{"product_id":"9780615830810","title":"Seeking Signs","description":"The 2013 Midwest Book Award winner for historical fiction.\u003cp\u003eOne hundred years ago, Minnie Seamer's death shocked her rural Iowa community. A young farmhand found her body hanging in the barn on a rainy summer morning in 1913. The coroner ruled it a suicide, but distraught family members were not convinced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas it suicide-or was it murder?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking Signs, based on actual events, is the story of a young girl's search for answers in the wake of a family tragedy. To solve the mystery of her older sister's puzzling death, 13-year-old Elsie follows tips from a booklet titled \"The Baum Detective Agency Course.\" As she begins observing and gathering evidence, Elsie encounters clues that call into question the coroner's report and lead her into a shadowy world of deceit and betrayal. Elsie's notebook and entries from Minnie's diary reveal an unexpected truth: a truth that interprets a young wife's troubled past in a community not as safe as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking Signs takes the reader into a world steeped in history and superstition. As Elsie hunts for signs, her voice brings the time period and its people to life. The answers she finds take her investigation to a conclusion that changes the path of her life forever and ultimately catapults her from innocence to a compelling coming of age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Feathers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49859063447792,"sku":"9780615830810","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615830810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}