Ruby Sisson Library

Sadie Sillsby works as the assistant to the matron at the Raystown Home for Orphan and Friendless Children and dreams of the day she'll marry her beau, Blaine. But when the matron surprises everyone by announcing her own engagement, Sadie is suddenly next in line for the job. For a young woman who was once an orphan, such an esteemed position is a wish come true . . . but the matron of the Home cannot be married.

The three stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curley) are left on the doorstep of an orphanage. The young trio grow up there and years later learn that the orphanage must close. The three embark on a mission to save it.

Abandoned by his parents as an infant, Scully was reared in an orphanage. The only positive thing in his young life was the attention of the home's director, Walter 'Pop' Dix, an avid surfer. He was the father none of the orphans ever had. That was thirty years ago. Now, Shane is forced to revisit these memories when Pop is found dead, the victim of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast. Convinced it was murder, Shane teams up with some of the...

Ignacio, a monastery cook, lives his dream by becoming Nacho Libre, one of Mexico's most feared wrestlers.

The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) are on a mission. Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, the young trio grows up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking, and woo-woo-wooing their way into trouble. Now years later, with the orphanage forced to close its doors, the Three Stooges embark on a wacky mission to save it. Hilarious mischief and mayhem ensue.

In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility-much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that dont include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Ph�nix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'. Elodie is raised...

"... the beady-eyed, green-tongued witch Truda Hangnail spreads evil along her path to succeed Queen Bluebell, enlisting the kingdom's rats and shrinking the good witches of Wadingburn to pave her way to the throne. Luckily, a sweet-natured orphan named Loobly is witness to Truda's evil spells and sets off to fetch help."--Jacket flap.

After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.

Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But, the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place...

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage have their happy lives upended when they find out they're being raised to be fed to demons. Determined to save themselves and the other kids, Emma, Norman, and Ray begin planning an escape. But their caretaker, "Mom," has brought in extra help to keep the orphans in line.