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02995aam a22004215i 4500 001 21F97090DDE311EEA4921ED959ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240309010316 008 231114s2024 meu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023950482 020 $a 9798891640641 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Everhart, Donna, $e author. 245 10 $a When the Jessamine grows / Donna Everhart. / $c Donna Everhart. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 2412 264 1 $a Thorndike : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2024. 300 $a 490 pages cm 520 $a "Set in rural 19th century North Carolina, one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole during the most devastating and divisive period in American history. Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion is not favored by many in their community, including Joetta's own father-in-law, Rudean. A staunch Confederate supporter, he fills his grandsons' heads with stories about the glory of battle and the Southern cause until one night Henry runs off to join the war. At Joetta's frantic insistence, Ennis leaves to find their son and bring him home. But soon weeks pass with no word from father or son and Joetta is battered by the strain of running a farm with so little help. As the country becomes further entangled in the ramifications of war, Joetta finds herself increasingly at odds with those around her - until one act of kindness brings her family to the edge of even greater disaster. Though shunned and struggling to survive, Joetta remains committed to her principles, and to her belief that her family will survive. But the greatest tests are still to come - for a fractured nation, for Joetta, and for those she loves . . "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a Historical Civil War Era $x Fiction. 650 $a / Family Life General $x Fiction. 650 $a Southern $x Fiction. 941 $a 13 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20240503011641.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240412011146.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045457.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240402011600.0 952 $l RQPC397 $d 20240326010622.0 952 $l JBPC145 $d 20240319134530.0 952 $l MUPB553 $d 20240319124507.0 952 $l FDPC194 $d 20240319010128.0 952 $l ZVPB675 $d 20240315092208.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20240314045234.0 952 $l ZOPC437 $d 20240312153705.0 952 $l NEPC953 $d 20240311111741.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20240309011232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=21F97090DDE311EEA4921ED959ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search