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"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...
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Boynton Oklahoma's Alafair Tucker finds time while caring for relatives sick with the Spanish flu to investigate the deaths of two neighbors. With death so commonplace, most have assumed that influenza was the cause, but Alafair suspects foul play. Without the aid of the only witness, a young girl stunned into silence, It is up to Alafair and the new town doctor to discover the truth.
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Taste of Home Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"From memorable Christmas dinners to finger-licking barbecues, get-togethers are simply more special when they feature a touch of the country. Now it's easier than ever to share your love of farmhouse foods, decor and overall charm with this all-new cookbook"--Page 4 of cover.
Shared by real farm-kitchen cooks on the pages of Taste of Home, these dishes turn any gathering into a good ol' time! From salads and stick-to-your-ribs entrees, to blue-ribbon...
6) Mudbound
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
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Brave Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Daisy can't wait for her cousins to arrive for tea! But when she realizes that her sweet Pup Pup is gone, she sets off to ask her little farm friends for help. When the long trek is over, Daisy realizes her new summer dress is covered in mud. How will her cousins respond to such a mess.
8) Fig
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In 1994, Fig looks back on her life and relates her experiences, from age six to nineteen, as she desperately tries to save her mother from schizophrenia while her own mental health and relationships deteriorate.