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Before we were yours : a novel / Lisa Wingate.

Wingate, Lisa, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780425284681
  • ISBN: 0425284689
  • Physical Description: 342 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2017.
Subject: Orphanages > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 23 of 29 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Hood River County Library FIC WINGATE (Text) 33892100463364 Adult Fiction Available -
Joseph Public Library F WIN (Text) 30002000249235 Adult Fiction Available -
Lake County Main Library - Lakeview FIC WINGATE (Text) 37620000887929 Adult Fiction Available -
Milton-Freewater Public Library FIC Winga (Text) 37862000400416 Adult Fiction Available -
Nyssa Public Library F WIN (Text) 36660000499474 Adult Fiction Available -
OTLD Irrigon Branch F WIN (Text) 37818000277014 Adult Fiction Available -
Ontario Community Library WINGATE, Lisa (Text) 33330004289379 Adult Fiction Available -
Pendleton Public Library F WINGA (Text) 37801000584712 Adult Fiction Available -
Pilot Rock Public Library McN F WIN (Text) 37868000126240 McNaughton Collection Available -
Sherman County Public/School Library FIC WIN (Text) 37039000131396 FICTION Available -


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