{"title":"Lisa Wingate","description":"Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, an inspirational speaker, and the bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Her work has won or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Reviewers' Choice Award. Wingate lives in the Ouachita Mountains of southwest Arkansas.","products":[{"product_id":"before-we-were-yours-paperback","title":"Before We Were Yours - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BLOCKBUSTER HIT--Over two million copies sold! 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Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents--but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility's cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Aiken, South Carolina, present day.\u003c\/b\u003e Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. 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Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery's end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouisiana, 1987: \u003c\/b\u003eFor first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt--until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. 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