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Pages: 199
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Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-08 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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An analysis of films produced in post-World War II Eastern Europe featuring the trope of the orphan, and the issues these characters addressed. Unlike the benev
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Nazan Maksudyan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-06 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who ar
The Orphans of Tsavo
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Daphne Sheldrick
Categories: Tsavo National Park (Kenya)
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City of Orphans
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Avi
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In 1893 New York, 13-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole a watch from t
The Orphan Scandal
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Beth Baron
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-09 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary schoo