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This “warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative” memoir of a woman homesteader in early twentieth-century Wyoming inspired the acclaimed film Heartland (The Wall Street Journal). ![]() ![]() Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart ![]() ![]() ![]() Sent into enemy-occupied France during The Great War, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the ""Queen of Spies"", who manages a vast network of secret agents, right under the enemy's nose. In 1915, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her ""little problem"" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. 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