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The zookeeper's wife a war story [LP]

"A true story--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands."--Amazon.com.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ackerman, Diane, 1948-
Format:	Books Print Book Large Print
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit, MI : Gale, Cengage Learning, 2008, ©2007.
Edition:	Large print edition.
Subjects:	Jews > Poland > Warsaw. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Poland > Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Poland > Warsaw. Zoo keepers > Poland > Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland) > Ethnic relations. Large print books.
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Summary:	"A true story--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands."--Amazon.com.
Item Description:	Published in 2008 by arrangement with W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Physical Description:	485 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-485).
ISBN:	9781594132964 1594132968 9781410403490 1410403491
Author Notes:	Diane Ackerman was born on October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois. She received a B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Poet, author, educator, adventurer, and naturalist, she tries to bridge science and art in her writing, exploring questions of who we are, where we come from, and how we fit into the fabric of the world. She has written many books of poetry including The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral; Wife of Light; Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems; Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire; and I Praise My Destroyer. Her nonfiction works include A Natural History of the Senses; A Natural History of Love; The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Crocodilians, Penguins, and Whales; An Alchemy of Mind; and On Extended Wings. She also writes nature books for children including Animal Sense; Monk Seal Hideaway; and Bats: Shadows in the Night. She is coeditor of a Norton anthology, The Book of Love. Her essays about nature and human nature have appeared in Parade, National Geographic, The New York Times, and The New Yorker magazines. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. She received the Orion Book Award for The Zookeepers Wife. Her other awards include the Abbie Copps Poetry Prize, Black Warrior Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize, Peter I. B. Lavan award, and the Wordsmith award. She has taught at a variety of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. (Bowker Author Biography)