Tewksbury Public Library & Langley-Adams Library hope you'll join us for this special virtual author program. Participants may either zoom or  watch it on the big screen in the Langley-Adams Library! Bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman (The Orphan Collector, The Life She Was Given, What She Left Behind and Coal River) will talk about her newest book The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Joining Ellen Marie will be former Willowbrook Physician and whistle blower Dr. William Bronston, MD.  Ellen Marie's new book is set in the 1970's at the REAL Willowbrook State School, which was an institution for children with disabilities. The book opens up with teenager Sage has learned that her twin sister, who she thought had died, has spent the last 6 years at Willowbrook has been reported missing. Sage travels to the school to help find her twin Rosemary, but she is mistaken for Rosemary instead! 

Special guest Dr. William Bronston, MD will be joining this discussion! Dr. Bronston was the whistle blower for this poorly run institution!

Author Ellen Marie Wiseman is a best selling author known for her writing about real historical injustices! Over the years, Ellen has written about the 1918 Spanish Flu, life during the depression, the impact of WWII on the lives of Germans and the 1900's coal town exposing children to the awful conditions of coal dust. 

There will be ARCs and final copies of The Lost Girls of Willowbrook to give away to some lucky participants! 

This book is also available on Hoopla in eBook format!