Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book on CD
Book on CDAudiobook on CD/MP3
Author Wiseman, Ellen Marie, author.

Title The Orphan collector / Ellen Marie Wiseman.

Publication Info. Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2020]
℗2020

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Audio Materials  CDBOOK WISEMAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  CDBK WISEMAN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction Audiobook  CD WISEMAN    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 13 audio discs (15 hr., 45 min.) : digital, optical, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 154500
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
1.4 m. per second
audio file rdaft
CD audio
Note Title from disc
In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Performer Narrated by Rachel Botchan.
Summary In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone ... Since her baby died days ago, Bernice Groves has been lost in grief and bitterness. If doctors hadn't been so busy tending to hordes of immigrants, perhaps they could have saved her son. When Bernice sees Pia leaving her tenement across the way, she is buoyed by a shocking, life-altering decision that leads her on a sinister mission: to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are 'true Americans.' As Pia navigates the city's somber neighborhoods, she cannot know that her brothers won't be home when she returns. And it will be a long and arduous journey to learn what happened'even as Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost. Only with persistence, and the courage to face her own shame and fear, will Pia put the pieces together and find the strength to risk everything to see justice at last.
Subject Orphanages -- Fiction.
Twin brothers -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Historical -- General.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.
Added Author Botchan, Rachel, narrator.
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781980075448
1980075441
Music No. C06211 Recorded Books
-->
Add a Review