Lies They Told, Hardcover by Wiseman, Ellen Marie, ISBN 1496758064, ISBN-13 9781496758064, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1930s Virginia, Lena Conti, a young immigrant mother separated from her family at Ellis Island, builds a new life in the Blue Ridge Mountains but must resist a brutal eugenics campaign that targets her community and threatens to take her 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.
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Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman. Title: The Lies They Told. Format: Hardback. Topic: Historical Fiction. Item Length: 152mm. Item Height: 229mm. Language: English. Release Date: 07/29/2025.
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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 separa
Title: The Lies They Told. Number of Pages: 384. Publication Date: 2025-07-29. Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation.
By Wiseman, Ellen Marie. The Lies They Told.
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