| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
7 audio discs (8 hr., 35 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
083500 |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| Note |
Title from disc label. |
| Performer |
Performed by Jessica Almasy and Suzanne Toren. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Duration: 8:35:00. |
| Summary |
Close to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past. |
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Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude? As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was one such child, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast of Maine, the memories of her upbringing rendered a hazy blur. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. Seventeen-year-old Molly Ayer knows that community-service position helping an elderly widow clean out her attic is the only thing keeping her out of juvenile hall. But as Molly helps Vivian sort through her keepsakes and possessions, she discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they appear. A Penobscot Indian who has spent her youth in and out of foster homes, Molly is also an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. |
| Subject |
Orphan trains -- Fiction.
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Immigrant children -- Fiction.
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Indian foster children -- Fiction.
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Adoption -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Foster children -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota -- Fiction.
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Maine -- Fiction.
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Adoption. (OCoLC)fst00797076
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Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
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Foster children. (OCoLC)fst00933178
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Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
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Immigrant children. (OCoLC)fst00967710
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Indian foster children. (OCoLC)fst00969112
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Orphan trains. (OCoLC)fst01048421
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Maine. (OCoLC)fst01204270
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Minnesota. (OCoLC)fst01204560
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous foster children -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Toren, Suzanne, narrator.
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Almasy, Jessica, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781480537385 |
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1480537381 |
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9781480537392 (Library edition) |
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148053739X (Library edition) |
| Standard No. |
9781480537385 |
| Music No. |
BN3423 Recorded Books |
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