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Orphan 8
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Author : Kim van Alkemade
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Orphan 8 written by Kim van Alkemade and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Fiction categories.
In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before. 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. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.
Orphan 8
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Author : Kim Van Alkemade
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 2015
Orphan 8 written by Kim Van Alkemade and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Human experimentation in medicine categories.
In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power she holds over the helpless doctor, Rachel embarks on a dangerous experiment of her own design. Before the night shift ends, Rachel will be forced to choose between forgiveness and revenge.
Bachelor Girl
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Author : Kim Van Alkemade
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Bachelor Girl written by Kim Van Alkemade and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Fiction categories.
NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Bachelor Girl plunges the reader deep into life during the Jazz Age…and the revealing of other secrets and confessions will keep readers up all night looking for answers.” —Booklist (starred review) From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 comes a fresh and intimate novel in the vein of Lilac Girls and The Alice Network about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love—inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939 to an unknown actress, Helen Winthrope Weyant. When the owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, takes Helen Winthrope, a young actress, under his wing, she thinks it’s because of his guilt over her father’s accidental death—and so does Albert Kramer, Ruppert’s handsome personal secretary. Helen and Albert develop a deepening bond the closer they become to Ruppert, an eccentric millionaire who demands their loyalty in return for his lavish generosity. New York in the Jazz Age is filled with possibilities, especially for the young and single. Yet even as Helen embraces being a “bachelor girl”—a working woman living on her own terms—she finds herself falling in love with Albert, even after he confesses his darkest secret. When Ruppert dies, rumors swirl about his connection to Helen after the stunning revelation that he has left her the bulk of his fortune, which includes Yankee Stadium. But it is only when Ruppert’s own secrets are finally revealed that Helen and Albert will be forced to confront the truth about their relationship to him—and to each other. Inspired by factual events that gripped New York City in its heyday, Bachelor Girl is a hidden history gem about family, identity, and love in all its shapes and colors.
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Law And Literature
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Author : Cheryl L. Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Law And Literature written by Cheryl L. Nixon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Fiction
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Author : E. König
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-29
The Orphan In Eighteenth Century Fiction written by E. König and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with Fiction categories.
The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.
Orphan Texts
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Author : Laura Peters
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
Orphan Texts written by Laura Peters and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. The vulnerable and miserable condition of the orphan, as one without rights, enabled it to be conceived of, and treated as such, by the very institutions responsible for its care." "Orphan Texts will of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture."--BOOK JACKET.
The Orphan Scandal
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Author : Beth Baron
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-09
The Orphan Scandal written by Beth Baron and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-09 with History categories.
On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations. Turkiyya Hasan left the Swedish Salaam Mission with scratches on her legs and a suitcase of evidence of missionary misdeeds. Her story hit a nerve among Egyptians, and news of the beating quickly spread through the country. Suspicion of missionary schools, hospitals, and homes increased, and a vehement anti-missionary movement swept the country. That missionaries had won few converts was immaterial to Egyptian observers: stories such as Turkiyya's showed that the threat to Muslims and Islam was real. This is a great story of unintended consequences: Christian missionaries came to Egypt to convert and provide social services for children. Their actions ultimately inspired the development of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist groups. In The Orphan Scandal, Beth Baron provides a new lens through which to view the rise of Islamic groups in Egypt. This fresh perspective offers a starting point to uncover hidden links between Islamic activists and a broad cadre of Protestant evangelicals. Exploring the historical aims of the Christian missions and the early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Baron shows how the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist associations developed alongside and in reaction to the influx of missionaries. Patterning their organization and social welfare projects on the early success of the Christian missions, the Brotherhood launched their own efforts to "save" children and provide for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor. In battling for Egypt's children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the country—the effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come.
Brief Narrative Of Facts Relative To The Orphan Houses And The Other Objects Of The Scriptural Knowledge Institution For Home And Abroad Tenth 11th 13th 18th 21st 36th 47th Report Etc
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Author : George Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Brief Narrative Of Facts Relative To The Orphan Houses And The Other Objects Of The Scriptural Knowledge Institution For Home And Abroad Tenth 11th 13th 18th 21st 36th 47th Report Etc written by George Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.
House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
House Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Brief Narrative Of Facts Relative To The New Orphan Houses On Ashley Down Bristol And Other Objects Of The Scriptural Knowledge Institution For Home And Abroad
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Author : George Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
Brief Narrative Of Facts Relative To The New Orphan Houses On Ashley Down Bristol And Other Objects Of The Scriptural Knowledge Institution For Home And Abroad written by George Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.