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| Title Statement | The lies they told / Ellen Marie Wiseman. |
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| Author | Wiseman, Ellen Marie |
| Publication | New York: Kensington Publishing Corp.,[2025]©2025 |
| Edition | First Kensington hardcover edition. |
| Extent of Item | ix, 374 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781496758064 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07941092 |
| General Notes | Includes discussion questions. |
| Summary | 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. |
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| By Topic | Eugenics--Fiction--History--United States |
| Immigrants--Fiction--United States | |
| Mothers--Fiction | |
| By Location | Virginia--Fiction--History |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
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