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In the fall of 1918, 13-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the US Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone....   

Look for Pam Jenoff’s new novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, an unforgettable story of courage and friendship during wartime. A New York Times bestseller! “Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. “ —Library...

A young widow bound by grief and promise, Evelyn Grant is running from a powerful man determined to reclaim his nephew for his inheritance, while hiding a secret that grows heavier with every mile. As danger shadows the trail, she never expects to fall for the man sent to arrest her… Hired to recover a stolen child, Samuel Reid joins the wagon train under false pretenses, convinced he is hunting a criminal. As days turn into weeks, the quiet devotion of the woman guarding the boy begins to fracture the story he was paid to believe, forcing Samuel to question his duty, his past betrayals, ...

Clara Hayes never expected her orderly life in Sagebrush to change with one knock at the door. Busy running her late father’s store, she’s always found comfort in routine until a rugged bounty hunter arrives with a quiet child and a haunted past. As she opens her heart to the boy, she finds herself drawn to the man who claims he can’t stay… Luke Carson has spent years chasing outlaws and outrunning the pain of a childhood filled with loss. When his first love dies in his arms and entrusts him with her son, Luke intends to find the boy a new home and move on. But Clara’s strength, ...

Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.

Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life - and his destiny - is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.

All of that x 9! in one boxed set Complete Series! When seven young girls are orphaned in tragic circumstances they are taken in by the nuns of Bethesda Orphanage. However, young girls don’t stay children forever and one day they learn that they must leave the orphanage to make their own way in the world. Read all the books Clean and Wholesome American Mail Order Bride Historical Tales short story romance Box set. By Best Selling Author Katie Wyatt Orphans of Albany Series Book 1 An Uncertain Beginning Book 2 The Way to His Heart Book 3 A Delicate Touch Book 4 Homespun Book 5 A Musical ...

Bridget Collins is in dire straits - she needs to get out of New York, fast. With two young siblings under her wing, her options are limited. Her priest sends her as an outplacement agent on the orphan trains that run from New York to out west. With almost 40 orphans under her care, she's relieved that fellow and more experienced outplacement agent Carl Watson is there to guide her. But Carl is dealing with his own trauma and finds it difficult to handle the pain the orphans are dealing with.

Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the universe, and as long as the sacred Converter was fed, the lights would continue to glow, the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled.

As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out. When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar.

Ty Hampton is fourteen when he becomes an orphan in Owensville, Missouri. Adopted, he is used as a slave for the family. At sixteen he leaves his adoptive family to start his own life. Traveling to Junction City, Kansas, Ty uses his older-looking appearance and lies about his age to become a deputy sheriff. Two years after becoming a deputy, Ty witnesses a group of orphans arriving in Junction City via the Orphan Train. Among them is Addison Lane, a spirited thirteen-year-old girl who stands out for her beauty and innocence. Ty observes as Addison is illegally adopted by a known pedophile ...

His life has never been more dangerous, but she is determined to have his heart. Ditch has always been seen as a good guy and an even better brother to the other Sinners. He's VP for a reason. And now he's being rewarded by getting to spearhead Lords of the Underground alongside Eric and the overhauled cartel. He will get to save those burned by the system, much like him, bringing his life full circle. What more could he want? The answer is simple: her. The one who got away. the one he hasn't seen or heard from in years. the beautiful and lucky girl who haunts his memories in more ways than...

Twenty-three orphans with numbers for names from 1 to 23. Number Nine wants to escape from 'the orphanage'. Read the highly-rated international conspiracy thriller series in full and at a discounted price. Three novels spanning over 1,000 explosive pages... Book One: THE NINTH ORPHAN Book Two: THE ORPHAN FACTORY Book Three: THE ORPHAN UPRISING Meet Number Nine - an orphan, a spy, a lover...a master of disguise, an assassin, a shapeshifter...a freedom fighter, a human chameleon, a reformed contract killer. He's all of the above. He's none of the above. Nine is enslaved by the Omega Agency, a...

Arriving at St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home, it’s not the first time Mary-Kate has faced hardship. She grew up in a poor orphanage in Dublin after her father died and her mother gave her up, and never stopped working for a better future. But, as her baby is taken from her arms moments after coming into this world, Mary-Kate almost loses all hope. She can’t do this by herself. The baby’s father has made it clear he wants nothing to do with the child. And she hasn’t heard from her only friend since she was trapped here.

When Yvette Dubois's husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind – only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the library. Behind a tapestry, she discovers a hidden tunnel – along with two frightened orphans. Yvette vows to continue the important work, wanting to honour the legacy. But Armand insists their safety depends on appeasing the occupiers.

"Brick devotes attention to every voice…His accents and inflections boost the listening experience.” —AudioFile No greater friend. No deadlier enemy. The explosive new novel in the New York Times bestselling Orphan X series is flipping the acclaimed series on its head. Find out why series...

Lena thought she had survived the worst of the war. But her heart and courage are about to be tested again. 1946, Cyprus. After surviving the devastation of war, all Lena Weiss wants is to leave Europe and start over. Yet her dream of a new life is soon shattered, as the ship that would bring her to safety in Israel is shipwrecked off the coast of Cyprus. Taken with the other Jewish refugees by the British Army to a temporary internment camp, Lena fears she has escaped one prison only to enter another.

An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle. The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan. Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan as he busts out of the clandestine orphanage he knew as home and goes on the run across America. In the late 1970's, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont...

In a rundown house in Philadelphia live two orphan brothers: the reclusive, frightened Philip and the violent pickpocket thief Treat. Into this savage and ferociously funny world enters Harold, a shadowy underworld figure of power and influence who irrevocably changes the precious balance between the two brothers. This is a Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production, starring Kevin Anderson, Terry Kinney, and John Mahoney.