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When 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine -- ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the...
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The "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-19th century. However, it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending. Follow the train to see God's hand restore love and laughter to the right family at the right time. Follow the orphan train out West as children's hearts are mended and God's hand restores...
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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