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Lisa Wingate Virtual Author Talk

May 8, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Please register on the library’s Events Calendar at www.hersheylibrary.org to join Lisa Wingate on Zoom. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which remained on the NYT Bestseller List Hardcover and softcover lists for 110 weeks and has sold more than three million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and coauthored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her April 2020 novel, The Book Of Lost Friends, became an instant New York Times Bestseller. The story follows an unlikely trio of girls coming of age as they embark on a perilous journey through reconstruction Louisiana and Texas… and a modern-day teacher in small-town Louisiana who rediscovers their story. The Book Of Lost Friends was inspired by the real-life “Lost Friends” ads, through which families separated during slavery sought to find their lost loved ones in the chaos following the Civil War. A reader and museum volunteer from the Historic New Orleans Collection connected Lisa with HNOC’s vast database of over 2500 Lost Friends ads, which chronicle the heart wrenching and hope-filled searches of separated families, and which inspired the story of eighteen-year-old Hannie Gossett in the novel.Lisa lives with her husband in North Texas. More information about her novels can be found at www.lisawingate.com.

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Date:
May 8, 2021
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Website:
www.hersheylibrary.org

Organizer

Friends of Hershey Public Library
Email
HersheyLibraryFriends@gmail.com
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Venue

Hershey Public Library
701 Cocoa Avenue
Hershey, PA 17033 United States
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Phone
7175336555
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