Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, vivian daly was one such child, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?As a young Irish immigrant, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. A penobscot indian who has spent her youth in and out of foster homes, too, and she, Molly is also an outsider being raised by strangers, has unanswered questions about the past.
Moving between contemporary maine and Depression-era Minnesota, second chances, Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience, and unexpected friendship. This hardcover edition of Orphan Train will feature a deckled edge. William Morrow Company. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past.
Seventeen-year-old molly ayer knows that a community-service position helping an elderly widow clean out her attic is the only thing keeping her out of juvenile hall.
A Piece of the World: A Novel
As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Told in evocative and lucid prose, a piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.
This edition includes a four-color reproduction of Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.
. Instead, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, for more than twenty years, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. Instant new york times bestseller"exquisite. Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life.
The Orphan's Tale: A Novel
Look out for pam’s new book, the lost girls of Paris, a story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II. A new york times bestseller!“readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants will embrace this novel.
Noa finds refuge with a german circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. Library journal“Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion…. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her.
William Morrow Company. I read this novel in a headlong rush. Christina baker kline, #1 new york times bestselling author of orphan traina powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan’s Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby.
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Before We Were Yours: A Novel
. Born into wealth and privilege, a handsome fiancé, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. A poignant, engrossing tale about sibling love and the toll of secrets. People“sure to be one of the most compelling books you pick up this year.
. Aiken, south Carolina, present day. Based on a notorious true-life scandal. Memphis, 1939. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth.
The blockbuster hit—a new york times, usa today, and publishers weekly bestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking and complex tale about two families, Wall Street Journal, two generations apart . But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force.
The Nightingale: A Novel
Shelf awareness"I loved The Nightingale. Lisa see, #1 new York Times bestselling author"Powerful. An unforgettable portrait of love and war. People William Morrow Company. With courage, and powerful insight, grace, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war.
The nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, by ideals, love, separated by years and experience, passion and circumstance, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France―a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women.
It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. Goodreads best historical novel of the year • people's choice favorite fiction Winner • #1 Indie Next Selection • A Buzzfeed and The Week Best Book of the Year Praise for The Nightingale:"Haunting, action-packed, and compelling. Christina baker kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Absolutely riveting!
Lilac Girls: A Novel
Library journal starred review “A compelling first novel. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. St martin s Press. Lilac illuminates. People “a compelling, page-turning narrative.
An ocean away from caroline, kasia kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. But caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.
It’s smart, thoughtful and also just an old-fashioned good read. Fort worth star-telegram “A powerful story for readers everywhere.
Orphan Train Girl
Ballantine. Vivian asks molly questions about her life and actually listens to the answers. Soon molly sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too—an irish immigrant to new york city who was put on a so-called "orphan train" to the Midwest with hundreds of other children—and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly’s life so hard.
Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian’s attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings. William Morrow Company. Most of the time, but after being shipped from one family to another, Molly knows it’s her attitude that’s the problem, she’s had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience.
. Harpercollins. St martin s Press. This young readers’ edition of christina baker kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman.
Where the Crawdads Sing
William Morrow Company. But kya is not what they say. 1 new york times bestsellera reese witherspoon x hello sunshine Book Club Pick"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful. The new york times book Review"Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver.
Bustlefor years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. St martin s Press. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens. Perfect for fans of barbara kingsolver and karen Russell, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
After four harrowing years on the western front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. William Morrow Company. Their choice has devastated one of them. Where the crawdads sing Hardcover - August 14, 2018. Scribner Book Company.
. When she is two, tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. Ballantine Books. Ballantine. But isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God, ” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
Where the crawdads sing Hardcover - August 14, 2018. Ballantine. When his family home in milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, and falls for Anna, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat.
St martin s Press. William Morrow Company. Pino lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. Ballantine Books. But after pino is injured, general hans leyers, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Scribner Book Company. Read the new york times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! In this “charming debut” People from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove.
He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. William Morrow Company. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell. But must ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.
Harpercollins. Ballantine. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. St martin s Press.