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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 28398
Category: Book
Author: Kim Vogel Sawyer
Publisher: Bethany House
Studio: Bethany House
Manufacturer: Bethany House
Label: Bethany House
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764202626
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780764202629
ASIN: 0764202626
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
United by blood, divided by time, will three orphan train siblings ever find one another again? Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish-immigrant children are sent to Missouri to be adopted. Despite eight-year-old Maelle's desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is taken by a different family. Yet Maelle vows that she will never stop searching for her brother and sister...and that they will be together one day in the future. Seventeen years later, Maelle is still searching. But the years have washed away her hope... and her memories. What are Mattie and Molly doing now? Where has life taken them? Will she ever see her brother and sister again?
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Wonderfully touching story!!! August 21, 2008
This is one of the very few books that has actually made me cry! This story is so amazing!! I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone!!!
My Heart Remembers August 16, 2008
A wonderful book - quite a change from the usual thrillers I like to read.
This was a wonderful change of pace.
My Heart Remembers not easily forgotten August 12, 2008
I can not stop thinking about My Heart Remembers. Maybe it was the vivid descriptions, or the fact that some children have always had to fight to be loved. Or maybe Vogal just struck a nerve of compassion. By any definition, this book is a good one that will leave you contemplating the complicated process of life. And yet, one of the greatest lessons this book teaches is that God has a plan for all of us. That plan will be carried out in spite of our circumstances if we trust him. You will not only read this book, but will want it on your bookshelf to read again. My Heart Remembers would make a good book club choice.
Absolutely Wonderful! June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read all this author's books and, although I didn't particularly care overmuch for the Sommerfield Trilogy, this one is awesome. I don't really like the Amish books, so that's why I didn't like the Sommerfield Trilogy, although it was good. Just not my cup of tea.
This book is so very good. Watching the dear children go on after losing their parents in a fire and being separated just breaks your heart in two. Especially the young man, who was cruelly treated by foster parents.
Their reunion was the most tender, heart moving thing. This book would make an excellent movie. I'm hoping that the author writes more on this family. She certainly left the door open to further visitations down the road.
An inspirational Christian fiction book May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Lori Plach for Reader Views (5/08)
Imagine losing your parents in a tragic fire, and having to travel hundreds of miles with other children to meet your new "parents." This is what happened when kids in the 1800s would lose their parents. If you were left as an orphan and had no family to step forward and take custodial and guardianship for you, you would ride aboard an "orphan train." Now, imagine pledging to your mother before she dies that you will do what you can to keep your family together. Maelle Gallagher had her younger brother and sister on the train alongside her, only to reach Missouri and be separated. Each of them has a family treasure which they can use to remember their brother and sister by, but will they ever be able to be a family again?
Each of the family treasures is of sentimental value all its own. Maelle keeps the love letters that their parents had written to each other. Mattie has a picture of the three children with their parents. Even though she is just a toddler, Molly is given the family Bible with the birthdates and full names of the children written inside it. Will these three children ever be able to match up their specific things with their siblings?
They all grow up with their adoptive parents. Maelle is taught a trade of being an on-the-road photographer. She has lost her adoptive father but has inherited his equipment. Mattie is tragically mistreated and can't wait till he grows up so he can leave. Molly is adopted by the Standlers; she is treated lavishly and lives the "rich life" until her adoptive parents died. What will happen when they all end up in the same town? Can they put the pieces back together?
Kim Vogel Sawyer has done an incredible job of writing an inspirational Christian fiction book which has its own line of mystery, history and intrigue all rolled into one volume. "My Heart Remembers" is a book which will pull at your heartstrings. What an incredible love and determination the Gallagher children have in trying to hold on to the hope of ever seeing their siblings again. I had a very difficult time putting this book down. I simply loved it and hope that Kim Vogel Sawyer is writing another book similar to this one again soon. My heart will definitely remember "My Heart Remembers" for a long time
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