{"id":2846,"date":"2026-03-05T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:54:24","slug":"march-book-of-the-month-the-lies-they-told","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"March Book of the Month &#8211; The Lies They Told"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman is set during the Great Depression era and follows Lena Conti on her journey starting in Germany.\u00a0 She comes through Ellis Island before coming to her distant relative&#8217;s farm in Virginia.\u00a0 Once there, the law begins to plague her life and she ends up in the Virginia State Colony for the\u00a0Feebleminded and Epileptics. Pick up your copy today to learn how the story ends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2847\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6670035371399696;width:352px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Lies-They-Told-2.0.jpg 1375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman is set during the Great Depression era and follows Lena Conti on her journey starting in Germany.\u00a0 She comes through Ellis Island before coming to her distant relative&#8217;s farm in Virginia.\u00a0 Once there, the law begins to plague her life and she ends up in the Virginia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,482,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-2846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-archive","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adult-programming","7":"tag-book-of-the-month","8":"tag-ellen-marie-wiseman","9":"tag-the-lies-they-told","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}