The Orphanage of Miracles

✍ Lizzie Page 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🌐 English ⚖ 224 KB

Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story of love and hope in the darkest of times. Clara Newton is the new Housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes

The Orphanage

✍ Serhiy Zhadan; Reilly Costigan-Humes; Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Yale University Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 199 KB

**A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine** **"A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet's sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country's devastation and its people's passionate d

The Orphanage

✍ Serhiy Zhadan; Reilly Costigan-Humes; Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Yale University Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 174 KB 👁 1 views

**A thousand-year history of how China's obsession with silver influenced the country's financial well-being, global standing, and political stability** This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial moder

The Orphanage

✍ Chalmers, Martin;Fichte, Hubert 📂 Fiction 📅 1990 🏛 Serpent's Tail 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB 👁 1 views

Germany in 1942. Detlev has been placed by his mother in a Catholic orphanage. Here, he tries to make sense of the incomprehensible and hostile world outside. What is an orphan? Who was his father? What became of him? What do the dead look like? The dead killed in battle? The dead after an air raid?

The Orphanage

✍ Fichte, Hubert 📂 Fiction 📅 2019;1990 🏛 Serpent's Tail 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB 👁 2 views

Germany in 1942. Detlev has been placed by his mother in a Catholic orphanage. Here, he tries to make sense of the incomprehensible and hostile world outside. What is an orphan? Who was his father? What became of him? What do the dead look like? The dead killed in battle? The dead after an air raid?

Orphanage

✍ Buettner, Robert 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Warner Books 🌐 English ⚖ 203 KB

Mankind's first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, have vaporized whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counter strike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soldiers like 18-year-old Jas