragedy sends two young children, Lou and Oz, along with their invalid mother, from New York City to the rugged mountains of Southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. The portraits of the land and its people are described with an extraordinary eye for detail as the story flows through swells of prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith, and the question of whether one can ever really wish another well."@en
  • "Donation."
  • "Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic new York City of 1940 with her family. When tragedy strikes, Lou and her younger brother Oz must go with their invalid mother to live in the Virginia mountains."@en
  • "The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia."
  • ""The story of Louisa Mae Cardinal, a precocious twelve-year-old girl living in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her acclaimed but sadly underpaid writer father, her compassionate mother, and her timid younger brother, Oz."--Jacket."
  • "Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the 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 their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom ... and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love."@en
  • "Twee kinderen, halfwezen met een zieke moeder, worden verzorgd door hun overgrootmoeder die woont op een boerderij in de bergen van Virginia."
  • "A coming-of-age story set in New York City and the mountains of Virginia in the 1940s. Lou and Oz Cardinal leave New York with their mother and head to live on their great-grandmother's farm."@en
  • "Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the 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 their great-grandmother''s farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces of greed and justice are about to clash over her new home...and as their struggle is played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom, it will determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love."
  • "Tragedy strikes the Cardinal family when their car is involved in an accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but their father is killed and their mother is left in a coma. It is left to their great grandmother to bring them up."
  • "Louise, a 12 year old girl living in New York City with her under- paid writer father,her compassionate mother,and her brother Oz. In a terrifying moment her life is changed forever, and she and Oz are on a train to Virginia.Her mother is between life and death."@en
  • "The year is 1953 -- and the worst of tragedies has struck the Cardinal family. A devastating car accident takes the life of Jack Cardinal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and leaves his young wife a bedridden invalid who has completely withdrawn. Lou and her younger brother Oz travel by train with their mother to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where their great-grandmother Louisa lives on a remote farm, ready and willing (if not financially prepared) to take the broken family in. Rising every morning hours before dawn, working on the farm and learning at the school house their father attended years before, Lou and Oz slowly begin to heal emotionally and grow in unexpected ways. All while waiting for their silent mother to return to them. When a natural gas company comes to town and makes an offer on her land, Louisa refuses to sell. To keep their farm, with the weight of the company and their own greedy neighbors against them, the family must rely on the kindliness of a town lawyer to try their case in court -- while both Lou and Oz pray for a miracle. The climactic courtroom battle is as unpredictable as it is relentless and will not only decide the fates of Lou, Oz, and their mother, but also all who have been touched by them."@en
  • "Tragedy strikes the New York-based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve-year-old Lou and seven-year-old Oz survive, but the crash leaves their father dead and their mother in a coma. It would seem that their world has been shattered forever until their great grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the children on her Virginia farm. Soon, however, their rural idyll is threatened."
  • "Hauptbeschreibung Amerika 1940: Ein einziger schrecklicher Moment ändert das Leben der zwölfjährigen Lou von Grund auf. Bei einem Autounfall kommt ihr Vater ums Leben, und ihre Mutter fällt ins Koma. Die einzige Verwandte, die sich um Lou und ihren kleinen Bruder Oz kümmern kann, ist ihre Urgroßmutter Louisa Mae, die auf einer Farm in Virginia wohnt. Doch das Leben in den Bergen ist hart, und die Kinder müssen schwer mitarbeiten. Nur allmählich erschließt sich ihnen die Schönheit der Welt, die sie umgibt. Erst als eine Bergbaugesellschaft die Hände nach dem Besitz ausstreckt, wird L."
  • "In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family."@en
  • "In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family."
  • "Tragedy strikes the Cardinal family when their car is involved in an accident. 12-year-old Lou and 7-year-old Oz survive, but their father is killed and their mother is left in a coma. It is left to their great grandmother to bring them up. Originally published: New York: Warner; London: Simon & Schuster, 2000."@en
  • "In het hart. - Twee kinderen, halfwezen met een zieke moeder, worden verzorgd door hun overgrootmoeder die woont op een boerderij in de bergen van Virginia."
