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The orphan's tale / Pam Jenoff.

Jenoff, Pam. (Author).

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a Jewish infant bound for a concentration camp from a boxcar and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780778319818
  • ISBN: 0778319814
  • Physical Description: 361 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : MIRA, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Includes reader's guide and excerpt from 'The Kommandant's girl'.
Subject: Circus > Fiction.
Teenage mothers > Fiction.
Jews > Germany > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Fiction.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 59 of 60 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public.

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  • 0 current holds with 60 total copies.
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The Orphan's Tale
The Orphan's Tale
by Jenoff, Pam
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The Orphan's Tale


Look for Pam Jenoff's new novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, an unforgettable story of courage and friendship during wartime. A New York Times bestseller! "Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants will embrace this novel. " --Library Journal "Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion.... I read this novel in a headlong rush." --Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival. Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep... When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. But as the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another--or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything. Don't miss Pam Jenoff's new novel, Code Name Sapphire, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance during World War II. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: The Woman with the Blue Star The Lost Girls of Paris The Ambassador's Daughter The Diplomat's Wife The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Kommandant's Girl The Winter Guest

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