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Book Review of The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper
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Get ready to take a sentimental journey with two of the proud and fearless O'Banyon men as your escort's. But be sure to bring a few hankies for this trip=it's bound to bring a tear to your eye.
It's 1932 and young Peter O'Banyon's world changes forever when he looses his parents in a tragic car accident. Life begins again when Peter moves in with his Uncle Billie, a lighthouse keeper in Port Hope off Nantucket Sound. The boy has somuch to learn from his widowed uncle, who has experienced his own share of heartache. Years pass until World War II callos Peter away from the Lighthouse and his new wife to fight overseas. There he must draw upon Uncle Billie's wisdom to survive. But when he returns home and faces the ultimate loss, Peter will hae to call upon every lesson of the lighthouse keeper to guide him out of the darkness.