Join us for Eola Road Branch's Breakfast B ook Club.
\nWe read a variety of fiction titles\, mainly historical fiction\, and meet once a month for a lively discussion. Stop by the 2nd f loor reference desk to pick up a copy. No registration required.
\nF or questions\, please email yiota@aurorapubliclibrary.org.
\nBook De scription:
\nThe New York Times bestseller and major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
\nA true story in which the keepers of th e Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
\nWhen German y invaded Poland\, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw―and the city's z oo along with it. With most of their animals dead\, zookeepers Jan and Ant onina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guest s" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa\, emerging after dark for dinner\, soci alizing\, and\, during rare moments of calm\, piano concerts. Jan\, active in the Polish resistance\, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosu re and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile\, Antonina kep t her unusual household afloat\, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants―otters\, a badger\, hyena pups\, lynxes.With her exuber ant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world\, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals\, their keepers\, an d their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to t he penetrating fear of discovery\, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her (Amazon).
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