Orphan Memoir

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    • The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
    • By: Jim Dent
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • In the 1930s and '40s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around....

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    • The Enigma of Donald Maclean
    • By: Roland Philipps
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented - until now....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nikki Grimes
    • Narrated by: Nikki Grimes
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Alexandra Aldrich
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • The Astor Orphan is the debut of a thrilling new voice able to render the secret pains and glories of childhood afresh....

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    • The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
    • By: Nile Green
    • Narrated by: Keval Shah
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • In literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, father and son, Ikbal and Idries Shah, spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics.

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    • The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
    • By: Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate
    • Narrated by: Emily Rankin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709 ratings
    • The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s best-selling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach....

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    • The Story of Otino Waa Children's Village in Northern Uganda
    • By: Robert Higgins
    • Narrated by: Bob Higgins
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • At an age when most are aiming for retirement, Bob Higgins moved to Uganda with his wife Carol.

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    • Race, Politics and the Case of Orphan Jones
    • By: Joseph E. Moore
    • Narrated by: Marcio Catalano
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was an African American accused of murdering his white employer and family over a single dollar. The tumultuous events and cast of characters surrounding the racially charged crime garnered national media attention and changed the course of Maryland history....

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    • An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
    • By: Steve Pemberton
    • Narrated by: Steve Pemberton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning....

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    • How a Boy Lost His Way
    • By: Steven Paris
    • Narrated by: Neil Kopplin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As the car approached the long, steep driveway, I was suddenly overcome by panic. I had never had much of a normal family life before.

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    • A Memoir: On Being a Confession Baby, Chinatown Daughter, Baa-Bai Sister, Caretaker of Exotics, Literary Balloon Peddler, and Grand Historian of a Doomed American Family
    • By: Fae Myenne Ng
    • Narrated by: Jane Lui
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From the best-selling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Lawrence H. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Roy Covert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A detailed and well-written look at life in New York City from the 1920s to today through a memorable memoir about a boy who bounced around among different relatives or caregivers....

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    • Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
    • By: Chi Fa Lu
    • Narrated by: David A. Conatser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. Although Chi Fa's childhood was filled with crisis, he always looked for opportunity. His successful triumphs are an inspiration for all who seek hope in the face of great challenges....

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    • By: Marilyn June Coffey
    • Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted "parents" in Kansas....

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    • By: Denise Sandoval
    • Narrated by: Natalie Gooding
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Galveston Orphans Home of Texas has been a fixture of the historic city for over a hundred years. Surviving the great storm of 1900 and giving children a place to call home, there are countless stories about the house’s rich history....

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    • No Parents, No Excuses: A Journey to Unknown Destination
    • By: Chris Akon Burume, Stephen Kazungu Chemni, Janet McGowan
    • Narrated by: Abraham Oyola
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • An orphan who has survived life's challenges, from his third day on earth following the death of his parents. Taking responsibility for my own life from the age of six. Living from house to house, country to country, with the aim of finding my destiny....

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    • From Habsburg Austria to New York
    • By: Bernard F. Herberick, D. Herberick
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • Albertina Zimmerman, known affectionately as “Oma” by her loving grandson, Bernard, was an endless source of fascination and narrator of true stories, whose protagonists were leading figures from music, politics, and the Viennese opera....

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    • A Black Country Novel, Book 4
    • By: Lindsey Hutchinson
    • Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
    • Series: Black Country Novels, Book 4
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Beloved author Lindsey Hutchinson is back with another novel of triumph over adversity set in the heart of a Black Country community. Perfect for fans of Josephine Cox and Lyn Andrews....

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    • By: Francis Ravel Harvey
    • Narrated by: Francis Ravel Harvey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-23
    • Language: English
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    • Orphaned by losing his mother at three and his father–who went missing at eight–Sydney author Francis Ravel Harvey avoided the Welfare State by being raised by four older sisters in the colorful environs of Sydney in the 1930s....

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    • Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan
    • By: Lu Chi Fa, Becky White
    • Narrated by: David A. Conatser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Double Luck is filled with examples of how the human spirit can triumph over adversity. In the Chinese language, the word "crisis" is written with two symbols: one meaning "danger", and the other meaning "opportunity"....

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