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Hold Tight the Thread (Tender Ties Historical Series #3) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 441279
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1578565014
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781578565016
ASIN: 1578565014
Publication Date: April 20, 2004
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BASED ON A TRUE STORY
In a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.
Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace of Family and Faith.
As the 1840s bring conflict to the Pacific Northwest’s rugged Columbia Country, new challenges face Marie Dorion Venier Toupin: the wife, mother, and Ioway Indian woman who crossed the Rocky Mountains with the Astor Expedition, the first big fur trapping expedition after Lewis and Clark’s. On French Prairie in the newly forming Oregon Territory, Marie strives to meet the needs of her conflict-ridden neighbors: British settlers and Americans, missionaries and disease-stricken natives, fur trappers and French Canadian farming families, and the surviving natives of the region.
At the same time, as a mother, Marie must weave together the threads of an unraveling family. One daughter compares and judges as she seeks to find her place; another reaches for elusive evidence of her mother’s love. Marie’s memories are threatened with the emergence of a figure from the past. In the midst of this turmoil, Marie discovers an empowering spiritual truth: Unconditional love can shed light on even the darkest places in the heart.
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 Praise for history with profound insight August 4, 2008
Jane Kirkpatrick's compassionate insight brings history to life. I always feel as if I am part of the lives of her characters, and feel a sadness when the story ends, as if I am saying goodbye to friends. This trilogy based on the life of Marie Deroin is no exception. Although highly honored for her part in history, she was undoubtedly human as we all are, and her commitment to family is close to my own heart as a woman, daughter, wife, mother, and friend.
I now have my sisters "hooked" on Jane's novels.
A wonderful series, I suggest all. June 20, 2008
This series of three books, is one of the most beautiful, heart-warming stories, I have ever read. Living in the Northwest, made it even more interesting.
Hold Tight the Thread May 15, 2008
Jan Kirkpatrick's books keep me coming back. Her characters are so real that I feel I recognize parts of them in the "real" people I know and my own life experiences. I was born in Eastern Oregon and my ancestors traveled the Oregon Trail to settle in the Heppner and Echo area. The accurate history that Jan weaves through her stories is fascinating. Madame Dorion is a strong woman that listened to her heart and kept searching for the thing that would satisfy that empty longing not met by the people in her life. Great story.
 Painfully slow to read February 23, 2008
I was not thrilled or excited by anything I read in this book...I found it dull and threw it in the trash before I finished it. Too much using of french words which an ordinary person has no understanding of and I don't want to take time to figure them out as I try to hold on to the plot.
 Not as well-liked as others September 6, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading the "All Together In One Place", I was expecting a lot more from the Tender Ties series. It's not that they aren't particularly good, they're just not as good as the others of Jane Kirkpatrick's that I've read. The timelines are a little harder to follow because they sometimes skip ahead months and even years. Like I said, it's not that these aren't good books, they just aren't quite what I've come to expect from her.
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