Download or read book Prairie Hamlet: River's Edge written by Kate McKenna and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie Hamlet: Rivers Edge, is the second book in the five book Prairie Hamlet saga, continuing the story begun in Mollys Place where we met Molly Hartnett and the many faces that fill her rooming house. Set in the fictional community of Canalport, near Chicagos downtown, The Prairie Hamlet series is a character driven and historically accurate storyline of Irish migrs who meet as strangers and become extended family as they confront the obstacles of the period. Prairie Hamlet: Rivers Edge takes us deeper into the lives of the characters we met in Mollys Place. While demonstrating the meaning of friendship, trust and respect the 'family' created in the first book of the series continues to struggle with and celebrate life in 1868 Chicago.