04841cam a2200829 4500 2585965879 TxAuBib 20251010120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496741516 149674151X B0DLQTSYLL Amazon bd1a6c69-00b2-4029-bbde-07d332945c72 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11313291 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wiseman, Ellen Marie. The Lies They Told [Libby eBook]. Kensington Books, 2025. historical fiction best sellers 2025. kristin hannah the women paperback. ny times best selling books 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. historical fiction best sellers. Virginia state colony McMorris. the lost girls of willowbrook. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. historical literary fiction. historical fiction novels. catherine ryan hyde books. inspired by a true story. historical fiction books. Shenandoah National Park. best selling books 2025. the life she was given. Based on a true story. coming of age fiction. Blue Ridge Mountains. Forced sterilization. What She Left Behind. the orphan collector. Ellen Marie Wiseman. Catherine Ryan Hyde. Historical Fiction. mental institution. based on real life. Alternate History. german immigrants. historical novels. Kristina McMorris. Diane Chamberlain. literary fiction. mental hospital. Women's Fiction. mountain people. Coming of age. fiction books. the plum tree. Ellis Island. Historical. eugenics. virginia. Fiction. novels. Drama. HTML:In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America's rising eugenics movement – when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of origin – in this tragic and uplifting novel of social injustice, survival, and hope for readers of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Christina Baker Kline. When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned. Silas Wolfe, a widowed family relative, reluctantly brings Lena and her daughter to his weathered cabin in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to care for his home and children. Though the hills around Wolfe Hollow remind Lena of her homeland, she struggles to adjust. Worse, she is stunned to learn the children in her care have been taught to hide when the sheriff comes around. As Lena meets their neighbors, she realizes the community is vibrant and tight knit, but also senses growing unease. The State of Virginia is scheming to paint them as ignorant, immoral, and backwards so they can evict them from their land, seize children from parents, and deal with those possessing "inferior genes." After a social worker from the Eugenics Office accuses Lena of promiscuity and feeblemindedness, her own worst fears come true. Sent to the Virginia State Colony for the Feebleminded and Epileptics, Lena face impossible choices in hopes of reuniting with her daughter—and protecting the people, and the land, she has grown to love.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-10-10 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bd1a6c69-00b2-4029-bbde-07d332945c72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bd1a6c69-00b2-4029-bbde-07d332945c72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)