The Tobacco Wives

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Myers, Adele, Fiction / Myers, Adele
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Myers, Adele	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024
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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Myers, Adele	4-week checkout	Due 03-30-2024
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Myers, Adele	4-week checkout	Due 04-15-2024

In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.

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Big Tobacco steamrolls its employees submitted by hiker15 on July 5, 2023, 8:39pm A 15 year old girl loses her father in the war and takes over her aunt's' seamstress business sewing dresses for the wives of the tobacco executives. The conflict is that while she is at one of the executive's house, she discovers a dark secret about the tobacco company that puts her life in danger and challenges her conscience. Interesting historical fiction.