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OriginalCyn620
Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline
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Such a great read! It was on my TBR forever and I‘m so glad I finally got to it, and a little mad at myself for waiting so long to read it.

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book that features an unlikely friendship
#read2025

TheBookgeekFrau Such a good book!! It also took me years longer to get around to it than it should have 🤦🏻‍♀️😅 2w
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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LeahBergen
Thursday's Child | Noel Streatfeild
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Book mail of the day!

willaful An old fav of mine... 4w
kspenmoll I just got Jane recently! 4w
LeahBergen @willaful I have a lot of Streatfeilds but somehow have never read this one. I‘m looking forward to it! 4w
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LeahBergen @kspenmoll It looks fascinating! 4w
Centique Look at that cover - so so sweet 😍 4w
LeahBergen @Centique It really is! 4w
Cathythoughts They look lovely Leah 🥰 4w
LeahBergen @Cathythoughts Thanks, Cathy! 😘 4w
tpixie Great cover on the left! The Jane book looks interesting! 2w
LeahBergen I love that cover, too! @tpixie 2w
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angel1
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
This poor girl had to endure so much at a young age. Heartbreaking but well written and intriguing story that will stick with me for awhile.❤️

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Blueberry
The Unfinished Angel | Sharon Creech
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🪽😇❤️ 3mo
Eggs LOVE Creech💞 3mo
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Eggs
Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline
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“I've come to think that's what heaven is-a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”

#DaysDevotedTo

#Adoption

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

TheBookgeekFrau Such a good book!! 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Been on my shelf for years! 4mo
Eggs @TheBookgeekFrau 🙌🏻🙌🏻 4mo
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Zephsomething
Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline
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An incredibly interesting read, based on true events though with fictional characters, and one that truly felt like someone telling their story. Reading it very much felt true in that way where maybe these exact people weren‘t real but everything that happened to them almost certainly happened to someone. I highly recommend it, though if you‘re prone to tears I recommend keeping tissue nearby.

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BooksNBowls
Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline
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The best historical fiction books are the ones that teach you about a seemingly forgotten time in our history. Between 1854 and 1929, these Orphan Trains transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants – from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for “adoption” (often, in fact, indentured servitude).

KateReadsYA This is so sad!!!! 🥺 7mo
BooksNBowls @KateReadsYA I know 😭😭😭 7mo
KateReadsYA @BooksNBowls You make me want to read it, but I hate crying. 7mo
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BooksNBowls @KateReadsYA well I‘d have to warn you it has babies in it- idk if you‘d want to. Go check out the TW! I‘ll send it to you if you want it 7mo
KateReadsYA @BooksNBowls Babies and death? 7mo
BooksNBowls @KateReadsYA yeah it‘s basically what opens up the story unfortunately 7mo
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BooksNBowls
Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline
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August is here! Fall is in sight! 🎉🎉The kids are back in school, which means more reading time for this mom. 😉I‘m keeping my kindle pick from last month since I never got around to it. My TBR spinner chose Orphan Train and the Morganville Vampires series (rereads). And of course, the whimsical reads bookclub choice OJAD.

TheBookgeekFrau I loved Orphan Train!! And I learned a lot. Hope you enjoy it 😊 8mo
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peaKnit
Gratefully Yours | Jane Buchanan
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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Successful sourdough class and loaf with my youngest daughter and my friend, feeding my starter daily with a new loaf in the works today!
2. My first #litsylove mail ❤️
3. After work party fun, really enjoying my DOC family in the home stretch
4. Laughing til I cried
5. Eldest daughter‘s successful oral surgery today🎉

Thank you the tag @Kshakal

TheBookHippie Yum sourdough! 8mo
S3V3N Sourdough class sounds fun! 8mo
DebinHawaii A wonderful list of joys! 💛💛💛 Fresh sourdough bread 🍞 is an amazing bringer of joy! Thanks for sharing & helping spread the joy! 🤗 8mo
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TheAromaofBooks
The Black Fawn | Jim Kjelgaard
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This isn't my favorite of Kjelgaard's book, but it's still an enjoyable read. 12-year-old Bud is “farmed out“ from the orphanage to an older couple on a farm. But it turns out that they're just lonely now that all their kids have moved on and while they do need help around the farm, they're mostly just wanting to help a kid who needs it. Bud is wary at first, but gradually comes to love the couple and their home. His first week there, he comes ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) across a newborn fawn and believes that his life/fate/luck is connected to the life/fate/luck of the young buck. The story covers several years, and Bud always seems to see the black buck at important moments in his life. This is Kjelgaard, so there's also a lot about the importance of responsible hunting and land/game management, since that's kind of his soapbox, but it's presented well as always. I really loved the older couple in ⬇ 8mo
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) this one. They are so kind and sincere in their desire to do good where they can. This is a bit more introspective than some of Kjelgaard's other books, and was published only about a year before he tragically committed suicide. It's not a sad book, but there is a bit of bittersweetness to the story.

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#GottaCatchEmAll - Set in the Countryside @PuddleJumper
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#100YearsofBooks
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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 8mo
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