Lisa Wingate, Author . Onyx $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-41144-0
The second book in Wingate's Texas trilogy (after Texas Cooking
) serves up a charmingly nostalgic treat. Virginia-based publishing executive Laura Draper goes to Texas to face-lift a newly acquired magazine. Reeling from the project's...
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Lisa Wingate, Author . NAL $13.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-451-21664-9
When eight-year-old Sydney leaves Denver to spend the summer in Mexico with her estranged father, Geoff, at the start of this third novel in Wingate's Texas Hill Country series, her mother, divorced paleontologist Lindsey Attwood, doesn't...
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Lisa Wingate, Author . Bethany House $13.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7642-9156-2
When Hollywood producer Mandalay Florentino comes to the tiny hamlet of Daily, Tex., she's not at all sure what she will find. She's trying to do damage control because Amber Anderson, a good-girl gospel singer from Daily who is a contestant on...
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Lisa Wingate, Author . Bethany House $13.99 (367p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0491-3
Evangelical Christian novelist Wingate introduced readers to the delightfully homespun what-you-see-is-what-you-get town of Daily, Tex., in Talk of the Town
. In this sequel about the city's happenings and residents, Wingate expands upon the...
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Lisa Wingate, Author New American Library $13.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-451-21848-3
A former ballet dancer and recovering bulimic helps herself by helping others in this clunky morality tale from Wingate (Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner). Ex-ballerina Julia takes a job as a guidance counselor at a middle school for gifted...
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Lisa Wingate, Bethany House, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0821-8
A decent read from a decent writer may be faint praise, but readers will enjoy Wingate's story of goings-on in tiny Moses Lake, Tex. Following a heartbreaking divorce, Andrea Henderson and her son, Dustin, are in the town where Andrea spent...
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Lisa Wingate. NAL Accent, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-23327-1
Wingate (Summer Kitchen) roots her tender tale in hope, redemption, and family by following two engaging characters in her latest entry to the Texas-based Blue Sky Hill series. Following the death of his wife, retiree J. Norman Alvord has shut...
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Lisa Wingate. Bethany House, $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0823-2
In this third volume of award-winning novelist Wingate’s Moses Lake series, Mephistopheles meets modern love in a cozy but predictable story of leaning on one’s steady faith. In an office comedy of errors, congressional staffer Mallory Hale runs...
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Lisa Wingate. Tyndale, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4143-8688-1
Journeys begin with one single step, as Tandi Reese discovers in Wingate’s masterful exploration of the road to redemption. Tandi is a single mother of two children with a checkered history. Flight from her adult past leads her to North Carolina’s...
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Lisa Wingate. Tyndale, $19.99 (322p) ISBN 978-1-4143-8827-4
Wingate (The Story Keeper, The Prayer Box) will deepen her large fan base with this novel that blends modern Roanoke Island and Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project. Whitney Monroe’s Michigan new restaurant, Bella Tazza, is under fire from a...
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Lisa Wingate. Ballantine, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-28468-1
Wingate’s tightly written latest (after 2015’s The Sea Keeper’s Daughters) follows the interwoven story lines of Avery Stafford, a lawyer from a prominent South Carolina family, and Rill Foss, the eldest of five children who were taken from their...
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Lisa Wingate. Ballantine, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-984819-88-8
In this disappointing outing, Wingate (Before We Were Yours) explores the history of a small Louisiana town where a new teacher’s attempt to connect with her students leads her to learn about the difficult lives of three women. After the Civil War,...
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Lisa Wingate. Ballantine, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-72650-1
Wingate’s stellar latest (after Before We Were Yours) explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases in Oklahoma’s Winding Stair mountains. In 1990, the long-buried remains of three young girls are discovered in the newly created Horsethief
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