“Orphan Train,” the 2013 best-selling novel by Christina Baker Kline, has been selected by the Free Library of Philadelphia for its One Book, One Philadelphia program. After encouraging city residents ...
When Orphan Train first came out in 2013, Christina Baker Kline recalls, "it wasn't slated to be a best-seller. It wasn't pitched that way." The expectation was that it would simply be "another of my ...
MASON CITY | The North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) will hold a free class on the NIACC common read, “Orphan Train,” from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the ...
MANKATO — Blue Earth County Historical Society’s History Book Club’s spring series kicks off 11 a.m. Saturday at BECHS ...
In “The Exiles,” a young governess named Evangeline is wrongly convicted of stealing a ruby ring and sentenced to be shipped from Victorian England to Australia for 14 years of labor. It’s a journey ...
NEW LONDON (WLUK) -- Every year around St. Patrick's Day, the community of New London, Wisconsin rebrands itself as 'New Dublin' to celebrate the holiday Mayor races in the Fox Cities: Neenah a ...
SOMESVILLE, Maine — The historian Jill Lepore wrote, “Fiction can do what history doesn’t but should. It can tell the story of ordinary people.” I came upon this in an article linked to Christina ...