  • "When the Cardinal family suffers a car accident and only 12-year-old Lou and 7-year-old Oz survive unscathed, their great-grandmother agrees to raise the children on her Virginia farm. But soon their rural idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain."
  • "Baldacci is writing what? That waspish question buzzed around publishing circles when Warner announced that the bestselling author of The Simple Truth, Absolute Power and other turbo-thrillers--an author generally esteemed more for his plots than for his characters or prose--was trying his hand at mainstream fiction, with a mid-century period novel set in the rural South, no less. Shades of John Grisham and A Painted House. But guess what? Clearly inspired by his subject--his maternal ancestors, he reveals in a foreword, hail from the mountain area he writes about here with such strength--Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama centered on the difficult adjustment to rural life faced by two children when their New York City existence shatters in an auto accident. That tragedy, which opens the book with a flourish, sees acclaimed but impecunious riter Jack Cardinal dead, his wife in a coma and their daughter, Lou, 12, and son, Oz, seven, forced to move to the southwestern Virginia farm of their aged great-grandmother, Louisa. Several questions propel the subsequent story with vigor. Will the siblings learn to accept, even to love, their new life? Will their mother regain consciousness? And--in a development that takes the narrative into familiar Baldacci territory for a gripping legal showdown--will Louisa lose her land to industrial interests? Baldacci exults in high melodrama here, and it doesn't always work: the death of one major character will wring tears from the stoniest eyes, but the reappearance of another, though equally hanky-friendly, is outright manipulative. Even so, what the novel offers above all is bone-deep emotional truth, as its myriad characters--each, except for one cartoonish villain, as real as readers' own kin--grapple not just with issues of life and death but with the sufferings and joys of daily existence in a setting detailed with finely attuned attention and a warm sense of wonder. This novel has a huge heart--and millions of readers are going to love it."@en
  • "After their father's death, two children and their invalid mother head south to the rugged mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. They flourish until the local coal-and gas company comes around conniving to seize their property."@en
  • "Amerika 1940: Ein einziger schrecklicher Moment ändert das Leben der zwölfjährigen Lou von Grund auf. Bei einem Autounfall kommt ihr Vater ums Leben, und ihre Mutter fällt ins Koma. Die einzige Verwandte, die sich um Lou und ihren kleinen Bruder Oz kümmern kann, ist ihre Urgrossmutter Louisa Mae, die auf einer Farm in Virginia wohnt. Doch das Leben in den Bergen ist hart, und die Kinder müssen schwer mitarbeiten. Nur allmählich erschliesst sich ihnen die Schönheit der Welt, die sie umgibt. Erst als eine Bergbaugesellschaft die Hände nach dem Besitz ausstreckt, wird Lou klar, wie viel ihr das Land, das ihr Vater so liebte, bedeutet, und dass es sich dafür zu kämpfen lohnt."

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  • "Bildungsromane"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Translations"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Legal stories"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Family stories"
  • "Playaways"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "WISH YOU WELL"@en
  • "Wish you well <dt.&gt"
  • "Studna přání"
  • "In het hart"
  • "Svako dobro"
  • "Dilek kuyusu"
  • "Buena suerte"@es
  • "Buena suerte"
  • "Mai lontano da qui"
  • "Mai lontano da qui"@it
  • "Das Versprechen"
  • "O poço dos desejos"
  • "Wish You Well"@en
  • "Wish You Well"
  • "Mor, vi trenger deg"
  • "Das Versprechen [Roman]"
  • "Das Versprechen : [Roman]"
  • "Studňa želaní"
  • "Mai lontanoda qui : traduzione de Tullio Dobner"
  • "Dilek Kuyusu"
  • "Wish you well"
  • "Wish you well"@en
  • "Wish you well"@es
  • "Das Versprechen : roman"
  • "Wish you well / S"
  • "Das Versprechen : Roman"
  • "Studnia życzeń"
  • "Studnia życzeń"@pl
  • "Et håb i mørket"@da
  • "Das Versprechen Roman"

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