Jane Peart - Thorndike Press
Format: Book

In spring 1890, three eight-year-old girls leave overcrowded, bleak Greystone Orphanage near Boston and set out together on the "Orphan Train", heading West to adoptive homes. Along the way shy Laurel, vivacious Toddy and scholarly Kit make a vow to be "forever friends"....

Budge Wilson - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her arrival at Green Gables- a heartwarming tale of a precocious child whose lively imagination and relentless spirit help her to overcome difficult circumstances and of a young girl's ability to love, learn, and above...

Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times Bestseller Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America's past - and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring...

Al Lacy - Multnomah
Format: Paperback

Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's...

JODY HEDLUND - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

When a financial crisis in 1850s New York leaves three orphaned sisters nearly destitute, the oldest, Elise Neumann, knows she must take action. She's had experience as a seamstress, and the New York Children's Aid Society has established a special service: placing out seamstresses...

ANN H GABHART - Revell
Format: Paperback

Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who,...

Lawana Blackwell - Bethany House Publishers; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback

If the truth is revealed, will she lose all she's grown to love? An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened....

Lori Wick - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Ginny Aiken - F.H. Revell
Format: Paperback

Dr. Letitia Morgan comes to Hartville, Colorado, in the late 1800s to follow her God-given calling to heal. Soon she becomes Hartville's ministering angel, reaching out to the children of the town drunk, and skillfully touching all who need her. But not everyone warms to the lovely...

Amanda Cabot - Revell
Format: Paperback

Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground, and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped. Convinced this must be related to her parents' murders, Evelyn flees...

Beverly Lewis - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Book

Sarah Cain is happy with her urban townhouse, her BMW, her success as a real estate broker in Portland, Ore. Her days are brimming over with e-mail, phone calls, appointments and closings, and that's just the way she likes it. The best thing about her self-absorbed existence is that...

Lori Wick - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

William, a confirmed bachelor, becomes guardian to three children. When the girl’s nanny proves abusive, William seeks counsel from his sister and her husband and meets Marianne—who changes his beliefs about women and God.

Kim Vogel Sawyer - WaterBrook Press
Format: Book

In a desperate time, can Neva find forgiveness for a grievous wrong - and make room for hope? Neva Shilling has a heavy load of responsibility while her husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence, she faithfully runs the Shilling Mercantile,...

Gilbert Morris - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Will they ever make it to the coast? It all depends on... the HESITANT HERO. When Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the States, he settles further south in France,...