Édimbourg, 1874. Jack naît le jour le plus froid du monde et son cœur en reste gelé. Le Docteur Madeleine le sauve en remplaçant son cœur défectueux par une horloge mécanique. Il survivra avec ce bricolage magique à condition de...
Orphans
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Author:Malzieu, MathiasSummary: - Author:Cliche, NormandSummary:
1945. Dans le Québec rural de l’après-guerre, à Saint-Georges, en Beauce, un jeune pianiste orphelin réchauffe le coeur d’une marchande d’amour convertie. Donné en adoption à un vendeur de bétail violent, l’adolescent fait face à une...
- Author:Verhoest, ChristelleSummary:
Maria a quinze ans. Orpheline sans ressource, elle est recueillie par un ami de jeunesse de sa mère, médecin de Bretagne: Olivier de Lordremons. Mais à son arrivée au manoir, Ael, le fils de son hôte, un garçon de seize ans, se montre...
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Author:Davis, KatieSummary:Katie Davis traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip over the Christmas break of her senior year in high school. She found herself so moved by the Ugandan people and their needs that she knew it was her calling to return to care for...
- Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:
The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book’s publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. The title character is a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of...
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Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:In the late 1850s in and around Carson City, struggles between the Indians and the local whites are growing. During the struggles, Joselyn, a young orphan, meets Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute girl who becomes her friend and gives her some...
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Author:Berry, WendellSummary:From the simple setting of his own barbershop, Jayber Crow -- orphan, seminarian, and native of Port William -- recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his...
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Author:Brontë, CharlotteSummary:Jane Eyre is alone in the world, orphaned and living off the charity of reluctant relatives. Hired as a governess, she enters a society of high glamour and dark family secrets. Possibly the world’s most romantic book about child abuse,...
- Author:Tan, June CLSummary:
Ahn has no past and no family. Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen as a child. When they meet, Altan sees in Ahn a path to reclaim the throne. Ahn sees a way to unlock her past. But both come with a deadly price.
- Author:Dublin, AnneSummary:
A children's book inspired by the true story of Jewish orphans who came to Canada to learn farming only to find their way to Carnegie Hall. Thirteen-year-old Jacob's life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an...
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Author:Walters, EricSummary:After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed by fire, Betty, an innocent and trusting teen, takes a job as a maid in Kingston, Ontario. Welcomed into the household of the wealthy Remington clan, Betty makes friends with the staff at...
- Author:Turano, JenSummary:
After growing up as an orphan, Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, her playfulness and enthusiasm aren't always well-received, and she finds herself dismissed from yet...
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Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else’s business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father,...
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Author:Bhathena, TanazSummary:Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Tanaz Bhathena's Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India.Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
When James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale, offered to help Elizabeth Hotchkiss find herself a husband, he never dreamed that the only candidate he could propose would be himself.
- Author:Zhang, C Pam.Summary:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION...
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Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only...
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Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:My name is Lee Mets (honest), and this is my book I’m part of the writing club, which is fantastic, since what I want to be most is a writer. My mother says that girls don’t grow up to be writers, they can only be nurses or teachers....
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Author:Kohli, Marjorie, Bagnell, Kenneth, Pettit, Mary, Corbett, Gail H.Summary:In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent...
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