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    The Orphan's Tale
    The Orphan's Tale
    The Orphan's Tale
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Orphan's Tale

    Written by Pam Jenoff

    Narrated by Jennifer Wydra and Kyla Garcia

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    About this audiobook

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Audio
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781488202551
    Author

    Pam Jenoff

    Pam Jenoff was born in Maryland and raised outside Philadelphia. Upon receiving her masters in history from Cambridge, she accepted an appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army. The position provided a unique opportunity to witness and participate in operations at the most senior levels of government, including helping the families of the Pan Am Flight 103 victims secure their memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, observing recovery efforts at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing and attending ceremonies to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of World War II at sites such as Bastogne and Corregidor. Following her work at the Pentagon, Pam moved to the State Department. In 1996 she was assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland. It was during this period that Pam developed her expertise in Polish-Jewish relations and the Holocaust. Working on matters such as preservation of Auschwitz and the restitution of Jewish property in Poland, Pam developed close relations with the surviving Jewish community. Pam is the author of The Kommandant's Girl, which was an international bestseller and nominated for a Quill award, as well as The Winter Guest, The Diplomat's Wife, The Ambassador’s Daughter, Almost Home, A Hidden Affair and The Things We Cherished. She also authored a short story in the anthology Grand Central: Original Postwar Stories of Love and Reunion. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and three children.

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    • 5/5
      Great book about love and loss during WWII. Stayed up until 3am to finish it!

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    • 5/5
      This is the best story I have ever listen to. Very well thought out and performed.
    • 5/5
      A real Tear Jerker! It's a real story of love!
    • 5/5
      Awesome in details. Believable, and touching. Beautiful compiling of events and feelings.
    • 4/5
      Somewhat of a slow start but so worth the wait and buildup upon halfway thru to a completely captivating ending!
    • 5/5
      Well written but sad, wish Nora had lived, oh well.
    • 5/5
      This was an excellent story I did not want it to end
    • 5/5
      Why u wanna make a gurl cry at work??? So touching. And so sad to believe people lived thru this and worse.
    • 4/5
      The story was beautifully written and read aloud perfectly. The characters leave you aching for more but the writer kindly finished it in the epilogue. It was a book that was fun to listen to.
    • 5/5
      Very interesting read. Very unpredictable ending. Would recommend to anyone.
    • 5/5
      This story was amazingly told! A must read! You will enjoy every minute of it.
    • 2/5
      Great premise, but poorly executed. There's no character development and the story line fell flat.
    • 5/5
      The story was beautiful definitely a good read! Good narrators
    • 4/5
      Loved the characters and the plot!! Disappointed a bit with the sad ending!!
    • 5/5
      An incredibly amazing story I couldn't have predicted the ending of.
    • 5/5
      Amazingly touching story of friendship between 2 women. It was informative to learn how the circus protected Jews during WW2.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful story. It was an interesting perspective on the holocaust. My heart goes out to everyone who had live through that awful time period.
    • 3/5
      This was a nice story - different perspective with WW2 and the circus. I think it’s definitely worth the read as this is such a unique lens, life as a circus performer with all that was going on in the world! I’ve read a lot from this author and consider her one of my top favorites, however this book felt a bit rushed in some areas and a bit too unrealistic in others, as though when edited large parts that provided the necessary context had been removed. I truly believe this was written with the quality of all of Pam’s books, but text was removed for some reason.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! After reading this I want to read all of this author’s other books!