{"product_id":"9780992043377","title":"Charlie of Ile Saint Jean","description":"When young English woodcutter Charlie Evans is disgraced and exiled to the colony of Île Saint Jean, he lands unprepared on the edge of winter in a small English settlement of what will become Prince Edward Island. He survives near-starvation only to face a murderous shipyard owner threatened by Charlie's efforts to build his own shipbuilding enterprise.\u003cp\u003eUnlikely aid comes from a French Acadian family, but Charlie's romance with a young French woman leads him into conflict with a brutal, incompetent major during the British roundup and expulsion of Acadian settlers from the colony and their forced return to Old France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShadowing Charlie in this New world is the question of a child that he was said to have sired years before in England. What of the babe? And its mother?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel offers a dramatic recapitulation of the Island's early colonial history, including the factual events leading up to the expulsion: compassionate insights are brought to the deprivations of young peasant lads in the King's army, who must expel resentful - and elusive -- islanders, and finally force them on to the Duke William and the Violet, two of the three leaky vessels carrying captured Acadians across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders live a moving, lusty history with each of Charlie's trials and loyalties. Will he ever learn the secret that could take him beyond his wildest dreams?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAh, fate lingers... and history wins again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lowell Stewart Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024171974896,"sku":"9780992043377","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780992043377_p0.jpg?v=1763944845","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992043377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}