Ellen Marie Wiseman

In her most powerful novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a dumping ground for...

Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now 17, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered...

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured...

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets - beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s. On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood...

Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the stories of two very different women into a thrilling novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of history's deadliest pandemics. In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia...

Ellen Marie Wiseman, aclamada autora de Lo que dejó atrás y La vida que le dieron, teje la historias de dos mujeres muy diferentes en una novela que pasa la página tan llena de suspenso como conmovedora, ambientada en medio de una las pandemias más mortíferas de la historia. En el otoño de...

" Fleuris là où tu es plantée. ", c'est le conseil que Christine Bolz reçoit de sa grand-mère, sa bien-aimée Oma. Mais Christine, 17 ans, domestique, sait que le monde entier l'attend au-delà de son petit village allemand.

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...