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Sunflower sisters : a novel / Martha Hall Kelly.

Kelly, Martha Hall, (author.).

Summary:
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.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Series information from goodreads.com
Prequel to Lilac Girls.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page [511]).
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.

Available copies

  • 76 of 80 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 80 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION KELLY (Text) 50687011709840 Adult Fiction Checked Out 04/06/2024
Albright Memorial Library FICTION KELLY (Text) 50686015711653 Adult Fiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F KEL (Text) 37268003101094 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F KEL (Text) 33240005141125 Adult Fiction Available -
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Bedford County Library F KEL (Text)
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Bellwood-Antis Public Library F Kel (Text) 310BEL00087235 Adult Fiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library F KEL (Text) 30063000267825 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Kel (Text) 85131001760058 CACM Fiction Available -


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