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[2017]., Adults, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC WIN Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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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[2020]., Adults, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC WIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold off. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and eight siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage westward reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the seemingly 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, seems 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 lies the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything"--
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c2011., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC WIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Andrea Henderson, a woman who moved to Moses Lake to take a job as a social worker and start a new life with her son, and Mart McClendon, a man who moved there to escape southwest Texas, where he is constantly reminded of a tragedy for which he still feels guilty, cross paths when they both begin to search for the identity of a little girl who is seen with the town recluse.
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c2008., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC WIN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mandalay Florentino, associate producer of the hit television show "American Megastar," is sent to a one-horse Texas town to set up a surprise reunion concert for one of the show's finalists, hometown girl Amber Anderson, and struggles to get the job done amid pressure from her boss and distraction in the form of a gorgeous cowboy.