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Before we were yours : a novel / Lisa Wingate.
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.
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Subject: | Orphanages > Fiction. Siblings > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 26 of 29 copies available at Sage Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Arlington Public Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 37812000167986 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Athena Public Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 37813000151384 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Baker Haines Branch | WINGATE (Lisa) (Text) | 37814003113272 | FICTION | Available | - | ||
| Blue Mountain Community College Library | BMTF W72b (Text) | 35410000168542 | Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Cascade Locks Library | FIC WINGATE (Text) | 33892100573311 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Cook Memorial Library - La Grande | F Wingate, L (Text) | 35178001649709 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/27/2025 | ||
| Echo Public Library | HC FIC Wingate (Text) | 37826000211180 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - | ||
| Elgin Public Library | Wingate, Lisa B44 (Text) | 37827000279383 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Enterprise Public Library | FIC Wingate, L (Text) | 30001000292542 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
| Fossil City Library | FIC WIN (Text) | 37830000070620 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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