Publisher description: In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solutio…
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Tells the story of the orphan trains that were operated by the Children's Aid Society between 1854 and 1929, taking abandoned children from New York to homes in the Midwest and West; and discusses the life and motivation of young minister Charles Loring Brace, founder of the soc…
Publisher description: In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solutio…
"A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a gap in the American narrative. This book tells of a little-known but enormously influential child welfare effort: the orphan trains, which between 1854 and 1929 spirited away some 250,000 abandoned chi…
The Best American short stories 2014
by Cameron, Peter, O'Connor, Stephen, Oates, Joyce Carol, Groff, Lauren, Russell, Karen, Boyle, T. Coraghessan, Baxter, Charles, Pitlor, Heidi, Beattie, Ann, Cullen, Nicole, Davidson, Craig, Ferris, Joshua, Gates, David, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Lindsey, O. A., Mackin, Will, Mathews, Brendan, McNett, Molly, Nugent, Benjamin, Egan, Jennifer, Freudenberger, Nell, Berg, Laura van den
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The best American short stories 2014
by Cameron, Peter, O'Connor, Stephen, Oates, Joyce Carol, Groff, Lauren, Russell, Karen, Boyle, T. Coraghessan, Baxter, Charles, Beattie, Ann, Cullen, Nicole, Davidson, Craig, Ferris, Joshua, Gates, David, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Lindsey, O. A., Mackin, Will, Mathews, Brendan, McNett, Molly, Nugent, Benjamin, Van den Berg, Laura, Freudenberger, Nell
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The best American short stories 2014
by Cameron, Peter, O'Connor, Stephen, Oates, Joyce Carol, Groff, Lauren, Russell, Karen, Boyle, T. Coraghessan, Baxter, Charles, Beattie, Ann, Cullen, Nicole, Davidson, Craig, Ferris, Joshua, Freudenberger, Nell, Gates, David, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Lindsey, O. A., Mackin, Will, Mathews, Brendan, McNett, Molly, Nugent, Benjamin, Van den Berg, Laura
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Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.