The Resource Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate
Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate
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The item Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Princeton Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Princeton Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals-in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country-Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780425284681
- Label
- Before we were yours
- Title
- Before we were yours
- Statement of responsibility
- Lisa Wingate
- Subject
-
- trueTennessee
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- truePoor children
- trueAdoption racket
- trueAdoption
- Orphanages -- Fiction
- trueOrphanages
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Domestic fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueChild kidnapping victims
- trueHuman trafficking
- trueParallel narratives
- trueKidnappers
- trueTann, Georgia, 1891-1950
- FICTION / Literary
- trueCrimes against children
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueBrothers and sisters
- FICTION / Historical
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Based on one of America's most notorious real-life scandals-in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country-Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong"--
- Summary
- 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
- Award
-
- Goodreads Choice Award, 2017
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2017
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10560371
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3573.I53165
- LC item number
- B44 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21079257
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780425284681
- Lccn
- 2017009998
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (DLC)BK0019547577
- (OCoLC)ocn958413467
- (OCoLC)958413467
- Label
- Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21079257
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780425284681
- Lccn
- 2017009998
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (DLC)BK0019547577
- (OCoLC)ocn958413467
- (OCoLC)958413467
Subject
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueAdoption
- trueAdoption racket
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueChild kidnapping victims
- trueCrimes against children
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHuman trafficking
- trueKidnappers
- trueOrphanages
- Orphanages -- Fiction
- trueParallel narratives
- truePoor children
- trueTann, Georgia, 1891-1950
- trueTennessee
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueParallel narratives
Included in
- trueGoodreads Choice Awards: 2017
- trueLibrarians' Choice (Australia): 2017
- trueThe Great Depression
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Audio Fiction
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Hardcover Fiction
- trueTroubled Times
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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