BEFORE WE WERE YOURS COLOR:Book historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths

historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women's faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives-and the lives of so many women like them-to write a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery

and My Favorite Year

Hope believes he's worth saving

Wakarusa is exactly how she remembers--genial

BEFORE WE WERE YOURS COLOR:Book historian Tiya Miles carefully unearthsFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a ''thought provoking (and) complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true life scandal.'' Based on one of America's most notorious real life scandals in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country Lisa Wingate's riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting