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The audio book I have been listening to the last couple weeks is The Woman In The Photo by Mary Hogan. It is a historical novel which is my genre of choice and I enjoyed it very much. The story moves between the past (1889) in Pennsylvania and the present in California. A young woman of 18 is each story line and it turns out one is the 3rd great grandmother of the other. Since the present day young woman is adopted it is a bit of a mystery too as she searches out her family from a picture. She inadvertently sees the picture in her file when called to the agency to be given some medical information upon turning 18. The picture is of an ancestor of the girl, who she was named after, standing by Clara Barton. The searching and reading the modern day Elizabeth does to find the 1889 Elizabeth in the aftermath of the Johnstown flood was very interesting to me. The chapters that explain the information she found out about Clara Barton, how she image searched for her ancestors hair style to place her in the late 1800s, and the disaster that was the Johnstown flood, were all parts of the story that were especially good. The part of the book that takes place in 1889 starts out slow with frivolous high society teen age girl type events but then progresses to the time when the dam breaks and I was on the edge of my seat for the remainder of the novel. I enjoyed this book very much and highly recommend it to others. It is a really good book. Please click on the author's name and book title above to follow the links and read more information. Also, enjoy the video that follows about the flood.
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