Lisa Wingate

A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger. By the best-selling author of Tending Roses.

A Novel

Before We Were Yours

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students' lives. Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia's Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

The Book of Lost Friends

Judy Christie

In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, long-silent victims of a tragically corrupt adoption system return to Memphis with Wingate and Christie to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children's Home Society reunion--with extraordinary results.ults.

The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Before and After

Charged with cleaning out her deceased landlord's old Victorian house after her passing, Tandi Jo Reese has her whole life changed when she discovers Iola's 81 prayer boxes filled with a lifetime of hopes, wishes, fears, observations and more. Simultaneous.

The Prayer Box

New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a mysterious manuscript that relates the story of a mixed-race girl in turn-of-the-century Appalachia, but her search for the story's unknown author leads her back to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Story Keeper

A young woman living on a remote Missouri farm and struggling to care for her husband, baby, and ailing grandmother, Katie Benson seeks inspiration in dealing with the vicissitudes of life in the pages of her grandmother's journal. Original.

Tending Roses

Libellenschwestern

Shelterwood

When a woman's whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours. Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life--the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high-powered career provides the sense of purpose she yearns for. Until the day she's downsized out of her job and the doctor tells her the cancer may be back. It's a double blow that would send anyone reeling. It sends Karen to Grandma Rose's old farm, where her sister has made a seemingly perfect life. Opening herself to the unexpected, Karen finds a lonely child in need of nurturing and insights into her family's past. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, where the sycamore leaves whisper their soft, secret language, she begins to discover answers--and a joy to make her life complete.

The Language of Sycamores

قبل أن نكون ملكاً لكم

Adopted at the age of thirteen and encouraged to pursue her love of music, twenty-year-old Dell Jordan risks her future and a musical scholarship to Julliard to seek the truth about her past to embark on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains to seek answers about her Choctaw heritage. Original.

A Thousand Voices

Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane and her elderly neighbor Eudora Gibson are brought together by a tornado that tears across their Missouri homes, leaving tragedy and hope in its wake. Reprint.

Good Hope Road

From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina’s Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney’s estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney’s only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?

The Sea Keeper's Daughters

I want to be like this stretch of freshly cleared shore. At times I think, I’m ready. Let the waves wash over me. But then I catch myself running from the tide just before it happens . . . New York editor Jen Gibbs knew when she bought Evan Hall’s next blockbuster book, it would change her career. She didn’t know it would change her life. But after being sent along on the European book tour, at Evan’s request, she has made a promise she’s not sure she can keep—she’s crossed professional lines and accepted Evan’s surprising engagement proposal. Now she’s scared to death. In Jen’s family, marriage represents the death of every dream a woman holds for herself. Can the revelation of her mother’s long-held secret open the doors to Jen’s future and change her beliefs about life and love?

The Sandcastle Sister

From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours! Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have always been bound by complicated ties. Amid the rubble of a difficult childhood lie memories of huddling beneath beds and behind sofas while parental wars raged. Sisterhood was safety . . . once. But now? Faced with legal papers for a fraud she didn’t commit, Tandi suspects that her sister has done something unthinkable. With Tandi’s wedding just around the corner, a trip to the North Carolina Tidewater for a reckoning with Gina was not part of the plan. But unraveling lies from truth will require confronting strained sibling bonds and uncovering a dark family secret that could free Tandi from her past or stain her future forever.

Postlude to The Prayer Box

The Tidewater Sisters

Elizabeth Gallagher has been balancing on the ragged edge for a while now. Then a rough case on the boards of her 911 operator’s job collides with a family conflict at home, and Elizabeth finds herself finally coming apart at the seams. A four-state road trip—trapped in a car with her mother—is the last thing she needs. Their destination may be beautiful Hatteras Island, but the reason for going is anything by pleasant. After one disastrous hurricane, and with a second one working its way up the coast, it’s time to convince Aunt Sandy to abandon her little seaside store on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and return to the family fold in Michigan. But when the storm sweeps through, the three women will discover that sisterhood and the sea can change hearts, lives, and futures . . . often in the most unpredictable of ways.

