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Lisa Wingate Author Read Alikes August 15, 2018 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Lisa Wingate try these authors.
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All Things Hidden by Tracie PetersonStruggling to support her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska, Gwyn falls for her sister's fiancé, Jeremiah, who has been secretly working for Gwyn's father after unfairly losing his medical license. |
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Room For Hope by Kim Vogel SawyerIn 1930's Kansas, Neva Shilling learns about her husband's secret family with another woman when he and the woman are both killed, leaving Neva to struggle with the question of whether she can accept her husband's other young children and raise them as her own.
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The Nightingale by Kristin HannahReunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways. Discussion guide available online.
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Necessary Lies
by Diane Chamberlain
Caring for her family on their mid-20th-century tobacco farm after the loss of her parents, 15-year-old Ivy connects with Grace County social worker Jane, who strains her personal and professional relationships with her advocacy of Ivy's family, whose dark secrets test Jane's resolve against racial tensions and state-mandated sterilizations.
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineClose to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past
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The Whistling Season by Ivan DoigHired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent and perpetually whistling Rose and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's reluctant sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
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Grace : A Novel by Paul LynchThrown out of her home after having her hair cut to make her look like a boy, Grace, accompanied by her younger brother, embarks on a life-changing odyssey in the looming shadow of Ireland's Great Famine.
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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
by Joy Callaway
Four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society are swept up by the eldest sister's heartbroken efforts to achieve literary success against a backdrop of two suitors from very different walks of life
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Jacob's Oath : A Novel by Martin FletcherAs World War II comes to a close, Jacob, consumed with hatred, will not rest until he has killed his brother's murderer, a concentration camp guard called The Rat, which affects his newfound relationship with Sarah, another lonely Holocaust survivor
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O Pioneers! by Willa CatherFollows the life of pioneer woman Alexandra, who, after the death of her father, maintains the family farm and raises her brother, who is eventually killed, throwing Alexandra into despair until she meets Carl Linstrum
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Maggie by Lena KennedyA haunting and compelling family saga spanning four decades and four generations, MAGGIE is the life story of a resilient Cockney woman.
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The Cider House Rules by John IrvingThe practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist--are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells
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Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman"An historical novel that explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town"
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Grief Cottage by Gail GodwinMoving in with his reclusive artist aunt after his mother's death, 11-year-old Marcus learns the story of a local cottage from which a family disappeared during a hurricane half a century earlier, a tragedy that compels him to explore the cottage, where he meets a ghost with a mysterious agenda.
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The Language of Flowers : A Novel by Vanessa DiffenbaughDiscovering the symbolic meanings of flowers while languishing in the foster-care system, eighteen-year-old Victoria is hired by a florist when her talent for helping others is discovered, a situation that leads her to confront a painful secret from her past
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The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart"Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, a young woman reckons not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom as jealousy and betrayal threaten to accomplish what hardship never could--divide the family for good"
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Vanishing Acts by Jodi PicoultWorking with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she most loves.
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