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The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman | 2013 | History & Politics
8.5 (4 Ratings)
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"The extraordinary true story of an ordinary woman, a zookeeper’s wife, who saved over three hundred Jewish refugees by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto and concealing them in the cages of her zoo, and the basement of the zoo’s villa. Truly inspiring and increasingly relevant in these political times."

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Tide Water Talisman
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Diver Luanne Fogarty finds intrigue in a camp of Hurricane Katrina refugees who have settled in her fresh water swamps of northern Florida. The plot seems to get lost in the middle, although everything comes into play by the end.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-tide-water-talisman-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.