{"product_id":"gilded-lies-robert-bordas-9788090867581","title":"Gilded Lies: A 19th century immigrant adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you are falsely accused of murder, you have to make the best of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, Peter Bodnár's DNA test reveals mysterious relatives. He dives into obsessive research to uncover his family's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1882, a fatal pub fight forces young farmhand Gyuri (George) Bodnár to flee his homeland, Upper Hungary. He navigates his way through the cordons of gendarmes, survives the boiler room of an Atlantic-crossing steamer and tricks US immigration to find a new homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor some, this is the Gilded Age, but for newly arrived immigrants there is only bleak darkness: drudgery in coal mines for starvation wages or being on the blacklist and begging for work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge struggles with the machinations of criminals, a corrupt mine owner, his predatory wife, and the perils of child labor, but he is determined to make a better life for himself and his family. In order to succeed, he has to be willing to make tremendous sacrifices and lie to his own family, leaving behind ancestral mysteries that will wait 140 years to be discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA nineteenth century immigrant adventure about family, love and the unrelenting will to prosper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book in the series \"\u003cem\u003eWill Blood Tell?\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Bordas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8090867588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788090867581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Bordas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d","brand":"Robert Bordas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520187117823,"sku":"9788090867581","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5ffa7c2-0687-4ad1-9f67-30b2c2aaab9b.jpg?v=1778741261","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gilded-lies-robert-bordas-9788090867581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}