Before We Were Yours

• Author : Lisa Wingate
• Publisher : Ballantine Books
• Release : 06 June 2017

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Look for Lisa Wingate’s powerful new historical novel, The Book of Lost Friends, available now! “Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River

• Author : Lisa Wingate
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022

"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a

• Author : Whizbooks
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 06 September 2018

Summary of Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate: Trivia/Quiz for Fans Rill Foss and her four siblings lived happily with their parents in their shantyboat named Arcadia by the Mississipi River. This was before they were taken to the Tennessee Children's Home Society without their parents' knowledge. She watched helplessly as she saw her baby brother and youngest sister taken away for adoption. Meanwhile, in another world, the Senator's daughter Avery Stafford is mystified by an

• Author : Lisa Wingate,Judy Christie
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 22 October 2019

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents - hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told

• Author : Brenda Novak
• Publisher : MIRA
• Release : 04 December 2018

Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she’s determined to uncover her family’s dark secrets, even if they bury her. Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn’t sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound—the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her

• Author : Lisa Wingate
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 25 July 2019

From the million-copy bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes an uplifting novel where unexpected challenges and new friendships reveal what 'home' really means. When Tam Lambert learns that her family are about to be evicted from their lovely home, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a changing Dallas neighbourhood called Blue Sky Hill... New resident Shasta Williams knows nothing of real estate schemes when she and her husband purchase

• Author : Simon Cambridge
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 17 September 2019

Climbing the Broken Judicial Ladder continues the author’s journey of exploring the heartbreak and loss of first adopting Cordelia with severe reactive attachment disorder (RAD) in Washington state and then of nearly losing her to the draconian and confused child welfare legal complex in Los Angeles. In this third volume of his Denied! Failing Cordelia trilogy, Cambridge climbs the broken California judicial ladder from the California Court of Appeals (Second Appellate District) based in Los Angeles to the California

• Author : Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
• Publisher : Fortress Press
• Release : 06 October 2020

Women haven't always had the right to vote. From such diverse voices as John Stuart Mill and Cokie Roberts, the absolute right of both women and men to vote has been affirmed. And yet, resistance to women's suffrage even by women themselves has a long and painful history. In this exciting volume, thirteen theologians and religious leaders in America look back at the historic victory in 1920 when women in the United States won the right to vote. They then assess

• Author : Ellie LeRoux,Shirley Bourne Epperson
• Publisher : Balboa Press
• Release : 28 January 2021

Ellie LeRoux spent her first sixty-nine years struggling, often unsuccessfully, to figure out life. But when she was forced to endure a family crisis that included her husband’s and daughter’s concurrent cancer diagnoses, Ellie embarked on a spiritual journey, with help from her friend, Shirley, that transported her from fear and self-hatred toward love and self-acceptance. In Your Friend, Leyland, Ellie shares a candid story of her experiences through several stages of life. Divided into three parts, Ellie

• Author : M.J. Rose,Fiona Davis
• Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
• Release : 27 October 2020

One City. One Movement. A World of Stories. Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915. It’s the day when tens of thousands of women marched up Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote in New York City. Thirteen of today's bestselling authors have taken this moment as inspiration to raise the voices of history and breathe fresh life into their struggles and triumphs. The characters depicted here,

• Author : Lisa Wingate
• Publisher : Tyndale House
• Release : 22 August 2014

From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours! “Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller. Her story-within-a-story, penned with a fine, expressive style, will captivate writers and nonwriters alike.” —Booklist “Not since To Kill a Mockingbird has a story impacted me like this.” —Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author of Seagrass Pier Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing—until a mysterious manuscript

• Author : Lisa Wingate
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 24 July 2017

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice... Born into a world of wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all. A loving daughter to her father, a US senator, with her own ambitious career as a lawyer and a handsome fianc� waiting for her in Baltimore, she has lived a charmed life. But when Avery returns to Aiken to help her father weather a health crisis and a political attack, a chance encounter with

• Author : Kimberly Bracken Long
• Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
• Release : 13 February 2015

Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year B, Volume 2 is one of six volumes (two for each lectionary year) that provides liturgical pieces for preparing for worship. Written and compiled by an ecumenical team of seasoned liturgy writers, this resource offers a multitude of poetic prayers and responsive readings for all parts of worship. Each volume includes a CD-ROM that enables planners to easily cut and paste reading, prayers, questions for

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1878

• Author : Patrick Lavelle
• Publisher : Dublin : W.B. Kelly
• Release : 18 May 1870