Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
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In 1972, journalist Geraldo Rivera exposed the shocking conditions at Willowbrook State School, an institution for disabled children on Staten Island, New York. The ...Read Review
The Orphan Collector
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Thirteen-year-old Pia Lange follows her mother through the throngs of Philadelphians gathering for the 1918 Liberty Loan Parade, unaware that the lethal Spanish flu ...Read Review
The Life She Was Given
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Ellen Marie Wiseman is noted for capturing little known pockets of American life and depicting them with heart and insight; her latest novel ...Read Review
Coal River
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In 2015, it would be unthinkable to send a child into the coal mines. But in 1912, America was a different place. It was a ...Read Review
What She Left Behind
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What She Left Behind chronicles the lives of two young women living approximately 60 years apart. Izzy Stone has been in and out of ...Read Review
The Plum Tree
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Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At the opening, Christine ...Read Review