The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

The book cover of "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story" by Diane Ackerman features a wrought iron gate, and behind it, a soft-focus landscape.

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Graceful writing reveals the gentle nature of Antonina Zabinski, who hoped to save the Warsaw Zoo and instead was able to hide hundreds of Jews and Resistance fighters from the Nazis.

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ISBN:

9780393061727

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Notable Books for Adults

Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. Please visit https://www.rusaupdate.org/awards/notable-books-list/ for the most current lists and information.

2008 - Selection(s)