02852cam a2200373 4500 596616074 ER5 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780156035637 0156035634 B003JH8GAC Amazon 314a162b-546e-4a15-91b7-be6ff0069e72 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 574715 OverDrive (Product ID) ER5 Doig, Ivan. The Whistling Season [Libby eBook]. HarperCollins, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 647kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch—a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"—none of them of the textbook variety—Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse.</p> <p>A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, <i>The Whistling Season</i> is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-29 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/314/A16/2B/WhistlingSeason9780156035637.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=314A162B-546E-4A15-91B7-BE6FF0069E72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/314/A16/2B/WhistlingSeason9780156035637.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=314A162B-546E-4A15-91B7-BE6FF0069E72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0874-1/314/A16/2B/WhistlingSeason9780156035637.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=314A162B-546E-4A15-91B7-BE6FF0069E72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)