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Sunflower sisters : a novel / Martha Hall Kelly.
Georgeanna 'Georgey' Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape--but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524796402 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1524796409 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 516 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| General Note: | Series information from goodreads.com Prequel to Lilac Girls. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page [511]). |
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| Subject: | Enslaved women > Fiction Nurses > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Plantations > Maryland > Fiction. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Allentown Public Library | KELLY, MARTHA (Text) | 34455006800243 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Coolidge Branch | f (Text) | 33062009450777 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Fountain Hill Satellite | f (Text) | 33062009456949 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009426348 | Adult Fiction | On Display | - |
| Easton Main Library | KELLY (Text) | 31901004496099 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Easton Palmer Branch | KELLY (Text)
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EAPL: Presented to the Palmer Branch by Gayle Aquino in loving memory of her father, Douglas Morris.
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31901004491611 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