Prelude to The Prayer Box

The Sea Glass Sisters

Forced to write magazine articles about rural Texas cooking after being involved in a political scandal, reporter Colleen Collins arrives in San Saline on her latest assignment and unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with the residents of the town as well as irresistible bad boy True McKitruck. Original.

Texas Cooking

A nova obra de Lisa Wingate, autora de Segredos de família Um romance emocionante sobre mulheres fortes e as dolorosas heranças deixadas pelo regime escravagista que persistem até os dias de hoje No fim do século XIX era comum encontrar nos jornais dos EUA anúncios de ex-escravizados recém-libertos em busca de “amigos perdidos” — ou seja, familiares e pessoas próximas que haviam sido vendidos, alforriados ou tinham desaparecido nas brumas do tempo. Com base nesse fato, a jornalista Lisa Wingate brinda os leitores com mais um forte romance sobre três mulheres do passado que desafiaram as convenções para perseguir seus sonhos e uma professora de uma comunidade pobre que, cem anos depois, resgata a saga dessas jovens e descobre que elas têm muito mais em comum com sua própria história e a de seus alunos do que jamais poderia imaginar. O livro dos amigos perdidos é uma história emocionante sobre mulheres à frente do seu tempo, as consequências sangrentas da escravidão que afetam vidas até os dias de hoje e como as lições do passado jamais devem ser esquecidas.

O livro dos amigos perdidos

Inspirado em factos veridicos, esta e a historia de duas familias e da terrivel injustica que as mudou para sempre. Nascida num mundo de riqueza e privilegio, Avery Stafford tem tudo. Filha adorada de um senador americano, com a sua propria carreira como advogada e um noivo maravilhoso a espera em Baltimore, ela vive uma vida encantada. Mas quando regressa a casa para ajudar o pai com um problema de saude, um encontro casual com May Crandall, uma idosa desconhecida, deixa Avery profundamente abalada. Ao decidir descobrir mais sobre a vida de May ira embarcar numa viagem pela historia oculta de criancas roubadas e adoc?es ilegais. E cedo ira desvendar um segredo que pode levar a devastac?o... ou a redenc?o. Baseado num dos mais conhecidos escandalos da America - em que uma instituic?o de adoc?o vendeu criancas a familias ricas -, este romance comovente e fascinante recorda-nos como, apesar de os caminhos que tomamos levarem a muitos lugares, o corac?o nunca esquece onde pertencemos. Criticas "Esta historia de partir o corac?o e tambem um seu balsamo - uma poderosa historia de familia, de irm?s, de segredos guardados e de segredos partilhados. Adorei este livro. Ainda estou a recuperar, em choque com os elementos verdadeiros do crime, estupefacta com a viagem destas personagens que parecem ter almas imortais." -Jamie Ford "Uma [historia] de uma familia perdida e encontrada... uma historia envolvente e cativante sobre amor entre irm?os e o preco dos segredos." -People "Um dos melhores livros do ano... E impossivel n?o ficar arrebatado por este romance quase perfeito." -The Huffington Post "Wingate e uma mestre a contar historias, e o leitor sera atraido a medida que ela revela o despertar de terror e magoa que e o legado de Georgia Tann." -Parade

Antes de Sermos Vossos

Adventure is the last thing on Andrea Henderson's mind when she moves to Moses Lake. After surviving the worst year of her life, she's struggling to build a new life for herself and her son as a social worker. Perhaps in doing a job that makes a difference, she can find some sense of purpose and solace in her shattered faith. For new Moses Lake game warden Mart McClendon, finding a sense of purpose in life isn't an issue. He took the job to get out of southwest Texas and the constant reminders of a tragedy for which he can't forgive himself. But when a little girl is seen with the town recluse, Mart and Andrea are drawn together in the search for her identity. The little girl offers them both a new chance at redemption and hope--and may bring them closer than either ever planned.

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