Title Orphan #8 / Kim van Alkemade.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
	©2015

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Edition	Large print edition.
Description	567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rda
Series	Thorndike Press large print peer picks
	Thorndike Press large print peer picks.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-563).
Summary	In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she's shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan's Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person's fate -- to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals -- is not always set in stone. (Based on actual events.)
Subject	Jewish orphans -- Fiction.
	Human experimentation in medicine -- Fiction.
	Children -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
	Revenge -- Fiction.
	Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.
	Disfigured persons -- Fiction.
	Jewish nurses -- Fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	Human experimentation in medicine. (OCoLC)fst00963042
	Jewish orphans. (OCoLC)fst00982878
	Revenge. (OCoLC)fst01096476
	New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form	Large type books.
	Historical fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Added Title	Orphan number eight
ISBN	9781410489562 (large print : hardcover)
	1410489566 (large print : hardcover)

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