Mercy Train: A Novel Reading Group Gold Paperback Rae Meadows

from linda.marsheells

Look up the word 'mercy' in the dictionary and you will see it being described as " compassion shown to enemies or offenders in one's power" If that is how you, the reader feels, than these trains of children were truly MERCY TRAINS...why? Because they weren't necessarily orphans,but they were of...

from mchwest

This is where I have you imagine this book being shorter at the beginning and longer at the end! I wish the author would have told the tale more from the orphan on the train and her life from there, instead of the life of her granddaughter. There are many books on the Orphan Trains, all very inte...

from Beamis12

Three generations of mothers and daughter are featured in this novel. Samantha, with a young daughter of her own, is dealing with her own personal crisis, when she is sent a mystery box that contains her grandmothers history. She can use this history and learn from it, gain strength and find a wa...

from elmoelle

I enjoyed this interwoven tale about three generations of one family. The oldest generation, Violet, was taken from Kentucky to NYC as a child with her barely capable mother. Violet's mother ended up giving her to a child welfare group that put children on trains bound for the west so they could ...

from CandyH

This story was difficult to follow due to there being multiple characters and they were from different generations. So when the story jumped back and forth it took some time to realize what character was being talked about. It just was not well written.