Pillsbury Crossing, Donna Mabry
Pillsbury Crossing, Donna Mabry
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Pillsbury Crossing

Author: Donna Mabry

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2015


Synopsis

Emma is nine on the day they meet. Akecheta is twelve, and already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him. As they grow up together on the frontier surrounding Manhattan, Kansas, he teaches her how to fish, hunt, and how to survive. She teaches him how to trust and how to share the burdens of his shameful past. When he graduates from high school, an aunt sends him to university in the other Manhattan, in New York. Emma continues her schooling at home. At first, Akecheta is dazzled by New YorkWhen a friend takes him to back-room poker games in the Bowery, he learns that Manhattan, New York, may be more deadly than the wilds of Kansas.

About Donna Mabry

A Michigan native who studied writing in school, Donna first came to Vegas to make costumes and soon was weaving the stories she heard in the back of the girl's dressing room into her first novel. Now she is the author of the Alexandra Merritt Mysteries, which include The Last Two Aces in Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Desert Flower, The Las Vegas Special, Rough Ride in Vegas, M.I.A. Las Vegas, and Lost Luggage.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on March 11, 2020

There are hidden complexities not easy to discern in this as in most such works, even as the work might seem trivial to those that characterise anything written by, about, and mostly read by women, under an unflattering label, which is as false as lumping all European films with all Hollywood and ca......more

Goodreads review by Anna Cazale on February 22, 2015

True loves no bounds. When I read the first book in this trilogy I was left wanting more about these wonderful character's and this book has taken up beautifully where the last left off. The author takes you on a amazing look back at frontier Kansas and how average people survive the hardships and ri......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on February 03, 2017

Lovely Story! I gave this book 5 stars. I loved this book. I posted I was reading it on my Facebook page. I wanted to share it with my friend and family, as a good read!......more

Goodreads review by April Martinez on March 06, 2015

Pillsbury Crossing by Donna Mabry I finally realized what this story reminds me of, The Little House on the Prairie, I loved these books when I was young. The second in the series jumped a generation it seemed, it took me a couple chapters to place the characters from the first book, but the characte......more

Goodreads review by CA on January 01, 2017

Well, this one is a Christian novel, it puts all real feelings aside, causing the reader to sinfully want more. A tale of a pair of children in the new western frontier, who have friendship and love to keep them warm. However, the girl is a spoiled and stubborn child, who is sometimes stupidly overb......more