Clara’s Way

Author(s): Roberta R Carr

Location(s): Panama Canal

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

Era(s): 1904 Building of the Panama canal

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The year is 1904. Nurse Clara Tyler happily spends her days tending patients in rural Ohio. Her brother, who is working in Panama on the great canal, informs the family he must return home due to illness. Too sick to travel alone, he begs Clara to come and get him. Anxious about going but determined to save her brother, Clara makes her way to the Canal Zone. She is quickly drawn into a web of heartbreak, controversy, and friendship that keeps her there. When her father demands she return, Clara must decide where she belongs in this gripping tale about love and loss, courage, and the unexpected paths that shape our lives.

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A story set around the building of the Panama canal.

Author: RosieA

Clara’s Way is an historical fiction story set around the building of the Panama canal. Clara’s brother works in Panama and the book opens with a letter admitting that he too ill to travel home alone. Clara is trained...

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