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The Resource Before we were yours : a novel, Lisa Wingate

Before we were yours : a novel, Lisa Wingate

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Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. Senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger leaves her deeply shaken. Avery's decision to learn more about the woman's life will take her on a journey through her family's long-hidden history
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eng
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Before we were yours : a novel
Title
Before we were yours
Title remainder
a novel
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Lisa Wingate
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Language
eng
Summary
Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived a charmed life. Loving daughter to her father, a U.S. Senator, she has a promising career as an assistant D.A. in Baltimore and is engaged to her best friend. But when Avery comes home to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with a stranger leaves her deeply shaken. Avery's decision to learn more about the woman's life will take her on a journey through her family's long-hidden history
Awards note
2018 Lariat Reading List
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Wingate, Lisa
Dewey number
813/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3573.I53165
LC item number
B44 2017
Literary form
novels
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Orphanages
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Before we were yours : a novel, Lisa Wingate
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Control code
ocn958413467
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
342 pages
Isbn
9780425284681
Lccn
2017009998
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • (Sirsi) o958413467
  • (OCoLC)958413467
Label
Before we were yours : a novel, Lisa Wingate
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn958413467
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
342 pages
Isbn
9780425284681
Lccn
2017009998
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o958413467
  • (OCoLC)958413467

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