American Orphan Fiction
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Orphan Hero
- A Novel of the Civil War
- By: John Babb
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War.
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Basically a running cartoon.
- By J. Wexler on 31-07-22
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Orphan Hero
- A Novel of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-08-15
- Language: English
- From a former US Assistant Surgeon General comes the epic tale of a young man’s struggle to survive a journey across America during the Civil War....
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Waiting to Begin
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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1984. Bessie is a confident sixteen-year-old girl with the world at her feet, dreaming of what life will bring and what she’ll bring to this life. Then everything comes crashing down. Her bright and trusting smile is lost, banished by shame - and a secret she’ll carry with her for the rest of her life. 2021. The last thirty-seven years have not been easy for Bess. At fifty-three she is visibly weary, and her marriage to Mario is in tatters. Watching her son in newlywed bliss - the hope, the trust, the joy - Bess knows it is time to face her own demons.
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Slow starter
- By Amazon Customer on 15-09-21
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Waiting to Begin
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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1984. Bessie is a confident sixteen-year-old girl with the world at her feet, dreaming of what life will bring and what she’ll bring to this life. Then everything comes crashing down....
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The Dust Bowl Orphans
- By: Suzette D. Harrison
- Narrated by: Jordan Frazier, Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope’s hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl, toward a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents. Starving and forced to sleep on the streets, Faith thinks a room in a small boarding house will keep her sister safe. But the glare in the landlady’s eye, as Faith leaves in search of their parents, has her wondering if she’s made a dangerous mistake.
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Excellent
- By TheRealMrsB on 23-12-22
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The Dust Bowl Orphans
- Narrated by: Jordan Frazier, Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-02-22
- Language: English
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Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope’s hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl, toward a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents....
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The Barren Grounds
- The Misewa Saga, Book 1
- By: David A. Robertson
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home—until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher).
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The Barren Grounds
- The Misewa Saga, Book 1
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Series: The Misewa Saga, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
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The Portal Keeper
- The Misewa Saga, Book 4
- By: David A. Robertson
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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While exploring World’s End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability to locate a portal. A shocking turn of events leads them to a new village, Ministik, where the animal beings who live there are going missing. Horrified to discover who is responsible, the children vow to help and turn to friends, old and new. But it's getting harder and harder to keep the two worlds separate, especially when details of a traditional legend change everything. Forever.
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The Portal Keeper
- The Misewa Saga, Book 4
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Series: The Misewa Saga, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
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His Own Where
- By: June Jordan
- Narrated by: Sapphire
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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Nominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He meets Angela, whose angry parents accuse her of being "wild." When life falls apart for Buddy and his father, and when Angela is attacked at home, they take action to create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn. In the process, the two find refuge in one another and learn that love is real and necessary.
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His Own Where
- Narrated by: Sapphire
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-12-12
- Language: English
- His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control....
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The Orphan Mother
- A Novel
- By: Robert Hicks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock - the "Widow of the South" - has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah - no stranger to loss - finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead?
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The Orphan Mother
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
- An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the New York Times best-selling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country....
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The Stone Child
- The Misewa Saga, Book 3
- By: David A. Robertson
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help—from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to find Eli's soul before it's too late. As they journey deep into the northern woods, a place they've been warned never to enter, they face new challenges and life-threatening attacks from strange and horrifying creatures.
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The Stone Child
- The Misewa Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Series: The Misewa Saga, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
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The Great Bear
- The Misewa Saga, Book 2
- By: David A. Robertson
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel back in time and meet a young fisher who might just be their lost friend. But they discover that the village is once again in peril.
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The Great Bear
- The Misewa Saga, Book 2
- Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
- Series: The Misewa Saga, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time....
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