Orphan #8 : a novel
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Fort Morgan Public Library - FICTION | FIC Alkemade, K. | On Shelf |
Lamar Public Library (C426) - FICTION | fic ALKEMA KIM | On Shelf |
Pines and Plains - Elizabeth Public Library - FICTION | AF ALK | On Shelf |
Ridgway Public Library - FICTION | FIC ALK | On Shelf |
Wellington Public Library - FICTION | FIC Alk | On Shelf |
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381 pages, 19 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 21 cm.
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English
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"P.S. insights, interviews & more." --Cover.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alkemade, K. v. (2015). Orphan #8: a novel (First edition.). William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alkemade, Kim van. 2015. Orphan #8: A Novel. William Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alkemade, Kim van. Orphan #8: A Novel William Morrow, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alkemade, Kim van. Orphan #8: A Novel First edition., William Morrow, 2015.
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