The lies they told

The lies they told

Ellen Marie Wiseman
Book - 2025

"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"--

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Main Author: Wiseman, Ellen Marie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025.
Edition:First Kensington hardcover edition.
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