Robert Brown Author Event

Robert Brown Author Event

We are pleased to welcome local author and debut novelist Robert Brown to the store this summer to celebrate his first work, The War Chief's Son. Robert will join us for a free in-store signing on Friday, August 1st from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. This is a free in-store signing and no reservations are needed.  For more information, please contact us at 231.347.1180 or send us an email

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Beau Lightfoot is born into a world of isolation and poverty. His mother is an Odawa Indian and his white father is an abusive drunk. When Beau is eleven years old, his mother disappears, never to return. The spirit of Pontiac, The Greatest War Chief Who Ever Lived, appears to Beau and guides him and his sister to sanctuary at the Holy Childhood Indian School in Harbor Springs, Michigan. As a teenager, Beau is befriended by a wealthy family - although the friendship soon comes at a price. Unexpectedly, receives a football scholarship to the University of Michigan. Unprepared for the world of big time football, Beau struggles to fit in, while avoiding the whirlpool of drugs and sex that was common on college campuses in the 1960s. With Pontiac at his shoulder, Beau fights to lead his team to a championship, copes with the betrayal of his best friend and tries to win the heart of a young woman far above his social class.

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Robert Brown is a local resident, this is his first novel. 

Event date: 
Friday, August 1, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Event address: 
307 E Lake St.
49770 Petoskey
us
$14.95
SKU: 9780991592401

Beau Lightfoot is born into a world of isolation and poverty. His mother is an Odawa Indian and his white father is an abusive drunk. When Beau is eleven years old, his mother disappears, never to return. The spirit of Pontiac, The Greatest War Chief Who Ever Lived, appears to Beau and guides him and his sister to sanctuary at the Holy Childhood Indian School in Harbor Springs, Michigan. As a teenager, Beau is befriended by a wealthy family - although the friendship soon comes at a price. Unexpectedly, receives a football scholarship to the University of Michigan. Unprepared for the world of big time football, Beau struggles to fit in, while avoiding the whirlpool of drugs and sex that was common on college campuses in the 1960s. With Pontiac at his shoulder, Beau fights to lead his team to a championship, copes with the betrayal of his best friend and tries to win the heart of a young woman far above his social class.