03166cam a2200325 4500 1237494915 TxAuBib 20240422120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496740717 1496740718 B0C3WX5F59 Amazon 484cbf70-37dd-493a-bc43-e5f8f4c155a2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9819642 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Everhart, Donna. When the Jessamine Grows [Libby]. Kensington Books, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 996kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b><i>From the author of</i> The Saints of Swallow Hill<i>, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as 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, perfect for readers of</i> Cold Mountain <i>by Charles Frazier and</i> Enemy Women <i>by Paulette Jiles.</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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 . . . Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-04-22 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=484cbf70-37dd-493a-bc43-e5f8f4c155a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=484cbf70-37dd-493a-bc43-e5f8f4c155a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=484cbf70-37dd-493a-bc43-e5f8f4c155a2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)