{"product_id":"the-whistling-season-9780156031646","title":"The Whistling Season","description":"\"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 attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the 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. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Flawless...\u003cem\u003eThe Whistling Season\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves, it reaches for joy.\"--\u003cem\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan Doig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780156031646","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707071205513,"sku":"9780156031646","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_cc2eea4e-2687-4269-aa1e-1b35249f6a3a.jpg?v=1719477901","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-whistling-season-9780156031646","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}